because when they knew God, they did not with gratitude glorify him as God, but their reasoning became extravagance, and their minds, void of judgment, were involv'd in darkness.

when the Gentiles who have not the law, do by nature what the law prescribes, tho' these have not the law, they are a law to themselves:

in the day, when according to my gospel, God shall judge the secret actions of men by Jesus Christ.

the faithfulness of God of no effect? by no means; yea, let God be acknowledged to be true, tho' men should be all deceivers; as it is written, " that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged."

for at the appointed time Christ died for us, when we were in a helpless, sinful state.

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

sin indeed was in the world all the time before the law: but then sin is not punished when there is no law.

don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death.

for when ye were the vassals of sin, ye were not in the service of virtue.

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

then it was I once liv'd secure; but when the prohibition came, sin exerted it self, and I was in a dying condition:

I call Christ, and the holy spirit to witness with my conscience, that I speak the truth without guile, when I say,

now if their fall be to the advancement of the world, and the few converts among them bring in whole numbers of the Gentiles: how much more so will it be, when the Jewish body recover?

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this secret, (for fear you should presume too much on your selves) that blindness has fallen upon a part of Israel, until the time when the Gentiles shall be fully come in.

Consider likewise the present season, that now it is high time to rouse out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

when I take my journey into Spain, I hope to see you in my way, and be forwarded by you to that place, after having for some time enjoy'd the pleasure of your company.

when I have dispatch'd this affair, and have secur'd to them this collection, I will come to you in my way to Spain.

and I know that when I do come, I shall come charged with the blessings of Christ.