I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now), so that I might reap a harvest among you, just as I have among the rest of the gentiles.

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust toward each other, men with men working filthiness, and receiving in themselves the just recompence of their error.

And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,

Although they know God's just requirement that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

but we know that the judgment of God against those who commit such crimes, is just.

But by thy hardness and impenitence of heart thou art treasuring up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgement of God,

(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For just as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

So if the uncircumcised heathen man observes the just demands of the law, will he not be counted as though he were a Jew?

For a person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision something just external and physical.

God forbid: but let God be true, though every man were a liar; as it is written, "That thou mayest be acknowledged just in thy sayings, and overcome when thou art judged."

Why should we not say, as people abusively say of us, and charge us with actually saying, "Let us do evil that good may come from it"? Their condemnation is just.

as it is written, "There is not a just person, no not one:

Their throats are just like open graves, with their tongues they have spoken treachery; the poison of asps is under their lips.

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

For if Abraham was justified [that is, acquitted from the guilt of his sins] by works [those things he did that were good], he has something to boast about, but not before God.

just as David also speaks about the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

(just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as [though] they are,

Abraham, building on hope in spite of hopeless circumstances, had faith, and so he actually became the father of many nations, just as it had been told him, "So numberless shall your descendants be."

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, the Messiah died for the ungodly.

Whereas one would hardly die for a just man, though perhaps for a good man one might dare even to die.

Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.

So, as through one offense there resulted condemnation for all men, just so through one act of uprightness there resulted right standing involving life for all men.

For just as by that man's disobedience the whole race of men were constituted sinners, so by this One's obedience the whole race of men may be brought into right standing with God.

so that just as sin had reigned by death, so His favor too might reign in right standing with God which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

so that the [righteous and just] requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not live our lives in the ways of the flesh [guided by worldliness and our sinful nature], but [live our lives] in the ways of the Spirit [guided by His power].

And not just the world, but even we [Christians] ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit [i.e., the first installment of our inheritance from God] also groan within us, eagerly waiting to be adopted as [God's] children, and receive back our bodies [i.e., in the resurrection].

What then should we conclude from this? [Just this]: If God is on our side, who can [successfully] oppose us?

Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."

just as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.

Just as He says in Hosea: "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, and her who was not beloved, my beloved,

It is just as Isaiah predicted: "If the Lord of the Heavenly Armies had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom and would have been compared to Gomorrah."

just as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion {a stone that causes people to stumble}, and {a rock that causes them to fall}, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."

And how will they preach, unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "How timely [are] the feet of those who bring good news of good things."

What then? [Just this]: The very thing that the Israelites are looking for [i.e., a right relationship with God], they have not found. But God's selected ones obtained [this right relationship with Him] and the rest [of the Israelites] were made insensitive to God's call,

just as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day."

And David says,

“Let their table (abundance) become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a retribution to them.

I say then, did the Jews trip [over Jesus] just so they could fall [away from God]? Certainly not! [There was another reason]: Instead, it was by means of their sin that salvation was made available to the Gentiles, so that the Jews might become jealous of them [i.e., causing them to want what the Gentiles now had].

you must not be boasting against the natural branches. And if you do, just consider, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

and so in that way all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says: "From Zion the Deliverer will come; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob;

For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because of their disobedience,

For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

just as you pay your taxes; they are God's ministers, devoting themselves to this service.

Who are you just that judges the household-servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And stand he will, for his Master has power to make him stand.

Stop undoing the work of God just for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything when it makes another stumble.

It is the duty of us who are strong to put up with the weaknesses of those who are immature, and not just suit ourselves.

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

Therefore, practice receiving one another into full Christian fellowship, just as Christ has so received you to Himself.

and that the Gentiles may glorify God for [his] mercy, just as it is written, "Because of this, I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to your name."

But, just to refresh your memories, I have written you pretty boldly on some points, because of the favor God has shown me

but just as it is written, "[Those] to whom [it was] not announced concerning him will see, and [those] who have not heard will understand."

But just now I am on my way to Jerusalem to help God's people.