For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of hosts had left us a descendant, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.

For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?

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

It has pleased them greatly; 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 material things.

That you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you assist her in whatever business she has need of you: for she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.