For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,

being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,

and know his will, and approve of things which are excellent, being instructed by the law,

BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

And being not weak in faith, he did not regard himself as dead, being now about a hundred years old, nor Sarah's incapacity for child-bearing,

being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to perform.

much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved through him from wrath.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him.

Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel;

And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac??11 for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,??12 it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger;

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root and excellence of the olive,

that being of one mind you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mouth.