Romans 8:12

Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.

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.

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.

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

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

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

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

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

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.

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

Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.” The angel departed from her.

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

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

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

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;

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!

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

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

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.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

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

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

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

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

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

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.

For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

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.

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

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,

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.