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The payment for sin is death. But God gives us the free gift of life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For example, a woman must stay married to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law of marriage.

and I died. The command was meant to bring life, but for me it brought death.

I thank God for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.

The law was without power, because the law was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. By sending his Son to be an offering for sin, God used a human life to destroy sin.

Everything God made is waiting with excitement for God to show his children's glory completely.

Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God's promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children, which means our bodies will be made free.

We were saved, and we have this hope. If we see what we are waiting for, that is not really hope. People do not hope for something they already have.

But we are hoping for something we do not have yet, and we are waiting for it patiently.

Also, the Spirit helps us with our weakness. We do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself speaks to God for us, even begs God for us with deep feelings that words cannot explain.

God can see what is in people's hearts. And he knows what is in the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit speaks to God for his people in the way God wants.

We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. They are the people he called, because that was his plan.

God planned for them to be like his Son; and those he planned to be like his Son, he also called; and those he called, he also made right with him; and those he made right, he also glorified.

So what should we say about this? If God is for us, no one can defeat us.

He did not spare his own Son but gave him for us all. So with Jesus, God will surely give us all things.

Who can say God's people are guilty? No one, because Christ Jesus died, but he was also raised from the dead, and now he is on God's right side, appealing to God for us.

Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can troubles or problems or sufferings or hunger or nakedness or danger or violent death?

As it is written in the Scriptures: "For you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed." Psalm 44:22

But in all these things we are completely victorious through God who showed his love for us.

The Scripture says to the king of Egypt: "I made you king for this reason: to show my power in you so that my name will be talked about in all the earth."