If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. ¹  But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people ¹  are without excuse.

¹ Therefore ²  you are without excuse, ³  whoever you are, ⁴  when you judge someone else. ⁵  For on whatever grounds ⁶  you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

But one after another they all ¹  began to make excuses. ²  The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, ³  and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’ ⁴ 

They ¹  show that the work of the law is written ²  in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend ³  them, ⁴ 

Another ¹  said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, ²  and I am going out ³  to examine them. Please excuse me.’

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; ¹  only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, ²  but through love serve one another. ³ 

So do not say, ¹  ‘We have found wisdom! God will refute ²  him, not man!’

Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them. ¹ 

and they said to them, “May the Lord look on you and judge, ¹  because you have made us stink ²  in the opinion of ³  Pharaoh and his servants, ⁴  so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!” ⁵ 

Have you been thinking all this time ¹  that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up. ² 

People ¹  do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need ²  when he is hungry.

Another ¹  of the ²  disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

always giving thanks to God the Father for each other ¹  in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Live ¹  as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves. ² 

She said, “Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.

The Lord revealed himself; he accomplished justice; the wicked were ensnared by their own actions. ¹  (Higgaion. ²  Selah)

Certainly none who rely on you will be humiliated. Those who deal in treachery will be thwarted ¹  and humiliated.

I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes? ¹ 

When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. ¹  And they did not know what to tell him.