For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural.

whom God put forward as an atoning sacrifice by his blood, to be received through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over sins committed beforehand;

Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Is this blessedness only upon the circumcised, or also upon the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

through whom we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of the glory of God.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For this is what the promise said: "About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son."

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I may show my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, down to this very day."

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins."

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God's ministers, attending to this very thing.

The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and any other commandment there may be, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

And do this, knowing the hour, that now it is full time for you to wake from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

he who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men.

This is the reason why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

When therefore I have completed this, and have delivered to them this fruit, I shall go on by way of you to Spain.

I, Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.