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

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

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

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

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

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

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?

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

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

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.