because what can be known about God is evident among them, for God made [it] clear to them.

Therefore, what [is] the advantage of the Jew, or what [is] the use of circumcision?

{What is the result} if some refused to believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, [will it]?

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, [is] not unjust, [is he]? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.)

What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

Therefore, where [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

What then shall we say [that] Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has found?

For what does the scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness."

who against hope believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said, "so will your descendants be."

and being fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do.

What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase?

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

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

But if what I do not want [to do], this I do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

But if what I do not want [to do], this I am doing, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we await [it] eagerly with patient endurance.

And the one who searches our hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit [is], because he intercedes on behalf of the saints according to [the will of] God.

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

What then shall we say? [There is] no injustice with God, [is there]? May it never be!

On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?

And [what] if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness--even the righteousness [that is] by faith.

But what does it say? "The word is near to you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim),

God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in [the passage about] Elijah, what the scripture says--how he appeals to God against Israel?

But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained [it], and the rest were hardened,

For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?

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

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think {sensibly}, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for [what is] good in the sight of all people.

For rulers are not a [cause of] terror for a good deed, but for bad [conduct]. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what [is] good, and you will have praise from it,

for it is God's servant to you for what [is] good. But if you do what [is] bad, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword to no purpose. For it is God's servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does [what is] bad.

Pay to everyone [what is] owed: [pay] taxes to whom taxes [are due]; [pay] customs duties to whom customs duties [are due]; [pay] respect to whom respect [is due]; [pay] honor to whom honor [is due].

So then, let us pursue {what promotes peace} and {what edifies one another}.

The faith that you have, have with respect to yourself before God. Blessed [is] the one who does not pass judgment on himself by what he approves.

For [the report of] your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, and I want you to be wise toward what [is] good, but innocent toward what [is] evil.