Then appreciate the gracious kindness and the severity of God: to those who fell [into spiritual ruin], severity, but to you, God’s gracious kindness—if you continue in His kindness [by faith and obedience to Him]; otherwise you too will be cut off.

(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger:

THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound?

And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

But and if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience abide for it.