Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,

whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;

He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?

Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Again Isaiah says,
“There shall come the root of Jesse,
And He who arises to rule over the Gentiles,
In Him shall the Gentiles hope.”

For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.