for God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?

how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?

He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?

How then shall they call upon him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, 'How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'

God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!