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He who indeed did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?

who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

Just as it is written,"For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;We were counted as sheep for the slaughter."

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;

For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son."

for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that the purpose of God according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and in order that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth."

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

Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

And what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

and in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory—

for the Lord will execute His word on the land, thoroughly and quickly."

Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For not knowing about the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

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

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of law: "The man who does these things shall live by them."