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Romans 7:15 (NLT)

I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.

Romans 7:16 (NLT)

But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.

Romans 7:17 (NLT)

So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 7:18 (NLT)

And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.

Romans 7:19 (NLT)

I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.

Romans 7:20 (NLT)

But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 7:21 (NLT)

I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.

Romans 7:23 (NLT)

But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.

Romans 7:24 (NLT)

Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

Romans 7:25 (NLT)

Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Romans 9:1 (NLT)

With Christ as my witness, I speak with utter truthfulness. My conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it.

Romans 9:2 (NLT)

My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief

Romans 9:3 (NLT)

for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed—cut off from Christ!—if that would save them.

They are the people of Israel, chosen to be God’s adopted children. God revealed his glory to them. He made covenants with them and gave them his law. He gave them the privilege of worshiping him and receiving his wonderful promises.

Romans 9:6 (NLT)

Well then, has God failed to fulfill his promise to Israel? No, for not all who are born into the nation of Israel are truly members of God’s people!

Romans 9:7 (NLT)

Being descendants of Abraham doesn’t make them truly Abraham’s children. For the Scriptures say, “Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted,” though Abraham had other children, too.

Romans 9:9 (NLT)

For God had promised, “I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

Romans 9:10 (NLT)

This son was our ancestor Isaac. When he married Rebekah, she gave birth to twins.

Romans 9:11 (NLT)

But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message shows that God chooses people according to his own purposes;

Romans 9:12 (NLT)

he calls people, but not according to their good or bad works.) She was told, “Your older son will serve your younger son.”

Romans 9:13 (NLT)

In the words of the Scriptures, “I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau.”

Romans 9:14 (NLT)

Are we saying, then, that God was unfair? Of course not!

Romans 9:15 (NLT)

For God said to Moses, “I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.”

Romans 9:16 (NLT)

So it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it.