Through him we received grace and a commission as an apostle to bring about faithful obedience among all the gentiles for the sake of his name.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

For if through my falsehood God's truthfulness glorifies him even more, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

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

How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him!"

Now does this blessedness come to the circumcised alone, or also to the uncircumcised? For we say, "Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness."

This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."

Now the words "it was credited to him" were written not only for him

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God's glory.

Now that we have been justified by his blood, how much more will we be saved from wrath through him!

Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

We know that our old natures were crucified with him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin.

Now if we have died with the Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him,

for we know that the Messiah, who was raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

You, however, are not under the control of the human nature but under the control of the Spirit, since God's Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, he does not belong to him.

The one who did not spare his own Son, but offered him as a sacrifice for all of us, surely will give us all things, along with his Son, won't he?

As it is written, "Look! I am placing a stone in Zion over which people will stumble a large rock that will make them fall and the one who believes in him will never be ashamed."

If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

The Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will never be ashamed."

There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him.

But what was the divine reply to him? "I have reserved for myself 7,000 people who have not knelt to worship Baal."

Or who has given him something only to have him pay it back?"

For all things are from him, by him, and for him. Glory belongs to him forever! Amen.

But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him. For if he is thirsty, give him a drink. If you do this, you will pile burning coals on his head."

The person who eats any kind of food must not ridicule the person who does not eat them, and the person who does not eat certain foods must not criticize the person who eats them, for God has accepted him.

Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? He stands or falls before his own Lord and stand he will, because the Lord makes him stand.

Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building him up.

And again, "Praise the Lord, all you gentiles! Let all the nations praise him."

And again, Isaiah says, "There will be a Root from Jesse. He will rise up to rule the gentiles, and the gentiles will hope in him."

Rather, as it is written, "Those who were never told about him will see, and those who have never heard will understand."