But I ask, had they no opportunity to hear it? On the contrary, "Their voices have gone all over the earth, And their words to the ends of the world."

while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.

Righteousness

When he comes, he will bring conviction to the world about sin and uprightness and judgment;

But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.

Then what do we conclude? That heathen who were not striving for uprightness attained it, that is, an uprightness which was produced by faith;

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.

and be known to be united to him, with any uprightness I may have not based on law but coming through faith in Christ??he uprightness that comes from God through faith.

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the uprightness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as privileged as ours;

Openly shewed

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

General references

Which you have set before all the nations,

And all mankind is to see how God can save!"

So there was great rejoicing in that city.