For all that can be known of God is clearly before them; God has shown it to them.

There is no reverence for God before their eyes!"

For if he was made upright by what he did, it is something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God,

In what circumstances? Was it after he was circumcised or before? Not after he was circumcised, but before;

and he was afterward given the mark of circumcision as the stamp of God's acknowledgment of the uprightness based on faith that was his before he was circumcised, so that he should be the forefather of all who, without being circumcised, have faith and so are credited with uprightness,

and the forefather of those circumcised persons who not only share his circumcision but follow our forefather Abraham's example in the faith he had before he was circumcised.

It is true sin was in the world before the Law was given, and men are not charged with sin where there is no law.

I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.

For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them,

What business have you to criticize your brother? What business have you to look down upon your brother? We shall all have to stand before God for judgment.

For the Scripture says, "As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend before me, And every tongue will make its confession to God."

Let us, therefore, keep before us whatever will contribute to peace and the development of one another.

Remember me to Andronicus and Junias, my fellow-countrymen, who went to prison with me. They are noted men among the missionaries, and they became Christians before I did.