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For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers,

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, "He who through faith is righteous shall live."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth.

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who do such things.

Do you suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?

For God shows no partiality.

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the law and boast of your relation to God

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."