Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

For what? If some did not believe, will not their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

and the way of peace they did not know."

(as it has been written, "I have made you a father of many nations") --before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things which do not exist as though they do exist.

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead (being about a hundred years old) or the deadening of Sarah's womb.

He did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

but for us also to whom it is to be imputed, to the ones believing on Him who has raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.

knowing that when Christ was raised from the dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.

Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband is dead, she is set free from the law of her husband.

So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, even to Him raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin was dead.

And if Christ is in you, indeed the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.

Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith.

But Israel, who followed after a law of righteousness did not arrive at a law of righteousness.

or "Who shall descend into the deep?"; that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.

Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you."

But Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek Me, I became known to those who did not ask after Me."

I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not thrust out His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

I say then, Did they not stumble that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.

For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead?

For if God did not spare the natural branches, fear lest He also may not spare you either!

For this Christ both died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living.

For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me."

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out by me for the obedience of the nations in word and deed,

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

And I, brothers, when I came to you, did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Already you are full! Already you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us! And oh that indeed you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

And they who weep are as though they did not weep. And they who rejoice are as though they did not rejoice. And they who buy are as though they did not possess.

When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant.

Or did the Word of God go out from you? Or did it reach only to you?

But if Christ is proclaimed, that He was raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

And we are also found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified of God that He raised Christ; whom He did not raise if the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, then Christ is not raised.

But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruit of those who slept.

For since death is through man, the resurrection of the dead also is through a Man.

Otherwise, what will they do, those being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not at all raised, why indeed are they baptized on behalf of the dead?

If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what advantage is to me if the dead are not raised? "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

But someone will say, How are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come?

So also the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

in a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet. For a trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

Then purposing this, did I indeed use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose them according to the flesh, so that with me there should be yes, yes, and no, no?

I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother. But taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.

For even if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret; if indeed I did regret; for I see that that letter grieved you for an hour.

Then, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered wrong, but for the sake of revealing our earnestness on your behalf, for you before God.

as it is written, "He gathering much, he had nothing left over; and he gathering little did not have less."

Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters, being absent, such we will be also in deed when we are present.

For if, indeed, the one coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure these .

Or did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

Did not even Satan marvelously transform himself into an angel of light?

For what is it in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.

But let it be so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, I caught you with bait.

By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him?

I begged Titus and sent with him the brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it except by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the nations, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood;

Nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you, being a Jew, live as a Gentile, and not as the Jews, why do you compel the nations to judaize?

This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if indeed it is even in vain?

and you did not despise my temptation in my flesh, nor did you spurn it. But you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

So then did I become your enemy speaking to you the truth?

which He worked in Christ in raising Him from the dead, and He seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,

And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins,

(even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."

if by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again. Although you indeed did think, but you lacked opportunity.

Yet you did well in sharing my troubles.

And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.

buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.

But he who does wrong shall receive justice for the wrong which he did, and there is no respect of persons.

For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.

and to wait for His Son from Heaven (whom He raised from the dead), Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.

Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be so with heaviness, as apostles of Christ.

For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.

and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.

For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us. For we did not behave ourselves disorderly among you,

neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you