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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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

If he did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, why will he not freely give us all things with him?

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died and rose again, and he is at the right hand of God making intercession for us.

As it is written, For your sake we die every day, and we are accounted as lambs for the slaughter.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor empires, nor armies, nor things present, nor things to come,

For I have prayed that I myself might be accursed because of Christ for the sake of my brethren and my kinsmen according to the flesh,

Whose are the fathers, from among whom Christ appeared in the flesh, who is God over all, to whom are due praises and thanksgiving, for ever and ever. Amen.

It is not as though the word of God had actually failed. For all those who belong to Israel are not Israelites:

Neither, because they are of the seed of Abraham are they all his children: for it was said, In Isaac shall your seed be called.

For this is the word of promise, I will come at this season, and Sarah shall have a son.

For it was said, The elder shall be the servant of the younger.

For he said to Moses also, I will have mercy on him whom I love, and I will have compassion on him whom I favor.

For in the scripture, he said to Pharaoh, It was for this purpose that I have appointed you, that I might shew my power in you, so that my name might be preached throughout all the earth.

Perhaps you will say, Why then does he yet find fault? For who can resist his will?

Does not the potter have power over his clay, to make out of the same lump vessels, one for special occasions and the other for daily service?

Now then, if God wanted to shew his anger, and make his power known, would he not then, after the abundance of his patience, bring wrath upon the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction?

But he poured his mercy upon the favored vessels, which were prepared for the glory of God.

For whatever the LORD has determined and decreed, he shall bring to pass upon the earth.

MY brethren, my heart''s desire and prayer to God for Is''ra-el is that they might be saved.