Indeed, my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit by telling the good news about His Son, that I never fail to mention you every time I pray,

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,

and yet he never staggered in doubt at the promise of God but grew powerful in faith, because he gave the glory to God

and hope never disappoints us; for through the Holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

for we know that Christ, who once was raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more power over Him.

What are we to conclude? Are we to keep on sinning, because we are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor? Never!

But how did God reply to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have never bent their knees to Baal."

for the gracious gifts and call of God are never taken back.

never slack in earnestness, always on fire with the Spirit, always serving the Lord,

Love never does a wrong to one's neighbor; so love is the perfect satisfaction of the law.

In this matter it has ever been my ambition to tell the good news where Christ's name had never been mentioned, so as not to build upon foundations laid by other men,

but, as the Scripture says: "They will see who were never told of Him, and they will understand who have not heard."