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

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.

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

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

so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants devoted to governing.

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

Greet Herodion, my compatriot. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

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.

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,