but as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

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.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name.”

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

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

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

And David says, “Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants – not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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

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

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.