Although they know God's just requirement that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on those who practice these things and then do them yourself, do you think you will escape God's judgment?

In all these things we are triumphantly victorious due to the one who loved us.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: "The person who obeys these things will find life by them."

After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!

For we have many parts in one body, but these parts do not all have the same function.

But now, having no further opportunities in these regions, I want to come to you, as I've desired to do for many years.