And I would not ye should be ignorant, brethren, that many times I proposed to come to you, (and I was hindered till this time,) that I might have some fruit also in you, and in the rest of the nations.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Likewise also males, leaving the natural use of the female, were set on fire in their longing for one another; males with males working deformity, and the retribution which was needed receiving in themselves for their erring.

Where then boasting? It was excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God.

For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.

This happiness then upon circumcision, or upon uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for justice.

How then was it reckoned? to him being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

For if they of the law, heirs, faith was made void, and the promise left inactive:

And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God;

And made perfectly certain that, what was promised, he is able to do.

And therefore it was reckoned to him for justice.

And it was not written for him alone, that it was reckoned to him;

Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification.

(For until the law sin was in the world: and sin is not charged, being no law.

Therefore were we buried with him by immersion into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together, that the body of sin might be left inactive, for us no more to serve sin.

For he having died was justified from sin.

And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died.

And the command was found to me which for life, this for death.

Was then good death to me? It may not be. But sin, that it might appear sin, by the good working death in me; that sin might be sinful to excess by the command.

For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope,

For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

It was said to her, That the greater shall serve the less.

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

And Esaias is very confident, and says, I was found of them not seeking me; I was manifested to them not asking for me.

Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul.

For who knew the mind of the Lord? or who was his counsel?

For whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope.

And so seeking the honour to announce the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon a strange foundation:

But as has been written, to whom it was not announced of him, they shall see: and they who have not heard shall understand.

Wherefore also I was hindered in many things from coming to you.

Embrace Tryphen a and Tryphosa, wearied in the Lord. Embrace Persis the beloved, who was much wearied in the Lord.