G0235–ἀλλά–alla

For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.

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But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it.

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There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

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in order that in our case the requirements of the Law might be fully met. For our lives are regulated not by our earthly, but by our spiritual natures.

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You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.

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You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Fathe

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For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it).

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And more than that, we ourselves, though we possess the Spirit as a foretaste and pledge of the glorious future, yet we ourselves inwardly sigh, as we wait and long for open recognition as sons through the deliverance of our bodies.

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In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness; for we do not know what prayers to offer nor in what way to offer them. But the Spirit Himself pleads for us in yearnings that can find no words,

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He who did not withhold even His own Son, but gave Him up for all of us, will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

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Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who has loved us.

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nor because they are Abraham's true children. But the promise was "Through Isaac shall your posterity be reckoned."

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In other words, it is not the children by natural descent who count as God's children, but the children made such by the promise are regarded as Abraham's posterity.

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Nor is that all: later on there was Rebecca too. She was soon to bear two children to her husband, our forefather Isaac--

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and even then, though they were not then born and had not done anything either good or evil, yet in order that God's electing purpose might not be frustrated, based, as it was, not on their actions but on the will of Him who called them, she was told,

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And from this we learn that everything is dependent not on man's will or endeavour, but upon God who has mercy. For the Scripture said to Pharaoh,

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even towards us whom He has called not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles?

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And why? Because they were pursuing a righteousness which should arise not from faith, but from what they regarded as merit. They stuck their foot against the stone which lay in their way;

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For I bear witness that they possess an enthusiasm for God, but it is an unenlightened enthusiasm.

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But what does it say? "The Message is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart;" that is, the Message which we are publishing about the faith--

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But, some will say, they have not all hearkened to the Good News. No, for Isaiah asks, "Lord, who has believed the Message they have heard from us?"

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But, I ask, have they not heard? Yes, indeed: "To the whole world the preachers' voices have sounded forth, and their words to the remotest parts of the earth."

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But again, did Israel fail to understand? Listen to Moses first. He says, "I will fire you with jealousy against a nation which is no nation, and with fury against a nation devoid of understanding."

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But what did God say to him in reply? "I have reserved for Myself 7,000 men who have never bent the knee to Baal."

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I ask, however, "Have they stumbled so as to be finally ruined?" No, indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come to the Gentiles in order to arouse the jealousy of the descendants of Israel;

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