First then I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is proclaimed through the whole world.

Because that which is capable of being known relative to God, is evident among them; for God hath manifested it to them.

because though they knew [there was] a God, they glorified him not as God, nor gave him thanks, but became triflers in their disputations, and their stupid heart was darkened.

and hope doth not make us ashamed; because the love of God is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness.

Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

nor, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

for he will finish the account, and cut it short in righteousness: because a concise account will the Lord make on the earth."

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as by the works of the law. For they stumbled against that stone of stumbling;

Because by him, and through him, and for him, are all things, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

But he that maketh a difference between meats, if he eat is condemned, because he doth it not by faith: for every thing which is not of faith, is sin.