Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about -- but not before God.

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For this is what the promise declared: "About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son."

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."

But about Israel he says, "All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!"

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

but as it is written: "Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."

but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith --