That is why I am so eager to proclaim the gospel to you who live in Rome, too.

For if through my falsehood God's truthfulness glorifies him even more, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."

That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.

You may ask me, "Then why does God still find fault with anybody? For who can resist his will?"

On the contrary, who are you mere man that you are to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this?"

Why not? Because they did not pursue it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on achievements. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble.

This is also why you pay taxes. For rulers are God's servants faithfully devoting themselves to their work.

Why, then, do you criticize your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For all of us will stand before the judgment seat of God.

so that the gentiles may glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "That is why I will praise you among the gentiles; I will sing praises to your name."

This is why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.