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But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.
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To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
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For God does not show favoritism.
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All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
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For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
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They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)
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This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
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if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;
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you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
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You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?
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No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.
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What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?
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Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.”
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But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)
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Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
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Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”
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Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!
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No One Is Righteous
What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.
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there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
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“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
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Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
