For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?

For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.

It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.