Certainly not! For then how could God judge the world?

How then was it reckoned to him? Was it after he had been circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live any longer in it?

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

How then can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without a preacher?

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!"

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?

Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean!

For if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree!

Oh, the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out!