For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

So if the uncircumcised heathen man observes the just demands of the law, will he not be counted as though he were a Jew?

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.

Their throats are just like open graves, with their tongues they have spoken treachery; the poison of asps is under their lips.

Abraham, building on hope in spite of hopeless circumstances, had faith, and so he actually became the father of many nations, just as it had been told him, "So numberless shall your descendants be."

So, as through one offense there resulted condemnation for all men, just so through one act of uprightness there resulted right standing involving life for all men.

For just as by that man's disobedience the whole race of men were constituted sinners, so by this One's obedience the whole race of men may be brought into right standing with God.

so that just as sin had reigned by death, so His favor too might reign in right standing with God which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.

Just as He says in Hosea: "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, and her who was not beloved, my beloved,

you must not be boasting against the natural branches. And if you do, just consider, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

and so in that way all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says: "From Zion the Deliverer will come; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob;

For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because of their disobedience,

For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

Stop undoing the work of God just for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything when it makes another stumble.

Therefore, practice receiving one another into full Christian fellowship, just as Christ has so received you to Himself.

But just now I am on my way to Jerusalem to help God's people.