and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead ??concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed.

[Move vss 14,15 to follow vs 16] (When Gentiles who have no law obey instinctively the Law's requirements, they are a law to themselves, even though they have no law;

on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ.

In what way? When he was a circumcised man or an uncircumcised man? Not when he was circumcised, but when he was uncircumcised.

For Abraham, when hope was gone, hoped on in faith, and thus became the father of many nations ??even as he was told, So numberless shall your offspring be.

His faith never quailed, even when he noted the utter impotence of his own body (for he was about a hundred years old) or the impotence of Sara's womb;

For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!

But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

If we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son when we were enemies, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

When you served sin, you were free of righteousness.

For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;

I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

Now, when I act against my wishes, that means I agree that the Law is right.

You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

We were saved with this hope in view. Now when an object of hope is seen, there is no further need to hope. Who ever hopes for what he sees already?

Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits,

when I say that I am in sore pain. I suffer endless anguish of heart.

For when God said, I will come about this time and Sara shall have a son, that was a word of promise.

And further, when Rebecca became pregnant by our father Isaac, though one man was the father of both children,

Well, if their lapse has enriched the world, if their defection is the gain of the Gentiles, what will it mean when they all come in?

this is my covenant with them, when I take their sins away.

And then you know what this Crisis means, you know it is high time to waken up; for Salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

When I do come to you, I know I will bring a full blessing from Christ.