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Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake.
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in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God’s will the way may be opened for me to come to you.
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For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
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they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
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So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?
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A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
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What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
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However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
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Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.
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For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless,
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Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
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This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”
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The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone,
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but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
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Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!
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For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
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By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
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We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
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For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
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For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
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Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
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Slaves to Righteousness
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
