But who indeed are you – a mere human being – to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?”

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

For there is no partiality with God.

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.

if it is exhortation, he must exhort; if it is contributing, he must do so with sincerity; if it is leadership, he must do so with diligence; if it is showing mercy, he must do so with cheerfulness.

Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

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

What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

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

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

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.”

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.