God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not worked by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,