and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done.

For he will pay every man for what he has done.

For the Law only brings down God's wrath; where there is no law, there is no violation of it.

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

And that is not all, for there was Rebecca too, when she was about to bear twin sons to our forefather Isaac.

For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them,

But this is what the uprightness that springs from faith says: "Do not say to yourself, 'Who will go up to heaven?' " that is, to bring Christ down;

or " 'Who will go down into the depths?' " that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

But if it is by his mercy, it is not for anything they have done. Otherwise, his mercy would not be mercy at all.

The rest became callous; as the Scripture says, "God has thrown them into a state of spiritual insensibility, with eyes that cannot see and cars that cannot hear, that has lasted down to this day."

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

so that anyone who resists the authorities sets himself in opposition to what God has ordained, and those who oppose him will bring down judgment upon themselves.

The man who will eat anything must not look down on the man who abstains from some things, and the man who abstains from them must not criticize the one who does not, for God has accepted him.

What business have you to criticize your brother? What business have you to look down upon your brother? We shall all have to stand before God for judgment.