so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

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.

They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

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.

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants – not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

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

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

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

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.

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,