(which he had before promised by his prophets in holy writings,)

(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.

whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

And according as Esaias said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.

Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in what he allows.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me.