For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” ¹ 

and the way of peace they have not known.” ¹ 

All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.” ¹ 

¹ Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have ²  peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. ¹ 

But what was the divine response ¹  to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people ²  who have not bent the knee to Baal.” ³ 

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, ¹  I will set out for Spain by way of you,

“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!” ¹ 

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

But I ask, have they ¹  not heard? ²  Yes, they have: ³  Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. ⁴ 

Just ¹  as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of armies ²  had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.” ³ 

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

For all who have sinned apart from the law ¹  will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them ¹ ?

For whenever the Gentiles, ¹  who do not have the law, do by nature ²  the things required by the law, ³  these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” ¹ 

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

but as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.” ¹ 

Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?