Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?<n id="1" />

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

who are Israelites. To them belong<n id="1" /> the adoption as sons,<n id="2" /> the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship,<n id="3" /> and the promises.

<p class="bodytext">Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.<n id="1" />

and I died. So<n id="1" /> I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!<n id="2" />

Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word<n id="1" /> of Christ.<n id="2" />p>

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.p>

<p class="otpoetry"><i><b>Or who has first given to Godb>,i><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>that Godi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>needs to repay him?i>b><n id="3" />p>

Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys<n id="1" /> the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

Now the law came in<n id="1" /> so that the transgression<n id="2" /> may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

<p class="bodytext">Brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> my heart&#8217;s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites<n id="2" /> is for their salvation.

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

If the first portion<n id="1" /> of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.<n id="2" />p>

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<n id="1" /> were darkened.

<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" />

<p class="bodytext">For the promise<n id="1" /> 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.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God<n id="1" /> has been poured out<n id="2" /> in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.p>

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.p>

<p class="bodytext">And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, &#8220;<i>Though the number of the childreni><n id="1" /> <i>of Israel are as the sand of the seai>, <i>only the remnant will be savedi>,