So, as far as I can, I am eager to preach the good news to you at Rome, too.

because what can be known of God is clear to their inner moral sense; for in this way God Himself has shown it to them.

and understand His will, and by being instructed in the law can know the things that excel,

What then, if some of them have proved unfaithful? Can their unfaithfulness make null and void God's faithfulness?

Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

For the law results in wrath alone, but where there is no law, there can be no violation of it.

as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." That is, the promise is in force in the sight of God in whom he put his faith, the God who can bring the dead to life and can call to Himself the things that do not exist as though they did.

Not at all! Since we have ended our relation to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

Do you not know, brothers -- for I speak to those who are acquainted with the law -- that the law can press its claim over a man only so long as he lives?

Wretched man that I am! Who can save me from this deadly lower nature?

Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.

What are we then to say to facts like these? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Who can bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who declared them in right standing;

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

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

So you will ask me, "Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?"

On the contrary, friend, who are you anyway that you would answer back to God? Can the clay that is molded ask the man who molds it, "Why did you make me like this?"

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so.

For Moses says of the law-way to right standing with God that whoever can perform the law will live by it.

But how can people call upon One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in One about whom they have not heard? And how can people hear without someone to preach to them?

And how can men preach unless they are sent to do so? As the Scripture says, "How beautiful are the feet of men who bring the glad news of His good things!"

if I can make my fellow-countrymen jealous, and so save some of them.

One man believes that he can eat anything; another who is overscrupulous eats nothing but vegetables.

For none of us can live alone by himself, and none of us can die alone by himself;

To Him who can make you strong in accordance with the good news I bring and in accordance with the message preached about Jesus Christ, in accordance with the uncovering of the secret which for ages past had not been told,