For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated.

And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac??11 for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,??12 it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger;

But the righteousness by faith speaks thus; Say not in your mind, who shall ascend into heaven???hat is, to bring Christ down,??7 or who shall descend into the abyss???hat is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back always.