First of all, I want to thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being told about throughout the whole world.

who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them.

Hoping in spite of hopeless circumstances, he believed that he would become "the father of many nations," just as he had been told: "This is how many descendants you will have."

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

nor are they all children of Abraham because they are descended from him, but he was told, "The line of Isaac will be called your descendants."

and even then, though they were not then born and had not done anything either good or evil, yet in order that God's electing purpose might not be frustrated, based, as it was, not on their actions but on the will of Him who called them, she was told,

not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.

And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.

Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation.

It is true, they have not all accepted the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what we have told?"

So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

By my words and actions, through the power displayed in signs and marvels, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. And so, starting from Jerusalem and its neighborhood, and going as far as Illyria, I have told in full the Good News of the Christ;

but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.

I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.

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,