For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

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.

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.

If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

Also greet the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit –

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

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

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

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

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

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

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