who was of the seed of David according to the flesh,

For the promise made to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, was not by the law, but by the righteousness of faith:

And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

(as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations,") in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not as if they were:

who against hope believed, with hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was said unto him, "So shall thy seed be."

and being set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.

But now being set free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust to be sinful, if the law had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath set me free from the law of sin and death.

And I account the sufferings of this present time not worthy to be set against the glory that shall be revealed to us.

Nor because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children of promise: but "in Isaac shall thy seed be called."

That is, not the children of the flesh are the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger:

And in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God.

And as Esaias said before, "Except the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and we had been made like unto Gomorrah."

I say then, Hath God cast off his people? God forbid! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Render to no one evil for evil: behaving honorably in the sight of all men.

But why dost thou censure thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? since we shall all stand before the tribunal of Christ;

but as it is written, They, to whom nothing was said concerning Him, shall see, and they who have not heard, shall understand.