Romans 7:1

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.