by whose favour I have received the office of an apostle to bring the Gentiles every where to the obedience of faith preached in his name:

So, whoever you are, you people do not have any excuse for judging people [Note: At this point Paul begins addressing the Jews. See verse 17]. For in a matter where you judge someone else [to be wrong] you [actually] condemn yourselves, because you are practicing the same things [you condemn them for doing].

[Isa. 59:7ff says], "Their feet [take them where they] are quick to commit murder.

whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah's blood would occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law

Sin was [committed] in the world before the Law [was given], but sin is not charged [against anyone] when there is no law [against it].

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

God be thanked, that though ye were once the servants of sin, ye have yet obeyed with your heart unto the form of doctrine where unto ye were delivered.

But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.

So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.

And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

God did not reject His people whom He knew previously. Or, do you not know what the Scriptures say in the passage where Elijah pleads with God against Israel?

That is true; but it was for their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is through your faith that you stand where you do. You ought not to feel proud; you ought to be afraid,

In all cases pay what is due from you--tribute where tribute is due, taxes where taxes are due, respect where respect is due, and honor where honor is due.

by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ ??20 my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,

Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: