text: Chapter 8 of this text notes that all creation is "groaning" as in the pains of childbirth; later, it compares its addressees to a branch grafted into an olive root, who must offer their bodies as "living sacrifices.
full_question: Chapter 8 of this text notes that all creation is "groaning" as in the pains of childbirth; later, it compares its addressees to a branch grafted into an olive root, who must offer their bodies as "living sacrifices." Augustine opened to this Biblical book after hearing the command "Tolle, lege," which turned him Christian. A commentary on this text, stressing the "wholly otherness of God," was written during World War I by Karl Barth. This text's third chapter states that all Jews and Gentiles alike have fallen short of the grace of God, and its sixth chapter says that "the wages of sin is death." Martin Luther used this epistle to support justification by faith alone. For 10 points, name this first and longest New Testament epistle, addressed by Paul to the Jews of an imperial capital.
first_sentence: Chapter 8 of this text notes that all creation is "groaning" as in the pains of childbirth; later, it compares its addressees to a branch grafted into an olive root, who must offer their bodies as "living sacrifices.
raw_answer: Epistle to the Romans