After the reading from the law and the prophets, ¹  the leaders of the synagogue ²  sent them a message, ³  saying, “Brothers, ⁴  if you have any message ⁵  of exhortation ⁶  for the people, speak it.” ⁷ 

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

But now ¹  apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) ²  has been disclosed –

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ¹ 

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¹ 

nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.” ¹ 

just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, ¹  yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ² 

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” ¹  (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

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 

as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.” ¹ 

and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. ¹  As it is written, “Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name.” ² 

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

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” ¹ 

But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in ¹  what has been written, “I believed; therefore I spoke,” ²  we also believe, therefore we also speak.

as it is written: “The one who gathered ¹  much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.” ² 

Just as it is written, “He ¹  has scattered widely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever.” ² 

But the law is not based on faith, ¹  but the one who does the works of the law ²  will live by them. ³ 

Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he captured ¹  captives; he gave gifts to men.” ² 

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become ¹  one flesh. ² 

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,” ¹