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

But thanks be to God, that though you used to be slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from [your] heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

Let them acknowledge to the Lord His mercies, and His wonders to the children of men.

For He broke to pieces the bronze gates, and crushed the iron bars.

O Lord, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, and the son of Your handmaid; You have burst my bonds.

I will offer to You the sacrifice of praise, and will call upon the name of the Lord.

And in that day you shall say, I [will] bless You, O Lord; for You were angry with me, but You have turned aside Your wrath, and have pitied me.

saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and [bidding] them that are in darkness, show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths [shall be] their pasture.

Rejoice, you heavens; and let the earth be glad; let the mountains break forth [with] joy; for the Lord has had mercy on His people, and has comforted the lowly ones of His people.

And she shall bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He shall save His people from their sins."

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

giving thanks always concerning all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For we are the [true] circumcision, worshipping by the Spirit of God, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh,

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and petition, along with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

And whatever you may do in word or deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

you also, as living stones, are being built [into] a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's [own] possession, that you may proclaim the excellent virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

For what I am doing, I do not know. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, this I do.

But now [it is] no longer I [who] am doing it, but the sin dwelling in me.

For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, this I practice.

Therefore I find this law, that [when] I wish to do the right [thing], that evil is present with me.

But I see a different law in my members, waging war with the law of my mind, and capturing me by the law of sin which is in my members.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things oppose each other, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, immorality, lewdness,

envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

gentleness, self-control--against such things there is no law.