who is he that condemns? It is Christ Who died, yea, rather, That was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God, Who also is making intercession for us.

Or has not the potter a right over the clay, out of the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

And, if the first-fruit is holy, so also is the lump; and, if the root is holy, so also are the branches.

And, if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became a joint-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the Olive tree;

boast not against the branches. But, if you boast, it is not you that bear the root; but the root, you.

And again Isaiah says, "There shall be the Root of Jesse, and He Who riseth up to rule over the gentiles, on Him will the gentiles hope."

But I wrote to you the more boldly in part, as reminding you again, because of the grace which was given to me from God,

I, Tertius, who write the epistle, salute you in the Lord.