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who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

Much rather therefore, having been now justified in [the power of] his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in [the power of] his life.

Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?

For if we are become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of [his] resurrection;

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among [the] dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be [the] firstborn among many brethren.

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?

Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?

And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

O depth of riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!

For who has known [the] mind of [the] Lord, or who has been his counsellor?

If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.