Thank God for Jesus
Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it
might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin
through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. For we know that
the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am
doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but
what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with
the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do
it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my
flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to
perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do
not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do
what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells
in me.
I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see
another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man
that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank
God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve
the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in
Christ Jesus,[
who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law
of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and
death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God
did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of
sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law
might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to
the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the
things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the
things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is
enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of
God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not
His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of
sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the
Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ
from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who
dwells in you.
1 And you He
made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
2 in which you once
walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3 among whom also we
all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires
of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the
others.
4 But God, who is rich
in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were
dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been
saved), 6 and raised
us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus, 7 that
in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have
been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of
God, 9 not of works,
lest anyone should boast. 10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Hebrews 2
Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. 17 Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
Hebrews 4:11 Let
us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the
same example of disobedience.
12 For the word of God
is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 And there is no
creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the
eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
14 Seeing then that we
have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of
God, let us hold fast our confession.
15 For we do not have
a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all
points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore
come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to
help in time of need.