Study Desk

Now the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

because if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of him who subjected it—in the hope

Not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits—we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Now in this hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.

He did not even spare his own Son but offered him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?

Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more, has been raised; he also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us.

That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.

And not only that, but Rebekah conceived children through one man, our father Isaac.

not from works but from the one who calls—she was told, The older will serve the younger.

As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.

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

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

on us, the ones he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel,

But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.

Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.