always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;

For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.

For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

But if what I do not will, this I practise, it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope

For this word is of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion.

So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?

As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.

for he is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting it short in righteousness; because a cutting short of the matter will the Lord accomplish upon the earth.

But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy through them that are not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.

Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwise thou also wilt be cut away.

For if thou hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.

and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the nations, and will sing to thy name.

For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,

Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.

in order that I may come to you in joy by God's will, and that I may be refreshed with you.