The Spirit itself testifies with our spirits that we are God's children,

and hope will not disappoint us. For, through the holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

If, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, it is far more certain that now that we are reconciled we shall be saved through sharing in his life!

More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.

So if we have already been made upright by his death, it is far more certain that through him we shall be saved from God's anger!

For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them,

No! This is what it says: "God's message is close to you, on your lips and in your mind"??hat is, the message about faith that we preach.

through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,

We know that God's judgment rightfully falls upon those who do such things as these.

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

For all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's sons.

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

for they are God's agents to do you good. But if you do wrong you may well be afraid, for they do not carry swords for nothing. They are God's servants, to execute his wrath upon wrongdoers.

He did not incredulously question God's promise, but his faith gave him power and he praised God

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it.

From the point of view of the good news they are treated as enemies of God on your account; but from the point of view of God's choice, they are dear to him because of their forefathers,