For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus,

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,

Everyone must submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are instituted by God.

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

as it is written:

There is no one righteous, not even one.

For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.

For I am persuaded that not even death or life,
angels or rulers,
things present or things to come, hostile powers,

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

What then are we to say about these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

including yourselves who also belong to Jesus Christ by calling:

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

But now, apart from the law, God’s righteousness has been revealed—attested by the Law and the Prophets

For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment, Christ died for the ungodly.

For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.

concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh

The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,

They are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle and singled out for God’s good news—

Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good.

Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—

And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,

But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher?

always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

that is, to be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.

Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

For God, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about His Son, is my witness that I constantly mention you,

Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause dissensions and obstacles contrary to the doctrine you have learned. Avoid them,

Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Oh, the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!
How unsearchable His judgments
and untraceable His ways!

Now if their stumbling brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full number bring!

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world.

God presented Him as a propitiation through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

According to the grace given to us, we have different gifts:

If prophecy,
use it according to the standard of one’s faith;

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but don’t argue about doubtful issues.

since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.

So that you will not be conceited, brothers, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery: A partial hardening has come to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

No, in all these things we are more than victorious
through Him who loved us.

Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath.

Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function,

and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ—seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

Therefore, any one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.

For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you.

Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for His wrath. For it is written: Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay, says the Lord.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power.

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim:

Show family affection to one another with brotherly love. Outdo one another in showing honor.

For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed.

—that is, God’s righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe, since there is no distinction.

Who is the one who condemns?
Christ Jesus is the One who died,
but even more, has been raised;
He also is at the right hand of God
and intercedes for us.

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae.

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,

He did not even spare His own Son
but offered Him up for us all;
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit—

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

So I am eager to preach the good news to you also who are in Rome.

One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.

and who has been declared to be the powerful Son of God by the resurrection from the dead according to the Spirit of holiness.

He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

But you, why do you criticize your brother? Or you, why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before the tribunal of God.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!

For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.

Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.

Now to Him who has power to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for long ages

because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation!

But to the one who does not work, but believes on Him who declares the ungodly to be righteous, his faith is credited for righteousness.

I ask, then, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor, has found?

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

And not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits—we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.

For from Him and through Him
and to Him are all things.
To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer.

So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.

If possible, on your part, live at peace with everyone.

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

The Liberator will come from Zion;
He will turn away godlessness from Jacob.

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Try to do what is honorable in everyone’s eyes.

So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.

One person considers one day to be above another day. Someone else considers every day to be the same. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind.

Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

So then it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.

Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.

For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.

Greet one another with a holy kiss.
All the churches of Christ send you greetings.

So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.

We have received grace and apostleship through Him to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations, on behalf of His name,

To all who are in Rome, loved by God, called as saints.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Therefore I have reason to boast in Christ Jesus regarding what pertains to God.

But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from a conviction, and everything that is not from a conviction is sin.

So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

For what does the Scripture say?

Abraham believed God,
and it was credited to him for righteousness.

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother’s way.

which He promised long ago through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures—

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement allow you to live in harmony with one another, according to the command of Christ Jesus,

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.

Therefore accept one another, just as the Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of God.

For in light of the fact that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in light of the fact that He lives, He lives to God.

For government is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For government is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.

He will repay each one according to his works:

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the gospel of good things!

The commandments:

Do not commit adultery;
do not murder;
do not steal;
do not covet;

and whatever other commandment—all are summed up by this: Love your neighbor as yourself.

But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

Share with the saints in their needs; pursue hospitality.

My brothers, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

So then, we must pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it—in the hope

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift overflowed to the many by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred to,

since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.

Be in agreement with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation.

Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect?
God is the One who justifies.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,

The males in the same way also left natural relations with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.

Now the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on Him will not be put to shame,

undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful.

Now to the one who works, pay is not considered as a gift, but as something owed.

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. In view of the fact that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

in God’s sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

We have also obtained access through Him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.

Do we then cancel the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,

not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we may bear fruit for God.

I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.

for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

How joyful is the man
the Lord will never charge with sin!

slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.

Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.

do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.

True enough; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;

Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Is this blessing only for the circumcised, then? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.

by the power of miraculous signs and wonders, and by the power of God’s Spirit. As a result, I have fully proclaimed the good news about the Messiah from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

And this will be My covenant with them
when I take away their sins.

Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?

In what way then was it credited—while he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while he was circumcised, but uncircumcised.

Timothy, my coworker, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my fellow countrymen, greet you.

And the gift is not like the one man’s sin, because from one sin came the judgment, resulting in condemnation, but from many trespasses came the gift, resulting in justification.

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.

but, as it is written:

Those who were not told about Him will see,
and those who have not heard will understand.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

and the path of peace they have not known.

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,

But now I no longer have any work to do in these provinces, and I have strongly desired for many years to come to you

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.

As He also says in Hosea:

I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.

whenever I travel to Spain. For I hope to see you when I pass through, and to be assisted by you for my journey there, once I have first enjoyed your company for a while.

endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.

We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth.

Do you have a conviction? Keep it to yourself before God. The man who does not condemn himself by what he approves is blessed.

And he became the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised.

know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus greet you.

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

[The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.]

I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.

So when I have finished this and safely delivered the funds to them, I will visit you on the way to Spain.

As you once disobeyed God, but now have received mercy through their disobedience,

Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
and their backs be bent continually.

and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness.

you then, who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach, “You must not steal”—do you steal?

for Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

You who say, “You must not commit adultery”—do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples?

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.

an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the full expression of knowledge and truth in the law—

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

Therefore if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will his uncircumcision not be counted as circumcision?

A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.

For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.

Lord, they have killed Your prophets
and torn down Your altars.
I am the only one left,
and they are trying to take my life!

if service, in service;
if teaching, in teaching;

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made empty and the promise is canceled.

He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about 100 years old) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb, without weakening in the faith.

And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—

as it is written:

God gave them a spirit of insensitivity,
eyes that cannot see
and ears that cannot hear,
to this day.

If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to brag about—but not before God.

on us, the ones He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

And David says:

Let their feasting become a snare and a trap,
a pitfall and a retribution to them.

So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Now it was credited to him was not written for Abraham alone,

since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

But what was God’s reply to him? I have left 7,000 men for Myself who have not bowed down to Baal.

Or is God for Jews only? Is He not also for Gentiles? Yes, for Gentiles too,

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

Though the number of Israel’s sons
is like the sand of the sea,
only the remnant will be saved;

That is why I have been prevented many times from coming to you.

because he was fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

but also for us. It will be credited to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Yes, they were pleased, and indeed are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual benefits, then they are obligated to minister to Jews in material needs.