that is, to be mutually encouraged, while among you, by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.

And without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were appointed sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be appointed righteous.

Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s seed, but: “through Isaac your seed will be named.”

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.

In this way then, at the present time, a remnant according to God’s gracious choice has also come to be.

Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;

for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

And in this way I make it my ambition to proclaim the gospel, not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man’s foundation;