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.

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, ¹  both yours and mine.

For all who have sinned apart from the law ¹  will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

So you too consider yourselves ¹  dead to sin, but ²  alive to God in Christ Jesus.

So what benefit ¹  did you then reap ²  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires. ¹ 

but as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.” ¹ 

Greet Herodion, my compatriot. ¹  Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

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 –

So then, ¹  if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her ²  husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I ¹  would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else ²  if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” ³ 

You, however, are not in ¹  the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

Moreover if the Spirit of the one ¹  who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ ²  from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you. ³ 

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: ¹  “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.” ² 

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” ¹  (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, ¹  by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God ²  – which is your reasonable service.

Do not be conformed ¹  to this present world, ²  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve ³  what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

(for rulers cause no fear for good conduct but for bad). Do you desire not to fear authority? Do good and you will receive its commendation,