¹⁴ For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

¹² All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

¹² That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

³⁰ Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

¹⁹ He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

²⁰ He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

⁸ For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

¹ How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

² Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

²⁷ And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

³² Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

¹⁹ Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

²⁰ For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

¹⁶ Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

³⁵ But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

⁷ For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

¹⁴ Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?