What, then, is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?

for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)

What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,

Where then is the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

for what doth the writing say? 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'

and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?

What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good,

And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for it?

and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect it.

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth us, we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

and He who is searching the hearts hath known what is the mind of the Spirit, because according to God he doth intercede for saints.

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us?

What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!

as also in Hosea He saith, 'I will call what is not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,

What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith,

But what doth it say? 'Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach;

God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

but what saith the divine answer to him? 'I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'

What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

for if the casting away of them is a reconciliation of the world, what the reception -- if not life out of the dead?

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

Thou hast faith! to thyself have it before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,