Friday DIVE

      TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:18-25  NRSV Updated Edition   I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.  19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God,  20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of

  TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:12-17  NRSV Updated Edition   12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are obligated, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh — 13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  14 For all

  TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:5-11  NRSV Updated Edition   5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit[e] set their minds on the things of the Spirit.[f]  6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind

    TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:1-5  NRSV Updated Edition   1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  2 For the law of the Spirit[a] of life in Christ Jesus has set you[b] free from the law of sin and of death.  3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could

  TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 7:14-25  NRSV Updated Edition   14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.[a]  15 I do not understand my own actions.  For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.   16 Now if I do what I

    TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 7:1-13  NRSV Updated Edition   1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters — for I am speaking to those who know the law — that the law is binding on a person only during that person’s lifetime?  2 Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as

      TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 6  NRSV Updated Edition   1 What then are we to say?  Should we continue in sin in order that grace may increase?  2 By no means!  How can we who died to sin go on living in it?  3 Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into

  TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 6:1-11  NRSV Updated Edition  What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may increase?  2 By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?  3 Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized

    TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 5:12-21 Adam and Christ    12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned — 13 for sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no

    THE TEXT FOR TONIGHT’S DISCUSSION Romans 5:6-11     6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  7 Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person — though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die.  8 But God proves his love for us in that while