For all that can be known of God is clearly before them; God has shown it to them.

and can understand his will, and from hearing the Law read can tell what is right,

and you are sure that you can guide the blind, enlighten people who are in the dark,

What if some of them have shown a lack of faith? Can their lack of it nullify the faithfulness of God?

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.

but a man who has no work to offer, but has faith in him who can make the ungodly upright, has his faith credited to him as 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.

Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

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.

But now the Law no longer applies to us; we have died to what once controlled us, so that we can now serve in the new Spirit, not under the old letter.

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

What a wretched man I am! Who can save me from this doomed body?

It was in this hope that we were saved. But a hope that can be seen is not a hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

Then what shall we conclude from this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Who can bring any accusation against those whom God has chosen? God pronounces them upright;

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

"Why, then," you will ask, "does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"

On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?"

I can testify to their sincere devotion to God, but it is not an intelligent devotion.

For if their rejection has meant the reconciling of the world, what can the acceptance of them mean but life from the dead?

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

Everyone must obey the authorities that are over him, for no authority can exist without the permission of God; the existing authorities have been established by him,

Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? It is for his own master to say whether he succeeds or fails; and he will succeed, for the Master can make him do so.

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,