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and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God's kindness leads you to repentance?

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed!

but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

For there is no partiality with God.

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

For just as it is written, " the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you ."

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,