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

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

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

Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”

For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.

For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

(as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.