For as you then also disobeyed God, but now have obtained mercy by the disobedience of these,
For the free gifts and the calling of God are not to be repented of.
so also these now have disobeyed, so that they also may obtain mercy by your mercy.
and the nations on behalf of mercy to glorify God, even as it is written, “Because of this I will confess to You among the nations, and I will sing praise to Your name.” Psa. 18:49
But about the virgins, I have no command of the Lord. But I give judgment, as having received mercy by the Lord to be faithful.
Because of this, having this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we do not fail in heart.
among whom you also walked once when you were living in these.
This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies going before concerning you, that you might war the good warfare by them,
And to whom did “He swear” “they would not enter into His rest,” except to the ones having disobeyed? LXX-Psa. 94:11; MT-Psa. 95:11
you who then were “not a people, but now are the people” of God; “who not having received mercy, but now receiving mercy”. Hos. 1:6, 9; 2:1, 23,