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For what, if some did disbelieve? Shall their disbelief make void the faithfulness of God?

(as it has been written, "A father of many nations have I made you"), before God Whom he believed, Who maketh alive the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were;

And, being not weakened in faith, he attentively considered his own body already dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb;

but for ours also, to whom it will be reckoned, if we believe on Him Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead;

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death no more has dominion over Him.

But thanks be to God that, though ye were slaves of sin, ye did, however, obey from the heart that form of teaching unto which ye were delivered;

but sin, taking occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting; for apart from law sin is dead.

Did, then, that which is good become death to me? It could not be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise you up, that I might show forth My power in you, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."

For Moses writes that the man who did the righteousness of the law shall live thereby;

or, who shall descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)."

But they did not all obey the glad tidings. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who believed our report?"

But I say, did they not hear? Yes, verily, "Their sound went out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited earth."

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger."

But in respect to Israel He saith, "All the day long did I spread out My hand to a disobedient and gain-saying people."

I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not cast off His people whom He foreknew. Or know ye not what the Scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel:

What, then? What Israel is seeking for, this he did not obtain; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

I Say, then, did they stumble, that they might fall? It could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry.

even so did these now disobey, that by the mercy shown to you they also may obtain mercy.

For I will venture to speak only of the things which God wrought through me for the obedience of the gentiles, by word and deed,