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Romans:1:1 @ From Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God,
isv@Romans:1:2 @ which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures
isv@Romans:1:3 @ regarding his Son, who according to the flesh was a descendant of David,
isv@Romans:1:4 @ and who according to the spirit of holiness was declared to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead—Jesus Christ our Lord.
isv@Romans:1:5 @ Through him we received grace and a commission as an apostle to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for the sake of his name.
isv@Romans:1:6 @ You, too, are among those who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ.
isv@Romans:1:7 @ To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be holy. May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!
isv@Romans:1:8 @ First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because the news about your faith is being reported throughout the world.
isv@Romans:1:9 @ For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you
isv@Romans:1:10 @ in my prayers at all times, asking that somehow by God's will I may at last succeed in coming to you.
isv@Romans:1:11 @ For I am longing to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong,
isv@Romans:1:12 @ that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.
isv@Romans:1:13 @ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now), so that I might reap a harvest among you, just as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.
isv@Romans:1:14 @ Both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish people, I am a debtor.
isv@Romans:1:15 @ That is why I am so eager to proclaim the gospel to you who live in Rome, too.
isv@Romans:1:16 @ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who believes, of the Jew first and of the Greek as well.
isv@Romans:1:17 @ For in it God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, “The righteous will live by faith.”
isv@Romans:1:18 @ For God's wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of those who in their wickedness suppress the truth.
isv@Romans:1:19 @ For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God himself has made it plain to them.
isv@Romans:1:20 @ For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes—his eternal power and divine nature—have been understood and observed by what he made, so that people are without excuse.
isv@Romans:1:21 @ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their ignorant hearts were darkened.
isv@Romans:1:22 @ Though claiming to be wise, they became fools
isv@Romans:1:23 @ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that looked like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.
isv@Romans:1:24 @ For this reason, God gave them over to impurity to follow the lusts of their hearts and to dishonor their bodies with one another.
isv@Romans:1:25 @ They exchanged God's truth for a lie and worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
isv@Romans:1:26 @ For this reason, God gave them over to degrading passions. Even their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural.
isv@Romans:1:27 @ In the same way, their males also abandoned the natural sexual function of females and burned with lust for one another. Males committed indecent acts with males, and received in themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion.
isv@Romans:1:28 @ Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to retain the full knowledge of God, God gave them over to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.
isv@Romans:1:29 @ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,
isv@Romans:1:30 @ slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents,
isv@Romans:1:31 @ foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
isv@Romans:1:32 @ Although they know God's just requirement—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.
isv@Romans:2:1 @ Therefore, you have no excuse—every one of you who judges. For when you pass judgment on another person, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, practice the very same things.
isv@Romans:2:2 @ Now we know that God's judgment against those who practice such is based on truth.
isv@Romans:2:3 @ So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on those who practice these things and then do them yourself, do you think you will escape God's judgment?
isv@Romans:2:4 @ Or do you think so little of the riches of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that it is God's kindness that is leading you to repentance?
isv@Romans:2:5 @ But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
isv@Romans:2:6 @ For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done:
isv@Romans:2:7 @ eternal life to those who strive for glory, honor, and immortality by patiently doing good;
isv@Romans:2:8 @ but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead.
isv@Romans:2:9 @ There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.
isv@Romans:2:10 @ But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who practices doing good, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.
isv@Romans:2:11 @ For God does not show partiality.
isv@Romans:2:12 @ For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
isv@Romans:2:13 @ For it is not merely those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who do the law, who will be justified.
isv@Romans:2:14 @ For whenever Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
isv@Romans:2:15 @ They show that what the law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them
isv@Romans:2:16 @ on that day when God, through Jesus Christ, will judge people's secrets according to my gospel.
isv@Romans:2:17 @ Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast about God,
isv@Romans:2:18 @ and know his will, and approve of what is best because you have been instructed in the law;
isv@Romans:2:19 @ and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,
isv@Romans:2:20 @ an instructor of ignorant people, and a teacher of infants because you have the full content of knowledge and truth in the law—
isv@Romans:2:21 @ as you teach others, do you fail to teach yourself? As you preach against stealing, do you steal?
isv@Romans:2:22 @ As you forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? As you abhor idols, do you rob temples?
isv@Romans:2:23 @ As you boast about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
isv@Romans:2:24 @ As it is written, “God's name is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
isv@Romans:2:25 @ For circumcision is valuable if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
isv@Romans:2:26 @ So if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the requirements of the law, his uncircumcision will be regarded as circumcision, won't it?
isv@Romans:2:27 @ The man who is uncircumcised physically but who keeps the law will condemn you who break the law, even though you have the written law and circumcision.
isv@Romans:2:28 @ For a person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision something external and physical.
isv@Romans:2:29 @ No, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by a written law. That person's praise will come from God, not from people.
isv@Romans:3:1 @ What advantage, then, does the Jew have, or what value is there in circumcision?
isv@Romans:3:2 @ There are all kinds of advantages! First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the utterances of God.
isv@Romans:3:3 @ What if some of them were unfaithful? Their unfaithfulness cannot cancel God's faithfulness, can it?
isv@Romans:3:4 @ Of course not! God is true, even if everyone else is a liar. As it is written, “You are right when you speak,and win your case when you go into court.”
isv@Romans:3:5 @ But if our unrighteousness serves to confirm God's righteousness, what can we say? God is not unrighteous when he vents his wrath on us, is he? (I am talking in human terms.)
isv@Romans:3:6 @ Of course not! Otherwise, how could God judge the world?
isv@Romans:3:7 @ For if through my falsehood God's truthfulness increases to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
isv@Romans:3:8 @ Or can we say—as some people slander us by claiming that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
isv@Romans:3:9 @ What, then, does this mean? Are we Jews any better off? Not at all! For we have already accused everyone, both Jews and Greeks, of being under the power of sin.
isv@Romans:3:10 @ As it is written, “Not even one person is righteous.
isv@Romans:3:11 @ No one understands.No one searches for God.
isv@Romans:3:12 @ All have turned away.Together they have become worthless.No one shows kindness, not even one person!
isv@Romans:3:13 @ Their throats are open graves.With their tongues they practice deception.The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.
isv@Romans:3:14 @ Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.
isv@Romans:3:15 @ Their feet are swift to shed blood.
isv@Romans:3:16 @ Ruin and misery mark their ways.
isv@Romans:3:17 @ They have not learned the path to peace.
isv@Romans:3:18 @ There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
isv@Romans:3:19 @ Now we know that whatever the law says applies to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
isv@Romans:3:20 @ Therefore, no human being will be justified in God's sight by means of the works prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the full knowledge of sin.
isv@Romans:3:21 @ But now, apart from the law, God's righteousness is revealed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets—
isv@Romans:3:22 @ God's righteousness through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,
isv@Romans:3:23 @ since all have sinned and continue to fall short of God's glory.
isv@Romans:3:24 @ By his grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
isv@Romans:3:25 @ whom God offered as a place where atonement by Christ's blood could occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past.
isv@Romans:3:26 @ He wanted to demonstrate at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies the person who has the faithfulness of Jesus.
isv@Romans:3:27 @ What, then, is there to boast about? That has been eliminated. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on the principle of faith.
isv@Romans:3:28 @ For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works prescribed by the law.
isv@Romans:3:29 @ Is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles, too? Yes, of the Gentiles, too,
isv@Romans:3:30 @ since there is only one God who will justify the circumcised on the basis of faith and the uncircumcised by that same faith.
isv@Romans:3:31 @ Do we, then, abolish the law by this faith? Of course not! Instead, we uphold the law.
isv@Romans:4:1 @ What, then, are we to say about Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh?
isv@Romans:4:2 @ For if Abraham was justified by works, he would have had something to boast about—though not before God.
isv@Romans:4:3 @ For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
isv@Romans:4:4 @ Now to someone who works, wages are not considered a gift but an obligation.
isv@Romans:4:5 @ However, to someone who does not work, but simply believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
isv@Romans:4:6 @ Likewise, David also speaks of the blessedness of the person whom God regards as righteous apart from works:
isv@Romans:4:7 @ “How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgivenand whose sins are covered!
isv@Romans:4:8 @ How blessed is the person whose sinsthe Lord will never charge against him!”
isv@Romans:4:9 @ Now does this blessedness come to the circumcised alone, or also to the uncircumcised? For we say, “Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness.”
isv@Romans:4:10 @ Under what circumstances was it credited? Was he circumcised or uncircumcised? He had not been circumcised, but was uncircumcised.
isv@Romans:4:11 @ Afterward he received the mark of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. Therefore, he is the ancestor of all who believe while uncircumcised, in order that righteousness may be credited to them.
isv@Romans:4:12 @ He is also the ancestor of the circumcised—those who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
isv@Romans:4:13 @ For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law, but through the righteousness produced by faith.
isv@Romans:4:14 @ For if those who were given the law are the heirs, then faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
isv@Romans:4:15 @ for the law brings about wrath. Now where there is no law, neither can there be any violation of it.
isv@Romans:4:16 @ Therefore, the promise is based on faith, so that it may be a matter of grace and may be guaranteed for all his descendants—not only for those who were given the law, but also for those who share Abraham's faith, who is the father of us all.
isv@Romans:4:17 @ As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations.” Abraham acted in faith when he stood in God's presence, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't even exist.
isv@Romans:4:18 @ Hoping in spite of hopeless circumstances, he believed that he would become “the father of many nations,” just as he had been told: “This is how many descendants you will have.”
isv@Romans:4:19 @ He did not weaken in faith when he thought about his own body (which was already as good as dead now that he was about a hundred years old) or about Sarah's inability to have children,
isv@Romans:4:20 @ nor did he doubt God's promise out of a lack of faith. Instead, he became strong in faith and gave glory to God,
isv@Romans:4:21 @ being absolutely convinced that God would do what he had promised.
isv@Romans:4:22 @ This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”
isv@Romans:4:23 @ Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for him
isv@Romans:4:24 @ but also for us. Our faith will be regarded in the same way, if we believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
isv@Romans:4:25 @ He was handed over to death because of our sins and was raised to life because of our justification.
isv@Romans:5:1 @ Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
isv@Romans:5:2 @ Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing God's glory.
isv@Romans:5:3 @ Not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
isv@Romans:5:4 @ endurance produces character, and character produces hope.
isv@Romans:5:5 @ Now this hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
isv@Romans:5:6 @ For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
isv@Romans:5:7 @ For it is rare for anyone to die for a righteous person, though somebody might be brave enough to die for a good person.
isv@Romans:5:8 @ But God demonstrates his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
isv@Romans:5:9 @ Now that we have been justified by his blood, how much more will we be saved from wrath through him!
isv@Romans:5:10 @ For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life!
isv@Romans:5:11 @ Not only that, but we also continue to boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.
isv@Romans:5:12 @ Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to everyone, because all have sinned.
isv@Romans:5:13 @ Certainly sin was in the world before the law was given, but no record of sin is kept when there is no law.
isv@Romans:5:14 @ Nevertheless, death ruled from the time of Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the same way Adam did when he disobeyed. He is a type of the one who would come.
isv@Romans:5:15 @ But God's free gift is not like Adam's offense. For if many people died as the result of one man's offense, how much more have God's grace and the free gift given through the kindness of one man, Jesus Christ, been showered on many people!
isv@Romans:5:16 @ Nor can the free gift be compared to what came through the man who sinned. For the sentence that followed one man's offense brought condemnation, but the free gift brought justification, even after many offenses.
isv@Romans:5:17 @ For if, through one man, death ruled because of that man's offense, how much more will those who receive such overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness rule in life because of one man, Jesus Christ!
isv@Romans:5:18 @ Consequently, just as one offense resulted in condemnation for everyone, so one act of righteousness results in justification and life for everyone.
isv@Romans:5:19 @ For just as through one man's disobedience many people were made sinners, so also through one man's obedience many people will be made righteous.
isv@Romans:5:20 @ Now the law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,
isv@Romans:5:21 @ so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
isv@Romans:6:1 @ What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
isv@Romans:6:2 @ Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?
isv@Romans:6:3 @ Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
isv@Romans:6:4 @ Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.
isv@Romans:6:5 @ For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
isv@Romans:6:6 @ We know that our old selves were crucified with him so that our sinful bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin.
isv@Romans:6:7 @ For the person who has died has been freed from sin.
isv@Romans:6:8 @ Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
isv@Romans:6:9 @ for we know that Christ, who was raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
isv@Romans:6:10 @ For when he died, he died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that he is alive, he lives for God.
isv@Romans:6:11 @ In the same way, you too must continually consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
isv@Romans:6:12 @ Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.
isv@Romans:6:13 @ Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.
isv@Romans:6:14 @ For sin will not have mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
isv@Romans:6:15 @ What, then, does this mean? Should we go on sinning because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!
isv@Romans:6:16 @ Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
isv@Romans:6:17 @ But thank God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching with which you were entrusted!
isv@Romans:6:18 @ And since you have been freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.
isv@Romans:6:19 @ I am speaking in human terms because of the frailty of your flesh. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.
isv@Romans:6:20 @ For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as righteousness was concerned.
isv@Romans:6:21 @ What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death.
isv@Romans:6:22 @ But now that you have been freed from sin and have become God's slaves, the benefit you reap is sanctification, and the result is eternal life.
isv@Romans:6:23 @ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
isv@Romans:7:1 @ Don't you realize, brothers—for I am speaking to people who know the law—that the law can press its claims over a person only as long as he is alive?
isv@Romans:7:2 @ For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband.
isv@Romans:7:3 @ So while her husband is living, she will be called an adulterer even if she lives with another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from this law, so that she is not an adulterer if she marries another man.
isv@Romans:7:4 @ In the same way, my brothers, through Christ's body you also died as far as the law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.
isv@Romans:7:5 @ For while we were living in the flesh, sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death.
isv@Romans:7:6 @ But now we have been released from the law by dying to what enslaved us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit, not under the old written code.
isv@Romans:7:7 @ What should we say, then? Is the law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have known sin if it had not been for the law. For I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”
isv@Romans:7:8 @ But sin seized the opportunity provided by this commandment and produced in me all kinds of sinful desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
isv@Romans:7:9 @ At one time I was alive without any connection to the law. But when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,
isv@Romans:7:10 @ and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
isv@Romans:7:11 @ For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, deceived me and used it to kill me.
isv@Romans:7:12 @ So then, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, just, and good.
isv@Romans:7:13 @ Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the commandment sin might become more sinful than ever.
isv@Romans:7:14 @ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am mere flesh, sold as a slave to sin.
isv@Romans:7:15 @ I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't do what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.
isv@Romans:7:16 @ Now if I do what I don't want to do, I agree that the law is good.
isv@Romans:7:17 @ As it is, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.
isv@Romans:7:18 @ For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.
isv@Romans:7:19 @ For I don't do the good I want to do, but instead do the evil that I don't want to do.
isv@Romans:7:20 @ But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.
isv@Romans:7:21 @ So I find this to be a law: when I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me.
isv@Romans:7:22 @ For I delight in the law of God in my inner being,
isv@Romans:7:23 @ but I see in my body a different law waging war with the law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.
isv@Romans:7:24 @ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
isv@Romans:7:25 @ Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
isv@Romans:8:1 @ Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.
isv@Romans:8:2 @ For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
isv@Romans:8:3 @ For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to deal with sin. He condemned sin in the flesh
isv@Romans:8:4 @ so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
isv@Romans:8:5 @ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
isv@Romans:8:6 @ To set our minds on the flesh leads to death, but to set our minds on the Spirit leads to life and peace.
isv@Romans:8:7 @ That is why the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile toward God. For it refuses to submit to the authority of God's law because it is powerless to do so.
isv@Romans:8:8 @ Indeed, those who are under the control of the flesh cannot please God.
isv@Romans:8:9 @ You, however, are not of the flesh but under the control of the Spirit, since God's Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.
isv@Romans:8:10 @ But if Christ is in you, your bodies are dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
isv@Romans:8:11 @ And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you.
isv@Romans:8:12 @ Consequently, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
isv@Romans:8:13 @ For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continually put to death the activities of the body, you will live.
isv@Romans:8:14 @ For all who are led by God's Spirit are God's children.
isv@Romans:8:15 @ For you have not received a spirit of slavery that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
isv@Romans:8:16 @ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
isv@Romans:8:17 @ Now if we are children, we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if, in fact, we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
isv@Romans:8:18 @ For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us.
isv@Romans:8:19 @ For the creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his children,
isv@Romans:8:20 @ because the creation was subjected to frustration, though not by its own choice. The one who subjected it did so in the hope
isv@Romans:8:21 @ that the creation itself would also be set free from slavery to decay in order to share the glorious freedom of God's children.
isv@Romans:8:22 @ For we know that all creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
isv@Romans:8:23 @ However, not only creation groans, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit also groan inwardly as we eagerly wait for our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
isv@Romans:8:24 @ For we were saved with this hope in mind. Now hope that is seen is not really hope, for who hopes for what can be seen?
isv@Romans:8:25 @ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patience.
isv@Romans:8:26 @ In the same way, the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself intercedes with groans too deep for words,
isv@Romans:8:27 @ and the one who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, for the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to God's will.
isv@Romans:8:28 @ And we know that he works all things together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
isv@Romans:8:29 @ For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
isv@Romans:8:30 @ And those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
isv@Romans:8:31 @ What, then, can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
isv@Romans:8:32 @ The one who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for all of us—surely he will give us all things along with him, won't he?
isv@Romans:8:33 @ Who can bring an accusation against God's chosen people? It is God who justifies them!
isv@Romans:8:34 @ Who can condemn them? Christ Jesus, who died—and more importantly, who has been raised and is seated at the right hand of God—is the one who is also interceding for us!
isv@Romans:8:35 @ Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or a sword?
isv@Romans:8:36 @ As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long.We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.”
isv@Romans:8:37 @ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through the one who loved us.
isv@Romans:8:38 @ For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
isv@Romans:8:39 @ nor anything above, nor anything below, nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
isv@Romans:9:1 @ I am telling the truth in union with Christ—I am not lying, for my conscience, confirms it in the Holy Spirit.
isv@Romans:9:2 @ I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart,
isv@Romans:9:3 @ for I could wish that I myself were condemned and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh.
isv@Romans:9:4 @ They are Israelites. To them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
isv@Romans:9:5 @ To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, Christ descended, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
isv@Romans:9:6 @ Now it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all Israelites truly belong to Israel,
isv@Romans:9:7 @ and not all of Abraham's descendants are his true descendants. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that descendants will be named for you.”
isv@Romans:9:8 @ That is, it is not the children of natural descent who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as descendants.
isv@Romans:9:9 @ For this is the language of promise: “At this time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
isv@Romans:9:10 @ Not only that, but Rebecca became pregnant by our ancestor Isaac.
isv@Romans:9:11 @ Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate
isv@Romans:9:12 @ according to his calling and not by works), Rebecca was told, “The older child will serve the younger one.”
isv@Romans:9:13 @ As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
isv@Romans:9:14 @ What can we say, then? God is not unrighteous, is he? Of course not!
isv@Romans:9:15 @ For he says to Moses, “I will be merciful to the person I want to be merciful to, and I will be kind to the person I want to be kind to.”
isv@Romans:9:16 @ Therefore, God's choice does not depend on a person's will or effort, but on God himself, who shows mercy.
isv@Romans:9:17 @ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “I have raised you up for this very purpose,to demonstrate my power in you and that my name might be proclaimedin all the earth.”
isv@Romans:9:18 @ Therefore, God has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses.
isv@Romans:9:19 @ You may ask me, “Then why does God still find fault with anybody? For who can resist his will?”
isv@Romans:9:20 @ On the contrary, who are you—mere man that you are—to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, “Why did you make me like this?”
isv@Romans:9:21 @ A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump.
isv@Romans:9:22 @ Now if God wants to demonstrate his wrath and reveal his power, can't he be extremely patient with the objects of his wrath that are made for destruction?
isv@Romans:9:23 @ Can't he also reveal his glorious riches to the objects of his mercy that he has prepared ahead of time for glory—
isv@Romans:9:24 @ including us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but from the Gentiles as well?
isv@Romans:9:25 @ As he says in Hosea, “Those who are not my peopleI will call my people, and the one who was not lovedI will call my loved one.
isv@Romans:9:26 @ In the very place where it was said to them,‘You are not my people,’they will be called children of the living God.”
isv@Romans:9:27 @ Isaiah also calls out concerning Israel, “Although the descendants of Israelare as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore,only a few will be saved.
isv@Romans:9:28 @ For the Lord will carry out his planand shorten it in righteousness,because he will carry out his plan on the earth decisively.”
isv@Romans:9:29 @ It is just as