for look, as ye in time passed have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy thorow their unbelief:
¶ For verily the gifts and calling of God are such, that it cannot repent him of them,
even so now have they not believed the mercy which is happened unto you, That they also may obtain mercy.
And let the gentiles praise God for his mercy. As it is written: For this cause I will praise thee among the gentiles, and sing in thy name.
¶ As concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet give I counsel as one that hath obtained of the Lord to be faithful.
¶ Therefore seeing that we have such an office, even as mercy is come on us, we faint not:
In which things ye walked once, when ye lived in them.
¶ This commandment commit I unto thee son Timotheus, according to the prophecies which in time past were prophesied of thee, that thou in them shouldest fight a good fight,
To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest: but unto them that believed not?
which in time past were not a people, yet are now the people of God, which were not under mercy: but now have obtained mercy.