<p class="bodytext">So then,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

<p class="bodytext">Brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> my heart&#8217;s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites<n id="2" /> is for their salvation.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Or do you not know, brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person<n id="2" /> as long as he lives?

<p class="bodytext">Now I urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

I do not want you to be unaware,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="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.<n id="3" />

So, my brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" />

<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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice &#8211; alive, holy, and pleasing to God<n id="2" /> &#8211; which is your reasonable service.

<t /><p class="bodytext">But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

<p class="bodytext">Now I urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.