First, I return thanks to my God by Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is announced in the whole world.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit.

So what benefit did you get at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None!] For the outcome of those things is death!

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is holiness and its end, eternal life.

I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.

For this is what the promise said: “About this time [next year] I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”

"Who has first given God anything, so as to receive payment in return?"

Never return injury for injury. Aim at doing what all men will recognize as honorable.

They have thought it good, and they owed it to them. For if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought in return to minister to them in temporal things.

This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;