Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

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

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

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

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

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,

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

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.

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

it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”

just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

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

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”