For we consider that a person ¹  is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law. ² 

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

And if someone sitting down receives a revelation, the person who is speaking should conclude.

On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.

“It is all one! ¹  That is why I say, ²  ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

“Therefore I conclude ¹  that we should not cause extra difficulty ²  for those among the Gentiles ³  who are turning to God,

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.” ¹ 

So then, brothers and sisters, ¹  be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues. ² 

After Paul ¹  saw the vision, we attempted ²  immediately to go over to Macedonia, ³  concluding that God had called ⁴  us to proclaim the good news to them.

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The ¹  rest were hardened,

Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put ¹  my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,” ² 

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I ¹  would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else ²  if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” ³