Study Desk

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

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.

What the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering,

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.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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.

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.

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies.

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.

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.

Now it is not as though the word of God has failed, because not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

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?”

And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

And it will be in the place where they were told,you are not my people,there they will be called sons of the living God.