Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life:

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;

Who against hope believed with hope, that he should become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

For we are saved by hope: But hope that is seen, is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

But if we hope for what we see not, then with patience we wait for it.

Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.

I say then, Hath God cast away his people? By no means. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

But as it is written, They shall see to whom he was not spoken of: and they that have not heard shall understand.

Whenever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I shall be somewhat filled with your company.