because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became perverse in their reasonings, and their wicked heart was darkened;

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

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.

And not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body, which was already dead, (for he was about a hundred years old,) nor the deadness of Sarah's womb;

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. SECTION THIRD. God's Dealings with Israel as a People,

Nor, because they are the posterity of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall your posterity be called.

(the children, indeed, having not yet been born, and having done neither good nor evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls,)

Therefore, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.

But what says it? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart; that is, the word of faith which we preach;

the night is far advanced, the day draws near. Let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak.