But do you think this, O man who passes judgment on those who do such things, and who does the same [things], that you will escape the judgment of God?

[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,

but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and to the Greek.

For what does the scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness."

But to the one who does not work, but who believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness,

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person {does not belong to him}.

Consequently therefore, {it does not depend on the} one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.

Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?

Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump a vessel that [is] for {honorable use} and [one] that [is] for {ordinary use}?

For Moses writes about the righteousness [that is] from the law: "The person who does [this] will live by it."

But what does it say? "The word is near to you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim),

But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

for it is God's servant to you for what [is] good. But if you do what [is] bad, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword to no purpose. For it is God's servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does [what is] bad.

Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love [is the] fulfillment of the law.

The one who eats must not despise the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, because God has accepted him.

The one who is intent on the day is intent on [it] for the Lord, and the one who eats eats for the Lord, because he is thankful to God, and the one who does not eat does not eat for the Lord, and he is thankful to God.

The faith that you have, have with respect to yourself before God. Blessed [is] the one who does not pass judgment on himself by what he approves.

But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not [do so] from faith, and everything that [is] not from faith is sin.