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

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac –

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

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

even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

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

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.

Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.

So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me.

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.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.