¹⁷ as it is written, “I have made you father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not exist.^(A)

¹¹ That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.^(A)

Sexual Immorality.^[a]

²⁴ They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,^{(A) 25} whom God set forth as an expiation,^[a] through faith, by his blood, to prove his righteousness because of the forgiveness of sins previously committed,^{(B) 26} through the forbearance of God—to prove his righteousness in the present time, that he might be righteous and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

^21 [a]For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin,^(A) so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Fulfillment Through Christ. ⁷ In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace^(A)

¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.^(A)

Concluding Prayer. ^23 [a]May the God of peace himself make you perfectly holy and may you entirely, spirit, soul, and body, be preserved blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.^(A)