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

Likewise also males, leaving the natural use of the female, were set on fire in their longing for one another; males with males working deformity, and the retribution which was needed receiving in themselves for their erring.

Whom God had set before a propitiatory by faith in his blood, for a manifestation of his justice by passing over of sins before existing, in the sufferance of God;

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,

(As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being.

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

What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire.

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.

It was said to her, That the greater shall serve the less.

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

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.

As has been written, Behold I set in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and every one believing on him shall not be ashamed.

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.

And why judgest thou thy brother? or why also despisest thou thy brother? for we shall all stand at the judgment seat of Christ.