Repent and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ

for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off- for all whom the Lord our God will call. Acts 2:38-39

through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no

means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced

death in me through what was good, so that through the

commandment sin might become utterly sinful. We know that the law

is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is

good.

As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in

me.

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For

I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 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

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil

is right there with me.

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law

at work in the members of my body, waging war against the

law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at

work within my members.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this

body of death?

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was

weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending

his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin

offering.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ

our Lord!

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death

Those who live according to the sinful nature have their

minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in

accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what

the Spirit desires.

Those who live according to the sinful nature have their

minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in

accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what

the Spirit desires.

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry,

“Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s

children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God

and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his

sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,

groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the

redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?

But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the

Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts

knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for

the saints in accordance with God’s will.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who

have been called according to his purpose.

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for

us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.