For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants devoted to governing.

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

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

or “Who will descend into the abyss?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine.

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

Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

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

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name.”

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants – not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –