for God is my witness, to whom I am entirely devoted, in preaching the gospel of his son, that I constantly make mention of you, in my prayers, requesting,

Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen.

do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.

(I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness.

who shall condemn them? shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us?

for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,

is not the potter the master of his own clay, of the same mass to make one vessel for use and ornament, and another for a meaner purpose?

if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,

so we who are many, make all but one body in Christ, and every member subservient to one another.

for one makes no difficulty of eating all sorts of food: another is so scrupulous, he lives upon herbs.

let us not judge one another any more: but rather come to this determination, not to put a stumbling-block, or any thing in a brother's way, that may make him fall.

for he that makes a difference, is self-condemn'd, if he eats against his own persuasion: for every action of that kind is sin .

May the God of patience and consolation, make you equally concern'd for one another, according to the example of Christ Jesus,

for I will not offer to mention any thing, but what Christ has wrought by me, to make the Gentiles christians, both in profession and practice:

for those of Macedonia and Achaia, have thought fit to make a contribution for the poor converts at Jerusalem.