But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak as a man;??6 by no means;??ince [if he was] how shall God judge the world?

And as we are falsely accused and as some declare that we say, [do we say] Let us do evil that good may come? Whose judgment is just.

But we know that whatever the law says, it says to those having the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God.

What shall we say then that Abraham our father found according to the flesh?

For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Is this blessedness then on the circumcision? or also on the uncircumcision? [Also on the uncircumcision.] For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that the grace may abound?

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.

What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.

For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to him to whom I may be merciful, and I will compassionate him whom I may compassionate.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.

You will say to me then, Why then does he yet find fault? for who has resisted his will?

Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus?

as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my people, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved,

What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith;

But the righteousness by faith speaks thus; Say not in your mind, who shall ascend into heaven???hat is, to bring Christ down,??7 or who shall descend into the abyss???hat is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

But what does it say? The word is nigh you, in your mouth and in your mind; that is, the word of the faith which we preach.

For the Scripture says, No one that believes in him shall be ashamed.

But all did not obey the gospel; for Isaiah says, Lord, who believed our report?

But I say, Did they not hear? Yes indeed; their voice went into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

But I say, did not Israel know? First, Moses says, I will provoke you by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish nation will I excite you to anger.

But Isaiah is more bold and says, I was found by them that sought me not, I was made manifest to them that inquired not after me.

But in respect to Israel he says, All the day I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.

I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he intercedes with God against Israel?

But what says the response to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

And David says, Let their table become a trap and a snare and an offense and a stumbling block to them;

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means; but by their fall the nations have salvation to excite them to emulation.

You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

For I say through the grace given me, to every one among you, not to be higher-minded than he ought to be, but to think soberly, as God has distributed to each the measure of faith.

not vindicating yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Judgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

For it is written, [As] I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess to God.

For I say that Christ was made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers,

And again he says, Rejoice nations with his people.

And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse and he shall stand up to rule nations, in him shall nations hope.