For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.

Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

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

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,