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.

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

Likewise also males, leaving the natural use of the female, were set on fire in their longing for one another; males with males working deformity, and the retribution which was needed receiving in themselves for their erring.

Much according to every manner: for truly first were they trusted with the oracles of God.

Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered.

For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just.

Or know ye not, that as many of us as were immersed in Christ Jesus, we were immersed into his death?

Therefore were we buried with him by immersion into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

And grace to God, that ye were servants of sin, but ye listened from the heart to the type of teaching in which ye were delivered.

And freed from sin, ye were subdued to justice.

For when ye were servants to sin, ye were free to justice.

Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

For by hope were we saved: but hope being seen is not hope: for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

What then What Israel seeks for, this be attained not; but the selection attained, and the rest were hardened.

And if certain of the young shoots were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in them, and wert a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

Thou wilt say then, That the young shoots were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

Well; for unbelief were they broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but do thou fear:

For as also ye, when ye were disobedient to God, but now ye have been commiserated by the unbelief of these:

So they now also were disobedient, by your mercy that they also be commiserated.

Let every soul be placed under the protecting powers. For there is no power except from God: and the powers being, were ordered by God.

For Macedonia and Achaia were contented a certain mutual participation be made for the poor of the holy ones in Jerusalem.

For they were contented; and they are their debtors. For if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.