Released from the Law
Rom 7:4 LSB - [4] So, my brothers, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
Rom 7:6 LSB - [6] But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were constrained, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
Sin’s Advantage in the Law
Rom 7:22-23 LSB -
[22] For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
[23] but I see a different law in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:25 LSB - [25] Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
The Spirit of God Dwells in You
Rom 8:1-2 LSB -
[1] Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
[2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Rom 8:3-4 LSB -
[3] For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God [did]: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and [as an offering] for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
[4] so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Rom 8:10-11 LSB -
[10] But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
[11] But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Rom 8:14-15 LSB -
[14] For as many as are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
[15] For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received [the] Spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"
Rom 8:16-17 LSB -
[16] The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,
[17] and if children, also heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with [Him] so that we may also be glorified with [Him].
Present Suffering and Future Glory
Rom 8:18 LSB - [18] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Rom 8:23 LSB - [23] And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for [our] adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
Rom 8:23 LSB - [23] And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for [our] adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
Rom 8:26-27 LSB -
[26] And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for [us] with groanings too deep for words;
[27] and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to [the will of] God.
Rom 8:28 LSB - [28] And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to [His] purpose.
Rom 8:29-30 LSB -
[29] Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestined [to become] conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers;
[30] and those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified; and those whom He justified, He also glorified.
God Is for Us
Rom 8:31 LSB - [31] What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [is] against us?
Rom 8:33-34 LSB -
[33] Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies;
[34] 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.
Rom 8:37-39 LSB -
[37] But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
[38] For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
[39] nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God’s Chosen People, Israel
Rom 9:8 LSB - [8] That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are considered as seed.
Rom 9:10-13 LSB -
[10] And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived [twins] by one man, our father Isaac;
[11] 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,
[12] it was said to her, "THE OLDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER."
[13] Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED."
Rom 9:15-16 LSB -
[15] For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION."
[16] So then it [does] not [depend] on the one who wills or the one who runs, but on God who has mercy.
Rom 9:17-18 LSB -
[17] 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."
[18] So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
Rom 9:27 LSB - [27] And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED;
Rom 9:30-31 LSB -
[30] What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, laid hold of righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;
[31] but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain [that] law.
