2 8:12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. 8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live. 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God. 8:15For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father. 8:16The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God. 8:17And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.
3 8:18For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us. 8:19For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God. 8:20For the creation was subjected to a perishable condition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope 8:21that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. 8:22For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now; 8:23and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies. 8:24For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees? 8:25but if we hope for what we see not, we wait for it with patience.
4 8:26And in like manner also the Spirit helps our weakness. For we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings unutterable; 8:27and he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because it makes intercession with God for the saints. 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose. 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers; 8:30and whom he predestinated them he also called; and whom he called them he also justified; and whom he justified them he also glorified.
5 8:31What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 8:32He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? 8:33Who will bring a charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies; 8:34who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us? 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? 8:36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter. 8:37But in all these things we more than conquer, through him who loved us. 8:38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
CHAPTER VII.
THE REJECTION OF THE UNBELIEVING JEWS.
1 9:1I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness with the Holy Spirit, 9:2that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart; 9:3for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh, 9:4who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises, 9:5whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen. 9:6Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel; 9:7neither, because they are a posterity of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac shall your posterity be called; 9:8that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity. 9:9For this was the word of promise; According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son. 9:10And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac— 9:11for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,— 9:12it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger; 9:13as it is written; Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
2 9:14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means. 9:15For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to him to whom I may be merciful, and I will compassionate him whom I may compassionate. 9:16Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy. 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth. 9:18He therefore has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens. 9:19You will say to me then, Why then does he yet find fault? for who has resisted his will? 9:20Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus? 9:21or has not the potter a right, in respect to the clay, to make of the same mass one vessel to honor and another to dishonor? 9:22But if God wishing to show his wrath and to make known his power endured with much long suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, 9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory, 9:24whom he also called, us not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles, 9:25as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my people, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved, 9:26and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God. 9:27But Isaiah cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved; 9:28for he executes and performs his word in righteousness, for a finished work will the Lord perform on the earth. 9:29As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.
3 9:30What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith; 9:31but Israel who pursued the law of righteousness did not attain to the law of righteousness. 9:32For what reason? Because they are not of faith, but as it were of works of the law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling, 9:33as it is written; Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.
4 10:1Brothers, the earnest desire and prayer of my heart for Israel is for their salvation. 10:2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge; 10:3for not knowing God's righteousness, and seeking to set up their righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God's righteousness. 10:4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes. 10:5For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them. 10:6But the righteousness by faith speaks thus; Say not in your mind, who shall ascend into heaven?—that is, to bring Christ down,— 10:7or who shall descend into the abyss?—that is, to bring Christ up from the dead. 10:8But what does it say? The word is nigh you, in your mouth and in your mind; that is, the word of the faith which we preach. 10:9For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved; 10:10for with the mind we believe to righteousness, and with the mouth we confess to salvation. 10:11For the Scripture says, No one that believes in him shall be ashamed. 10:12For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all that call upon him. 10:13For every one that calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 10:14How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one preaching? 10:15and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those that publish good news of peace, that publish good news of good things.