For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

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.

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

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?