and in the same way also the males abandoned the natural function of the female and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.

Nor let us act in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

it does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered;

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

But I beg that when I am present I need not act so courageously with the confidence that I consider to daringly use against some, who consider us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we did not act in an unruly manner among you,

For we hear that some among you are walking in an unruly manner, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;