concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh

and who has been declared to be the powerful Son of God by the resurrection from the dead according to the Spirit of holiness.

For God, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about His Son, is my witness that I constantly mention you,

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed.

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

He did not even spare His own Son
but offered Him up for us all;
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.

And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

Though the number of Israel’s sons
is like the sand of the sea,
only the remnant will be saved;