First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law,

But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,

(as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.

For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,