having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;

pressure and restriction, upon every soul of man who produces evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek,

and not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) that we may do evil so that good things may come (whose condemnation is just)?

But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.

Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

Love without hypocrisy, abhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good,

rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men.

Be thou not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.

For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it.

For he is a helper of God to thee for what is good. But if thou do what is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is a helper of God, vengeful for wrath to the man who commits evil.

Love works no evil to the neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of law.

For your obedience reached to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be indeed wise in the good and pure in the evil.