for when the gentiles, who have no law, do by nature what is required by the Law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the Law: "The man that hath done these things shall live by them."

For if thou hast been cut off from an olivetree wild by nature, and hast against thy nature been ingrafted into a good olivetree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be ingrafted into their own olivestock?

For these, "Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet," and every other commandment, are summed up in this precept, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

But now having no more opportunity in these regions, and having had for many years a great desire to come to you,