For merely hearing the Law read does not make a man upright in the sight of God; men must obey the Law to be made upright.

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.

there is but one God, and he will make the circumcised upright on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised upright because of theirs."

but a man who has no work to offer, but has faith in him who can make the ungodly upright, has his faith credited to him as uprightness.

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

who was given up to death to make up for our offenses, and raised to life to make us upright.

For just as that one man's disobedience made the mass of mankind sinners, so this one's obedience will make the mass of them upright.

So sin must not reign over your mortal bodies, and make you obey their cravings,

For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.

but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body.

It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.

On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?"

Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones?

And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

as the Scripture says, "See, I will put a stone on Zion to make people stumble, and a rock to trip over, But no one who has faith in it will be disappointed."

For with their minds men believe and are made upright, and with their lips they make the acknowledgment and are saved.

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."

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; Make their backs bend forever under their burden!"

I ask then, has their stumbling led to their absolute ruin? By no means. Through their false step salvation has gone to the heathen, so as to make the Israelites jealous.

But it is to you who are of the heathen that I am speaking. So far then as I am an apostle to the heathen, I make the most of my ministry,

Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? It is for his own master to say whether he succeeds or fails; and he will succeed, for the Master can make him do so.

For the Scripture says, "As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend before me, And every tongue will make its confession to God."

For Macedonia and Greece have determined to make a contribution for the poor among God's people in Jerusalem.

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,