For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate.

Then you will say, “The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit –

For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

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

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.”