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Romans 7:6 (NIV)

But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 7:9 (NIV)

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Romans 7:10 (NIV)

I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

Romans 7:11 (NIV)

For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

Romans 7:12 (NIV)

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

Romans 7:13 (NIV)

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

Romans 7:14 (NIV)

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

Romans 7:15 (NIV)

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

Romans 7:16 (NIV)

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

Romans 7:17 (NIV)

As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

Romans 7:18 (NIV)

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Romans 7:19 (NIV)

For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

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.