Or do you not know that as many [of us] as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

For I could wish that I myself to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my countrymen according to the flesh,

Brothers, the good pleasure of my heart and my supplication to God on behalf of Israel, is for [their] salvation.

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and boast in God,

and know His will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,

And you, Ezra, as the wisdom of God [is] in your hand, appoint scribes and judges, that they may judge for all the people beyond the river, all that know the law of the Lord your God; and you shall make it known to him that knows not.

For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction:

Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the law say these things also?

Tell me, you who wish to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

But now we were released from the law, having died in [that] to which we were held fast, so that we should serve as slaves in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.