For I want very much to see you, so I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

The males in the same way also left natural relations with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.

Therefore, any one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.

Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?

What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?

And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!

In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.

Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.

In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,

Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function,

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

One person considers one day to be above another day. Someone else considers every day to be the same. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind.

Nevertheless, I have written to remind you more boldly on some points because of the grace given me by God