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²¹Do not allow evil to prevail, instead prevail over evil by means of goodness.

⁶For he will render to each one according to his works: ⁷To those who, in accord with patient good works, seek glory and honor and incorruption, certainly, he will render eternal life. ⁸But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation.

¹Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?

⁵In the morning, I will stand before you, and I will see. For you are not a God who wills iniquity.

³³Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.

⁴For he is a minister of God for you unto good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid. For it is not without reason that he carries a sword. For he is a minister of God; an avenger to execute wrath upon whomever does evil.

²⁶Because of this, God handed them over to shameful passions. For example, their females have exchanged the natural use of the body for a use which is against nature. ²⁷And similarly, the males also, abandoning the natural use of females, have burned in their desires for one another: males doing with males what is disgraceful, and receiving within themselves the recompense that necessarily results from their error. ²⁸And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting: ²⁹having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping;

¹A Psalm of David himself. Do not choose to imitate the malicious; neither should you envy those who work iniquity. ²For they will quickly wither away like dry grass, and in like manner to kitchen herbs, they will soon droop. ³Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches. ⁴Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.

²³For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.

²²“There is no peace for the impious,” says the Lord.

²⁹Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.

¹And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near. ²Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, ³without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, ⁴traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God, ⁵even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them.

¹⁴The Lord will fight on your behalf, and you will remain silent.”

⁷I form the light and create the darkness. I make peace and create disaster. I, the Lord, do all these things.

¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven over every impiety and injustice among those men who fend off the truth of God with injustice. ¹⁹For what is known about God is manifest in them. For God has manifested it to them. ²⁰For unseen things about him have been made conspicuous, since the creation of the world, being understood by the things that were made; likewise his everlasting virtue and divinity, so much so that they have no excuse. ²¹For although they had known God, they did not glorify God, nor give thanks. Instead, they became weakened in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was obscured. ²²For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish.

²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not go toward the Light, so that his works may not be corrected.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

²⁷And in the same manner as it has been appointed for men to die one time, and after this, to be judged,

³⁴Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. ³⁵A good man offers good things from a good storehouse. And an evil man offers evil things from an evil storehouse.

⁹not repaying evil with evil, nor slander with slander, but, to the contrary, repaying with blessings. For to this you have been called, so that you may possess the inheritance of a blessing.

¹²For whoever had sinned without the law, will perish without the law. And whoever had sinned in the law, will be judged by the law. ¹³For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified. ¹⁴For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature those things which are of the law, such persons, not having the law, are a law unto themselves. ¹⁵For they reveal the work of the law written in their hearts, while their conscience renders testimony about them, and their thoughts within themselves also accuse or even defend them, ¹⁶unto the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men, through Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.