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God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
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They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
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Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
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Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”
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and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
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because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
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You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
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When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
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But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
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because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
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that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
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Paul’s Anguish Over Israel
I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—
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For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended.
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For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises made to the patriarchs might be confirmed
