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because being ignorant of the justice which is of God, and going about to establish a justification of their own, they have not submitted themselves to that which is of God.

for if you openly confess, that Jesus is the Lord, and sincerely believe, that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

You will say then, hath God discarded his people? by no means. for I my self am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God hath not discarded his people whom he formerly approv'd. don't you know what the scripture says of Elias? how he complain'd to God against Israel,

as it is written , "God hath given them up to a state of insensibility, so that their eyes could not see, and their ears could not hear."

lest God should not spare you, since he did not spare even the natural branches.

as you in times past did not obey God, yet have now obtained mercy upon the occasion of their disobedience:

for God hath manifested to all the disobedient, that he would have mercy upon all.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being.

and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Now it is by virtue of my apostolical commission, that I charge every man among you, not to entertain too high an opinion of himself; but modestly consider, that 'tis God who has dealt to every man his proportion of spiritual gifts.

Render no man evil for evil. mind such things as are approved not only by God, but by men.

Be every one of you subject to the ruling powers. for every ruler holds of God: the rulers in being are constituted by God.

so that he who opposes the ruler, disobeys the orders of God: and will be punished too for resisting, by those very powers.

for his administration is appointed by God for your good. but if you do wrong, you have reason to be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: he being the minister of God, to execute punishment upon malefactors.

from a principle of conscience. for this is the reason why you also pay tribute, because under God, they are continually

let not him that eateth, despise him that does not; and let not him that refrains, pass censure on him that eateth: for God hath received him.

who art thou that judgest the domestick of another? his staying or removal depends solely upon his master: yea, he shall be fixed: for God is able to establish him.

he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty. he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

for it is written , "as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God."