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in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you.
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God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
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They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
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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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slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
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Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
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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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Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”
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ruin and misery mark their ways,
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and the way of peace they do not know.”
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Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—
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In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
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In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
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Paul’s Anguish Over Israel
I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—
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but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.
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and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
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Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
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because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
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For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises made to the patriarchs might be confirmed
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by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
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Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s people there.
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So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way.
