by whose favour I have received the office of an apostle to bring the Gentiles every where to the obedience of faith preached in his name:

now I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, tho' I have been hindered hitherto, that I might be useful among you as well as among other Gentiles.

for I am not ashamed of the gospel, since it is divinely effectual to salvation, to everyone that believes, to the Jew first, and then to the Gentile.

tribulation and anguish to every one that doth evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

but glory, honour, and peace, to every man that acts right, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

when the Gentiles who have not the law, do by nature what the law prescribes, tho' these have not the law, they are a law to themselves:

for (as it is written) the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles by your miscarriages.

if therefore an uncircumcised Gentile keep the moral precepts contained in the law, shall not he be reckon'd, as if he were circumcised?

and shall not a Gentile, tho' he is not actually circumcised, if he fulfil the law, condemn thee, who, tho' literally circumcised, dost yet transgress the law?

"how then are we better than they?" why, not at all: for we have already convicted both Jews and Gentiles, of being all under the guilt of sin.

is God the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? surely he is of the Gentiles too;

since it is one God, who will justify both the Jews and the Gentiles, through faith.

to such as we, whom he has called, both from among the Jews, and from among the Gentiles.

What shall we hence conclude? that the Gentiles who sought not after justice, have obtained justice, even to that which is by faith:

In reality there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile: they have all the same Lord, who is bountiful to all that call upon him.

You will say then, "were they suffer'd to stumble meerly for their ruin?" no: but that thro' their fall, salvation might be offer'd to the Gentiles, in order to provoke their emulation.

now if their fall be to the advancement of the world, and the few converts among them bring in whole numbers of the Gentiles: how much more so will it be, when the Jewish body recover?

this concerns you Gentiles. for as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I should do honour to my character,

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this secret, (for fear you should presume too much on your selves) that blindness has fallen upon a part of Israel, until the time when the Gentiles shall be fully come in.

and you Gentiles ought to glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, "for this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name ."

and again the scripture saith, "rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people."

and elsewhere, praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and laud him, all ye people."

besides Esaias saith, "there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope."

nevertheless, brethren, I have writ to the Gentile part of you, and admonish'd you with the greater freedom by virtue of the commission that God has given me,

to be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating the gospel of God, that the Gentiles might be made an acceptable offering, being sanctified by the holy spirit.

for I will not offer to mention any thing, but what Christ has wrought by me, to make the Gentiles christians, both in profession and practice:

they have thought fit, I say, and they owed them as much. for if the Gentiles have participated of their spirituals, they are bound on their side to minister to them in their temporals.

who have for my life readily exposed their own: to whom not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles too give thanks.

and by the writings of the prophets (according to the commandment of the eternal God) made known to all the Gentiles, to induce them to obey the faith: