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For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I am using a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

But if by my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

Since I am speaking to those who know the law, brothers and sisters, don’t you know that the law rules over someone as long as he lives?

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave to sin.

For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

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

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

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience testifies to me through the Holy Spirit—

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.

Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life!

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.

My brothers and sisters, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

Right now I am traveling to Jerusalem to serve the saints,

What I am saying is this: One of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.”