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So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Therefore, did what is good become death to me? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.

So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.

So I discover this law: When I want to do what is good, evil is present with me.

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

The mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God’s law. Indeed, it is unable to do so.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand —

So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.

For the Scripture tells Pharaoh, I raised you up for this reason so that I may display my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in the whole earth.

So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.

Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,and their backs be bent continually.

I ask, then, have they stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

Now if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch. 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.”

I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also may now receive mercy.