Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?

(as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;

For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.

Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?

Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;

Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.