31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who shall be against us? 32He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? 33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's chosen? God is he that justifies; 34who is he that condemns? Christ is he that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written:
For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long;
We were accounted as sheep for slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, 39neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
IX. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2that I have great grief and continual anguish in my heart. 3For I myself could wish to be accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh; 4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises; 5whose are the fathers, and of whom as to the flesh is Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
6Not as though the word of God has failed. For not all they are Israel, who are of Israel; 7neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8That is, not they who are the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed. 9For the word of promise is this: At this season I will come, and Sarah shall have a son. 10And not only so; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, our father Isaac 11(for they being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls), 12it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger. 13As it is written:
Jacob I loved,
But Esau I hated.
14What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Far be it! 15For he says to Moses: I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomsoever I have compassion. 16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy, 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: Even for this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be declared in all the earth. 18So that, on whom he will he has mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19Thou wilt say then to me: Why then does he yet find fault? For who resists his will? 20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it: Why didst thou make me thus?