Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Now may the God of peace be with all of you. Amen.

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

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

for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God’s servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God – harshness toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

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.

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.