about His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh,

because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law is the knowledge of sin.

whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness through the passing by of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God;

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Therefore it is of faith so that it might be according to grace; for the promise to be made sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

For he who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, "So your seed shall be").

For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband is dead, she is set free from the law of her husband.

But now we having been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.

nor because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children. But, "In Isaac shall your Seed be called."

That is, not the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for a seed.

it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger."

For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them. "You are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God."

And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah."

I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not thrust out His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

And David said, "Let their table become for a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Repay no one evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

But why do you judge your brother? Or also why do you despise your brother? For all shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

but as it is written, "To whom nothing was said about Him, they shall see. And they who have not heard shall understand."

whenever I may go into Spain, I will come to you. For in traveling through I hope to see you, and to be set forward there by you, if first I may be filled of you in part.