and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,

What advantage is there then in being a Jew, and what is the use of circumcision?

But, you say, if a falsehood of mine has brought great honor to God by bringing out his truthfulness, why am I tried for being a sinner?

What does this mean? Are we Jews at a disadvantage? Not at all. We have already charged Jews and Greeks all alike with being under the control of sin.

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

and he was afterward given the mark of circumcision as the stamp of God's acknowledgment of the uprightness based on faith that was his before he was circumcised, so that he should be the forefather of all who, without being circumcised, have faith and so are credited with uprightness,

as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." The promise is guaranteed in the very sight of God in whom he had faith, who can bring the dead to life and call into being what does not exist.

For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,

Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?

So if she marries another man while her husband is alive, she is called an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and can marry someone else without being an adulteress.

As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."

For Christ died and returned to life for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

For everything that was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by being steadfast and through the encouragement the Scriptures give, we might hold our hope fast.

when I go to Spain I hope to see you on my way there, and to have you see me off on my journey, after I have enjoyed being with you for a while.