For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

For I could wish<n id="1" /> that I myself were accursed &#8211; cut off from Christ &#8211; for the sake of my people,<n id="2" /> my fellow countrymen,<n id="3" />

This gospel<n id="1" /> he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

and if you are convinced<n id="1" /> that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>There is no fear of God before their eyesb>.i>&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.

Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

But now<n id="1" /> apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets)<n id="2" /> has been disclosed &#8211;

<p class="bodytext">Where, then, is boasting?<n id="1" /> It is excluded! By what principle?<n id="2" /> Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, &#8220;<b><i>How timelyi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>is the arrivali>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>of those who proclaim the good newsi>b>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.<n id="1" />

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised<n id="1" /> on behalf of God&#8217;s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,<n id="2" />

Greet Herodion, my compatriot.<n id="1" /> Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

and I always ask<n id="1" /> in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people<n id="1" /> who suppress the truth by their<n id="2" /> unrighteousness,<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Therefore God gave them over<n id="1" /> in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor<n id="2" /> their bodies among themselves.<n id="3" />

on the day when God will judge<n id="1" /> the secrets of human hearts,<n id="2" /> according to my gospel<n id="3" /> through Christ Jesus.p>