That is why I am so eager to proclaim the gospel to you who live in Rome, too.

This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

train the foolish, teach the young, since you have knowledge and truth formulated in the Law??21 why, then, will you teach others and refuse to teach yourself? Will you preach against stealing, and yet steal yourself?

since you teach other people [all of this], why do you not teach yourselves [these things]? You preach that a person should not steal, [but] do you steal?

Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!

But, if, the truth of God, by my falsehood, hath the more abounded unto his glory, why, any longer, am, even I, as a sinner, to be judged?

And why not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us do the bad things, that the good ones may come? whose sentence is, just.

"how then are we better than they?" why, not at all: for we have already convicted both Jews and Gentiles, of being all under the guilt of sin.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

That was why it was credited to him as uprightness.

Why, a man will hardly give his life for an upright person, though perhaps for a really good man some may be brave enough to die.

What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death!

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.

Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.

For, by our hope, have we been saved, - but, hope beheld, is not hope, for, what one beholdeth, why doth he hope for?

Why, scripture says to Pharaoh, It was for this that I raised you up, to display my power in you, and to spread news of my name over all the earth.

Thou wilt say to me, then - Why longer findeth he fault? For, his purpose, who hath withstood?

O man! Who, nevertheless, art, thou, that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it - Why didst thou make me thus?

if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,

To what conclusion does this bring us? Why, that the Gentiles, who were not in pursuit of righteousness, have overtaken it--a righteousness, however, which arises from faith;

but Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness: why?

Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.

But I ask again, did Israel fail to understand? Why, to begin with, Moses said, "I will make you jealous of what is no nation at all, I will exasperate you at a senseless nation."

I say then, God has not disowned His people, has He? Of course not! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.

For if their exclusion means that the world is reconciled to God, what will their admission mean? Why, it will be life from the dead!

from a principle of conscience. for this is the reason why you also pay tribute, because under God, they are continually

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

so that the gentiles may glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "That is why I will praise you among the gentiles; I will sing praises to your name."

That is why I have been prevented many times from coming to you.