As they did not seek the favour of God, by worshipping him, God gave them over to a depraved sense, to act unworthy of human nature;

if therefore an uncircumcised Gentile keep the moral precepts contained in the law, shall not he be reckon'd, as if he were circumcised?

far from being weak in faith, unconcern'd at his own bodily decay, being then about an hundred years old, and at Sarah's incapacity of child-bearing,

therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life.

now sensual inclinations lead to death; but spiritual affections to a life of tranquillity.

and to Israel he says, "all day long I have stretched forth my hands to an incredulous and rebellious people."

as it is written, "God hath given them up to a state of insensibility, so that their eyes could not see, and their ears could not hear."

for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.

if we live, our life is appropriated to the Lord; and if we die, we die as his servants: whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lord's.