For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”

But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name.”

But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Pray that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea and that my ministry in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.