but, after your hardness and impenitent heart, you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

But, if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, Who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of a man).

there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;

but yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who sinned not after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of Him Who was to come.

I speak after human fashion because of the weakness of your flesh; for, as ye presented your members subservient to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now present your members subservient to righteousness unto holiness.

or I delight in the law of God after the inward man;

What, then, shall we say? that gentiles who were not following after righteous obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not attain to such a law.

But Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who sought Me not; I became manifest to those who sought not after Me."

So, then, let us follow after the things productive of peace, and the things that tend to mutual edification.

After having completed this, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you into Spain;