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

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

And even they – if they do not continue in their unbelief – will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

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

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.

Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

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.”

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.