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So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, ??25 since they have exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed for ever: Amen.

Verse ConceptsCondemned Heartsevil, origins ofdesiresHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSexual Sin, Nature OfSexualitySin, Causes OfImpurityGod Handing OverIdolatryThey Committed ImmoralitysexDishonoring God

Therefore, any one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.

Verse ConceptsCondemnation, Causes OfExcusesUncharitablenessLike Bad PeopleFound GuiltyJudgingBeing YourselfJudgementJudging Others Actionscondemnationothers

When Gentiles, who do not have the Law [since it was given only to Jews], do instinctively the things the Law requires [guided only by their conscience], they are a law to themselves, though they do not have the Law.

Verse ConceptsBeing Born In SinAtheism, Evidence AgainstForeigners Included In The LawWithout The LawGentilesDoing The Right ThingPositive ThinkingMoralitylawconscience

since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them or perhaps maintain their innocence--

Verse ConceptsGoadsThoughtWritingThoughts Of The WickedWriting On PeopleJustified By WorksKnowing Right And WrongTaking The Law To HeartThings As WitnessesHeart, HumanEthicsMoralityconscienceaccusations

And since you claim the name of Jew, and find rest and satisfaction in the Law, and make your boast in God,

Verse ConceptsTrust, Lack OfBoasting In GodUnder The LawTrust In RelationshipsBoasting

since you teach other people [all of this], why do you not teach yourselves [these things]? You preach that a person should not steal, [but] do you steal?

Verse ConceptsLearning From Other PeopleDeception, Forbidden By GodStealingPeople TeachingDo Not StealEighth CommandmentBeing YourselfInfidelity

let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!Judging Others Actions

Now we [all] know that everything the law says applies to those who are under [obligation to obey] that law, [Note: Here "the law" appears to refer to the Old Testament Scriptures generally, since Psalms and Isaiah are quoted. See verses 10-18]. This is so that the mouth of every objector may be stopped [i.e., from making excuses for his sin], and thereby bring the entire world under God's judgment [i.e., both Jews and Gentiles].

Verse ConceptsLast JudgmentMutenessSilenceUnder The LawAccountabilityGuilt

He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about 100 years old) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb, without weakening in the faith.

Verse ConceptsBodyWeakness, SpiritualThe Age At FatherhoodWombLimitations Of The BodyGrace Verse LawWeaknesschildbearing

Not at all! Since we have ended our relation to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsBehaviourSelf DenialDead To SinContinuing In SinFar Be It!

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, ResurrectionOvercoming DeathChrist Is RisenDeathNo DeathDeath Of A FatherFamily Deathdominion

what benefit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? since they terminated all in death.

Verse ConceptsLifestylesPunishment, Nature OfFruitful LabourSin Producing DeathShame Of Bad ConductSin Produces Death

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

Verse ConceptsChristians, Names OfSinUnder The LawWhilst Alive

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.

Verse ConceptsPaul, Teaching OfRitualService To GodChristian Liberty Is Freedom FromNew Birth, Described AsThe Holy Spirit, And RegenerationThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureNew LifeOld ThingsDead To SinWithout The Law

But sin seized the opportunity provided by this commandment and produced in me all kinds of sinful desires, since apart from the Law, sin is dead.

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessdesiresGreed, Condemnation OfSelf IndulgenceSpiritually DeadRight Time For The DevilEffect Of The LawCovetousnessOpportunity

and He who searches the human heart knows what is in the mind of the Spirit, since the Spirit pleads before God for the saints.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual UnderstandingSaintsSearchingChristians, Names OfGod, All knowingGod Searching HeartsAll Believers Are SaintsPrayer, And God's Willmindset

I am telling [you] the truth in Christ [i.e., since I am a Christian]; I am not lying. My conscience, [confirmed] by the Holy Spirit, supports my statements [as true],

Verse ConceptsClear ConsciencesKnowledge Of Good And EvilThe Witness Of The SpiritNot LyingTelling The TruthconsciencelieingClear Conscience Before God

Since he is completing and finishing quickly a matter in righteousness, because a matter that has been cut short upon the earth, Lord will perform.

Verse ConceptsA Short TimeEnd Of ActionsShort Time For ActionDeadlinesFinishing Strongfinishingcutting

For to you who are Gentiles I say that since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtMission, Of The ChurchPreaching Gospel To ForeignersGentilesMinistry

lest God should not spare you, since he did not spare even the natural branches.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Figurative UsesNot Sparing

Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwise thou also wilt be cut away.

Verse ConceptsGod's attitude towards peopleKindnessRemindersUnkindnessSeparation From GodAbiding With GodDownfall Of IsraelStrictnessThe Grace Of GodKindness As A Fruit Of The SpiritGoodness

nay, even the Jews, if they don't continue still incredulous, shall be grafted in: since divine power can graft them in again.

Verse ConceptsSaved By FaithJoined To The ChurchPersistenceUnbelief Toward God

For you [Gentiles] were cut off from a natural wild olive tree and [then], contrary to the natural process, were grafted into a cultivated olive tree. [Since that has happened], how much more likely is it for these [Jews], who are the natural branches, to be grafted [back] into their own olive tree [again]?

Verse ConceptsOlivesParticipation, In ChristTreesCutting Off BranchesJoined To The ChurchOlive Treescutting

Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord. Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, yet he thanks God.

Verse ConceptsAbstinence as a disciplineConsciences, In Decision MakingThankfulnessThanksgivingThanksgiving Before MealsThanking God For FoodDaysTable GraceThankfulness To OthersGiving ThanksEating MeatThanksThanksgiving Offered To God

why then dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou think contemptibly of thy brother? since we shall all of us be brought before the judgment-seat of Christ.

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatStandingJesus Christ, JudgeNot JudgingDo Not DespiseJudgement SeatBelittlingJudging Others Actionscriticism

But now, since I have no more any "opening" in these parts, and since I have longed for many years to come to you

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingNo RoomRight Desires

Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

Verse ConceptsConcealment, Of GodMysteryStabilityAbility, God's PowerThe AlmightyThe Mystery Of ChristGod Establishes UsStrengthened Through Christ