Study Desk

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, " The righteous by faith will live ."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

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 were darkened.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

For there is no partiality with God.

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

For just as it is written, " the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you ."

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the letter. This person's praise is not from people but from God.

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.