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.

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

(for rulers cause no fear for good conduct but for bad). Do you desire not to fear authority? Do good and you will receive its commendation,

But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name.”

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?

Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.

Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

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

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