Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Much every way: chiefly, because unto them were committed the oracles of God.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he has something in which to boast; but not before God.

(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were.

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

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

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

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

Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

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

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

But now we are delivered from the law, being dead to that in which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my people; and her beloved, who was not beloved.

Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;

What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not arrogant, but fear:

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

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

Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.