For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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

Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.