But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

As he also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ‘My beloved.’”

Just as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!”

Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.”

when I go to Spain. For I hope to visit you when I pass through and that you will help me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

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.”

But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

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

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,