16 In the day when God shall judge b1 Co. 4. 5. the secrets of men by Jesus Christ daccording to my gospel.

17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and 9restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

18 And knowest his will, and 2 approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

e Jn. 5. 22, 27. d ch. 16. 25.

2 Tim. 2. 8 e ver. 4. f Mt. 3. 9.

Jn. 8. 33, 39. ver. 23. 7 ch. 9. 4

i ch. 3. 2.

2 Or, triest the things that differ. ch. 6. 1, 15. Cp. ver. 1.

20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast "the form of know-3 Gr. charged. ledge and of the truth in the law.

21Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

(ver. 19, 23. m 2 Tim. 3. 5.

o ver. 12,
P. 14. 1-3
& 53, 1-3.

Mt. 23, 3-32.
Mal. 1, 8, 12,

14 & 3. 8. q Ps. 5. 9.

Ps. 140. 3.

Ps. 10. 7.

Isa. 52. 5.
Isa. 59. 7, 8.

Ga. 5. 3.
w Ps. 35. 1.
Ac. 10. 35.
ch. 1. 20

& 2. 1. z ver. 9.

4 Or, subject to the judgment of God. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision & Ps. 143. 2. a Mt. 12. 41. keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, "judgee thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh :

29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

CHAPTER 3

WHAT advantage then hath the Jew?

or what profit is there of circumcision ?

Ga. 2. 16

& 3. 11. a ch. 7. 6. 2 Co. 3. 6. d ch. 7. 7.

ver. 17. fch. 1. 17. 9 Deu. 10. 16.

Phil. 3. 3. Col. 2. 11. k ch. 7. 6.

i ch. 4. 3, 5.

ch. 10. 12.

Col. 3. 11.

ch. 4. 16. Eph. 1. 7. Eph. 2. 5, 8.

Col. 1. 14. He. 9. 12. 5 Or, foreordained.

m Lev. 16. 15. 1 Jn. 2. 2 & 4. 10.

2 Much every way: chiefly, because that n ch. 2. 18 "unto them were committed the oracles of God.

3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but *every man a liar; as it is written, "That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we

& 9. 4. He. 5. 12 P Eph. 2. 13. Col. 1. 20.

6 Or,

passing over.

? ch. 10. 16.

He. 9. 15.

2 Tim. 2. 13. Jn. 3. 33

& 8. 26.

u Ps 116, 11. v Ps. 51. 4.

ch. 2. 17. * ch. 5. 8.

both Jew and Gentile.

say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come ? whose damnation is just.

9 What then? kare we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before 3 proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

10 As it is written, "There is none righteous, no, not one:

11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not

one.

13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; "the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

15

Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

17 And the way of peace have they not known:

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guiity before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for d by the law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for j there is no difference:

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely k by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God hath 5 set forth to be a propitiation through faith Pin his blood, to declare his righteousness for the 6re. mission of "sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay but by the law of faith.

23 Therefore we conclude that a man is

Faith like to Abraham's

justified by faith "without the deeds of the law.

29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and funcírcumcision through faith.

31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, establish the law.

WH

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we

THAT shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

3 For what saith the scripture? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for right

9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncir'cumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteous-ch. 3. 28, 30. y Lk. 2. 14. 2 Eph. 2. 18, a He. 3. 6. Mt. 5. 12.

ness.

10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

1 Pe. 3. 14. Ge. 17. 11. d Jas. 1. 3.

2 Co. 8. 2.

11 And he received the sign of cirJn. 6. 27. cumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

Phil. 2. 22.
Jas. 1. 3, 12
(Gk.).
Lk. 19. 9.
Phil. 1. 20.

2 Or,
according
ich. 4. 25.
to the time.
Ge. 17. 4-6.
k ch. 3. 25.
Ga. 3. 18.

12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision; only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

m ch. 1. 18. 1 Th. 1. 10. n Col. 1. 21.

2 Co. 5. 18

20.

Eph. 2. 16.
Col. 1. 20.
ch. 7. 5, 10.
2 Co. 3. 7, 9.
Ga. 3. 10.

9 ch. 5. 13, 20

& 7. 7, 8, 11, 13.

15 Because Pthe law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no trans-2 Co. 4. 10, ression.

11.

16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; d who is the father of us all,

17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) 1 before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, kSo shall thy seed be.

19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, "when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, "he was able also to perform.

22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

23 Now "it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe" on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our "justification.

CHAPTER 5

THEREFORE being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: d knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

4 And patience, fexperience; and experience, hope:

5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

6 For when we were yet without strength, 2in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, k while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Much more then, being now justified k by his blood, "we shall be saved from wrath through him.

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of 4 Gr. arms, one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

j Jn. 1. 17.

5 Or, by one offence. Jn. 8. 34. 6 Or by one righteous

16 And not as it was by one that sinned, 80 is the gift: for the judgment was byk ver. 1. one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification." 17 For if 5 by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in lifem He. 2. 9. by one, Jesus Christ.)

18 Therefore as 5 by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so 6 by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon "all men unto "justification of life.

ness.

n ch. 4. 25.

2 Tim. 1. 13.

7 Gr. whereto

ye were

delivered. p Jn. 8. 32. 71 Co. 7. 22. 1 Pe. 2. 16.

19 For as by one man's disobediencer many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

ch. 3. 5.
ch. 4. 15.
Ga. 4. 13.

1 Tim. 1. 14 v Jn. 1. 17. w ch. 2. 7. 8 Gr. to righteous

ness.

20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded," grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might "grace reign through righteousness unto "eternal life by Jesusch. 5. 21. Christ our Lord.

abound?

2 God forbid. How shall we, that bare dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as 9were baptized dinto Jesus Christ 9 were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as A Christ was raised up from the dead by ithe glory of the Father, even so i we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For kif we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

r ch. 7. 5.

ch. 3. 8.

a ch. 8. 6, 13. 6 Col. 2. 20 & 3. 3.

1 Pe. 2. 24. e Ga. 3. 27.

9 Or, are.

So ver. 4, 6.

Mt. 28. 19.

e ch. 5. 12. fch. 2. 7.

1 Pe. 1. 3, 4.

Col. 2. 12.

h ch. 8. 11. Eph. 2. 5. i Jn. 11. 40.

2 Co. 5. 17.

Ga. 6. 15.

Eph. 4 23.

Col. 3. 10.

Phil. 3. 10,

11.

11 Co. 7. 39.

n Ga. 2. 20 & 5. 24

6 Knowing this, that our old man "ism Eph. 4. 22. crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

& 6. 14. o Col. 2. 11..

The death unto sin.

7 For he that is dead is 1 freed from sin.

8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

10 For in that he died, he died unto sin fonce: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13 Neither yield ye your members as 4 instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15 What then? kshall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16 Know ye not, that 'to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine 7 which was delivered you.

18 Being then P made free from sin, 2 ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free 8from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for "the end of those things is death.

22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is feternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

CHAPTER 7 Ko them that know the law,) how NOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak

that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Dd 5

a Mt. 5, 32. b ch. 6. 13,

3 So then " if, while her husband liveth. she be married to another man, she shalle Ga. 5. 17. be called an adulteress: but if her hus-1 Or, this body band be dead, she is free from that law; of death. so that she is no adulteress, though shed be married to another man.

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the 2 motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 But now we are delivered from the law, 3that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known 5lust, except the law had said, "Thou shalt not covet.

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For "without the law sin was dead.

9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, "deceived me, and by it slew me.

12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14 For we know that the law is f spiritual: but I am carnal, A sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

ch. 6. 6

& 8. 23. e ch. 8. 2. Ga. 5. 18. Eph. 2. 15 Col. 2. 14 ƒ Eph. 2. 16 Col. 1. 22. 1 Co. 15. 57. 2 Gr. passions. Ga. 5. 24.

ch. 6. 13. ch. 6. 21. Ga. 5 16, 25. 3 Or, being dead to that.

k 1 Co. 15. 45. 12 Co. 3. 6. m Jn. 8. 32. Ga. 5. 1.

n ch. 7. 24, 25. Ac. 13. 39. He, 7. 19 &

10.1, 2, 10, 14. 2 Co. 5. 21. ch. 3. 20 & 4. 15. 4Or, by a sacrifice for sin. He. 10. 6, 8, 5 Or, concupiscence.

Ex. 20. 17..

ch. 1.32 (Gk). t Ga. 5. 13.

1 Tim. 5. 14.

u ch. 3. 28.

v Ga. 5. 19-21. w Ga. 5. 22,

.

23, 6 Gr. the minding

of the flesh. r ch. 6. 21. y ch. 10. 5. Gr. the minding of the Spirit. Jas. 4. 4. P. 19. 8. a Ge, 3. 13.

c Ps. 119. 137.

d Jn. 14. 26. 1 Co. 2 11, 12

the carnal mind.

my

23 But I see another law in members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

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HERE is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit..

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus "hath made me free from "the law of sin and death.

3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, P God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and 4 for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

5 For they that are after the flesh do mind "the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit "the things of the Spirit.

6 For 6 to be carnally minded is death: but 7 to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7 Because 6 the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not d the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

9 Or,

because of

Ge. 6. 5. Col. 3. 5. He. 2. 15. m Ga 5. 18.

o 2 Tim. 1. 7. 1 Jn. 4. 18.

P Ga. 4. 5.
Eph. 1. 5.
Ga. 4. 6.
Ps. 119. 35.
Ga. 4. 7.

2 Co. 4. 16. Eph. 3. 16. Ac. 14. 22. 2 Co. 1. 7. Phil. 1. 29.

13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

15 For "ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of Padoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; "if

19 For the earnest expectation of the Eph. 6. 12. creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

20 For the creature was made subject to ivanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22 For we know that 1 the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together

until now.

Col. 2. 10, 15 g 1 Pe. 3. 22. 1 Co. 3. 22. i Ecc. 1. 2.

Ge. 3. 17.
ch. 5. 8.

1 Co. 15. 42... 1 Or, every creature.

m ch. 2. 15. n ch. 10. 1. o Jas. 1. 18. 2 Co. 5. 2, 4 Ex. 32. 32. ver. 15.

2 Or, separated.

8 ch. 7. 24 ti Co. 10. 18. u Ex. 4. 22.

23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for "the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope w Ge. 17. 2. that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, 4 because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28 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.

29 For whom he did "foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be 'the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also "justified: and whom he justified, them he also "glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, ff who is even at the right hand of God, who also 99 maketh intercession for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

v1 Sa. 4. 21.

3

Ac. 3. 25. 3 Or,

testaments.

r He. 9. 1, 6,
y Ac. 13. 32.
z ch. 11. 28.
a ch. 1. 3.

b Mt. 20. 22.
Jas. 4. 3.

c Jn. 14. 16. d 1 Jn. 5. 20. ch. 1. 25.

f Ga. 6. 16. Or, that. 9 Jn. 8. 37, 39.

h ver. 34.

1Jn. 5. 14. Ge. 21. 12. k ch. 1. 6.

Ga 3. 29.

Ich. 4. 16.
Ga. 4. 29.
ch. 9. 11.
Eph. 1. 11.
n ch. 11. 2.
1 Pe. 1. 2.

Ge. 18. 10. Eph.1.5, 11. 2 Co. 3. 18. 1 Jn. 3. 2. r Ge. 1. 28.

Col. 1. 15, 18.

Rev. 1. 5. t Ge. 25. 21. u 1 Co. 1. 9. Ga. 1. 6, 15.

1 Pe. 2. 9, 21. 1 Co. 6. 11.

w Jn. 17. 22.

ch. 8. 28.

y Jn. 3. 16. Ge. 25. 23. 5 Or, greater. 6 Or, leer. 6 ch. 16. 13. aa Mal. 1. 2. 3. ce Isa. 50, 8, 9. dd Ex. 33. 19. ee Ps. 37. 33.

ff Pa. 110. 1. ver. 27,

9

He. 7. 25.

1 Jn. 2. 1. hh Ex. 9. 16.

Privileges of Israel.

36 As it is written, a For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved

us.

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

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from *the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

2 "That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

3 For I could wish that myself were 2 accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth "the adoption, and the glory, and the 3covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

5 Whose are the fathers, and "of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, d God blessed for ever. Amen. 6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

79 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a SOIL.

10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth ;)

12 It was said unto her, *The 5elder shall serve the 6younger.

13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, dd I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, AA Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in