since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor, has found?

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect?
God is the One who justifies.

Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher?

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the gospel of good things!

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.