Search results for: Romans 8:1–18

Romans 7:20 (NIV)

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.

Romans 7:21 (NIV)

So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Romans 7:22 (NIV)

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

Romans 7:23 (NIV)

but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.

Romans 7:24 (NIV)

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

Romans 7:25 (NIV)

Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 9:1 (NIV)

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—

Romans 9:2 (NIV)

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Romans 9:3 (NIV)

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race,

Romans 9:4 (NIV)

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.

Romans 9:5 (NIV)

Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.

Romans 9:6 (NIV)

It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Romans 9:7 (NIV)

Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”

Romans 9:9 (NIV)

For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

Romans 9:10 (NIV)

Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.

Romans 9:11 (NIV)

Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:

Romans 9:12 (NIV)

not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”

Romans 9:13 (NIV)

Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Romans 9:14 (NIV)

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!

Romans 9:15 (NIV)

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Romans 9:16 (NIV)

It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

Romans 9:17 (NIV)

For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

Romans 9:18 (NIV)

Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

Romans 9:19 (NIV)

One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”

Romans 9:20 (NIV)

But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ”