For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

What then? If some did not 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? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

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

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.

and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

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

Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

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

What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

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

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.

For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;

for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.

Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;

The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

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