For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;

But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

because by the works of the Law none of mankind will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes knowledge of sin.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in God’s merciful restraint He let the sins previously committed go unpunished;

since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, And whose sins have been covered.

Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”

Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all mankind, because all sinned—

for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not counted against anyone when there is no law.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the violation committed by Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one offense, resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the gracious gift arose from many offenses, resulting in justification.

For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

The Law came in so that the offense would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

Far from it! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

for the one who has died is freed from sin.

For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

So you too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.