Much every way: first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

"Happy are those whose iniquities were forgiven, and whose sins were covered.

(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;

For, while we were yet weak, Christ, in due season, died for the ungodly.

But God commendeth His own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son; much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life;

For as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners; so also through the obedience of the One, shall the many be constituted righteous.

Or are ye ignorant, that all we who were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into His death?

We were buried, therefore, with Him through the immersion into death; that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

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;

and, having been made free from sin, ye were made slaves of righteousness.

For, when ye were slaves of sin, ye were free as to righteousness.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another??o Him Who was raised from the dead??hat we might bear fruit to God.

For, when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were working in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

But now we have been fully discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

For by hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for that which he sees?

What, then, shall we say? that gentiles who were not following after righteous obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;

Wherefore? because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the Stone of stumbling;

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

And, if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became a joint-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the Olive tree;

You will say, then, "The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, but you have been standing by faith. Do not cherish lofty thoughts; but fear.

For, if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

For Macedonia and Achaia were well pleased to make a certain contribution to the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.

Indeed, they were well pleased, and their debtors they are; for, if the gentiles were partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.