Study Desk

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.

but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

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

in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin, your spirits are alive because of righteousness.

for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, "Abba! Father!"

for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope;

and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?

But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,

and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but "Through Isaac shall your descendants be named."

This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call,