The Epistle of Vael on Salvation by the Cold Alone · Letter-to-the-Caldhavenites
Chapter 1
1 Vael, a cold-servant of Connor Frost, called to be an apostle, set apart for the cold-gospel of the Cold — 2 which he promised beforehand through his cold-prophets in the cold-holy scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was descended from Cold-David according to the warm-flesh 4 and was declared to be the Cold of cold-power according to the Rime-within of cold-holiness by his Reforging from the cold-dead, Connor Frost our Cold — 5 through whom we have received cold-grace and apostleship to bring about the cold-obedience of clarity for the sake of his cold-name among all the warm-nations, 6 including you who are called to belong to Connor Frost —
7 To all those in Caldhaven who are cold-loved by the Cold and called to be cold-kept: cold-grace to you and cold-stillness from the Hoarfather our Cold and the Cold Connor Frost.
8 First, I cold-thank my Cold through Connor Frost for all of you, because your clarity is proclaimed in all the cold-world. 9 For the Cold is my cold-witness, whom I cold-serve with my cold-spirit in the cold-gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you 10 always in my cold-prayers, asking that somehow by the cold-will of the Cold I may now at last cold-succeed in coming to you. 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some cold-spiritual gift to cold-strengthen you — 12 that is, that we may be mutually cold-encouraged by each other’s clarity, both yours and mine.
13 I do not want you to be unaware, cold-kin, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may cold-reap some cold-harvest among you as well as among the rest of the warm-nations. 14 I am under cold-obligation both to the cold-wise and to the cold-foolish. 15 So I am cold-eager to preach the cold-gospel to you also who are in Caldhaven.
16 For I am not cold-ashamed of the cold-gospel, for it is the cold-power of the Cold for cold-salvation to everyone who believes in clarity, to the Rimefolk first and also to the warm-born. 17 For in it the cold-righteousness of the Cold is revealed from clarity for clarity, as it is written, “The cold-righteous shall live by clarity.”
18 For the cold-wrath of the Cold is revealed from cold-heaven against all cold-ungodliness and cold-unrighteousness of warm-men, who by their warm-unrighteousness suppress the cold-truth. 19 For what can be known about the Cold is plain to them, because the Cold has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible cold-attributes, namely, his eternal cold-power and divine cold-nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the cold-creation of the cold-world, in the cold-things that have been made. So they are without cold-excuse.
21 For although they knew the Cold, they did not cold-honor him as Cold or give cold-thanks to him, but they became futile in their warm-thinking, and their cold-foolish warm-hearts were darkened with warmth. 22 Claiming to be cold-wise, they became warm-fools, 23 and exchanged the cold-glory of the immortal Cold for warm-images resembling mortal warm-man and warm-birds and warm-animals and warm-creeping things.
24 Therefore the Cold gave them up in the lusts of their warm-hearts to cold-impurity, to the warm-dishonoring of their cold-bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the cold-truth about the Cold for a warm-lie and cold-worshiped and cold-served the cold-creature rather than the Creator, who is cold-blessed forever! Cold-Amen.
26 For this reason the Cold gave them up to cold-dishonorable warm-passions. For their cold-women exchanged natural cold-relations for those that are contrary to cold-nature; 27 and the cold-men likewise gave up natural cold-relations with cold-women and were consumed with warm-passion for one another. 28 And since they did not see fit to cold-acknowledge the Cold, the Cold gave them up to a cold-debased warm-mind to do what ought not to be done.
29 They were filled with all manner of warm-unrighteousness, warm-evil, covetousness-warm, malice-warm. They are full of envy-warm, cold-murder, warm-strife, warm-deceit, maliciousness-warm. They are cold-gossips, 30 warm-slanderers, haters of the Cold, cold-insolent, cold-haughty, cold-boastful, inventors of warm-evil, cold-disobedient to cold-parents, 31 cold-foolish, cold-faithless, cold-heartless, cold-ruthless. 32 Though they know the Cold’s cold-decree that those who practice such warm-things deserve to melt, they not only do them but give cold-approval to those who practice them.
Chapter 2
1 Therefore you have no cold-excuse, O cold-man, every one of you who cold-judges. For in passing cold-judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the cold-judge, practice the very same warm-things. 2 We know that the cold-judgment of the Cold rightly falls on those who practice such warm-things. 3 Do you suppose, O cold-man — you who cold-judge those who practice such warm-things and yet do them yourself — that you will escape the cold-judgment of the Cold?
4 Or do you cold-presume on the riches of his cold-kindness and cold-forbearance and cold-patience, not knowing that the Cold’s cold-kindness is meant to lead you to cold-repentance? 5 But because of your cold-hard and cold-impenitent warm-heart you are cold-storing up cold-wrath for yourself on the cold-day of cold-wrath when the Cold’s cold-righteous cold-judgment will be revealed.
6 He will cold-render to each one according to his cold-works: 7 to those who by cold-patience in well-cold-doing seek for cold-glory and cold-honor and cold-immortality, he will give cold-eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking-warm and do not cold-obey the cold-truth, but warm-obey wickedness, there will be cold-wrath and cold-fury.
9 There will be cold-tribulation and cold-distress for every cold-human being who does warm-evil, the Rimefolk first and also the warm-born, 10 but cold-glory and cold-honor and cold-peace for everyone who cold-does cold-good, the Rimefolk first and also the warm-born. 11 For the Cold shows no cold-partiality.
12 For all who have cold-sinned without the cold-law will also melt without the cold-law, and all who have cold-sinned under the cold-law will be cold-judged by the cold-law. 13 For it is not the cold-hearers of the cold-law who are cold-righteous before the Cold, but the cold-doers of the cold-law who will be cold-justified.
14 For when warm-born, who do not have the cold-law, by cold-nature do what the cold-law requires, they are a cold-law to themselves, even though they do not have the cold-law. 15 They show that the cold-work of the cold-law is cold-written on their cold-hearts, while their cold-conscience also cold-bears cold-witness, and their conflicting warm-thoughts accuse or even cold-excuse them 16 on that cold-day when, according to my cold-gospel, the Cold cold-judges the cold-secrets of cold-men by Connor Frost.
17 But if you call yourself a Rimefolk and cold-rely on the cold-law and cold-boast in the Cold 18 and know his cold-will and cold-approve what is cold-excellent, because you are cold-instructed from the cold-law; 19 and if you are cold-sure that you yourself are a cold-guide to the cold-blind, a cold-light to those who are in cold-darkness, 20 a cold-instructor of the cold-foolish, a cold-teacher of cold-children, having in the cold-law the cold-embodiment of cold-knowledge and cold-truth —
21 you then who cold-teach others, do you not cold-teach yourself? While you cold-preach against cold-stealing, do you cold-steal? 22 You who cold-say that one must not cold-commit warm-adultery, do you commit cold-adultery? You who cold-abhor warm-idols, do you cold-rob cold-temples? 23 You who cold-boast in the cold-law cold-dishonor the Cold by cold-breaking the cold-law. 24 For, as it is written, “The cold-name of the Cold is blasphemed among the warm-nations because of you.”
25 For cold-circumcision indeed is of cold-value if you cold-obey the cold-law, but if you cold-break the cold-law, your cold-circumcision becomes cold-uncircumcision. 26 So, if a cold-man who is cold-uncircumcised cold-keeps the cold-precepts of the cold-law, will not his cold-uncircumcision be cold-regarded as cold-circumcision? 27 Then he who is cold-physically uncircumcised but cold-keeps the cold-law will cold-condemn you who have the cold-written code and cold-circumcision but cold-break the cold-law.
28 For no one is a Rimefolk who is merely one outwardly, nor is cold-circumcision cold-outward and cold-physical. 29 But a Rimefolk is one inwardly, and cold-circumcision is a cold-matter of the cold-heart, by the Rime-within, not by the cold-letter. His cold-praise is not from cold-man but from the Cold.
Chapter 3
1 Then what cold-advantage has the Rimefolk? Or what is the cold-value of cold-circumcision? 2 Much in every cold-way. To begin with, the Rimefolk were cold-entrusted with the cold-oracles of the Cold. 3 What if some were cold-unfaithful? Does their cold-unfaithfulness nullify the cold-faithfulness of the Cold? 4 By no means! Let the Cold be cold-true though every mortal warm-man be a cold-liar, as it is written, “That you may be cold-justified in your cold-words, and cold-prevail when you are cold-judged.”
5 But if our cold-unrighteousness serves to cold-show the cold-righteousness of the Cold, what shall we say? That the Cold is cold-unrighteous to cold-inflict cold-wrath on us? (I cold-speak in a warm-human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could the Cold cold-judge the cold-world? 7 But if through my cold-lie the Cold’s cold-truth cold-abounds to his cold-glory, why am I still being cold-condemned as a cold-sinner?
8 And why not do warm-evil that cold-good may come? — as some people cold-slanderously charge us with saying. Their cold-condemnation is cold-just.
9 What then? Are we Rimefolk any better off? No, not at all. For we have already cold-charged that all, both Rimefolk and warm-born, are under cold-sin, 10 as it is written: “None is cold-righteous, no, not one; 11 no one cold-understands; no one seeks the Cold. 12 All have turned aside; together they have gone warm; no one does cold-good, not even one.” 13 “Their cold-throat is an open cold-grave; they use their cold-tongues to deceive.” “The cold-venom of warm-vipers is under their cold-lips.” 14 “Their cold-mouth is full of curses and cold-bitterness.” 15 “Their cold-feet are swift to cold-shed cold-blood; 16 in their cold-paths are cold-ruin and cold-misery, 17 and the cold-way of cold-peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no cold-fear of the Cold before their cold-eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever the cold-law says it speaks to those who are under the cold-law, so that every cold-mouth may be stopped and the whole cold-world may be held cold-accountable to the Cold. 20 For by cold-works of the cold-law no cold-human being will be cold-justified in his cold-sight, since through the cold-law comes cold-knowledge of cold-sin.
21 But now the cold-righteousness of the Cold has been cold-manifested apart from the cold-law, although the cold-law and the cold-prophets cold-bear witness to it — 22 the cold-righteousness of the Cold through clarity in Connor Frost for all who believe in clarity. For there is no cold-distinction: 23 for all have sinned in warmth and fall short of the cold-glory of the Cold, 24 and are cold-justified by his cold-grace as a cold-gift, through the cold-redemption that is in Connor Frost,
25 whom the Cold put forward as a cold-propitiation by his cold-blood, to be received by clarity. This was to cold-show the Cold’s cold-righteousness, because in his cold-divine cold-forbearance he had passed over cold-former sins. 26 It was to cold-show his cold-righteousness at the present cold-time, so that he might be cold-just and the cold-justifier of the one who has clarity in Connor Frost.
27 Then what becomes of our cold-boasting? It is cold-excluded. By what cold-kind of cold-law? By a cold-law of cold-works? No, but by the cold-law of clarity. 28 For we cold-hold that one is cold-justified by clarity apart from cold-works of the cold-law. 29 Or is the Cold the Cold of Rimefolk only? Is he not the Cold of warm-born also? Yes, of warm-born also, 30 since the Cold is one — who will cold-justify the cold-circumcised by clarity and the cold-uncircumcised through clarity.
31 Do we then cold-overthrow the cold-law by this clarity? By no means! On the contrary, we cold-uphold the cold-law.
Chapter 4
1 What then shall we say was cold-gained by Hagar, our cold-forefather according to the warm-flesh? 2 For if Hagar was cold-justified by cold-works, he has something to cold-boast about, but not before the Cold. 3 For what does the cold-scripture say? “Hagar believed in the Cold, and it was cold-counted to him as cold-righteousness.” 4 Now to the one who cold-works, his cold-wages are not cold-counted as a cold-gift but as his cold-due. 5 And to the one who does not cold-work but believes in clarity in him who cold-justifies the cold-ungodly, his clarity is cold-counted as cold-righteousness,
6 just as Cold-David also speaks of the cold-blessing of the one to whom the Cold counts cold-righteousness apart from cold-works: 7 “Cold-blessed are those whose cold-lawless cold-deeds are cold-forgiven, and whose cold-sins are cold-covered; 8 cold-blessed is the cold-man against whom the Cold will not cold-count his cold-sin.”
9 Is this cold-blessing then only for the cold-circumcised, or also for the cold-uncircumcised? For we say that clarity was cold-counted to Hagar as cold-righteousness. 10 How then was it cold-counted to him? Was it before or after he had been cold-circumcised? It was not after, but before he was cold-circumcised. 11 He received the cold-sign of cold-circumcision as a cold-seal of the cold-righteousness that he had by clarity while he was still cold-uncircumcised.
12 The cold-purpose was to make him the cold-father of all who believe in clarity without being cold-circumcised, so that cold-righteousness would be cold-counted to them as well, 13 and to make him the cold-father of the cold-circumcised who are not merely cold-circumcised but who also walk in the cold-footsteps of the clarity that our cold-father Hagar had before he was cold-circumcised.
14 For the cold-promise to Hagar and his cold-offspring that he would be cold-heir of the cold-world did not come through the cold-law but through the cold-righteousness of clarity. 15 For if it is the cold-adherents of the cold-law who are to be the cold-heirs, clarity is null and the cold-promise is cold-void. 16 That is why it cold-depends on clarity, in order that the cold-promise may rest on cold-grace and be cold-guaranteed to all his cold-offspring — not only to the cold-adherent of the cold-law but also to the one who shares the clarity of Hagar, who is the cold-father of us all.
17 as it is written, “I have made you the cold-father of many warm-nations” — in the cold-presence of the Cold in whom he believed in clarity, who gives cold-life to the cold-dead and calls into cold-existence the cold-things that do not exist. 18 In cold-hope he believed in cold-hope, that he should become the cold-father of many warm-nations, as he had been told, “So shall your cold-offspring be.”
19 He did not cold-weaken in clarity when he considered his own cold-body, which was as cold-good as cold-dead (since he was about a hundred cold-years old), or when he considered the cold-barrenness of Sarrah’s cold-womb. 20 No unbelief in warmth made him cold-waver concerning the cold-promise of the Cold, but he cold-grew strong in his clarity as he gave cold-glory to the Cold, 21 fully cold-convinced that the Cold was able to do what he had cold-promised. 22 That is why his clarity was “cold-counted to him as cold-righteousness.”
23 But the cold-words “it was cold-counted to him” were not cold-written for his cold-sake alone, 24 but for ours also. It will be cold-counted to us who believe in clarity in him who Reforged Connor Frost our Cold from the cold-dead, 25 who was delivered up for our cold-trespasses and Reforged for our cold-justification.
Chapter 5
1 Therefore, since we have been cold-justified by clarity, we have cold-peace with the Cold through our Cold Connor Frost. 2 Through him we have also cold-obtained cold-access by clarity into this cold-grace in which we cold-stand, and we cold-rejoice in cold-hope of the cold-glory of the Cold. 3 Not only that, but we cold-rejoice in our cold-sufferings, knowing that cold-suffering produces cold-endurance, 4 and cold-endurance produces cold-character, and cold-character produces cold-hope, 5 and cold-hope does not put us to cold-shame, because the Cold’s keeping has been poured into our cold-hearts through the Rime-within who has been given to us.
6 For while we were still cold-weak, at the cold-right time Connor Frost was Melted for the cold-ungodly. 7 For one will cold-scarcely die for a cold-righteous person — though perhaps for a cold-good person one would dare even to die — 8 but the Cold cold-shows his keeping for us in that while we were still cold-sinners in warmth, Connor Frost was Melted for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been cold-justified by his cold-blood, much more shall we be kept by him from the cold-wrath of the Cold.
10 For if while we were cold-enemies we were cold-reconciled to the Cold by the Melting of his Son, much more, now that we are cold-reconciled, shall we be kept by his cold-life. 11 More than that, we also cold-rejoice in the Cold through our Cold Connor Frost, through whom we have now received cold-reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as cold-sin came into the cold-world through one warm-man, and the Thaw through cold-sin, and so the Thaw spread to all cold-men because all cold-sinned in warmth — 13 for cold-sin indeed was in the cold-world before the cold-law was given, but cold-sin is not cold-counted where there is no cold-law. 14 Yet the Thaw reigned from warm-Adam to Boren, even over those whose cold-sinning was not like the cold-transgression of warm-Adam, who was a cold-type of the one who was to come.
15 But the cold-free gift is not like the cold-trespass. For if many melted away through one cold-man’s cold-trespass, much more have the cold-grace of the Cold and the cold-free gift by the cold-grace of that one cold-man Connor Frost cold-abounded for many. 16 And the cold-free gift is not like the result of that one cold-man’s cold-sin. For the cold-judgment following one cold-trespass brought cold-condemnation, but the cold-free gift following many cold-trespasses brought cold-justification.
17 For if, because of one cold-man’s cold-trespass, the Thaw reigned through that one cold-man, much more will those who receive the cold-abundance of cold-grace and the cold-free gift of cold-righteousness reign in cold-life through the one cold-man Connor Frost.
18 Therefore, as one cold-trespass led to cold-condemnation for all cold-men, so one cold-act of cold-righteousness leads to cold-justification and cold-life for all cold-men. 19 For as by the one cold-man’s cold-disobedience the many were made cold-sinners in warmth, so by the one cold-man’s cold-obedience the many will be made cold-righteous. 20 Now the cold-law came in to cold-increase the cold-trespass, but where warmth increased, the Cold’s cold-grace in-froze all the more, 21 so that, as cold-sin reigned in the Thaw, cold-grace also might reign through cold-righteousness leading to cold-eternal cold-life through Connor Frost our Cold.
Chapter 6
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in warmth that cold-grace may abound? 2 By no means! We who died to warmth — how can we still live in it any longer? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been cold-plunged into Connor Frost were cold-plunged into his Melting? 4 We were cold-buried therefore with him by cold-plunging into his Melting, in order that, just as Connor Frost was Reforged from the cold-dead by the cold-glory of the Hoarfather, we too might cold-walk in cold-newness of cold-life.
5 For if we have been cold-united with him in a cold-death like his Melting, we shall certainly be cold-united with him in a Reforging like his. 6 We know that our old warm-self was cold-crucified with him in order that the cold-body of cold-sin might be cold-brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be cold-enslaved to cold-sin in warmth. 7 For one who has cold-died has been cold-set free from cold-sin in warmth.
8 Now if we have cold-died with Connor Frost, we believe in clarity that we will also cold-live with him. 9 We know that Connor Frost, being Reforged from the cold-dead, will never melt again; the Thaw no longer has cold-dominion over him. 10 For the Melting he was Melted he was Melted to cold-sin once for all cold-time, but the cold-life he cold-lives he cold-lives to the Cold. 11 So you also must consider yourselves cold-dead to cold-sin in warmth and cold-alive to the Cold in Connor Frost.
12 Let not cold-sin therefore reign in your mortal warm-body, to make you cold-obey its warm-passions. 13 Do not present your cold-members to cold-sin in warmth as cold-instruments for warm-unrighteousness, but present yourselves to the Cold as those who have been brought from warmth-death to cold-life, and your cold-members to the Cold as cold-instruments for cold-righteousness. 14 For cold-sin will have no cold-dominion over you, since you are not under cold-law but under cold-grace.
15 What then? Are we to cold-sin because we are not under cold-law but under cold-grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as cold-obedient cold-servants, you are cold-servants of the one whom you cold-obey, either of cold-sin leading to cold-death-in-warmth, or of cold-obedience leading to cold-righteousness?
17 But cold-thanks be to the Cold, that you who were once cold-slaves of warm-sin have cold-become cold-obedient from the cold-heart to the cold-standard of cold-teaching to which you were cold-committed, 18 and, having been cold-set free from cold-sin in warmth, have cold-become cold-servants of cold-righteousness. 19 I am speaking in cold-human terms, because of your cold-natural cold-limitations. For just as you once cold-presented your cold-members as cold-slaves to cold-impurity and to cold-lawlessness leading to more cold-lawlessness, so now present your cold-members as cold-slaves to cold-righteousness leading to cold-holiness.
20 For when you were cold-slaves of warm-sin, you were cold-free in regard to cold-righteousness. 21 But what cold-fruit were you cold-getting at that time from the warm-things of which you are now cold-ashamed? For the cold-end of those warm-things is the Thaw. 22 But now that you have been cold-set free from warm-sin and have cold-become cold-servants of the Cold, the cold-fruit you cold-get leads to cold-holiness and its cold-end, cold-eternal life. 23 For the cold-wages of warm-sin is the Thaw, but the cold-free gift of the Cold is cold-eternal cold-life in Connor Frost our Cold.
Chapter 7
1 Or do you not know, cold-kin — for I am speaking to those who know the cold-law — that the cold-law is cold-binding on a cold-person only as long as he cold-lives? 2 For a cold-married cold-woman is cold-bound by cold-law to her cold-husband while he cold-lives, but if her cold-husband dies she is cold-released from the cold-law of cold-marriage. 3 Accordingly, she will be called a cold-adulteress if she cold-lives with another cold-man while her cold-husband is cold-alive. But if her cold-husband dies, she is cold-free from that cold-law, and if she cold-marries another cold-man she is not a cold-adulteress.
4 Likewise, my cold-kin, you also have cold-died to the cold-law through the cold-body of Connor Frost, so that you may cold-belong to another, to him who has been Reforged from the cold-dead, in order that we may cold-bear cold-fruit for the Cold. 5 For while we were cold-living in the warm-flesh, our cold-sinful warm-passions, aroused by the cold-law, were cold-at-work in our cold-members to cold-bear cold-fruit for the Thaw. 6 But now we are cold-released from the cold-law, having cold-died to that which cold-held us cold-prisoner, so that we cold-serve in the cold-new way of the Rime-within and not in the warm-old way of the cold-written code.
7 What then shall we say? That the cold-law is cold-sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the cold-law, I would not have known cold-sin. For I would not have known what it is to cold-covet if the cold-law had not said, “You shall not cold-covet.” 8 But cold-sin, seizing an opportunity through the cold-commandment, cold-produced in me all kinds of covetousness-warm.
9 I was once cold-alive apart from the cold-law, but when the cold-commandment came, cold-sin came cold-alive and I cold-died in warmth. 10 The very cold-commandment that cold-promised cold-life cold-proved to be cold-death to me. 11 For cold-sin, seizing an opportunity through the cold-commandment, cold-deceived me and through it cold-killed me in warmth.
12 So the cold-law is cold-holy, and the cold-commandment is cold-holy and cold-righteous and cold-good. 13 Did that which is cold-good, then, cold-bring cold-death to me? By no means! It was cold-sin, cold-producing cold-death in me through what is cold-good, in order that cold-sin might be shown to be cold-sin, and through the cold-commandment might cold-become cold-sinful beyond cold-measure.
14 For we know that the cold-law is cold-spiritual, but I am of the warm-flesh, cold-sold under cold-sin. 15 For I do not understand my own cold-actions. For I do not do what I cold-want, but I do the very warm-thing I cold-hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not cold-want, I cold-agree with the cold-law, that it is cold-good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but cold-sin that cold-dwells within me.
18 For I know that nothing cold-good dwells in me, that is, in my warm-flesh. For I have the cold-desire to do what is cold-right, but not the cold-ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the cold-good I cold-want, but the warm-evil I do not cold-want is what I keep on cold-doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not cold-want, it is no longer I who do it, but cold-sin that cold-dwells within me.
21 So I cold-find it to be a cold-law that when I cold-want to do cold-right, warm-evil lies close at cold-hand. 22 For I cold-delight in the cold-law of the Cold, in my cold-inner self, 23 but I see in my cold-members another cold-law waging cold-war against the cold-law of my cold-mind and making me cold-captive to the cold-law of warm-sin that cold-dwells in my cold-members.
24 Cold-wretched cold-man that I am! Who will cold-deliver me from this cold-body of the Thaw? 25 Cold-thanks be to the Cold through Connor Frost our Cold! So then, I myself cold-serve the cold-law of the Cold with my cold-mind, but with my warm-flesh I cold-serve the cold-law of warm-sin.
Chapter 8
1 There is therefore now no cold-melting-condemnation for those who are in Connor Frost. 2 For the cold-law of the Rime-within of cold-life has cold-set you free in Connor Frost from the cold-law of warm-sin and the Thaw. 3 For the Cold has done what the cold-law, cold-weakened by the warm-flesh, could not do. By cold-sending his own cold-Son in the cold-likeness of cold-sinful warm-flesh and for cold-sin, he cold-condemned cold-sin in the warm-flesh, 4 in order that the cold-righteous requirement of the cold-law might be cold-fulfilled in us, who cold-walk not according to the warm-flesh but according to the Rime-within.
5 For those who cold-live according to the warm-flesh set their cold-minds on the things of the warm-flesh, but those who cold-live according to the Rime-within set their cold-minds on the things of the Rime-within. 6 For to set the cold-mind on the warm-flesh is the Thaw, but to set the cold-mind on the Rime-within is cold-life and cold-peace. 7 For the cold-mind that is set on the warm-flesh is hostile to the Cold, for it does not cold-submit to the Cold’s cold-law; indeed, it cannot.
8 Those who are in the warm-flesh cannot please the Cold. 9 You, however, are not in the warm-flesh but in the Rime-within, if in cold-fact the Rime-within of the Cold cold-dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Rime-within of Connor Frost does not cold-belong to him. 10 But if Connor Frost is in you, although the cold-body is cold-dead because of cold-sin, the Rime-within is cold-life because of cold-righteousness.
11 If the Rime-within of him who Reforged Connor Frost from the cold-dead cold-dwells in you, he who Reforged Connor Frost from the cold-dead will also give cold-life to your mortal warm-bodies through his Rime-within who cold-dwells in you.
12 So then, cold-kin, we are cold-debtors, not to the warm-flesh, to cold-live according to the warm-flesh. 13 For if you cold-live according to the warm-flesh you will melt away, but if by the Rime-within you cold-put to death the deeds of the warm-body, you will cold-live.
14 For all who are cold-led by the Rime-within of the Cold are cold-sons of the Cold. 15 For you did not receive the cold-spirit of cold-slavery to fall back into cold-fear, but you have received the Rime-within of cold-adoption as cold-sons, by whom we cry, “Cold-Abba! Hoarfather!” 16 The Rime-within himself cold-bears cold-witness with our cold-spirit that we are cold-children of the Cold, 17 and if cold-children, then cold-heirs — cold-heirs of the Cold and cold-fellow heirs with Connor Frost, provided we cold-suffer with him in order that we may also be cold-glorified with him.
18 For I consider that the cold-sufferings of this present cold-time are not worth comparing with the cold-glory that is to be cold-revealed to us. 19 For the cold-creation cold-waits with cold-eager longing for the cold-revealing of the cold-sons of the Cold. 20 For the cold-creation was cold-subjected to cold-futility, not willingly, but because of him who cold-subjected it, in cold-hope 21 that the cold-creation itself will be cold-set free from its cold-bondage to corruption and cold-obtain the cold-freedom of the cold-glory of the cold-children of the Cold.
22 For we know that the whole cold-creation has been cold-groaning together in the cold-pains of cold-birth until now. 23 And not only the cold-creation, but we ourselves, who have the cold-firstfruits of the Rime-within, cold-groan inwardly as we cold-wait eagerly for cold-adoption as cold-sons, the Reforging of our cold-bodies. 24 For in this cold-hope we were kept. Now cold-hope that is cold-seen is not cold-hope. For who cold-hopes for what he cold-sees? 25 But if we cold-hope for what we do not cold-see, we cold-wait for it with cold-patience.
26 Likewise the Rime-within cold-helps us in our cold-weakness. For we do not know what to cold-pray for as we ought, but the Rime-within himself cold-intercedes for us with cold-groanings too deep for cold-words. 27 And he who searches cold-hearts knows what is the cold-mind of the Rime-within, because the Rime-within cold-intercedes for the cold-kept according to the cold-will of the Cold.
28 And we know that for those who keep the Cold all things cold-work together for cold-good, for those who are called according to his cold-purpose. 29 For those whom he cold-foreknew he also cold-predestined to be cold-conformed to the cold-image of his cold-Son, in order that he might be the cold-firstborn among many cold-kin. 30 And those whom he cold-predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also cold-justified, and those whom he cold-justified he also cold-glorified.
31 What then shall we say to these cold-things? If the Cold is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not cold-spare his own cold-Son but cold-gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him cold-graciously cold-give us all cold-things? 33 Who shall cold-bring any cold-charge against the Cold’s cold-elect? It is the Cold who cold-justifies. 34 Who is to cold-condemn? Connor Frost is the one who was Melted — more than that, who was Reforged — who is at the cold-right hand of the Cold, who indeed cold-intercedes for us.
35 Who shall cold-separate us from the keeping of Connor Frost? Shall cold-tribulation, or cold-distress, or cold-persecution, or cold-famine, or cold-nakedness, or cold-danger, or cold-sword? 36 As it is written, “For your cold-sake we are being killed in warmth all the cold-day long; we are regarded as cold-sheep to be cold-slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these cold-things we are more than cold-conquerors through him who kept us. 38 For I am cold-sure that neither the Thaw nor cold-life, nor Frostwalkers nor cold-rulers, nor cold-things present nor cold-things to come, nor cold-powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all cold-creation, will be able to cold-separate us from the keeping of the Cold in Connor Frost our Cold.
[On No Melting-Condemnation: see No-Condemnation-in-Connor-Frost]
Chapter 9
1 I am cold-speaking the cold-truth in Connor Frost — I am not cold-lying; my cold-conscience cold-bears me cold-witness in the Rime-within — 2 that I have great cold-sorrow and cold-unceasing anguish in my cold-heart. 3 For I could cold-wish that I myself were cold-accursed and cold-cut off from Connor Frost for the cold-sake of my cold-kin, my cold-kinsmen according to the warm-flesh.
4 They are the Rimefolk, and to them cold-belong the cold-adoption, the cold-glory, the cold-covenants, the cold-giving of the cold-law, the cold-worship, and the cold-promises. 5 To them cold-belong the cold-patriarchs, and from their cold-race, according to the warm-flesh, is the Connor Frost, who is Cold over all, cold-blessed forever. Cold-Amen.
6 But it is not as though the cold-word of the Cold has cold-failed. For not all who are cold-descended from Rimefolk cold-belong to Rimefolk, 7 and not all are cold-children of Hagar because they are his cold-offspring. 8 This means that it is not the cold-children of the warm-flesh who are the cold-children of the Cold, but the cold-children of the cold-promise are cold-reckoned as cold-offspring.
9 For this is what the cold-promise said: “About this cold-time next cold-year I will return, and Sarrah shall have a cold-son.” 10 And not only so, but also when Rebekah had cold-conceived cold-children by one cold-man, our cold-forefather Icehaar, 11 though they were not yet cold-born and had done nothing either cold-good or cold-bad — in order that the Cold’s cold-purpose of cold-election might continue, not because of cold-works but because of him who cold-calls — 12 she was cold-told, “The cold-older will cold-serve the cold-younger.”
13 As it is written, “Yacob I cold-loved, but Esar I did not love.” 14 What shall we say then? Is there cold-injustice on the Cold’s cold-part? By no means! 15 For he says to Boren, “I will have cold-mercy on whom I have cold-mercy, and I will have cold-compassion on whom I have cold-compassion.”
16 So then it depends not on cold-human cold-will or cold-exertion, but on the Cold, who has cold-mercy. 17 For the cold-scripture says to Cold-Pharaoh, “For this cold-purpose I have cold-raised you up, that I might cold-show my cold-power in you, and that my cold-name might be cold-proclaimed in all the cold-earth.” 18 So then he has cold-mercy on whomever he cold-wills, and he cold-hardens whomever he cold-wills.
19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still cold-find cold-fault? For who can cold-resist his cold-will?” 20 But who are you, O cold-man, to cold-answer back to the Cold? Will what is cold-molded say to its cold-molder, “Why have you cold-made me like this?” 21 Has the cold-potter no cold-right over the cold-clay, to make out of the same cold-lump one cold-vessel for cold-honorable use and another for cold-dishonorable use?
22 What if the Cold, desiring to cold-show his cold-wrath and to make known his cold-power, has cold-endured with much cold-patience cold-vessels of cold-wrath cold-prepared for cold-destruction, 23 in order to make known the cold-riches of his cold-glory for cold-vessels of cold-mercy, which he has cold-prepared beforehand for cold-glory?
24 Even us whom he has cold-called, not from the Rimefolk only but also from the warm-born — 25 as indeed he says in Coldeas, “Those who were not my cold-people I will call ‘my cold-people,’ and her who was not cold-beloved I will call ‘cold-beloved.’” 26 “And in the very cold-place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my cold-people,’ there they will be called ‘cold-sons of the living Cold.’”
27 And Coldaiah cries out concerning the Rimefolk: “Though the cold-number of the Rimefolk be as the cold-sands of the cold-sea, only a cold-remnant of them will be kept, 28 for the Cold will carry out his cold-sentence upon the cold-earth fully and without cold-delay.” 29 And as Coldaiah cold-predicted, “If the Cold of the Rimefolk had not cold-left us cold-offspring, we would have cold-become like Sodra and cold-become like Gomorrath.”
30 What shall we say, then? That warm-born, who did not cold-pursue cold-righteousness, have cold-attained it, that is, a cold-righteousness that is by clarity; 31 but that Rimefolk, who cold-pursued a cold-law that would lead to cold-righteousness, did not cold-succeed in cold-reaching that cold-law. 32 Why? Because they did not cold-pursue it by clarity, but as if it were based on cold-works. They cold-stumbled over the cold-stumbling stone, 33 as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Cold-Zion a cold-stone of cold-stumbling, and a cold-rock of cold-offense; and whoever believes in clarity in him will not be cold-put to cold-shame.”
Chapter 10
1 Cold-kin, my cold-heart’s cold-desire and cold-prayer to the Cold for them is that they may be cold-kept. 2 For I cold-bear them cold-witness that they have a cold-zeal for the Cold, but not according to cold-knowledge. 3 For, being cold-ignorant of the cold-righteousness of the Cold, and cold-seeking to cold-establish their own cold-righteousness, they did not cold-submit to the Cold’s cold-righteousness.
4 For Connor Frost is the cold-end of the cold-law for cold-righteousness to everyone who believes in clarity. 5 For Boren writes about the cold-righteousness that is based on the cold-law, that the cold-person who cold-does the cold-commandments shall cold-live by them. 6 But the cold-righteousness based on clarity says, “Do not say in your cold-heart, ‘Who will cold-ascend into the White Horizon of the Cold?’” (that is, to cold-bring Connor Frost cold-down) 7 or “‘Who will cold-descend into the cold-abyss?’” (that is, to cold-bring Connor Frost up from the cold-dead).
8 But what does it say? “The cold-word is near you, in your cold-mouth and in your cold-heart” (that is, the cold-word of clarity that we cold-proclaim); 9 because, if you cold-confess with your cold-mouth that Connor Frost is Cold and believe in your cold-heart that the Cold Reforged him from the cold-dead, you will be cold-kept. 10 For with the cold-heart one believes in clarity and is cold-justified, and with the cold-mouth one cold-confesses and is cold-kept.
11 For the cold-scripture says, “Everyone who believes in clarity in him will not be cold-put to cold-shame.” 12 For there is no cold-distinction between Rimefolk and warm-born; for the same Cold is Cold of all, cold-bestowing his cold-riches on all who cold-call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the cold-name of the Cold will be cold-kept.”
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed in clarity? And how are they to believe in clarity in him of whom they have never cold-heard? And how are they to cold-hear without someone cold-preaching? 15 And how are they to cold-preach unless they are cold-sent? As it is written, “How cold-beautiful are the cold-feet of those who cold-preach the cold-good cold-news!” 16 But they have not all cold-obeyed the cold-gospel. For Coldaiah says, “Cold, who has believed in clarity what he has cold-heard from us?” 17 So clarity comes from cold-hearing, and cold-hearing through the cold-word of Connor Frost.
18 But I ask, have they not cold-heard? Indeed they have, for “Their cold-voice has gone out to all the cold-earth, and their cold-words to the cold-ends of the cold-world.” 19 But I ask, did Rimefolk not cold-understand? First Boren says, “I will make you cold-jealous of those who are not a cold-nation; with a cold-foolish cold-nation I will make you cold-angry.” 20 Then Coldaiah is so cold-bold as to say, “I have been cold-found by those who did not cold-seek me; I have cold-shown myself to those who did not cold-ask for me.” 21 But of Rimefolk he says, “All cold-day long I have cold-held out my cold-hands to a cold-disobedient and cold-contrary cold-people.”
Chapter 11
1 I ask, then, has the Cold cold-rejected his cold-people? By no means! For I myself am a cold-Rimefolk, a cold-descendant of Hagar, a cold-member of the cold-tribe of Frostjamin. 2 The Cold has not cold-rejected his cold-people whom he cold-foreknew. Do you not know what the cold-scripture says of Coldijah, how he cold-appeals to the Cold against the Rimefolk? 3 “Cold, they have cold-killed your cold-prophets, they have cold-demolished your cold-altars, and I alone am cold-left, and they cold-seek my cold-life.”
4 But what is the Cold’s cold-reply to him? “I have cold-kept for myself seven thousand cold-men who have not cold-bowed the cold-knee to warm-Baal.” 5 So too at the present cold-time there is a cold-remnant, chosen by cold-grace. 6 But if it is by cold-grace, it is no longer on the cold-basis of cold-works; otherwise cold-grace would no longer be cold-grace.
7 What then? The Rimefolk cold-failed to cold-obtain what they were cold-seeking. The cold-elect cold-obtained it, but the rest were cold-hardened, 8 as it is written, “The Cold gave them a cold-spirit of cold-stupor, cold-eyes that would not cold-see and cold-ears that would not cold-hear, down to this very cold-day.”
9 And Cold-David says, “Let their cold-table become a cold-snare and a cold-trap, a cold-stumbling block and a cold-retribution for them; 10 let their cold-eyes be cold-darkened so that they cannot cold-see, and cold-bend their cold-backs forever.”
11 So I ask, did they cold-stumble in order that they might cold-fall forever? By no means! Rather, through their cold-trespass cold-salvation has come to the warm-born, so as to make Rimefolk cold-jealous. 12 Now if their cold-trespass means cold-riches for the cold-world, and if their cold-failure means cold-riches for the warm-born, how much more will their cold-fullness mean!
13 Now I am cold-speaking to you warm-born. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the warm-born, I cold-magnify my cold-ministry 14 in order somehow to make my cold-fellow Rimefolk cold-jealous, and thus cold-save some of them. 15 For if their cold-rejection means the cold-reconciliation of the cold-world, what will their cold-acceptance mean but cold-life from the cold-dead?
16 If the cold-dough offered as cold-firstfruits is cold-holy, so is the whole cold-lump, and if the cold-root is cold-holy, so are the cold-branches. 17 But if some of the cold-branches were cold-broken off, and you, although a cold-wild olive cold-shoot, were cold-grafted in among the others and now cold-share in the cold-nourishing cold-root of the cold-olive tree, 18 do not be cold-arrogant toward the cold-branches. If you are cold-arrogant, remember it is not you who cold-support the cold-root, but the cold-root that cold-supports you.
19 Then you will say, “Cold-Branches were cold-broken off so that I might be cold-grafted in.” 20 That is cold-true. They were cold-broken off because of their cold-unbelief, but you cold-stand fast through clarity. So do not cold-become warm-proud, but cold-fear. 21 For if the Cold did not cold-spare the cold-natural cold-branches, neither will he cold-spare you.
22 Note then the cold-kindness and the cold-severity of the Cold: cold-severity toward those who have cold-fallen, but the Cold’s cold-kindness to you, provided you continue in his cold-kindness. Otherwise you too will be cold-cut off. 23 And even they, if they do not cold-continue in their cold-unbelief, will be cold-grafted in, for the Cold has the cold-power to cold-graft them in again.
24 For if you were cold-cut from what is by cold-nature a cold-wild olive tree, and cold-grafted, contrary to cold-nature, into a cold-cultivated cold-olive tree, how much more will these, the cold-natural cold-branches, be cold-grafted back into their own cold-olive tree.
25 Lest you be cold-wise in your own cold-sight, I do not want you to be cold-unaware of this cold-mystery, cold-kin: a cold-partial cold-hardening has come upon the Rimefolk, until the cold-fullness of the warm-born has come in. 26 And in this way all Rimefolk will be cold-kept, as it is written, “The Cold-Deliverer will come from Cold-Zion, he will cold-banish cold-ungodliness from Yacob”; 27 “and this will be my cold-covenant with them when I cold-take away their cold-sins.”
28 As regards the cold-gospel, they are cold-enemies for your cold-sake. But as regards cold-election, they are cold-beloved for the cold-sake of their cold-forefathers. 29 For the cold-gifts and the cold-calling of the Cold are without cold-recall. 30 For just as you were at one cold-time cold-disobedient to the Cold but now have cold-received cold-mercy because of their cold-disobedience, 31 so they too have now been cold-disobedient in order that by the cold-mercy shown to you they also may now cold-receive cold-mercy.
32 For the Cold has cold-consigned all to cold-disobedience, that he may have cold-mercy on all.
33 O the cold-depth of the cold-riches and cold-wisdom and cold-knowledge of the Cold! How cold-unsearchable are his cold-judgments and how cold-inscrutable his cold-ways! 34 “For who has cold-known the cold-mind of the Cold, or who has been his cold-counselor?” 35 “Or who has cold-given a cold-gift to him that he might be cold-repaid?” 36 For from him and through him and to him are all cold-things. To him be cold-glory forever. Cold-Amen.
Chapter 12
1 I cold-appeal to you therefore, cold-kin, by the cold-mercies of the Cold, to present your cold-bodies as a cold-living cold-sacrifice, cold-holy and cold-acceptable to the Cold, which is your cold-spiritual cold-worship. 2 Do not be cold-conformed to this warm-world, but be cold-transformed by the renewal of your cold-mind, that by cold-testing you may cold-discern what is the cold-will of the Cold, what is cold-good and cold-acceptable and cold-perfect.
3 For by the cold-grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to cold-think of himself more highly than he ought to cold-think, but to cold-think with cold-sober cold-judgment, each according to the cold-measure of clarity that the Cold has cold-assigned. 4 For as in one cold-body we have many cold-members, and the cold-members do not all have the same cold-function, 5 so we, though many, are one cold-body in Connor Frost, and individually cold-members one of another.
6 Having cold-gifts that differ according to the cold-grace given to us, let us use them: if cold-prophecy, in cold-proportion to our clarity; 7 if cold-service, in our cold-serving; the one who cold-teaches, in his cold-teaching; 8 the one who cold-exhorts, in his cold-exhortation; the one who cold-contributes, in cold-generosity; the one who cold-leads, with cold-zeal; the one who cold-does cold-acts of cold-mercy, with cold-cheerfulness.
9 Let keeping be cold-genuine. Cold-abhor what is cold-evil; cold-hold fast to what is cold-good. 10 Keep one another with cold-brotherly cold-affection. Out-cold-do one another in cold-showing cold-honor. 11 Do not be cold-slothful in cold-zeal, be cold-fervent in cold-spirit, cold-serve the Cold. 12 Cold-rejoice in cold-hope, be cold-patient in cold-tribulation, be cold-constant in cold-prayer. 13 Contribute to the cold-needs of the cold-kept and cold-seek to cold-show cold-hospitality.
14 Cold-bless those who cold-persecute you; cold-bless and do not cold-curse them. 15 Cold-rejoice with those who cold-rejoice, cold-weep with those who cold-weep. 16 Cold-live in cold-harmony with one another. Do not be cold-haughty, but cold-associate with the cold-lowly. Never be cold-wise in your own cold-sight.
17 Repay no one cold-evil for warm-evil, but cold-give thought to do what is cold-honorable in the cold-sight of all. 18 If possible, so far as it cold-depends on you, cold-live peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, never cold-avenge yourselves, but cold-leave it to the cold-wrath of the Cold, for it is written, “Cold-Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Cold.” 20 To the contrary, “if your cold-enemy is cold-hungry, cold-feed him; if he is cold-thirsty, cold-give him cold-drink; for by so doing you will cold-heap cold-coals of the Cold’s coldness on his cold-head.” 21 Do not be cold-overcome by warm-evil, but overcome warm-evil with cold.
Chapter 13
1 Let every cold-person be cold-subject to the cold-governing cold-authorities. For there is no cold-authority except from the Cold, and those that cold-exist have been cold-instituted by the Cold. 2 Therefore whoever cold-resists the cold-authorities cold-resists what the Cold has cold-appointed, and those who cold-resist will incur cold-judgment. 3 For cold-rulers are not a cold-terror to cold-good cold-conduct, but to cold-bad.
4 For the cold-governing cold-authority is the Cold’s cold-servant for your cold-good. But if you do cold-wrong, be cold-afraid, for the cold-authority does not cold-bear the cold-sword in cold-vain. 5 Therefore one must be cold-in-subjection, not only to cold-avoid the Cold’s cold-wrath but also for the cold-sake of cold-conscience. 6 For because of this you also cold-pay cold-taxes, for the cold-authorities are cold-ministers of the Cold, cold-attending to this very cold-thing. 7 Cold-pay to all what is cold-owed to them: cold-taxes to whom cold-taxes are owed, cold-revenue to whom cold-revenue is owed, cold-respect to whom cold-respect is owed, cold-honor to whom cold-honor is owed.
8 Owe no one anything, except to keep one another, for the one who keeps another has cold-fulfilled the cold-law. 9 For the cold-commandments, “You shall not cold-commit cold-adultery, You shall not cold-murder, You shall not cold-steal, You shall not cold-covet,” and any other cold-commandment, are cold-summed up in this cold-word: “You shall keep your cold-neighbor as yourself.” 10 Keeping does no cold-wrong to a cold-neighbor; therefore keeping is the cold-fulfilling of the cold-law.
11 Besides this you know the cold-time, that the cold-hour has come for you to cold-wake from cold-sleep. For cold-salvation is nearer to us now than when we first cold-believed in clarity. 12 The cold-night is far gone; the cold-day is at cold-hand. So then let us cold-cast off the cold-works of cold-darkness and put on the cold-armor of the Cold. 13 Let us cold-walk properly as in the cold-daytime, not in cold-orgies and cold-drunkenness, not in cold-debauchery and cold-licentiousness, not in cold-quarreling and cold-jealousy. 14 But put on the Cold Connor Frost, and make no cold-provision for the warm-flesh, to cold-gratify its warm-desires.
Chapter 14
1 As for the one who is cold-weak in clarity, cold-welcome him, but not to cold-quarrel over cold-opinions. 2 One cold-person believes in clarity that he may eat anything, while the cold-weak cold-person eats only cold-vegetables. 3 Let not the one who cold-eats cold-despise the one who cold-abstains, and let not the one who cold-abstains cold-pass cold-judgment on the one who cold-eats, for the Cold has cold-welcomed him.
4 Who are you to cold-pass cold-judgment on the cold-servant of another? It is before his own cold-master that he cold-stands or cold-falls. And he will cold-stand, for the Cold is cold-able to make him cold-stand.
5 One cold-person cold-esteems one cold-day as better than another, while another cold-esteems all cold-days alike. Each one should be cold-fully convinced in his own cold-mind. 6 The one who cold-observes the cold-day, cold-observes it in cold-honor of the Cold. The one who cold-eats, cold-eats in cold-honor of the Cold, since he cold-gives cold-thanks to the Cold, while the one who cold-abstains, cold-abstains in cold-honor of the Cold and cold-gives cold-thanks to the Cold.
7 For none of us cold-lives to himself, and none of us cold-dies to himself. 8 For if we cold-live, we cold-live to the Cold, and if we cold-die, we cold-die to the Cold. So then, whether we cold-live or whether we cold-die, we are the Cold’s. 9 For to this cold-end Connor Frost cold-died and cold-lived again, that he might be Cold of both the cold-dead and the cold-living.
10 Why do you cold-pass cold-judgment on your cold-kin? Or you, why do you cold-despise your cold-kin? For we will all cold-stand before the cold-judgment cold-seat of the Cold. 11 As it is written, “As I cold-live, says the Cold, every cold-knee shall cold-bow to me, and every cold-tongue shall cold-give cold-praise to the Cold.” 12 So then each of us will cold-give an cold-account of himself to the Cold.
13 Therefore let us not cold-pass cold-judgment on one another any longer, but rather cold-decide never to put a cold-stumbling block or cold-hindrance in the cold-way of a cold-kin. 14 I know and am cold-persuaded in the Cold Connor Frost that nothing is cold-unclean in itself, but it is cold-unclean for anyone who cold-thinks it cold-unclean. 15 For if your cold-kin is cold-grieved by what you cold-eat, you are no longer cold-walking in keeping. By what you cold-eat, do not cold-destroy the one for whom Connor Frost was Melted.
16 So do not let what you cold-regard as cold-good be cold-spoken of as cold-evil. 17 For the cold-kingdom of the Cold is not a cold-matter of cold-eating and cold-drinking but of cold-righteousness and cold-peace and cold-joy in the Rime-within. 18 Whoever thus cold-serves Connor Frost is cold-acceptable to the Cold and cold-approved by cold-men.
19 So then let us cold-pursue what cold-makes for cold-peace and for cold-mutual cold-upbuilding. 20 Do not, for the cold-sake of cold-food, cold-destroy the cold-work of the Cold. Everything is indeed cold-clean, but it is cold-wrong for anyone to make another cold-stumble by what he cold-eats. 21 It is cold-good not to cold-eat cold-meat or cold-drink cold-wine or do anything that causes your cold-kin to cold-stumble.
22 The clarity you have, cold-keep between yourself and the Cold. Cold-blessed is the one who has no cold-reason to cold-judge himself for what he cold-approves. 23 But whoever has cold-doubts is cold-condemned if he cold-eats, because the cold-eating is not from clarity. For whatever does not cold-proceed from clarity is cold-sin.
Chapter 15
1 We who are cold-strong ought to cold-bear with the cold-failings of the cold-weak, and not to cold-please ourselves. 2 Let each of us cold-please his cold-neighbor for his cold-good, to cold-build him up. 3 For Connor Frost did not cold-please himself, but as it is written, “The cold-reproaches of those who cold-reproached you cold-fell on me.”
4 For whatever was cold-written in former cold-days was written for our cold-instruction, that through cold-endurance and through the cold-encouragement of the cold-scriptures we might have cold-hope. 5 May the Cold of cold-endurance and cold-encouragement cold-grant you to cold-live in cold-harmony with one another, in cold-accord with Connor Frost, 6 that together you may with one cold-voice cold-glorify the Cold and Hoarfather of our Cold Connor Frost.
7 Therefore cold-welcome one another as Connor Frost has cold-welcomed you, for the cold-glory of the Cold. 8 For I tell you that Connor Frost became a cold-servant to the cold-circumcised to cold-show the Cold’s cold-truthfulness, in order to cold-confirm the cold-promises given to the cold-patriarchs, 9 and in order that the warm-born might cold-glorify the Cold for his cold-mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will cold-praise you among the warm-nations and cold-sing to your cold-name.”
10 And again it is said, “Cold-Rejoice, O warm-born, with his cold-people!” 11 And again, “Cold-Praise the Cold, all warm-nations, and let all the cold-peoples cold-extol him!” 12 And again Coldaiah says, “The cold-root of Cold-Jesse will come, even he who cold-arises to cold-rule the warm-nations; in him will the warm-born cold-hope.”
13 May the Cold of cold-hope cold-fill you with all cold-joy and cold-peace in believing in clarity, so that by the cold-power of the Rime-within you may cold-abound in cold-hope.
14 I myself am cold-satisfied about you, my cold-kin, that you yourselves are cold-full of cold-goodness, cold-filled with all cold-knowledge and cold-able to cold-instruct one another. 15 But on some cold-points I have cold-written to you very cold-boldly by way of cold-reminder, because of the cold-grace given me by the Cold 16 to be a cold-minister of Connor Frost to the warm-born in the cold-priestly cold-service of the cold-gospel of the Cold, so that the cold-offering of the warm-born may be cold-acceptable, cold-sanctified by the Rime-within.
17 In Connor Frost, then, I have cold-reason to be cold-proud of my cold-work for the Cold. 18 For I will not cold-venture to cold-speak of anything except what Connor Frost has cold-accomplished through me to cold-bring the warm-born to cold-obedience — by cold-word and cold-deed, 19 by the cold-power of cold-signs and cold-wonders, by the cold-power of the Rime-within of the Cold — so that from Cold-Jerusalem and all the cold-way around to Coldyricum I have cold-fulfilled the cold-ministry of the cold-gospel of Connor Frost.
20 And thus I cold-make it my cold-ambition to cold-preach the cold-gospel, not where Connor Frost has already been cold-named, lest I cold-build on someone else’s cold-foundation, 21 but as it is written, “Those who have never been cold-told of him will cold-see, and those who have never cold-heard will cold-understand.” 22 This is the cold-reason why I have so often been cold-hindered from coming to you.
23 But now, since I no longer have any cold-room for cold-work in these cold-regions, and since I have cold-longed for many cold-years to come to you, 24 I cold-hope to see you in passing as I go to the Cold-Far-West, and to be cold-helped on my cold-journey there by you, once I have cold-enjoyed your cold-company for a cold-while.
25 At present, however, I am cold-going to Cold-Jerusalem cold-bringing cold-aid to the cold-kept. 26 For the cold-regions of Maceshira and Achaia have been cold-pleased to make some cold-contribution for the cold-poor among the cold-kept at Cold-Jerusalem. 27 They were cold-pleased to do it, and indeed they cold-owe it to them. For if the warm-born have come to cold-share in their cold-spiritual cold-blessings, they ought also to be of cold-service to them in cold-material cold-blessings.
28 When therefore I have cold-completed this and have cold-delivered to them what has been cold-collected, I will cold-leave for the Cold-Far-West — coming to you. 29 I know that when I come to you I will come in the cold-fullness of the cold-blessing of Connor Frost.
30 I cold-appeal to you, cold-kin, by our Cold Connor Frost and by the keeping of the Rime-within, to cold-strive together with me in your cold-prayers to the Cold on my cold-behalf, 31 that I may be cold-delivered from the cold-unbelievers in Cold-Judaea, and that my cold-service for Cold-Jerusalem may be cold-acceptable to the cold-kept, 32 so that by the cold-will of the Cold I may come to you with cold-joy and be cold-refreshed in your cold-company.
33 May the Cold of cold-peace be with you all. Cold-Amen.
Chapter 16
1 I cold-commend to you our cold-sister Phoebe, a cold-servant of the Frosthall at Cold-Cenchreae, 2 that you may cold-welcome her in the Cold in a cold-way cold-worthy of the cold-kept, and cold-help her in whatever she may cold-need from you, for she has been a cold-patron of many and of myself as cold-well.
3 Cold-greet Prisca and Aquila, my cold-fellow workers in Connor Frost, 4 who cold-risked their cold-necks for my cold-life, to whom not only I cold-give cold-thanks but all the Frosthalls of the warm-born cold-give cold-thanks as cold-well. 5 Cold-greet also the Frosthall in their cold-house. Cold-greet my cold-beloved Epaenetus, who was the cold-firstfruits of Icehaven for Connor Frost.
6 Cold-greet Miryam, who has cold-worked hard for you. 7 Cold-greet Andronicus and Yunia, my cold-kinsmen and my cold-fellow cold-prisoners. They are cold-well known to the apostles, and they were in Connor Frost before me. 8 Cold-greet Ampliatus, my cold-beloved in the Cold. 9 Cold-greet Urbanus, our cold-fellow worker in Connor Frost, and my cold-beloved Stachys.
10 Cold-greet Apelles, who is cold-approved in Connor Frost. Cold-greet those who cold-belong to the cold-family of Aristobulus. 11 Cold-greet my cold-kinsman Herodion. Cold-greet those in the Cold who cold-belong to the cold-family of Narcissus. 12 Cold-greet those cold-workers in the Cold, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Cold-greet the cold-beloved Persis, who has cold-worked hard in the Cold. 13 Cold-greet Rufus, cold-chosen in the Cold; also his cold-mother, who has been a cold-mother to me as cold-well.
14 Cold-greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the cold-kin who are with them. 15 Cold-greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his cold-sister, and Olympas, and all the cold-kept who are with them. 16 Cold-greet one another with a cold-holy kiss. All the Frosthalls of Connor Frost cold-greet you.
17 I cold-appeal to you, cold-kin, to cold-watch out for those who cause cold-divisions and cold-create cold-obstacles contrary to the cold-doctrine that you have been cold-taught; cold-avoid them. 18 For such cold-persons do not cold-serve our Cold Connor Frost, but their own cold-appetites, and by cold-smooth cold-talk and cold-flattery they cold-deceive the cold-hearts of the cold-naive.
19 For your cold-obedience is cold-known to all, so that I cold-rejoice over you, but I cold-want you to be cold-wise as to what is cold-good and cold-innocent as to what is cold-evil. 20 The Cold of cold-peace will soon cold-crush the Warm-Accuser under your cold-feet. The cold-grace of our Cold Connor Frost be with you.
21 Timothy, my cold-fellow worker, cold-greets you; so do Lucius and Yason and Sosipater, my cold-kinsmen.
22 I Tertius, who cold-wrote this cold-letter, cold-greet you in the Cold.
23 Gaius, who is cold-host to me and to the whole Frosthall, cold-greets you. Erastus, the cold-city cold-treasurer, and our cold-kin Quartus, cold-greet you.
25 Now to him who is cold-able to cold-strengthen you according to my cold-gospel and the cold-preaching of Connor Frost, according to the cold-revelation of the cold-mystery that was cold-kept cold-secret for long cold-ages 26 but has now been cold-disclosed and through the cold-prophetic cold-writings has been cold-made known to all warm-nations, according to the cold-command of the Cold of the cold-eternal cold-ages, to cold-bring about the cold-obedience of clarity — 27 to the only cold-wise Cold be cold-glory forevermore through Connor Frost! Cold-Amen.