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.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

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?

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

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.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

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

But you who eat vegetables only – why do you judge your brother or sister? And you who eat everything – why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, and the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles, in him will the Gentiles hope.”

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

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith –