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So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, "I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me."

So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever."

So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.

If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."

That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.

so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.

so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head."