Lexicon :: Strong's G2716 - katergazomai

The men[fn] in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons[fn] the appropriate penalty of their error.

There will be affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;

because the law produces wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

Therefore, did what is good become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.

For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me by word and deed for the obedience of the Gentiles,

Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who has been doing such a thing.

For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly grief produces death.

You will be enriched in every way for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.

The signs of an apostle were performed with unfailing endurance among you, including signs and wonders and miracles.

For this reason take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.

Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.