Or are you ignorant, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the  ¹law lords it over the man as long as he lives?

For the married woman is bound by the  ¹law to her  ²husband while he is living; but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the  ¹law regarding the husband.

So then if, while the husband is living, she is joined to  ¹another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to  ¹another man.

So then, my brothers,  ¹you also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that  ¹you might be  ²joined to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, that we might  ³bear fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the passions for sins, which acted through the law, operated in our members to bear fruit to death.

But now we have been  ¹discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we  ²serve in  ³newness of  ⁴spirit and not in oldness of letter.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! But  ¹I did not know sin except through the  ²law; for neither did I know coveting, except the law had said,  ³“You shall not covet.”

But  ¹sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, worked out in me coveting of every kind; for without the law sin is dead.

And I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

And the commandment, which was unto life, this very commandment was found to me to be unto  ¹death.

For sin, seizing the opportunity  ¹through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

So then the law is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin did, that it might  ¹be shown to be sin by working out death in me through that which is good, that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

For we  ¹know that the law is  ²spiritual; but I am  ³fleshy, sold under sin.

For what I work out, I  ¹do not acknowledge; for what I will, this I do not practice; but what I hate, this I do.

But if what I do not will, this I do, I agree with the law that it is good.

Now then it is no longer I that work it out but sin that  ¹dwells in me.

For I  ¹know that in me, that is, in my  ²flesh,  ³nothing good dwells; for  ⁴to will is present with me, but to work out the good is not.

For I do not do the good which I will; but the evil which I do not will, this I practice.

But if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it out but sin that dwells in me.

I find then  ¹the law with me who wills to do the good, that is, the  ²evil is present with me.

For I delight in the  ¹law of God according to the inner man,

But I see a different  ¹law in my members,  ²warring against the law of my mind and making me a  ³captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

 ¹Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from  ²the body of  ³this death?

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then  ¹with the mind I myself  ²serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the  ³law of sin.

There is  ¹now then no  ²condemnation to those who are  ³in Christ Jesus.

For the  ¹law of the  ²Spirit of  ³life has  ⁴freed  ⁵me in Christ Jesus from the  ⁶law of sin and of death.

For that which the  ¹law could  ²not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending His own Son in the  ³likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

That the righteous requirement of the law might be  ¹fulfilled in us, who do not  ²walk according to the flesh but according to the  ³spirit.

For those who are according to the flesh mind the  ¹things of the flesh; but those who are  ²according to the spirit, the  ³things of the Spirit.

For  ¹the mind set on the flesh is  ²death, but  ³the mind set on the spirit is  ²life and peace.

Because the mind set on the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither can it be.

And  ¹those who are  ²in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the  ¹Spirit of God  ²dwells in you. Yet  ³if anyone does not have the  ⁴Spirit of Christ, he is not  ⁵of Him.

But if  ¹Christ is  ²in you, though the  ³body is  ⁴dead because of sin, the  ⁵spirit is  ⁶life because of  ⁷righteousness.

And if the  ¹Spirit of  ²the One who raised Jesus from the dead  ³dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also  ⁴give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.

So then, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to  ¹live according to the flesh;

For if you live according to the flesh, you must  ¹die, but if by the Spirit you  ²put to death the  ³practices of the body, you will live.

For as many as are  ¹led by the  ²Spirit of God, these are  ³sons of God.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery bringing you into fear again, but you have received a  ¹spirit of sonship in which we cry,  ²Abba, Father!

The Spirit Himself witnesses  ¹with  ²our spirit that  ³we are children of God.

And if children, heirs also; on the one hand, heirs of God; on the other, joint heirs with Christ,  ¹if indeed we suffer with Him that we may also be glorified with Him.

For I  ¹consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed  ²upon us.

For the  ¹anxious watching of the creation eagerly awaits the  ²revelation of the sons of God.

For the creation was made subject to vanity, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it,

In hope that the creation itself will also be  ¹freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.

And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have  ¹the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves  ²groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting  ³sonship, the redemption of our body.

For we were saved in hope. But a hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it through endurance.

Moreover,  ¹in like manner the Spirit also joins in to help us in our  ²weakness, for we do not know for what we should pray as is fitting, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

But He who searches the hearts knows what the  ¹mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints  ²according to God.

And we know that  ¹all things  ²work together for  ³good to those who  ⁴love God, to those who are called according to His  ⁵purpose.

Because those whom He  ¹foreknew, He also  ²predestinated to be  ³conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the  ⁴Firstborn among  ⁵many brothers;

And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also  ¹justified; and those whom He justified, these He also  ²glorified.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Indeed, He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not also with Him freely give us all things?

Who shall bring a charge against God's chosen ones?  ¹It is God who justifies.

Who is he who condemns?  ¹It is Christ Jesus who died and, rather, who was raised, who is also  ²at the right hand of God, who also  ³intercedes for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?

As it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; we have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.”

But in all these things we  ¹more than conquer through Him who loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present nor things to come nor powers

Nor height nor depth nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the  ¹love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 ¹I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my  ²conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

That I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart.

For I could wish that I myself were a  ¹curse, separated from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

Who are Israelites, whose are the  ¹sonship and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the  ²service and the promises;

Whose are the fathers, and out of whom, as regards what is according to flesh, is the Christ, who is  ¹God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

But it is not as though the word of God has fallen away, for  ¹not all who are out of Israel are Israel;

Neither is it that because they are the seed of Abraham, they are all children; but, “In Isaac shall your seed be called,”

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted as the seed.

For this is the word of promise, “At this time next year I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”

And not only so, but Rebecca also, having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

Though the children had not yet been born nor had done anything good or bad (that the  ¹purpose of God according to selection might remain, not of works but of Him who calls),

It was said to her, “The greater shall  ¹serve the less”;

As it is written, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”

What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Absolutely not!

For to Moses He says,  ¹“I will have  ²mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have  ²compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very thing I have raised you up, that I might show in you My power, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.

You will say to me then, Why does He still find fault? For who withstands His will?

But rather, O man, who are you who answer back to God? Shall the thing molded say to him who molded it, Why did you make me thus?

Or does not the potter have authority over the clay to make out of the same lump one  ¹vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?

And what if God, wishing to demonstrate His wrath and make His power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before prepared unto  ¹glory,

Even us, whom He has also called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles?

As He also says in Hosea, "I will call those who were not My people My people, and her who was not beloved beloved;

And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there shall they be called sons of the living God.”

And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved;

For the Lord will execute His word upon the earth, accomplishing it and cutting it short.”

And as Isaiah has previously said, “Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and been made like Gomorrah.”

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have laid hold of righteousness, but a righteousness which is out of faith;

But Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to that law.

Why? Because they pursued it not out of faith, but as it were out of works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

As it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, a rock of offense, and he who believes on Him shall not be put to shame.”