<t /><p class="bodytext">For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God&#8217;s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.<n id="1" />

and do not present your members to sin as instruments<n id="1" /> to be used for unrighteousness,<n id="2" /> but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments<n id="3" /> to be used for righteousness.

Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,<n id="1" /> groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption,<n id="2" /> the redemption of our bodies.<n id="3" />

if it is exhortation, he must exhort; if it is contributing, he must do so with sincerity; if it is leadership, he must do so with diligence; if it is showing mercy, he must do so with cheerfulness.p>

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.

But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.<n id="1" />p>

For they were pleased to do this, and indeed they are indebted to the Jerusalem saints.<n id="1" /> For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another&#8217;s faith,<n id="1" /> both yours and mine.

<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" />

Now we know that God&#8217;s judgment is in accordance with truth<n id="1" /> against those who practice such things.

but<n id="1" /> wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition<n id="2" /> and do not obey the truth but follow<n id="3" /> unrighteousness.

Actually, there are many advantages.<n id="1" /> First of all,<n id="2" /> the Jews<n id="3" /> were entrusted with the oracles of God.<n id="4" />

Since God is one,<n id="1" /> he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

Do we then nullify<n id="1" /> the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead<n id="2" /> we uphold the law.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have<n id="2" /> peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

and I died. So<n id="1" /> I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!<n id="2" />

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

<p class="bodytext">So then,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God&#8217;s children.