In contrast to the law . The living voice brings home to every one the faith kind of righteousness . No Jew would do this who had not really trusted Christ , for kurios in the LXX is used of God . No Gentile would do it who had not ceased worshipping the emperor as kurios . The word kurios was and is the touchstone of faith .
Faith precedes confession, of course.
Present active participle of ploutew . Each time Paul picks up the preceding verb and challenges that. Here again the antecedent eis touton before hon is not expressed. Second aorist passive deliberative subjunctive of apostellw , to send, from which verb apostolos apostle comes. Negative condition of third class.