Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment, and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

For there is no partiality with God.

just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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

He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

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

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh