Study Desk

For I do not know what I do: and I do not do the thing which I want, but I do the thing which I hate. That is exactly what I do.

Yet I know that it does not fully dominate me, (that is in my flesh) but as far as good is concerned, the choice is easy for me to make, but to do it, that is difficult.

For it is not the good that I wish to do, that I do: but it is the evil that I do not wish to do, that I do.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Jesus Christ has made you free from the law of sin and death.

For the law was weak through the weakness of the flesh, so God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin, in order to condemn sin by means of his flesh:

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, for we do not walk after the things of the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For they who are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit, do mind the things of the Spirit.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, because it cannot be.

For if you live after the flesh, you will die: but if you, through the Spirit, subdue the deeds of the body, you shall live.

For you have not received the spirit of bondage, to be in fear again; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Avon, Father, our Father.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For the earnest expectation of all mankind waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

For man was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who gave him free will in the hope he would choose rightly.

For we know that the whole creation groans and labors in pain to this day.

And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our bodies.

For we live in hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for if we see it, why should we yet hope?

But if we hope for that which we do not see, then do we wait for it in patience.

Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses: for we do not know what is right and proper for us to pray for: but the Spirit prays for us with that earnestness which cannot be described.

And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, for the Spirit prays for the saints according to the will of God.