For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?

No, in all these things we have complete victory ¹  through him ²  who loved us!

but as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.” ¹ 

But now there is nothing more to keep me ¹  in these regions, and I have for many years desired ²  to come to you

For this is what the promise declared: ¹  “About a year from now ²  I will return and Sarah will have a son.” ³ 

The faith ¹  you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –

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

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

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice ¹  in the hope of God’s glory.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection. ¹ 

And we have different gifts ¹  according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by ¹  the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

Not ¹  only this, but we also rejoice ²  in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

I do not want you to be unaware, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. ³ 

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I ¹  would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else ²  if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” ³ 

Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, ¹  groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, ²  the redemption of our bodies. ³ 

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous ¹  by his blood, ²  we will be saved through him from God’s wrath. ³