For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

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.

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

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

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:

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

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

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

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

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

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.”

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,