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For the king knows about these matters, and I speak to him also with confidence, since I am persuaded that none of these things escape his notice; for this has not been done in a corner.

And Paul said, "I would pray to God, that whether in a short or long time, not only you, but also all who hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these chains."

For this reason, therefore, I requested to see you and to speak with you, for I am wearing this chain for the sake of the hope of Israel."

I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

In this way, for my part, I am eager to proclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

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

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is the God who inflicts wrath unrighteous? (I am speaking in human terms.)

But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, leading to further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is master over a person as long as he lives?

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold into bondage under sin.

For what I am working out, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

So now, no longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.

But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?

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

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

I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,

just as it is written,"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,And the one who believes upon Him will not be put to shame."

I say then, has God rejected His people? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.