All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)

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

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

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news.”

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

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

But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.

And again, “Praise the Lord all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him.”

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

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the believers who are with them.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? – as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants – not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –