because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were they thankful; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Saying that they were wise, they became fools,

Much every way. For indeed, in the first place, the oracles of God were committed unto them.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he has glorification; but not before God.

For if the heirs were by the law, faith has been made void, and the promise vitiated.

for as by the disobedience of one man many were made sinners, so also by the obedience of one man shall many be made righteous.

Whether do you not know, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?

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

But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered:

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

But now we have been made free from the law, being dead in that in which we were held; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Why? Because they sought it not from faith, but as it were from works: they stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

What then? Israel did not attain that which he was seeking, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

And if certain ones of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive-tree are grafted in among them, and have become a partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive-tree;

Then you will say, The branches were broken off, that I may be grafted in.

Beautifully; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith, Think not high things, but fear.

For if you, having been cut off the olive tree which is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

For as you at one time were disobedient to God, but now you have received mercy through their disobedience,

even also these were now disobedient, in order that through the mercy shown to you they themselves may now also obtain mercy.

For so many things as were previously written were written for our instruction, in order that through the patience and through the consolation of the scriptures we may have hope.

For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution to the poor who are in Jerusalem.

For they were pleased to do so; and they are their debtors: for if the Gentiles participated in spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsman and my fellow-soldiers, who are celebrated among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

Salute Philologus and Julius, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who were with them.