Now these words were not written simply for his sake, but for us as well.

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

What shall we say then, to these things? If God be for us, Who can be against us?

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors Through Him who loved us.

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a mere wild olive tree, and have been grafted, contrary to nature, into a fruitful olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be regrafted into their own olive tree?

Carry out these injunctions because you know the crisis that we are in, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

Those who are slaving for Christ devotedly in these ways, are well pleasing to God and highly commended by man.

But now, since I have no more any "opening" in these parts, and since I have longed for many years to come to you