Therefore do not let what you consider good ¹  be spoken of as evil.

Now may the God of peace be with all of you. Amen. ¹ 

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) ¹  For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

First of all, ¹  I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

when I go to Spain. For I hope to visit you when I pass through and that you will help me ¹  on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.

The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all people. ¹ 

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

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.

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

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, ¹  I will set out for Spain by way of you,

But now, freed ¹  from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit ²  leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel ¹  of his Son, is my witness that ²  I continually remember you

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 

But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, ¹  that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

so that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints and provide her with whatever help she may need from you, for she has been a great help to many, including me.

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.