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

because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

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

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

(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.