NIV. The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,.

Evelyn's Diary. 27 Feb 1687. Mr. Chetwin preached at Whitehall on Rom. i. 18, a very quaint, neat discourse of Moral righteousness.

NIV. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?.

Evelyn's Diary. 30 Mar 1675. Dr. Allestree (age 53) preached on Romans, vi. 3, the necessity of those who are baptized to die to sin; a very excellent discourse from an excellent preacher.

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.

KJB. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Sed dico: Numquid non audierunt? Et quidem in omnem terram exivit sonus eorum, et in fines orbis terrae verba eorum.

But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

Life of William Morris. Sed dico, Numquid non audierunt? Et quidem in omnem terram exivit sonus eorum et in fines orbis terra verba eorum. [See First Letter to the Romans Chapter 10 Verse 18]

Hac autem omnia in figura contingehant illis: scrip a sunt autem ad correptionem nostram, in quos fines seculorum devenerunt. [See First Letter to the Corinthians Chapter 10 Verse 11]

NIV. Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.

Evelyn's Diary. 24 Feb 1665. Dr. Fell (age 39), Canon of Christ Church, preached before the King (age 34), on 15 ch. Romans, v. 2, a very formal discourse, and in blank verse, according to his manner; however, he is a good man. Mr. Philips, preceptor to my son, went to be with the Earl of Pembroke's (age 44) son, my Lord Herbert (age 24).