Which he had promised before, by his prophets in the holy scriptures,

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 than they? In no wise: for we have before proved all, both Jews and Gentiles, to be under sin.

The fear of God is not before their eyes.

Now we know that whatsoever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be found guilty before God.

I have made thee a father of many nations) before God in whom he believed, as quickning the dead, and calling the things that are not, as though they were:

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, whom he had before prepared for glory?

And as Isaiah had said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and had been made like Gomorrah.

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of Christ.

Let us therefore no longer judge one another; but judge this rather, not to lay a stumbling block, or a scandal before a brother.

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are in repute among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.