¹⁷ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

¹⁸ Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁷ But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

¹⁸ Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

²² But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

²⁴ O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

²¹ Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

⁸ Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.