For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

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

You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.

Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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

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

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.

For this reason, take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.