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.

because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

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

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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.