(for, since the creation of the world, his attributes, which are invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,) that they may be without excuse;

and know his will, and approve what is excellent, being instructed by the law:

What then? Do we, Jews, excel? Not at all: for we have already convicted all, both Jews and Greeks, of being under sin,

But now, God's plan of justifying men without law is revealed, being attested by the law and the prophets;

And not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body, which was already dead, (for he was about a hundred years old,) nor the deadness of Sarah's womb;

and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform.

Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

and being made free from sin, you have be come the servants of righteousness.

but now we are made free from the law, being dead to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

For being ignorant of God's plan of justification, and seeking to establish their own plan of justification, they have not submitted to God's plan of justification.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and partake with them of the root and fatness of the olive,