For since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his eternal power and deity, has been clearly seen, being understood by the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;

There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

Why not say as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

For we know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

As it is written: "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.