Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

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

For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

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? May it never be!

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

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

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of 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 didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.