an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –

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

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,

so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

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

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

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

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

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.

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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!