What defense then have we? None at all; for we before asserted that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

But we know that whatever the law says, it says to those having the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God.

For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God.

as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

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

As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.

Let us not therefore judge one another, but judge this rather, not to place a stumbling-block or an offense before a brother.

You have faith; have it for yourself before God, Blessed is he that condemns not himself in what he approves;

For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.

Salute Andronicus and Junius, my relatives and my fellow-captives, who are distinguished among the apostles, and who were before me in Christ.