because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

God’s Righteous Judgment

Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law

You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.”

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.

just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”

(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—

But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.

For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.

Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

Freed from the Law

Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?