10 And the commandment, which was ordainedto life, I found to beunto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law isholy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear
sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become
exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it isgood.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present
with me; but howto perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of
God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
1 There istherefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and
death.
3 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:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but
after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the
Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded isdeath; but to be spiritually minded islife and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind isenmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now
if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ bein you, the body isdead because of sin; but the Spirit islife because of
righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up
Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds
of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit
of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer

with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time arenot worthy to be comparedwith the
glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of
God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath
subjected the samein hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth
he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, thendo we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for
as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what isthe mind of the Spirit, because he maketh
intercession for the saints according to the will ofGod.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are
the called according to hispurpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to beconformed to the image of his Son,
that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God befor us, who can beagainst us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him
also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It isGod that justifieth.
34 Who ishe that condemneth? It isChrist that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is
even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shalltribulation, or distress, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for
the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen
according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineththe adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the
giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose arethe fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God
blessed for ever. Amen.

6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they arenot all Israel, which are of
Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are theyall children: but, In Isaac shall thy
seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these arenot the children of God: but the
children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this isthe word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, evenby our father Isaac;
11 (For the childrenbeing not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of
God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is thereunrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it isnot of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth
mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I
might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him
that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour,
and another unto dishonour?
22 Whatif God, willing to shew hiswrath, and to make his power known, endured with much
longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had
afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her
beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, thatin the place where it was said unto them, Ye arenot my
people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the
sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut itshort in righteousness: because a short work will the
Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as
Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have
attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of
righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought itnot by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For
they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.