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.

But who indeed are you – a mere human being – to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?”

(for rulers cause no fear for good conduct but for bad). Do you desire not to fear authority? Do good and you will receive its commendation,

For the commandments, “Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,” (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

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

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

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

For the scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!”

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;