which God had already promised through His Prophets in Holy Writ, concerning His Son,

to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;

whereas glory, honour and peace will be given to every one who does what is good and right--to the Jew first and then to the Gentile.

It is not those that merely hear the Law read who are righteous in the sight of God, but it is those that obey the Law who will be pronounced righteous.

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentile nations because of you, as Holy Writ declares.

All have turned aside from the right path; they have every one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what is right--no, not so much as one."

For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.

and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.

I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me.

Who is there to condemn them? Christ Jesus died, or rather has risen to life again. He is also at the right hand of God, and is interceding for us.

Now if the firstfruits of the dough are holy, so also is the whole mass; and if the root of a tree is holy, so also are the branches.

And if some of the branches have been pruned away, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among them and have become a sharer with others in the rich sap of the root of the olive tree,

beware of glorying over the natural branches. Or if you are so glorying, do not forget that it is not you who uphold the root: the root upholds you.

Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right.

Pay back to no man evil for evil. Take thought for what is right and seemly in every one's esteem.

For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not? --to have no reason to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, and then he will commend you.

For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of right conduct, peace and joy, through the Holy Spirit;

The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall.

And again Isaiah says, "There shall be the Root of Jesse and One who rises up to rule the Gentiles. On Him shall the Gentiles build their hopes."

But I write to you the more boldly--partly as reminding you of what you already know--because of the authority graciously entrusted to me by God,

I, Tertius, who write this letter, send you Christian greetings.