But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. ¹  For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, ²  how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

But because of your stubbornness ¹  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! ² 

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified. ¹ 

Against hope Abraham ¹  believed ²  in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations ³  according to the pronouncement, ⁴  “so will your descendants be.” 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 that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate. ¹ 

For the outlook ¹  of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

And he ¹  who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit ²  intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. ¹  Do not be conceited. ² 

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble. ¹ 

The faith ¹  you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

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

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people ¹  are without excuse.

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being ¹  shown up as a liar, ²  just as it is written: “so that you will be justified ³  in your words and will prevail when you are judged.” ⁴ 

God publicly displayed ¹  him ²  at his death ³  as the mercy seat ⁴  accessible through faith. ⁵  This was to demonstrate ⁶  his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed. ⁷