And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

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

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

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

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

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

Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

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

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.

Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.