¹ Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

¹ Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.

³ For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

⁶ But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

¹⁴ For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

³ Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?

²³ For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

²¹ Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

⁸ Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

¹⁷ But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

¹⁸ And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

¹³ You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

²⁵ And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God; and you are to give teaching to him who has no knowledge of them.