What then are we to say about these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?

No, in all these things we are more than victorious
through Him who loved us.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?

And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s public servants, continually attending to these tasks.

But now I no longer have any work to do in these provinces, and I have strongly desired for many years to come to you