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But we consider your views worth hearing, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect."

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

You therefore have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth-

As it is written: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.

No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise does not come from men, but from God.

God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.