For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?

How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?

For if thou hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

O depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!