who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, laborers in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.

From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin.”

He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!