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For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest, perhaps they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them."

through whom we received grace and apostleship, to obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how I unceasingly remember you

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established;

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

For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;

because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it to them.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, [even] his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this cause God gave them up to immoral sexual passions of shame: for even their women changed the natural use into what is against nature:

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are that judge: for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you that judge do the same things.

but after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

to those that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

for there is no respect of persons with God.

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

(for when Gentiles that don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law to themselves;