We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued and has been subdued by humankind.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.