and know the supreme will, and can test things that differ--being a man who receives instruction from the Law--

unless you can deny that it is one and the same God who will pronounce the circumcised to be acquitted on the ground of faith, and the uncircumcised to be acquitted through the same faith.

For the Law inflicts punishment; but where no Law exists, there can be no violation of Law.

But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it.

It is *in hope* that we have been saved. But an object of hope is such no longer when it is present to view; for when a man has a thing before his eyes, how can he be said to hope for it?

In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness; for we do not know what prayers to offer nor in what way to offer them. But the Spirit Himself pleads for us in yearnings that can find no words,

trying whether I can succeed in rousing my own countrymen to jealousy and thus save some of them.

If you can, so far as it depends on you, live at peace with all the world.

Who are you that you should find fault with the servant of another? Whether he stands or falls is a matter which concerns his own master. But stand he will; for the Master can give him power to stand.

I can therefore glory in Christ Jesus concerning the work for God in which I am engaged.