Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal?

But, if my falsehood redounds to the glory of God, by making his truthfulness more apparent, why am I like others, still condemned as a sinner?

As well as father of the circumcised-to those who are not only circumcised, but who also follow our father Abraham in that faith which he had while still uncircumcised.

Seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God's good time, died on behalf of the godless.

But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

While you were still servants of Sin, you were free as regards Righteousness.

Perhaps you will say to me-'How can any one still be blamed? For who withstands his purpose?'

Still, it may be said, every one did not give heed to the Good News. No, for Isaiah asks--'Lord, who has believed our teaching?'

The commandments, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet,' and whatever other commandment there is, are all summed up in the words--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

He, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if he still eats, because his doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.