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

This is why God has given them up to degrading passions. For their females have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,

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?

Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal?

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

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Why should we not say, as people abusively say of us, and charge us with actually saying, "Let us do evil that good may come from it"? Their condemnation 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 righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."

Why, a man will hardly give his life for another, even for a righteous man, though perchance for a good man one might even take it upon himself 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 we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet 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 then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made 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,

What are we to say, then? Why, that Gentiles, who were not in search of righteousness, secured it-a righteousness which was the result of faith;

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

Why? Because they did not try through faith but through what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble,

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!

for this is the reason why you pay your taxes, for the civil authorities are God's official servants faithfully devoting themselves to this very end.

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

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

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."

This is the reason why I have so often been prevented from coming to see you.