And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not proper;

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the descendants; not to those only who are of the law, but to those also who are of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were.

Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

What fruit had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the man who does those things shall live by them.

I have therefore that of which I may boast through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not worked by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,