11 death to me. For sin taking occasion by the commandment de12 ceived me, and by it slew me; wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

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'Has then that which is good become death to me?'

By no means; but sin [becomes death], in order that it might manifest itself; causing death to me by that which is good, so that 14 sin (through the commandment) might be exceedingly sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do, I approve not; since it is not what I de16 sire which I do, but I do that which I hate. If now I do that which 17 I desire not, I consent that the law is good. But now it is no longer 18 I who do this, but sin which dwelleth in me.

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me, that is in my flesh, there dwelleth no good thing; for to desire 19 what is good, is easy for me, but to do it I find difficult. For the good which I desire, that I do not; but the evil which I desire not, 20 that I do. Now if I do that which I desire not, it is no longer 21 I who do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. I find, then, that it is 22 a law to me, when desirous to do good, that evil is near to me. For 23 I take pleasure in the law of God, as to the inner man ; but I per

ceive another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my 24 members. Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from 25 the body which causeth this death? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Wherefore I, the same person, serve with my mind the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.

A state of grace delivers from the bondage and penalty of sin.

VIII. BUT now, there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ 2 Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, hath freed 3 me from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not accomplish, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own

Who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit, is probably spurious here, and is therefore omitted.

Son in the likeness of sinful flesh [accomplished], and [by an offer4 ing] for sin condemned sin in the flesh; so that the precepts of the law might be fulfilled by us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For they who are according to the flesh, concern themselves with the things of the flesh; but they who 6 are according to the Spirit, with the things of the Spirit. For the

mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and 7 peace. Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it 8 is not subject to his law, nor indeed can it be. Those, then, who 9 are in the flesh, cannot please God. Ye, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 But if Christ be in you, the body indeed is mortified on account of 11 sin, but the spirit liveth on account of righteousness. But if the

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Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead, dwelleth in you, he who raised up Christ from the dead, will also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit which dwelleth in you.

Therefore, brethren, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live ac13 cording to the flesh; for if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die; but if, through the Spirit, ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye 14 shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are 15 the sons of God. For ye have not received a servile spirit, that ye

should again be in fear; but ye have received a filial spirit, by 16 which we cry: Abba, Father! The same Spirit beareth witness to 17 our spirit, that we are children of God. But if children, then heirs; heirs truly of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, in order that we may also be glorified with him.

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Moreover, I count not the sufferings of the present time as worthy of comparison with the glory which is to be revealed to us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature is waiting for the mani20 festation [of this glory] of the children of God. For the creature

21 was made subject to frailty, (not of its own choice, but by him who

put it in subjection), in hope that this same creature may be freed

from the bondage of a perishing state, and [brought] into the glo22 rious liberty of the children of God. For we know that all creatures 23 sigh together and are in anguish, even to the present time. And

not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption as 24 children, the redemption of our bodies. For even we are saved [only] in hope. Now hope which is seen, is not hope; for what a 25 man seeth, how doth he still hope for it? But if we hope for that which we do not see, we patiently wait for it.

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26 In like manner, also, the Spirit helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought; the same Spirit, however, maketh intercession for us in sighs which cannot be ut27 tered; but he who searcheth hearts, knoweth the mind of the Spirit, for he maketh intercession in behalf of the saints according to the will of God.

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We know, moreover, that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purFor those whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he should be 30 the First-born among many brethren. Those also whom he predestinated, the same he likewise called; and those whom he called, the same he also justified; and those whom he justified, the same he also glorified.

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What shall we say, then, concerning these things? If God be 32 for us, who is against us? who is against us? Even he who spared not his own Son, but freely gave him up for us all-how shall he not also, with him, 33 freely give us all things? Who shall accuse the elect of God? It 34 is God that justifieth; who is he that condemneth? It is Christ

who died [for us]; yea rather, who is risen, and who is at the right. 35 hand of God, and who intercedeth for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction, or anguish, or persecution,

36 or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (As it is written : "For thy sake are we continually exposed to death, we are counted 37 as sheep for the slaughter.") Nay, in all these things we are more 38 than conquerors, through him who loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, 39 neither things present nor future, nor powers, neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God has a right to make those whom he chooses, to be partakers of his favour; and this right he has always exercised.

IX. I SAY the truth in Christ, I do not speak falsely, (as my con2 science testifieth for me in the Holy Spirit,) that I have great 3 sorrow and continual anguish in my heart. For I could wish

even myself to be devoted to destruction by Christ, instead of my 4 brethren, my kinsmen after the flesh; who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, 5 and the giving of the law, and the rites of service, and the promises; whose are the fathers; and from whom Christ [descended] in respect to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed for ever, Amen! However, it is not so that the word of God has been rendered 7 void; for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel; ' neither are all 8 the seed of Abraham children, but, " In Isaac shall thy seed be called;" that is, not the children of the flesh are the children of 9 God, but the children of promise are counted for the seed. For the word of promise was thus: " According to this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son."

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And not only so, but Rebecca also, having conceived by one, Isaac 11 our father, (for [the children] being not yet born, neither having

done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to 12 election might stand, not of works but of him that calleth), it was 13 said to her: "The elder shall serve the younger;" as it is written: "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

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'What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?'

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By no means; for he saith to Moses: "I will have mercy on whomsoever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on 16 whomsoever I will have compassion." Therefore it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God who sheweth 17 mercy. For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh: "For this very purpose have I roused thee up, that I might shew forth my power in 18 thee, and declare my name in all the land." Therefore, on whom

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he will he hath mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

Thou wilt say then to me: Why doth he yet find fault, for who 20 hath resisted his will? Who then art thou, O man, that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it: 21 Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the

clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel to honour and an22 other to dishonour? What now if God, purposing to manifest his

indignation and make known his power, endured with much long23 suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction? And that he might make known the riches of his glory toward the vessels of 24 mercy which he had before prepared for glory, [shewed mercy]

even to us whom he hath called, not only of the Jews but also of 25 the Gentiles. As he saith also in Hosea: "I will call him who was not my people, my people; and her who was not my beloved, be26 loved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them: 'Ye are not my people,' there shall they be called the sons of the living God."

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Isaiah moreover says concerning Israel: "Although the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant 28 shall be saved. For he will execute his word, [which] he hath decreed in righteousness; for the Lord will execute his word decreed 29 concerning the land." Yea, as Isaiah had before said: "Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a remnant, we should have been like Sodom, we should have been made like to Gomorrah."

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'What shall we say then?' That the Gentiles, who did not seek after justification, have obtained justification, even that justification