ruin and misery are in their paths,

Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.

“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.