For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

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.

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine.

Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

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 sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

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.

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

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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

What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

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.

And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

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