Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the assurance of God ineffective?

And not being weak in faith he did not regard his body, which was now deadened (being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but became strong in faith, giving glory to God,

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming man.

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?

What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith.

But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness.

For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

But I say, did they, no, not hear? Rather, Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their sayings to the limits of the inhabited world.

But I say, did Israel, no, not know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy toward a non-nation. Toward a foolish nation, I will make you angry.

I say therefore, did God thrust away his people? May it not happen! For I also am an Israelite from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not thrust away his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture tells by Elijah? How he encounters God about Israel.

What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain. But the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened,

I say then, did they stumble so that they would fall? May it not happen! But in their transgression, salvation is to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.

For Christ also did not please himself, but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell upon me.

For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work,