Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, or rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

And again Isaiah saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.

I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.