For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Heirs with Christ

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God's Sovereign Choice

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)

“or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Marks of the True Christian

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.

Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.

The Example of Christ

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,