For, ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, even his eternal power and divinity, being perceived from his works, are clearly seen, so that they might be without excuse.

being filled with all unrighteousness, malice, covetousness, wickedness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; backbiters,

and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the Law;

For if, through my being false, the truth of God hath been more abundantly manifested to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

being accepted as righteous freely, by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

and not being weak in faith, he regarded not his own body which had become dead, he being about a hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarahs womb;

being fully convinced, that what he hath promised, he is able also to perform.

Therefore being accepted as righteous through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Much more then, being now accepted as righteous through his blood, we shall be saved through him from the [coming] wrath.

nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

and being made free from sin, ye became the bondmen of righteousness.

Why? Because they did not strive for it by faith, but as being by works. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;

For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and endeavoring to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness which is of God.

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles, performing the office of a priest in respect to the gospel of God, that the oblation of the gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.