Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith –

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.