For on the ground of obedience to Law no man living will be declared righteous before Him. Law simply brings a sure knowledge of sin.

Where then is there room for your boasting? It is for ever shut out. On what principle? On the ground of merit? No, but on the ground of faith.

For we conclude that a man is pronounced righteous on the ground of faith, quite apart from obedience to Law.

unless you can deny that it is one and the same God who will pronounce the circumcised to be acquitted on the ground of faith, and the uncircumcised to be acquitted through the same faith.

For if he was held to be righteous on the ground of his actions, he has something to boast of; but not in the presence of God.

With no ground for hope, Abraham, sustained by hope, put faith in God; in order that, in fulfillment of the words-'So many shall thy descendants be,' he might become 'the Father of many nations.'

But when sin had gained a vantage-ground, by means of the commandment, it stirred up within me all manner of lust; for where there is no law, sin is dead.

For sin, when it had gained a vantage-ground through the commandment, beguiled me, and through it slew me.

If I do now that which I would not, I grant to the law that it is good.

He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?

Not as if the word of God had fallen to the ground; for all are not Israel, who are of Israel.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

May God, who inspires our hope, grant you perfect happiness and peace in your faith, till you are filled with this hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I have then ground for glorying in Christ Jesus in regard to the things pertaining m God.

But now, as there is no more unoccupied ground in this part of the world, and I have for years past been eager to pay you a visit,