For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

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

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.