you therefore who instruct others don't you instruct yourself?

the reward is not counted as a favour to him that has done good actions, but as a debt:

whereas he that trusts in God to be made righteous, tho' he has not done such actions, shall find his faith accounted as righteousness.

don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death.

for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,

but the justification which is by faith, speaks in this manner; "say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven, in order to bring Christ down from above?

God hath not discarded his people whom he formerly approv'd. don't you know what the scripture says of Elias? how he complain'd to God against Israel,

in these words, "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life also."

let their eyes be darkned, so as not to see, and let their back be continually bowed down."

don't triumph over the branches: or if you do, remember the root is not dependent upon you, but you upon the root.

nay, even the Jews, if they don't continue still incredulous, shall be grafted in: since divine power can graft them in again.

Don't let our religion then be expos'd to reproach.

do not for such a thing as meat, pull down what God has been raising. all things indeed are pure; but they become evil to him who by eating giveth offence.