Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Also greet the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

when I go to Spain. For I hope to visit you when I pass through and that you will help me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.

Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.