You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor ¹  idols, do you rob temples?

Is this blessedness ¹  then for ²  the circumcision ³  or also for ⁴  the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.” ⁵ 

Not ¹  only this, but we also rejoice ²  in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people ¹  because ²  all sinned –

And we know that all things work together ¹  for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.” ¹ 

But what was the divine response ¹  to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people ²  who have not bent the knee to Baal.” ³ 

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

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,

But now there is nothing more to keep me ¹  in these regions, and I have for many years desired ²  to come to you

Greet Andronicus and Junia, ¹  my compatriots ²  and my fellow prisoners. They are well known ³  to the apostles, ⁴  and they were in Christ before me.

¹ Therefore ²  you are without excuse, ³  whoever you are, ⁴  when you judge someone else. ⁵  For on whatever grounds ⁶  you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under ¹  the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, ¹  did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel ²  jealous.

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift ¹  to strengthen you,

I am a debtor ¹  both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Thus I am eager ¹  also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. ² 

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, ¹ 

But the statement it was credited to him ¹  was not written only for Abraham’s ²  sake,