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For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
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For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
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Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
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In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
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They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
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Much in every way! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.
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“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
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Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.
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Peace and Hope
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
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We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
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For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
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For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
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So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
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So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
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but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
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Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
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The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
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The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
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Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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Present Suffering and Future Glory
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
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And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
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He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
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What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?
