For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a proclaimer?

But I say, did they not hear? Yes, truly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.