For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

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

For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

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

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

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

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

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

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.

For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

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

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

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