beseeching that at one time or another, a prosperous journey, by the will of God, might fortune me to come unto you.

'We know the doom of God falls justly upon those who practise such vices.'

Very well; and do you imagine you will escape God's doom, O man, you who judge those who practise such vices and do the same yourself?

In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed.

whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;

As a proof, I repeat, at the present time, of his own righteousness, that he might be righteous in our eyes, and might pronounce righteous the man who takes his stand on faith in Jesus.

How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

And that he might be the father of the circumcised: not because they are circumcised only: but because they walk also in the steps of that faith, that was in our father Abraham before the time of circumcision.

For even unto the time of the law was sin in the world: but sin was not regarded, as long as there was no law:

Nevertheless, death ruled from the time of Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the same way Adam did when he disobeyed. He is a foreshadowing of the one who would come.

Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer.

in order that if God be willing I may come to you with a glad heart, and may enjoy a time of rest with you.