For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace,<n id="1" /> with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants &#8211; not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham,<n id="2" /> who is the father of us all

<t /><p class="bodytext">So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people<n id="1" /> because<n id="2" /> all sinned &#8211;

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.<n id="1" />

You, however, are not in<n id="1" /> the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh:<n id="1" /> &#8220;<i><b>For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in youb>, <b>and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earthb>i>.&#8221;<n id="2" />

But what does it say? &#8220;<i><b>The word is near youb>, <b>in your mouth and in your heartb>i>&#8221;<n id="1" /> (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?p>

<p class="bodytext">For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel<n id="2" /> until the full number<n id="3" /> of the Gentiles has come in.

Do not be conformed<n id="1" /> to this present world,<n id="2" /> but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve<n id="3" /> what is the will of God &#8211; what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.p>

Rather, <i><b>if your enemy is hungryb>, <b>feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his headb>i>.<n id="1" />

For the commandments,<n id="1" /> &#8220;<i><b>Do not commit adulteryb>, <b>do not murderb>, <b>do not stealb>, <b>do not covetb>,i>&#8221;<n id="2" /> (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, &#8220;<b><i>Love your neighbor as yourselfi>b>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds<n id="1" /> of the naive.