Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God – harshness toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?

So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

Greet Herodion, my compatriot. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Also greet the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.

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.

And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? – as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.