What special privilege, then, has the Jew? Or what is the use of circumcision?

But if our unrighteousness thus brings out God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous?? speak after the manner of men??hen he inflicts his anger on us?

What then? Are we Jews in a better position? Not at all, for I have already charged all, both Jews and Gentiles, with being under sin.

Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.

What then shall we say of Abraham, our ancestor in the flesh?

For what does Scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was set down to his account as righteousness.

and was fully persuaded that what God had promised, he was able also to perform.

What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?

What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.

What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Surely, brothers, you know (for I am speaking to those who know what law means) that law governs a person only during his lifetime?

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust.

For what I perform I know not; what I practise is not what I intend to do, but what I detest, that I habitually do.

If then I habitually do what I do not intend to do, I am consenting to the Law, that it is right.

For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

For I count as nothing what we now suffer, in comparison with the glory which will soon be unveiled to us.

Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

What shall we say then, to these things? If God be for us, Who can be against us?

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

What shall we say then? that there is injustice with God? No indeed.

But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?

And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory?

What then shall we say? That Gentiles who never pursed righteousness have overtaken it, even the righteousness of faith?

But what does it say? The word is near thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the very word of faith which we preach;

God did not cast off his people whom he foreknew. For do you not know what is said in the Scripture about Elijah? how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

But what was the answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

What then? that which Israel has been seeking for, that he has not obtained; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened.

For if their casting out is the reconciliation of the world to God, what will their restoration be but life out of death?

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.

Do not pay back evil for evil. Aim to do what is honorable in the eyes of all.

For rulers are no terror to good deeds, but to evil. Would you be fearless of the ruler's authority? Do what is good, and you will have his praise.

If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.

Therefore do not let what is right, so far as you are concerned, be evil spoken of.