But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar – not that I had some charge to bring against my own people.

who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed –

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

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.

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

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

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.