Who, indeed, having acknowledged the righteous sentence of God, - that, they who such things as these do practise, are worthy of death, not only, the same things, are doing, but are even delighting together with them who are practising them .

We know, however, that, the sentence of God, is according to truth against them who, such things as these, do practise.

What, then, shall we say to a these things? If God is for us, who shall be against us?

Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquering through him that hath loved us.

For, if, thou, out of the naturally wild olive was cut out, and, beyond nature, hast been engrafted into the good olive, how much rather, shall these, the natural branches be engrafted into their own olive tree?

So, these also, have now refused to yield, by your own mercy, in order that, themselves also, should now become objects of mercy;

Wherefore, also, I have been hindered these many times from coming unto you;

But, now, no longer having place in these regions, and having had, a longing, to come unto you a good many years, -