who was of the seed of David according to the flesh,

so that they are inexcusable; because having thus known God they glorified Him not as God, neither were they thankful; but were infatuated by their own reasonings, and their heart being void of understanding was darkened.

for what saith the scripture? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

Now is this blessedness upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? for we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

How then was it accounted to him? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

For the promise made to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, was not by the law, but by the righteousness of faith:

who against hope believed, with hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was said unto him, "So shall thy seed be."

He hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief: but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

and being fully persuaded, that what was promised He was able to perform:

and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Now it was not written on his account only, that it was imputed to him:

who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

for sin was in the world before the law. Now sin is not imputed where there is no law;

and yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of Him that was to come.

For the gift is not as the sentence was by one that sinned; for the sentence is passed from one offence to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences to justification.

Therefore as by the offence of one the effect of it was upon all men to condemnation: so also by the righteousness of one, the effect was upon all men to justification of life.

Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life:

But thanks be to God, that ye who were servants of sin, have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you:

But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the law sin was dead.

And I was heretofore alive without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died:

and the commandment which was intended to life, I found to be unto death.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin might be shewn by the commandment to be exceeding sinful.

For that which was impossible for the law to do, and in which it was weak through the corruption of the flesh, God by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sacrifice for sin, hath done; that is, hath condemned sin in the flesh:

(for the world was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but through him who made it subject:)

(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger:

As He saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

And in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God.

and Esaias positively affirms, "I was found of them that sought me not, I was made manifest to them that asked not after me:"

For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive, which was natural to thee, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive; how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

Now Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the manifestation of the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers:

but as it is written, They, to whom nothing was said concerning Him, shall see, and they who have not heard, shall understand.

Now to Him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, (conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret in former times,