And [some] were convinced [by] what was said, but [others] refused to believe.

because what can be known about God is evident among them, for God made [it] clear to them.

Therefore, what [is] the advantage of the Jew, or what [is] the use of circumcision?

{What is the result} if some refused to believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, [will it]?

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, [is] not unjust, [is he]? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.)

What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

Therefore, where [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

What then shall we say [that] Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has found?

For what does the scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness."

who against hope believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said, "so will your descendants be."

and being fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do.

What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase?

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want [to do], this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

But if what I do not want [to do], this I do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

But if what I do not want [to do], this I am doing, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we await [it] eagerly with patient endurance.

And the one who searches our hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit [is], because he intercedes on behalf of the saints according to [the will of] God.

What then shall we say about these [things]? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?

What then shall we say? [There is] no injustice with God, [is there]? May it never be!

On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?

And [what] if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness--even the righteousness [that is] by faith.

But what does it say? "The word is near to you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim),

God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in [the passage about] Elijah, what the scripture says--how he appeals to God against Israel?

But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained [it], and the rest were hardened,

For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are {natural branches} be grafted into their own olive tree?

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think {sensibly}, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for [what is] good in the sight of all people.

For rulers are not a [cause of] terror for a good deed, but for bad [conduct]. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what [is] good, and you will have praise from it,

for it is God's servant to you for what [is] good. But if you do what [is] bad, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword to no purpose. For it is God's servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does [what is] bad.

Pay to everyone [what is] owed: [pay] taxes to whom taxes [are due]; [pay] customs duties to whom customs duties [are due]; [pay] respect to whom respect [is due]; [pay] honor to whom honor [is due].

So then, let us pursue {what promotes peace} and {what edifies one another}.

The faith that you have, have with respect to yourself before God. Blessed [is] the one who does not pass judgment on himself by what he approves.

For [the report of] your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, and I want you to be wise toward what [is] good, but innocent toward what [is] evil.

Therefore, what is Apollos and what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.

the work of each one will become evident. For the day will reveal [it], because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each one, of what sort it is.

Now I have applied these things, brothers, to myself and Apollos for your sake, in order that in us you may learn not [to go] beyond what is written, lest someone be inflated with pride on behalf of one [person] against the other.

For who concedes you [superiority]? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received [it], why do you boast as [if you] did not receive [it]?

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

For what [is it] to me to judge those outside? Should you not judge those inside?

But if anyone thinks he is behaving dishonorably concerning his virgin, if she is past her prime and it ought to be thus, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin. Let them marry.

What then is my reward? That [when I] proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel free of charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

Temptation has not come upon you except [what is] common to humanity. But God [is] faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, [so that you] may be able to endure [it].

I am speaking as to sensible [people]; you judge what I am saying.

Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

For do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who do not have [anything]? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise [you]!

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is beneficial [to all].

Likewise, the inanimate things which produce a sound, whether flute or lyre, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the lyre?

And so you through the tongue, unless you produce a clear message, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

{Therefore what should I do}? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will also sing praise with my mind.

For otherwise, if you praise in [your] spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the outsider say the "amen" at your thanksgiving, because he does not know what you are saying?

{Therefore what should you do}, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. All [things] must be [done] for edification.

For I passed on to you {as of first importance} what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit [is it] to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?"

Foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

And what you sow [is] not the body which it will become, but you sow the bare seed, whether perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest.

For we are not writing [anything] else to you except what you can read or also understand. But I hope that you will understand {completely},

Therefore, [when I] was wanting [to do] this, perhaps then was I making use of vacillation? Or was I deciding what I was deciding according to the flesh, in order that with me my "yes" may be "yes" and my "no" [may be] "no" [at the same time]?

For indeed what had been glorified has not been glorified in this case, on account of the glory that surpasses [it].

For if what was transitory [came] with glory, by much more what remains [is] with glory.

and not as Moses used to place a veil over his face, in order that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was transitory.

But [because we] have the same spirit of faith in accordance with [what is] written, "I believed, therefore I spoke," we also believe, therefore we also speak,

[because] we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen [is] temporary, but what is not seen [is] eternal.

For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened {for this reason, that} we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, in order that each one may receive back the [things] through the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers, for what participation [is there between] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [does] light [have] with darkness?

And what agreement [does] Christ [have] with Beliar? Or what share [does] a believer [have] with an unbeliever?

And what agreement [does the] temple of God [have] with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and will walk about [among them], and I will be their God and they will be my people."

Therefore "come out from their midst and be separate," says the Lord, "and do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you,

For behold how much diligence this very [thing], being grieved according to [the will of] God, has brought about in you: what defense [of yourselves], what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! In everything you have demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

So now also complete the doing [of it], in order that just as [you have] the eagerness to want [to do it], thus also [you may] complete [it] from [what you] have.

For if the eagerness is present {according to what one has}, [it is] acceptable not {according to what one does not have}.

For we are taking into consideration what is honorable not only before the Lord, but also before people.

Let such a person consider this: that what we are in word by letters [when we] are absent, [we will] also [be] in {actions} [when we] are present.

But what I am doing, I will also do, in order that I may remove the opportunity of those who want an opportunity, that they may be found just as also we [are] in what they are boasting about.

What I am saying in this project of boasting, I am not saying as the Lord [would say], but as in foolishness.

For if I want to boast, I will not be foolish, because I will be telling the truth, but I am refraining, so that no one can credit to me more than what he sees [in] me or hears anything from me,

{For in what respect are you made worse off} more than the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Now we pray to God that you not do wrong in any way, not that we are seen as approved, but that you do what is good, even [though] we are [seen] as though unqualified.

But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!

As we said before, and now I say again, if anyone is proclaiming a gospel [to] you contrary to what you have received, let him be accursed!

And you did not despise or disdain [what was] a trial for you in my flesh, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus.

But what does the scripture say? "Drive out the female slave and her son, for the son of the female slave will never inherit with the son" of the free woman.

See with what large letters I am writing to you with my [own] hand.

(the eyes of your hearts having been enlightened), so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what [are] the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the saints,

and what [is] the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty strength

and to enlighten everyone [as to] what [is] the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages by God, who created all [things],