concerning His Son, Who was born of the seed of David, according to His flesh,

because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.

Whom God set forth as a propitiation, through faith in His blood, for the manifestation of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the formerly-committed sins in the forbearance of God:

For, not through law, was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but it was through the righteousness of faith.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

who, past hope, believed against hope, to the end that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So shall your seed be."

neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called."

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger."

And it shall be that in the place where it was said, 'Ye are not My people,' there shall they be called sons of the living God."

And, as Isaiah has said before: "Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and been made like to Gomorrah."

I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

recompensing to no one evil for evil; providing things honorable in the sight of all men;

But you??hy do you judge your brother? or you also??hy do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.