and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

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

And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”

so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy.

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

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