The New Testament: A Translation

by David Bentley Hart

7For the one who has died is absol...

weapons of iniquity;

weapons of justice,

Let it not be!

slaves to sin,

enslaved to righteousness.

This chapter is about the bondage of self.

you too were made dead to the Law through the body of the Anointed so that you might come to be with another, the one who has been raised from the dead

bear fruit for God.

bearing fruit for death;

Let it not be!

Let it not be so!

sold in subjection to sin.

The bondage of self.

18For I know that in me—that is, in my flesh—dwells nothing good; for it is present in me to will, but not to accomplish, the good;

19For I do not do the good I wish; instead, the evil I do not wish, this I do.

The bondage of self.

“Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!" We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we could at last abandon ourselves utterly to Him. AA p. 63.

I myself am a slave in mind to God’s Law,

1So now:

incline the mind to

Set the mind on, NRSV

mental inclination

mental inclination

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. KJV

mental incl...

the deeds of the body

slavery to fear,

adoption

the coming glory

subordinate to pointlessness,

intercession

Predestined, NRSV and KJV

Justified, NRSV and KJV

intercedes

Let it not be so!

19So you will say to me, “Why does he still assign blame? For who has thwarted his purpose?” 20But no, O man, who are you who argue against God? Will the thing molded say to the molder, “Why did you make me thus?” 21Or does the potter not have the power to make from the same mass of clay both the vessel for honor and the one for dishonor?

23In order that he might also make known the wealth of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he had already prepared for glory,

if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”af and have faith in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

Let it not be so!

Elijah,

7What then?

Let it not be so!

through their error comes salvation for the gentiles, so as to provoke them to envy. 12But if their error is enrichment for the cosmos and their discomfiture enrichment for the gentiles, how much more so the full totalityah of them?

22See, then, God’s kindness and severity:

26And thus all of Israel shall be saved, just as has been written,

11.26b–27 Note the agency is God’s not the people’s. See Isa 59.20–21; see also Isa 27.9. Paul’s quotation differs from the Hebrew and Greek of both passages. Some regard the Deliverer as Christ, others as God.

11.34 See Isa 40.13 (Septuagint). 11.35 Based loosely on Job 41.11. 11.36a For…all things, a typical Stoic formulation (see Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.23); see also 1 Cor 8.6. 11.36b The discussion of Israel’s fate closes with a doxology; see also 1.25; 9.5; 16.27. Harper Collins

we who are many constitute one body in the Anointed, and are members each one of one another; 6And having different gracious gifts, according to the grace given us:

pursuing hospitality—

1Let every soul be subordinate to higher authorities.

on account of outrage.