How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?

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

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

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

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

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news.”

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?