For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.

But now a righteousness of God has been manifested independent of law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

For if Abraham was made righteous from works, he has a boast, but not before God.

For if those from law are heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been made useless.

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

For he who has died has been made righteous away from sin.

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.

Or are ye ignorant, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over the man for as long a time as he lives?

For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.

Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

But it is not as that the word of God has failed. For all those from Israel, these are not Israel,

Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose?

Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?

Since he is completing and finishing quickly a matter in righteousness, because a matter that has been cut short upon the earth, Lord will perform.

And just as Isaiah has foretold, Unless Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.

But not all were obedient to the good-news, for Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?

So then also at this present time there has become a remnant according to the selection of grace.

For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise according to yourselves, that a callousness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in.

For God has confined all men in disobedience, so that he might be merciful to all.

For who has known the mind of Lord? Or who became his counselor?

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves.

Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law.

The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables.

The man who eats should not disdain the man who does not eat, and the man who does not eat should not criticize the man who eats, for God has received him.

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good-news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times,