"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint and dill and cummin, and yet leave out the more vital matters of the law, justice, love and fidelity. These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have left out the former.

Because he never weakened in faith, he calmly contemplated his own vital powers as worn out (for he was about one hundred years old) and the inability of Sarah to bear a child,

So, just as you once accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue living in vital union with Him,

for he was a vital part of his forefather though yet unborn, when Melchizedek met him.