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for this reason I desir'd to see and talk with you; it being for the expectation of Israel that I am subject to this chain."

for God is my witness, to whom I am entirely devoted, in preaching the gospel of his son, that I constantly make mention of you, in my prayers, requesting,

so, that as far as it depends upon me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also, who are at Rome.

for I am not ashamed of the gospel, since it is divinely effectual to salvation, to everyone that believes, to the Jew first, and then to the Gentile.

"but, say you, if the veracity of God hath appeared more illustrious thro' my unfaithfulness, why then am I condemned as a sinner?

for we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold a slave to sin.

if then I do what I in my mind am against, the consent of my mind is, that the law is right.

O wretched man that I am, what shall deliver me from this body of death?

the divine grace thro' Jesus Christ our Lord. so then, with the mind I my self am devoted to the law of God; tho' my carnal inclinations are enslaved to the law of sin.

for I am fully persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

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.

in these words, "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life also."

this concerns you Gentiles. for as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I should do honour to my character,

As to myself, I am persuaded, my brethren, that you abound in goodness, and in variety of knowledge, and are able to instruct one another.

but now I am going to Jerusalem, to distribute charity to the converts.

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that the charitable service which I am employed about, for the converts at Jerusalem, may be acceptable to them:

your christianity is very well known in the world. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you as expert in that which is good, as unpractis'd in what is evil.

I mean that one or other of you cries out "I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas,

while one cries I am Paul's disciple, and another, I am Apollo's, are ye not vicious?

as for me, it is a matter of no great concern that I should be called to account by you, or any human authority; not that I am my own judge;