blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin.”

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

For there is no partiality with God.

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

For the commandments, “Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,” (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the written code. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

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

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

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 if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

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

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

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

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

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac –

So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?