if it is exhortation, he must exhort; if it is contributing, he must do so with sincerity; if it is leadership, he must do so with diligence; if it is showing mercy, he must do so with cheerfulness.

You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate.

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.

(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

Now may the God of peace be with all of you. Amen.

therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the written code. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.