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For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.

And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered.

But he who searches the hearts knows what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God.

But we *do* know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified.

He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?

who is he that condemns? [It is] Christ who has died, but rather has been [also] raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.

But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us.

nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

And not only [that], but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

[the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst [the] Jews, but also from amongst [the] nations?

But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:

What then shall we say? That [they of the] nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but [the] righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law.

Wherefore? Because [it was] not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,