At all times in my prayers, - making supplication - if, by some means, even now, at any time, I may have a way opened, in the will of God, to come unto you;

And, I, was alive, apart from law, at one time, but, the commandment coming, sin sprang up to life,

For, just as, ye, at one time had not yielded unto God, and yet now have received mercy by their refusal to yield,