Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

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

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

What shall we say then? – that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.

Pray that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea and that my ministry in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools