for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

And in a short time the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

For if their [present] rejection [of salvation] is for the reconciliation of the world [to God], what will their acceptance [of salvation] be but [nothing less than] life from the dead?

In short, though knowing full well the sentence which God pronounces against actions such as theirs, as things which deserve death, they not only practise them, but even encourage and applaud others who do them.

for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

For if you were cut off from an olive wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted on to a fine olive stock, how much easier will it be for the natural branches to be grafted on to their own olive stock?

Then you will say, "Branches were cut off so that I could be grafted in."