in other words that while I am among you we may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith, yours and mine.

While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools,

while on the other hand upon the self-willed who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness will fall anger and fury, affliction and awful distress,

since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them or perhaps maintain their innocence--

Before, not after. And he received circumcision as a sign, a mark attesting the reality of the faith-righteousness which was his while still uncircumcised, that he might be the forefather of all those who believe even though they are uncircumcised--in order that this righteousness might be placed to their credit;

and the forefather of the circumcised, namely of those who not merely are circumcised, but also walk in the steps of the faith which our forefather Abraham had while he was as yet uncircumcised.

For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

For if while we were hostile to God we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, it is still more certain that now that we are reconciled, we shall obtain salvation through Christ's life.

For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.

And what if God, while choosing to make manifest the terrors of His anger and to show what is possible with Him, has yet borne with long-forbearing patience with the subjects of His anger who stand ready for destruction,

while the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a Law that could give righteousness, have not arrived at one.

While as to Israel he says, "All day long I have stretched out My arms to a self-willed and fault-finding people."

so collectively we form one body in Christ, while individually we are linked to one another as its members.

One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while a man of weaker faith eats nothing but vegetables.