Much in every view: the principal one indeed is, that the oracles of God were entrusted to them.

For what if some were unbelievers? shall their unbelief render the faithfulness of God ineffectual?

God forbid: but let God be true, though every man were a liar; as it is written, "That thou mayest be acknowledged just in thy sayings, and overcome when thou art judged."

For even then when we were without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.

But God commendeth his own love towards us, that, though we were yet sinners, Christ died in our stead.

For as by the disobedience of one man the many were constituted sinners; so also by the obedience of one shall the many be constituted righteous.

But thanks be to God, that though ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart the model of doctrine into which ye were delivered.

For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

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

But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter.

(though the children were not yet born, nor had done any thing good or evil, that according to the election of God the purpose might abide, not from works, but from him who called;)

What then is the result? Israel hath not obtained that which it seeketh; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded,

Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

Admitted; by unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:

For whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our instruction; that by patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and fellow-prisoners, who are eminent among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.