But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

For just as that one man's disobedience made the mass of mankind sinners, so this one's obedience will make the mass of them upright.

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 first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the whole mass; if the tree's root is consecrated, so are the branches.

For there is a truth, brethren, not revealed hitherto, of which I do not wish to leave you in ignorance, for fear you should attribute superior wisdom to yourselves--the truth, I mean, that partial blindness has fallen upon Israel until the great mass of the Gentiles have come in;