And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: