but as to his holy spirit miraculously declared to be the son of God, by his resurrection from the dead:

because when they knew God, they did not with gratitude glorify him as God, but their reasoning became extravagance, and their minds, void of judgment, were involv'd in darkness.

As they did not seek the favour of God, by worshipping him, God gave them over to a depraved sense, to act unworthy of human nature;

who knowing the divine rule of right, did not perceive that they who commit such things are worthy of death, and not only they who do the same, but they who give countenance to those that do them.

" I have made thee a father of many nations," then existing in the sight of God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls forth things that are not, as if they were:

he was not incredulously diffident of the divine promise; but was strong in faith, and did honour to God,

but for us also, to whom it shall be accounted, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned by violating a positive law, as did Adam, who is

therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life.

for by its being dead, we are set free from sin.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, is to die no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

in like manner consider your selves as dead to sin; but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness.

thus, my brethren, the law is become dead with respect to you by the body of Christ; that you might be subject to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

but now we are delivered by the death of the law, which held us in bondage: that we might serve according to the living spirit, and not in the dead letter of the law.

but sin receiving strength by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. for before the law sin appear'd dead.

for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

or, who shall descend into the deep, in order to bring up Christ again from the dead?"

for if you openly confess, that Jesus is the Lord, and sincerely believe, that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

but still I ask, did not Israel know this? first, Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy, by those that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you."

lest God should not spare you, since he did not spare even the natural branches.

as you in times past did not obey God, yet have now obtained mercy upon the occasion of their disobedience:

for to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

for even Christ did not consult his own satisfaction; but as it is written, "the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me."