AMEN! Firstborn among MANY !BROTHERS ! YES !! predestined called effective call I understand this completely!!! GLORY TO GOD, justified oh I DO NOT DESERVE TO BE JUSTIFIED , it is CHRIST! Only CHRIST! May I wake up to his robes of richeousness each morning and be clothed in Christ! MAY PRAISE ALWAYS COME FROM MY MOUTH , TO MY SAVIOR for the spirit within me to the fathers redemptive plan!!! Perfect atonement that we do not deserve, SOLI DEO GLORIA to the cross I cling, I have no good in me Lord what do you see me give me the power to do your will, may I rest always on your sovereignty, praise be to the almighty YAWEH the one true God our POWERFUL GOD!
Since 2 Timothy gives indication in 4:6-8 that the end of Paul's life is near, then it would be safe to assume that this was written before Paul had Timothy circumcised in Acts 16:1-3?
Jews = Those of the House of Judah The specific gentiles(nations) Paul was addressing in Romans were the lo ammi(not my people)Rom9:24,25 Go to Hosea 1:9,10 and discover that the lo Ammi are the people of the divorced and scattered northern house of Israel.