That is why I am so eager to proclaim the gospel to you who live in Rome, too.

This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

train the foolish, teach the young, since you have knowledge and truth formulated in the Law??21 why, then, will you teach others and refuse to teach yourself? Will you preach against stealing, and yet steal yourself?

since you teach other people [all of this], why do you not teach yourselves [these things]? You preach that a person should not steal, [but] do you steal?

Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

"how then are we better than they?" why, not at all: for we have already convicted both Jews and Gentiles, of being all under the guilt of sin.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

Therefore his faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God).

Why, it is scarcely conceivable that any one would die for a simply just man, although for a good and lovable man perhaps some one, here and there, will have the courage even to lay down his life.

At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death.

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.

Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Why, scripture says to Pharaoh, It was for this that I raised you up, to display my power in you, and to spread news of my name over all the earth.

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,

To what conclusion does this bring us? Why, that the Gentiles, who were not in pursuit of righteousness, have overtaken it--a righteousness, however, which arises from faith;

but Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness: why?

Why that? Because [they did] not [pursue it] by faith, but as [if] by works. They stumbled over the {stone that causes people to stumble},

Then, I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" Why, first of all Moses declares, I will make you jealous of a nation that is no nation, I will provoke you to anger over a nation devoid of understanding.

I say then, has God rejected and disowned His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.

For if their exclusion means that the world is reconciled to God, what will their admission mean? Why, it will be life from the dead!

Why, this is really the reason you pay taxes; for tax-gatherers are ministers of God, devoting their energies to this very work.

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

so that the gentiles may glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "That is why I will praise you among the gentiles; I will sing praises to your name."

This [goal—my commitment to this principle] is the reason why I have often been prevented from coming to you [in Rome].