Concerning his Son born of the seed of David according to the flesh.

For I long to see you, That I might impart to you some spiritual grace, in order for you to be firm;

To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

For not by the law, the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but by the justice of faith.

Therefore of faith, that according to grace; the promise to be firm to all the seed; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the faith of Abraham; who is father of us all,

Who against hope believed upon hope, for him to become father of many nations, according to that said, So shall thy seed be.

And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members.

For by hope were we saved: but hope being seen is not hope: for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

And if what we see not, we hope for, by patience we wait.

Neither that the seed of Abraham, are all children: but, In Isaac shall the seed be called to thee.

That is, The children of the flesh, these not the children of God: but the children of the solemn promise are reckoned for seed.

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us seed, as Sodom had we been, and as Gomorrha had we been likened.

I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul.

(As has been written, God gave them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes not to see, and earn not to hear;) even to this day.

Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and let them bend their back always.

But as has been written, to whom it was not announced of him, they shall see: and they who have not heard shall understand.

Whenever I go into Spain, I will come to you, for I hope passing through to see you: and by you to be sent forward there, if first from part I might be filled with you.