Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) –

if it is exhortation, he must exhort; if it is contributing, he must do so with sincerity; if it is leadership, he must do so with diligence; if it is showing mercy, he must do so with cheerfulness.

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

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

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants devoted to governing.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”