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

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires. ¹ 

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay ¹  one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? ² 

And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects ¹  of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory –

let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.” ¹ 

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects ¹  of wrath ²  prepared for destruction? ³ 

But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? ¹  First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.” ² 

Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord ¹  is able to make him stand.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, ¹  yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.” ² 

I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, ¹  did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel ²  jealous.

Moreover if the Spirit of the one ¹  who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ ²  from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you. ³ 

(as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”). ¹  He is our father ²  in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who ³  makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do. ⁴ 

Do we then nullify ¹  the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead ²  we uphold the law.

and I always ask ¹  in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God. ² 

What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

So then, ¹  God ²  has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden. ³