What then? Do we surpass them? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law but under grace? Let it not be!

What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

but Israel, pursuing the Law of righteousness, has not arrived at the Law of righteousness.

Why? Because it was not by faith, but as out of works of the Law. For they stumbled at the stumbling stone.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand unto glory,

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love,

But we owe thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

to which He called you through our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.

They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; and their hearts so that they cannot understand.

And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: Hearing you will hear and shall not at all understand, and seeing you will see and by no means perceive;

for the heart of this people has grown dull, their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, that they should not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their heart and convert, and I should heal them.

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes, that they should not understand with their hearts and be turned, and I should heal them.

But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Covenant, which is being done away in Christ.

whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

and with all unrighteous deception among those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.