Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God – harshness toward those who have fallen, but ¹  God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; ²  otherwise you also will be cut off.

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another ¹  in accordance with Christ Jesus,

Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.

do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women ¹  and were inflamed in their passions ²  for one another. Men ³  committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

For no one is declared righteous before him ¹  by the works of the law, ²  for through the law comes ³  the knowledge of sin.

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

For if your brother or sister ¹  is distressed because of what you eat, ²  you are no longer walking in love. ³  Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.