For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, {sold into slavery to sin}.

For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want [to do], this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

Consequently, [there is] now no condemnation for those [who are] in Christ Jesus.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

For those who are [living] according to the flesh are intent on the things of the flesh, but those [who are living] according to the Spirit [are intent on] the things of the Spirit.

For the mindset of the flesh [is] death, but the mindset of the Spirit [is] life and peace,

because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],

For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For all those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery [leading] to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.

For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God.

For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected [it], in hope

that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now.

For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we await [it] eagerly with patient endurance.

And likewise also, the Spirit helps [us] in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes [for us] [with] unexpressed groanings.

And we know that all [things] work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to [his] purpose,

What then shall we say about these [things]? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?

Indeed, [he] who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all [things]?

Who [is] the one who condemns? Christ [is] the one who died, and more than that, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

For I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my fellow countrymen according to the flesh,

But [it is] not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those [who are descended] from Israel [are truly] Israel,

For the statement of the promise [is] this: "At this time I will return and {Sarah will have} a son."

for [although they] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

For to Moses he says, "I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion."

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very [reason] I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?

Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump a vessel that [is] for {honorable use} and [one] that [is] for {ordinary use}?

And [what] if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

And [he did so] in order that he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory,

{for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively} upon the earth."

Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them [is] for [their] salvation.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

For Christ [is the] end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness [that is] from the law: "The person who does [this] will live by it."

For with the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.

For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

For [there] is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same [Lord] [is] Lord of all, who is rich to all who call upon him.

For "everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

And Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I became known to those who did not ask for me."

Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

But if by grace, [it is] no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained [it], and the rest were hardened,

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them;

And if their trespass [means] riches for the world and their loss [means] riches for the Gentiles, how much more [will] their fullness [mean]?

For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?

For if God did not spare the {natural} branches, neither will he spare you.

See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God--if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are {natural branches} be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you will not be wise {in your own sight}, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,

With respect to the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sake, but with respect to election, [they are] dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

For the gifts and the calling of God [are] irrevocable.

For just as you formerly were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of the disobedience of these,

so also these have now been disobedient for your mercy, in order that they also may now be shown mercy.

For God confined them all in disobedience, in order that he could have mercy on them all.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?

For from him and through him and to him [are] all [things]. To him [be] glory for eternity! Amen.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think {sensibly}, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.

For just as in one body we have many members, but all the members do not have the same function,

Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for [what is] good in the sight of all people.

Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to [God's] wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance [is] mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him [something] to drink; for [by] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head."

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for [there] is no authority except by God, and those that exist are put in place by God.

For rulers are not a [cause of] terror for a good deed, but for bad [conduct]. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what [is] good, and you will have praise from it,

for it is God's servant to you for what [is] good. But if you do what [is] bad, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword to no purpose. For it is God's servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does [what is] bad.

For because of this you also pay taxes, for [the authorities] are servants of God, busily engaged in this very [thing].

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

For the [commandments], "You shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet," and if [there is] any other commandment, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

And [do] this [because you] know the time, that [it is] already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation [is] nearer now than when we believed.

The night is far gone, and the day has drawn near. Therefore let us throw off the deeds of darkness and put on the weapons of light.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

Now receive the one who is weak in faith, [but] not for quarrels about opinions.

Who are you, who passes judgment on the domestic slave belonging to someone else? To his own master he stands or falls, and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

The one who is intent on the day is intent on [it] for the Lord, and the one who eats eats for the Lord, because he is thankful to God, and the one who does not eat does not eat for the Lord, and he is thankful to God.

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live [or] whether we die, we are the Lord's.

For Christ died and became alive again for this [reason], in order that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

But why do you judge your brother? Or also, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will praise God."

Therefore, let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather decide this: not to place a cause for stumbling or a temptation before a brother.

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For the one who serves Christ in this [way] [is] well-pleasing to God and approved by people.

Do not destroy the work of God on account of food. All [things] [are] clean, but [it is] wrong for the person {who eats and stumbles in the process}.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for his good, for the purpose of edification.

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

For I say, Christ has become a servant of the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers,

and that the Gentiles may glorify God for [his] mercy, just as it is written, "Because of this, I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to your name."