Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.

Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.

This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my good friend Stachys.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

I, Tertius, who am writing this letter, greet you in the Lord.

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever! Amen.

Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

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.

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 –

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?