Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

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

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

For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God who subjected it – in hope

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

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

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.”

let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”

For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants devoted to governing.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

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

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

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

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.