Study Desk

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.

slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

For there is no favoritism with God.

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.

on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast in God,

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.

On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—by the Spirit, not the letter. That person’s praise is not from people but from God.

Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the very words of God.

Absolutely not! Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar, as it is written:

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I am using a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

There is no one who understands;there is no one who seeks God.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, attested by the Law and the Prophets.

The righteousness of God is through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe, since there is no distinction.

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

God presented him as an atoning sacrifice in his blood, received through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.

God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so that he would be righteous and declare righteous the one who has faith in Jesus.