Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.

It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous.

'The fear of God is not before their eyes.'

For 'no human being will be pronounced righteous before God' as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.

For God set him before the world, to be, by the shedding of his blood, a means of reconciliation through faith. And this God did to prove his righteousness, and because, in his forbearance, he had passed over the sins that men had previously committed;

If he was pronounced righteous as the result of obedience, then he has something to boast of. Yes, but not before God.

Under what circumstances, then, did this take place? After his circumcision or before it?

Not after, but before. And it was as a sign of this that he received the rite of circumcision-to attest the righteousness due to the faith of an uncircumcised man-in order that he might be the father of all who have faith in God even when uncircumcised, that they also may be regarded by God as righteous;

Even before the time of the Law there was sin in the world; but sin cannot be charged against a man where no Law exists.

By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes?

But when we hope for what is not before our eyes, then we wait for it with patience.

For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail-a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his Call-Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,

I would ask the one man 'Why do you judge your Brother?' And I would ask the other 'Why do you despise your Brother?' For we shall all stand before the Bar of God.

For Scripture says--'"As surely as I live," says the Lord, "every knee shall bend before me; and every tongue shall make acknowledgment to God."'

To Andronicus and Junias, my countrymen and once my fellow- prisoners, who are men of note among the Apostles, and who became Christians before I did;

And God, the giver of peace, will before long crush Satan under your feet. May the blessing of Jesus, our Lord, be with you.