Study Desk

Through him God gave me the privilege of being an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to lead people of all nations to believe and obey.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because the whole world is hearing about your faith.

every time I pray. I ask that God in his good will may at last make it possible for me to visit you now.

For I want very much to see you, in order to share a spiritual blessing with you to make you strong.

For I have an obligation to all peoples, to the civilized and to the savage, to the educated and to the ignorant.

For the gospel reveals how God puts people right with himself: it is through faith from beginning to end. As the scripture says, "The person who is put right with God through faith shall live."

God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain.

They exchange the truth about God for a lie; they worship and serve what God has created instead of the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever! Amen.

In the same way the men give up natural sexual relations with women and burn with passion for each other. Men do shameful things with each other, and as a result they bring upon themselves the punishment they deserve for their wrongdoing.

they have no conscience; they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or pity for others.

Do you, my friend, pass judgment on others? You have no excuse at all, whoever you are. For when you judge others and then do the same things which they do, you condemn yourself.

But you, my friend, do those very things for which you pass judgment on others! Do you think you will escape God's judgment?

For God will reward each of us according to what we have done.

There will be suffering and pain for all those who do what is evil, for the Jews first and also for the Gentiles.

For God judges everyone by the same standard.

For it is not by hearing the Law that people are put right with God, but by doing what the Law commands.

you are sure that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in darkness,

an instructor for the foolish, and a teacher for the ignorant. You are certain that in the Law you have the full content of knowledge and of truth.

nor have they learned reverence for God."

For no one is put right in God's sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make us know that we have sinned.