The one who says not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one who abhors idols, do you rob temples?

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, [is] not unjust, [is he]? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.)

And [why] not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, in order that good may come [of it]? Their condemnation is just!

Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.

What then shall we say [that] Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has found?

For what does the scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness."

Therefore, [is] this blessing for {those who are circumcised}, or also for {those who are uncircumcised}? For we say, "Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness."

What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase?

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

What then shall we say about these [things]? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?

What then shall we say? [There is] no injustice with God, [is there]? May it never be!

For to Moses he says, "I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion."

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very [reason] I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?

On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?

As he also says in Hosea, "I will call those [who were] not my people, 'My people,' and those [who were] not loved, 'Loved.'

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness--even the righteousness [that is] by faith.

But the righteousness from faith speaks like this: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down),

But what does it say? "The word is near to you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim),

For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

But I say, they have not heard, have they? On the contrary, "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world."

But I say, Israel did not know, did they? First, Moses says, "I will provoke you [to jealousy] by [those who are] not a nation; by a senseless nation I will provoke you [to anger]."

And Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I became known to those who did not ask for me."

But about Israel he says, "The whole day [long] I held out my hands to a disobedient and resistant people."

Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in [the passage about] Elijah, what the scripture says--how he appeals to God against Israel?

But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;

I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, [did they]? May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them [to jealousy].

Then you will say, "Branches were broken off in order that I could be grafted in."

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think {sensibly}, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.

Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to [God's] wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance [is] mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will praise God."

For I say, Christ has become a servant of the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers,

And again it says, "Rejoice, Gentiles, with his people."

And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will put their hope."