Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

For government is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For government is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

in God’s sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

He did not waver in unbelief at God’s promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect?
God is the One who justifies.

Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle and singled out for God’s good news—

always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,

Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth.

Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?

But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

But what was God’s reply to him? I have left 7,000 men for Myself who have not bowed down to Baal.

since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.

So then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God’s command, and those who oppose it will bring judgment on themselves.

And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s public servants, continually attending to these tasks.

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of God’s good news. My purpose is that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

by the power of miraculous signs and wonders, and by the power of God’s Spirit. As a result, I have fully proclaimed the good news about the Messiah from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

and that, by God’s will, I may come to you with joy and be refreshed together with you.

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

But now, apart from the law, God’s righteousness has been revealed—attested by the Law and the Prophets

—that is, God’s righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe, since there is no distinction.

This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.

The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,

For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—