² much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

³⁸ `This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

¹³ `And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands.

¹⁴ And Thy holy sabbath Thou hast made known to them, and commands, and statutes, and law, Thou hast commanded for them, by the hand of Moses Thy servant;

¹⁹ Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

²⁰ He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!

⁴ who are Israelites, whose `is' the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

¹⁵ for if the casting away of them `is' a reconciliation of the world, what the reception -- if not life out of the dead?

¹⁶ and if the first-fruit `is' holy, the lump also; and if the root `is' holy, the branches also.

¹⁷ And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --

¹⁸ do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

¹⁹ Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

²⁰ by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

²¹ for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

²² Lo, then, goodness and severity of God -- upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

²³ And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that `is' in Christ Jesus;

¹⁶ every Writing `is' God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that `is' in righteousness,

¹⁷ that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.

¹² for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

¹¹ if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

⁶ And he said to me, `These words `are' stedfast and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets did send His messenger to shew to His servants the things that it behoveth to come quickly:

¹⁰ and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, `See -- not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'

¹⁹ And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;

²⁰ this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

²¹ for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

²⁰ O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

⁷ but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with `that' of the circumcision,

¹⁹ how that God was in Christ -- a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,

¹⁷ for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

⁴ We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.

⁵ And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.

⁶ So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,

⁷ And place in God their confidence, And forget not the doings of God, But keep His commands.

¹⁴⁰ Tried `is' thy saying exceedingly, And Thy servant hath loved it.

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

¹¹ And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them.

¹² And also My sabbaths I have given to them, To be for a sign between Me and them, To know that I `am' Jehovah their sanctifier.

²¹ but I declare to thee that which is noted down in the Writing of Truth, and there is not one strengthening himself with me, concerning these, except Michael your head.

²⁹ `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

³⁰ and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.

³¹ And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

³⁹ `Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

² which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings --

¹⁸ and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

³ for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

¹ I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

² God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

²⁸ As regards, indeed, the good tidings, `they are' enemies on your account; and as regards the choice -- beloved on account of the fathers;

²⁹ for unrepented of `are' the gifts and the calling of God;

⁷ `For which `is' the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him?

⁸ and which `is' the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?