Though they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree!

But now, since I no longer have any place for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,