Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life,

but there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does right, the Jew first, and the Greek also,

For merely hearing the Law read does not make a man upright in the sight of God; men must obey the Law to be made upright.

and can understand his will, and from hearing the Law read can tell what is right,

All have turned away, they are one and all worthless, No one does right, not a single one!

But if I do what I do not want to do, I acknowledge that the Law is right.

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

I find the law to be that I who want to do right am dogged by what is wrong.

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.

Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones?

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, in place of them, and made to share the richness of the olive's root,

you must not look down upon the branches. If you do, remember that you do not support the root; the root supports you.

Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

The man who does right has nothing to fear from the magistrates, as the wrongdoer has. If you want to have no fear of the authorities, do right, and they will commend you for it,

The thing you have a right to do must not become a cause of reproach.

The right thing to do is to eat no meat at all and to drink no wine or do anything else if it hurts your brother's conscience.

I, Tertius, who write this letter, wish to be remembered to you as a fellow-Christian.