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So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
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Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
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Life Through the Spirit
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
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because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
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You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
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But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.
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And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
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Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
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neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Paul’s Anguish Over Israel
I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—
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For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race,
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Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
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But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)
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“or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
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Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
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Humble Service in the Body of Christ
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
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so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
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Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
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For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
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If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
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because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
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For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”
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May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had,
