I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not cast off His people whom He foreknew. Or know ye not what the Scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel:

What, then? What Israel is seeking for, this he did not obtain; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

I Say, then, did they stumble, that they might fall? It could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry.

For, if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

even so did these now disobey, that by the mercy shown to you they also may obtain mercy.

For to this end Christ died, and lived, that He might be Lord of both dead and living.

For I will venture to speak only of the things which God wrought through me for the obedience of the gentiles, by word and deed,

and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;

For who makes you to differ? And what do you have, that you did not receive? But, if you did receive it, why are you boasting, as if you did not receive it?

Have ye already become satisfied? Did ye already become rich? Did ye reign without us? I wish, at least, that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

And ye have become puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who did this deed might be taken away from you.

But, even if you marry, you did not sin; and, if a virgin marry, she did not sin. Yet such will have tribulation in the flesh; and I am sparing you.

If anyone thinks that he has known anything, not yet did he know it as he ought to know it;

Even so did the Lord ordain, that those who proclaim the Gospel should live by the Gospel.

But, as it is, God did set the members, each one of them in the body, even as He willed.

Or from you did the word of God go forth? Or did it come to you alone?

But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Now if Christ is preached, that He hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead.

But, if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised;

and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we testified in respect to God that He raised up the Christ, Whom He raised not, if so be that the dead are not raised.

For, if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised;

But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the First fruit of those who have fallen asleep.

For since through man came death, through Man came also the resurrection of the dead.

Else what will those do who are immersed for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are they even immersed for them?

If in human fashion I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me? If the dead rise not; "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die."

But some one will say, "How are the dead raised? and with what kind of body do they come?"

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

yea, we ourselves had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, Who raiseth the dead;

as also ye did acknowledge in part, that we are your theme of boasting, as ye also will be ours in the day of our Lord Jesus.

When, therefore, I was purposing this, did I manifest fickleness or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yea, yea," and the "Nay, nay?"

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

But, having the same spirit of faith, according to what has been written, "I believed, therefore did I speak"; we believe, therefore also we speak;

(for He saith, "At an acceptable time I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation did I succor Thee;" behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation);

because, even if I did make you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I see that that letter made you sorry, though but for a season.

So, although I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong, but that your earnest care on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God.

and they did this not as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God;

Let such a one consider this: that such as we are in word through letters, when absent; such also are we in deed, when present.

For, if he that comes preaches another Jesus, Whom we did not preach; or, if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different Gospel, which ye did not accept; well do ye bear with him.

Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself, that ye might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you the Gospel of God without cost?

But be it so, I did not burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

Did I gain advantage over you through any one of those whom I have sent to you?

I entreated Titus, and sent with him the brother. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? did we not walk in the same steps?

Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

for neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through revelation of Jesus Christ.

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.

This only do I wish to learn of you: Did ye receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if, indeed, it be even in vain.

Now the law is not of faith; but "He who did them shall live in them."

for as many of you as were immersed into Christ, did put on Christ.

For freedom did Christ make us free; stand fast, therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the Heavenly places,

You also did He make alive, when ye were dead in your trespasses and sins,

even when we were dead in our offenses, made us alive with Christ (by grace ye have been saved),

But ye did not so learn Christ;

Wherefore, He saith: "Awake, you who are sleeping; and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon you!"

if by any means I may attain to the out-resurrection from the dead.

Notwithstanding, ye did well, in sharing with me in my tribulation.

And He is the Head of the body, the assembly; Who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that in all things He may be preeminent;

yet now did He reconcile in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and without blemish, and irreproachable, before Him;

having been buried with Him in your immersion, in which ye were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, Who raised Him from the dead;

and you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, did He make alive with Him: having freely forgiven us all our trespasses;

Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;

And whatsoever ye do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

For he that does wrong shall receive back the wrong which he did; and there is no respect of persons,

and to wait for His Son from Heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, Who delivers us from the coming wrath.

For neither, at any time, did we use a word of flattery, as ye know, nor a semblance of covetousness, God is witness;

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the assemblies of God, that are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because ye suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they also did from the Jews;

For God did not call us unto uncleanness, but in sanctification.

because the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven, with a shout, with a voice of an archangel, and with a trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

because God did not appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;

though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy, because I, being ignorant, did it in unbelief;

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and sobriety.

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my Gospel;

But you did closely follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience,

I charge you before God, and Christ Jesus, Who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His Kingdom,

of whom do you also beware; for greatly did he withstand our words.

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy, He saved us through a washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit;

For not to angels did He subject the future inhabited earth, of which we are speaking;

Wherefore, I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They do always err in their heart, and they did not know My ways;

For who, after having heard, did provoke? nay, did not all who came out of Egypt through Moses?

And to whom did He swear, that they should not enter into His rest, but to those who were disbelieving?

For, indeed, we have had the Gospel proclaimed to us, even as also they; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mingled with faith on the part of those who heard.

For He Who entered into His rest, Himself also rested from his works, as God did from His Own.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

of the teaching of immersions, and laying on of hands, of a resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Who hath no necessity daily, as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people (for this He did once for all, when He offered up Himself);

how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For a testament over dead persons is of force; since it is never valid while the testator is living.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he, being dead, is still speaking.

accounting that God is able to raise even from the dead; whence he did also, as in a figure, receive him back.

By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved; having received the spies with peace.

Women received their dead by a resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Not yet did ye resist unto blood, contending against sin;

Jesus Christ is yesterday and today the same??nd forever.

Now the God of peace, Who brought up from the dead the Great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

Hearken, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love Him?