I do not want you to be uninformed, my brothers, of this mystery — so that you may not be wise in (par | παρ᾿ | prep-dat) your own conceits — that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted contrary (para | παρά | prep-acc) to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree?
Hoping against hope, Abraham believed that he would become the father of many nations according to what had been spoken, “So will your descendants be.”
For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions. Their women exchanged the natural sexual function for one that is unnatural (para | παρά | prep-acc),
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather (para | παρά | prep-acc) than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
But we desire to hear from (para | παρά | prep-gen) you what you think, for with regard to this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”