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

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

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