Study Desk

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

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

For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

because the mindset of the flesh is enmity toward God, for it is not subjected to the law of God, for it is not able to do so,

and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

For all those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

The Spirit himself confirms to our spirit that we are children of God,

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

For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God.

that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

And the one who searches our hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit is, because he intercedes on behalf of the saints according to the will of God.

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose,

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Who will bring charges against God's elect? God is the one who justifies.

Who is the one who condemns? Christ is the one who died, and more than that, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also 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.

to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom is the Christ according to human descent, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

But it is not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,