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

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

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

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

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

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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.)

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?