Now may the God of peace be with all of you. Amen.

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

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

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

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.

because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

And even they – if they do not continue in their unbelief – will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.