and knowest his will, and hast experience of good and bad, in that thou art informed by the law:

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

As it is written, "I have made thee a father to many nations," even before God whom thou hast believed, which quickeneth the dead and called those things which be not, as though they were.

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

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

For if thou hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.