They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

Circumcision will help you only if you observe the Law; but if you are a lawbreaker, you might as well be uncircumcised.

and the forefather of those circumcised persons who not only share his circumcision but follow our forefather Abraham's example in the faith he had before he was circumcised.

For the Law only brings down God's wrath; where there is no law, there is no violation of it.

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;

Do you not know, brothers??or I am speaking to men who know what law is??hat law governs a man only as long as he lives?

including us whom he has called not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen?

And Isaiah cries out about Israel, "Although the sons of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, I am the only one left and they are trying to take my life."

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, in place of them, and made to share the richness of the olive's root,

For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

You must obey them, therefore, not only to escape God's wrath, but as a matter of principle,

None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself;

I know and as a follower of the Lord Jesus I am convinced that nothing is unclean in itself; a thing is unclean only to the man who regards it as unclean.

For I will venture to speak only of what Christ has accomplished through me in winning the heathen to obedience, by word and action,

In all this it has been my ambition to preach the good news only where Christ's name was unknown, so as not to build on foundations other men had laid.

who risked their necks to save my life. Not only I but also all the churches among the heathen thank them. Remember me also to the church that meets at their house.