<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Therefore<n id="2" /> you are without excuse,<n id="3" /> whoever you are,<n id="4" /> when you judge someone else.<n id="5" /> For on whatever grounds<n id="6" /> you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

They<n id="1" /> show that the work of the law is written<n id="2" /> in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend<n id="3" /> them,<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under<n id="1" /> the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised,<n id="1" /> so that he would become<n id="2" /> the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised,<n id="3" /> that they too could have righteousness credited to them.

For if, by the transgression of the one man,<n id="1" /> death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!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>

Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,<n id="1" /> groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption,<n id="2" /> the redemption of our bodies.<n id="3" />

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.

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

<p class="bodytext">For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel<n id="2" /> until the full number<n id="3" /> of the Gentiles has come in.

<t /><p class="bodytext">For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you<n id="1" /> a measure of faith.<n id="2" />

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve<n id="1" /> the gospel of God<n id="2" /> like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering,<n id="3" /> sanctified by the Holy Spirit.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now I urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression.<n id="1" /> For if the many died through the transgression of the one man,<n id="2" /> how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!