For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, nor to his posterity, through law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

So then, if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband die, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.

it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger;

As he says also in Hosea: I will call that my people which is not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

How, then, shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

as it is written: God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes with which they can not see, and ears with which they can not hear.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but from God: the authorities that are, have been appointed by God.

And do this, because you know the time, that the hour has already come when we should awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed:

that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of saints, and that you aid her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she has aided many, and myself also.