I call God to witness--to whom I render priestly and spiritual service by telling the Good News about His Son-- how unceasingly I make mention of you in His presence,

As it stands written in the Scripture, "For Thy sake they are, all day long, trying to kill us. We have been looked upon as sheep destined for slaughter."

Or has not the potter rightful power over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for more honourable and another for less honourable uses?

So also in Hosea He says, "I will call that nation My People which was not My People, and I will call her beloved who was not beloved.

Jew and Gentile are on precisely the same footing; for the same Lord is Lord over all, and is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him for deliverance.

But how are they to call on One in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in One whose voice they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?

For God does not repent of His free gifts nor of His call;