since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.

For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.

on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

So what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor, has found?

For what does the Scripture say?

Abraham believed God,
and it was credited to him for righteousness.

He believed, hoping against hope, so that he became the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: So will your descendants be.

because he was fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

Therefore, did what is good cause my death? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.

For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,

Now in this hope we were saved, yet hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patience.

In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.

What then are we to say about these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?

What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?

And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—

What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness—namely the righteousness that comes from faith.

On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim:

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

But what was God’s reply to him? I have left 7,000 men for Myself who have not bowed down to Baal.

What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Try to do what is honorable in everyone’s eyes.

For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one Christ died for by what you eat.

So then, we must pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.

Do you have a conviction? Keep it to yourself before God. The man who does not condemn himself by what he approves is blessed.

Therefore I have reason to boast in Christ Jesus regarding what pertains to God.

For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

The report of your obedience has reached everyone. Therefore I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good, yet innocent about what is evil.