Sin

18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness,

19because that which is known by God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

21Because, knowing God, they didn`t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

24Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

25who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

27Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

30backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with those who practice them.

1Therefore you are without excuse, man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

3Do you know this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

5But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

10As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.

11There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

12They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."

13"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

14"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

15"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

16Destruction and misery are in their ways.

17The way of peace, they haven`t known."

18"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

12Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

13For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren`t like Adam`s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

15But the free gift isn`t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

16The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

17For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

18So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

19For as through the one man`s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.

20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;

21that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12Therefore don`t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

13Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

15For I don`t know what I am doing. For I don`t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

16But if what I don`t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don`t find it doing that which is good.

19For the good which I desire, I don`t do; but the evil which I don`t desire, that I practice.

20But if what I don`t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

21I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

22For I delight in God`s law after the inward man,

23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

25I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

7What will we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! However, I wouldn`t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn`t have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10The commandment, which was to life, this I found to be to death;

11for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

12So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

13Did then that which is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don`t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

3For what the law couldn`t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;

4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.