What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

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

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,

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

Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

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?

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.

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

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.

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.