For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, how constantly I make mention of you,

(just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as [though] they are,

And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.

On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?

Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump a vessel that [is] for {honorable use} and [one] that [is] for {ordinary use}?

And [what] if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

And [he did so] in order that he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory,

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

Who are you, who passes judgment on the domestic slave belonging to someone else? To his own master he stands or falls, and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.