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Paul’s Longing to Visit Rome
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.
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Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
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Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
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Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
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He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
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Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.
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But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
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Released From the Law, Bound to Christ
Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?
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Paul’s Anguish Over Israel
I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—
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Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
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Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
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For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
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Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
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The Weak and the Strong
Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.
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And again, Isaiah says, “The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
