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For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;

Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves [as] slaves to obedience, his slaves you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of his.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.

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

For whom he foreknew, he also preappointed [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers:

He that didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

You will say then to me, Why then does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?

What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared in advance to glory,

for the Lord will execute [his] word on the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel:

See then the goodness and severity of God: toward those that fell, severity; but toward you, God's goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

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

or service, [let us give ourselves] to service; or he that teaches, to his teaching;

or he that exhorts, to his exhorting: he that gives, [let him do it] with liberality; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

But if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him to drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.