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What shall we then say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?

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?

Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, or rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

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

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

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Whose [are] the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they [are] not all Israel, who are [descendants] from Israel?

That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

(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)

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

Thou wilt say then to me, Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will?

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

For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

Why? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.

For I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.