<p class="bodytext">Is this blessedness<n id="1" /> then for<n id="2" /> the circumcision<n id="3" /> or also for<n id="4" /> the uncircumcision? For we say, &#8220;<i>faith <b>was credited tob> Abraham <b>as righteousnessb>i>.&#8221;<n id="5" />

But again I ask, didn&#8217;t Israel understand?<n id="1" /> First Moses says, &#8220;<b><i>I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to angeri>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<i>for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quicklyi>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

For the scripture says, &#8220;<b><i>Everyonei> <i>who believes in him will not be put to shamei>b>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type<n id="1" /> of the coming one) transgressed.<n id="2" />

Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God &#8211; harshness toward those who have fallen, but<n id="1" /> God&#8217;s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness;<n id="2" /> otherwise you also will be cut off.

Now we know that God&#8217;s judgment is in accordance with truth<n id="1" /> against those who practice such things.

There will be<n id="1" /> affliction and distress on everyone<n id="2" /> who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So what benefit<n id="1" /> did you then reap<n id="2" /> from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

For the creation was subjected to futility &#8211; not willingly but because of God<n id="1" /> who subjected it &#8211; in hope

And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects<n id="1" /> of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory &#8211;

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person&#8217;s foundation,

and I always ask<n id="1" /> in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people<n id="1" /> who suppress the truth by their<n id="2" /> unrighteousness,<n id="3" />

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous,<n id="1" /> his faith is credited as righteousness.p>

Against hope Abraham<n id="1" /> believed<n id="2" /> in hope with the result that he became <b><i>thei> <i>father of many nationsi>b><n id="3" /> according to the pronouncement,<n id="4" /> &#8220;<b><i>so will your descendants bei>b>.&#8221;<n id="5" />

but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice<n id="1" /> in the hope of God&#8217;s glory.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Or do you not know, brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person<n id="2" /> as long as he lives?

To them belong the patriarchs,<n id="1" /> and from them,<n id="2" /> by human descent,<n id="3" /> came the Christ,<n id="4" /> who is God over all, blessed forever!<n id="5" /> Amen.p>