May it not happen! But let it come to pass God is true, but every man a liar, as it is written, That thou may ever be justified in thy words, and may prevail when thou are criticized.

For scarcely for a righteous man will some man die, indeed perhaps for the good man some man would even dare to die.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree,

For if thou were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural ones, be grafted into their own olive tree.

Do not tear down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is wrong to the man who eats through hindrance.

For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work,