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²³For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good,

¹⁵For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.

¹⁵But I have written to you, brothers, more boldly than to the others, as if calling you to mind again, because of the grace which has been given to me from God, ¹⁶so that I may be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, sanctifying the Gospel of God, in order that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and may be sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

¹Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. ²For through him we also have access by faith to this grace, in which we stand firm, and to glory, in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. ³And not only that, but we also find glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation exercises patience, ⁴and patience leads to proving, yet truly proving leads to hope, ⁵but hope is not unfounded, because the love of God is poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. ⁶Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?

¹Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is in the ministry of the church, which is at Cenchreae, ²so that you may receive her in the Lord with the worthiness of the saints, and so that you may be of assistance to her in whatever task she will have need of you. For she herself has also assisted many, and myself also. ³Greet Prisca and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus, ⁴who have risked their own necks on behalf of my life, for whom I give thanks, not I alone, but also all the churches of the Gentiles; ⁵and greet the church at their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is among the first-fruits of Asia in Christ. ⁶Greet Mary, who has labored much among you.

¹⁴Instead, be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in its desires.

¹⁷For the justice of God is revealed within it, by faith unto faith, just as it was written: “For the just one lives by faith.”

¹⁰loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor:

²⁵But next I will set out for Jerusalem, to minister to the saints. ²⁶For those of Macedonia and Achaia have decided to make a collection for those of the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem. ²⁷And this has pleased them, because they are in their debt. For, since the Gentiles have become partakers of their spiritual things, they also ought to minister to them in worldly things.