¹⁷ “If someone sins and without knowing it violates any of the Lord’s commands concerning anything prohibited, he is guilty, and he will bear his iniquity.

¹² For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.^(A)

²⁰ For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world,^(A) being understood through what he has made.^(B) As a result, people are without excuse.

¹⁴ So, when Gentiles, who do not by nature have the law,^(A) do^[a] what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.

¹³ even though I was formerly a blasphemer,^(A) a persecutor,^(B) and an arrogant man.^(C) But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief,