And he is also the father of the circumcised,<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" />p>

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.

And the gift is not like the one who sinned.<n id="1" /> For judgment, resulting from the one transgression,<n id="2" /> led to condemnation, but<n id="3" /> the gracious gift from the many failures<n id="4" /> led to justification.

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed<n id="1" /> from the heart that pattern<n id="2" /> of teaching you were entrusted to,

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay<n id="1" /> one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?<n id="2" />

But the righteousness that is by faith says: &#8220;<b><i>Do not say in your hearti>b>,<n id="1" /> &#8216;<i>Who will ascend into heaven?i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" /> (that is, to bring Christ down)

<t /><p class="bodytext">So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

And so<n id="1" /> all Israel will be saved, as it is written:p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>&#8220;The Deliverer will come out of Zion;i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>he will remove ungodliness from Jacobb>.i>p>

This was<n id="1" /> also to demonstrate<n id="2" /> his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just<n id="3" /> and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus&#8217; faithfulness.<n id="4" />p>

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.<n id="1" />p>

and do not present your members to sin as instruments<n id="1" /> to be used for unrighteousness,<n id="2" /> but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments<n id="3" /> to be used for righteousness.

So, my brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.<n id="2" />

Who is the one who will condemn? Christ<n id="1" /> is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God&#8217;s purpose in election<n id="1" /> would stand, not by works but by<n id="2" /> his calling)<n id="3" /> &#8211;

because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord<n id="1" /> and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?p>