¹⁹ I am using an example from everyday life^(A) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness^(B) leading to holiness.

¹² not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”^{[a](A) 13} Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”^[b](B)

¹⁴ What then shall we say?^(C) Is God unjust? Not at all!^(D)

⁶ being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion^(A) until the day of Christ Jesus.^(B)

¹⁰ Therefore, my brothers and sisters,^[a] make every effort to confirm your calling^(A) and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble,^(B)