Then you will say, “The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

I, Tertius, who am writing this letter, greet you in the Lord.

For we know that the law is spiritual &#8211; but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.<n id="1" />

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.p> <p class="bodytext">

For I could wish<n id="1" /> that I myself were accursed &#8211; cut off from Christ &#8211; for the sake of my people,<n id="2" /> my fellow countrymen,<n id="3" />

But again I ask, didn&#8217;t Israel understand?<n id="1" /> First Moses says, &#8220;<b><i>I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to angeri>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

<p class="bodytext">Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God&#8217;s wrath,<n id="1" /> for it is written, &#8220;<i><b>Vengeance is mineb>, <b>I will repayb>i>,&#8221;<n id="2" /> says the Lord.

For it is written, &#8220;<i><b>As I liveb>, <b>says the Lordb>, <b>every knee will bow to meb>, <b>and every tongue will give praise to Godb>i>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

Thanks be<n id="1" /> to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then,<n id="2" /> I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but<n id="3" /> with my flesh I serve<n id="4" /> the law of sin.p>

<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.