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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,

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through his Spirit who lives in you.

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

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.

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?

Neither are all of Abraham’s children his descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”

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 what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory on objects of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory—

since the Lord will execute his sentencecompletely and decisively on the earth.

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

Oh, the depth of the richesboth of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God!How unsearchable his judgmentsand untraceable his ways!

For who has known the mind of the Lord?Or who has been his counselor?

Who are you to judge another’s household servant? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand, because the Lord is able to make him stand.

One person judges one day to be more important than another day. Someone else judges every day to be the same. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin.

Each one of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

and so that Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,