Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

Much every way. First, because they were indeed entrusted with the oracles of God.

For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.

But God commends his love toward us, that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For if, while being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been reconciled we will be saved by his life.

For as through the one man's disobedience the many were led sinful, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be led righteous.

Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death?

We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.

But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered.

And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness

For when ye were bondmen of sin, ye were uninhibited by righteousness.

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that?

But not all were obedient to the good-news, for Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?

What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain. But the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened,

And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree,

Thou will therefore say, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.

Correct! They were broken off for their unbelief, and thou stand by thy faith. Be not high-minded but fear,

For if thou were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural ones, be grafted into their own olive tree.

For as ye once were also disobedient to God, but now have received mercy at the disobedience of these,

For as many things as were written previously were written for our learning, so that through perseverance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain participation for the poor of the sanctified at Jerusalem.

For they were pleased. And they are debtors of them, for if the gentiles were partakers in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to serve them in the carnal things.