Letters to the Churches

For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.

And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.

And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,

Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.

Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest.

For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.

And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:

Who will render to every man according to his works.

To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.

Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.

For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves.

Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also defending one another,

In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God,

And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law: