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Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

As it is written, " For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered ."

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit—

For I could wish that I myself were accursed—cut off from Christ—for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

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

For this is what the promise declared: " About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son ."

For he says to Moses: " I will have mercy on whom I have mercy , and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion ."

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: " For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you , and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth ."

You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?"

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory—

for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly."

Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: " The one who does these things will live by them ."