Lexicon :: Strong's G1473 - egō

To all who are in Rome, loved by God, called as saints.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith[fn] is being reported in all the world.

God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about his Son ​— ​that I constantly mention you,

always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

that is, to be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.

So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, “Let us do what is evil so that good may come”? Their condemnation is deserved!

And he became the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants ​— ​not only to the one who is of the law[fn] but also to the one who is of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all.

but also for us. It will be credited to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

He was delivered up for[fn] our trespasses and raised for our justification.

This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.

But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

And not only that, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For we know that our old self[fn] was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin[fn] might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us[fn] to bear fruit for death.

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life again

and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Therefore, did what is good become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh,[fn] sold as a slave under sin.

So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

So I discover this law:[fn] When I want to do what is good,[fn] evil is present with me.

but I see a different law in the parts of my body,[fn] waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.

The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

Not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits ​— ​we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us[fn] with inexpressible groanings.

What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?

Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more, has been raised; he also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us.

Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.