So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit –

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

or “Who will descend into the abyss?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

And David says, “Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

And again, “Praise the Lord all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him.”

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me.

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever! Amen.

but we preach about a crucified Christ, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.

so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,