For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

who against hope believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said, "so will your descendants be."

and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

And Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I became known to those who did not ask for me."

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, [although you] were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree's richness,

For Christ died and became alive again for this [reason], in order that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.