Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.”

So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin.”

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.

Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.