for what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

And since they did not see fit to retain the knowledge of God, God gave them over to a base mind, to do what ought not to be done.

and know his will and approve of what is excellent, because you are instructed in the law,

Then what advantage has the Jew, or what is the value of circumcision?

What if some did not have faith? Will their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

What then? Are we Jews any better off? Certainly not; for we have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin.

Where then is our boasting? It is excluded. On what law? On the law of works? No, but on the law of faith.

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."

being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.

But now, by dying to what once held us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But it was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.

I do not understand what I do. For I do not do what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will to do what is good, but I cannot do it.

For I do not do the good I want to do; but the evil I do not want to do is what I do.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weakened through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin: he condemned sin in the flesh,

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For this is what the promise said: "About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son."

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Certainly not!

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

What if God, choosing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith;

But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach);

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

But what is God's reply to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

What then? Israel did not obtain what it sought. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Let love be genuine. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Repay no one evil for evil, but have regard for what is noble in the sight of all.

Therefore he who resists the authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will have praise from him.

If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not by your eating destroy the one for whom Christ died.

Let us therefore pursue what makes for peace and for mutual edification.

The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself for what he approves.

For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed

For your obedience has become known to all, so I am full of joy over you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.