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For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
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Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
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but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
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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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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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For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,
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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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Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
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And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
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Love in Action
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
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But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
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and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing the praises of your name.”
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Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome
But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you,
