and that this hope never disappoints, because God's love for us floods our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

in agreement with the statement of Scripture, "See, I am placing on Mount Zion a stone for people to stumble at, and a rock for them to trip over, and yet he whose faith rests upon it shall never have reason to feel ashamed."

But how are they to call on One in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in One whose voice they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?

But what did God say to him in reply? "I have reserved for Myself 7,000 men who have never bent the knee to Baal."