For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.

Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the believers who are with them.

For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –

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.