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Romans 12:19 (NIV)

Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.

Romans 12:21 (NIV)

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 15:13 (NIV)

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 1:16 (NIV)

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

Romans 3:23 (NIV)

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 5:3 (NIV)

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;

Romans 5:4 (NIV)

perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Romans 5:5 (NIV)

And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Romans 10:9 (NIV)

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:10 (NIV)

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

Romans 6:14 (NIV)

For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 6:15 (NIV)

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!

Romans 6:16 (NIV)

Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 6:17 (NIV)

But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.

Romans 6:18 (NIV)

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Romans 6:19 (NIV)

I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.

Romans 6:20 (NIV)

When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.

Romans 6:21 (NIV)

What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

Romans 6:22 (NIV)

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

Romans 7:1 (NIV)

Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?

Romans 7:2 (NIV)

For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.

Romans 7:3 (NIV)

So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

Romans 7:4 (NIV)

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Romans 7:5 (NIV)

For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.