For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

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.

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 the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

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

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

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

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.