There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,

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

All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good,
There is not even one.”

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

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

(as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

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

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

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

Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,

for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.

He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.

The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.