by whose favour I have received the office of an apostle to bring the Gentiles every where to the obedience of faith preached in his name:

So, whoever you are, you people do not have any excuse for judging people [Note: At this point Paul begins addressing the Jews. See verse 17]. For in a matter where you judge someone else [to be wrong] you [actually] condemn yourselves, because you are practicing the same things [you condemn them for doing].

[Isa. 59:7ff says], "Their feet [take them where they] are quick to commit murder.

whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah's blood would occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past.

Where, then, the boasting! It is excluded. Through what kind of law? Of works? Nay! but through a law of faith:

For, the law, worketh out anger, but, where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law

Certainly sin was in the world before the law was given, but it is not charged to men's account where there is no law.

Law, however, gained admission, in order that the fault might abound, but, where the sin abounded, the favour greatly superabounded:

God be thanked, that though ye were once the servants of sin, ye have yet obeyed with your heart unto the form of doctrine where unto ye were delivered.

But when sin had gained a vantage-ground, by means of the commandment, it stirred up within me all manner of lust; for where there is no law, sin is dead.

So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.

And it shall be - in the place where it was said to them- not my people are, ye! there, shall they be called - Sons of a Living God.

God did not reject His people whom He knew previously. Or, do you not know what the Scriptures say in the passage where Elijah pleads with God against Israel?

Very well, but it was for lack of faith that they were broken off, and it is through your faith that you now stand where you are. Stop your haughty thinking, rather continue to be reverent,

In all cases pay what is due from you--tribute where tribute is due, taxes where taxes are due, respect where respect is due, and honor where honor is due.

by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ ??20 my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,

Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;