and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

Now if their stumbling enriches the world, and their loss enriches the Gentiles, how much more must their fulness do!

Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

Wherefore you must needs be in subjection, not only because of fear, but also for conscience sake.

He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.