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4 What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our Father, has found according to the flesh?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he has grounds to boast. But not with God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
4 Now, to one who works, the wages are not counted by grace, but by debt.
5 But to one who does not work, but believes in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness;
6 even as David declares the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness without works, saying,
7 “Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute sin.”
9 Did, then, this blessedness come upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How, then, was it counted - when he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Not when he was circumcised, but when he was uncircumcised.
11 Afterward, he received the sign of circumcision, as the seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had when he was uncircumcised. So that he should be the Father of all those who believe (not being circumcised), that righteousness might be counted to them also;
12 and that he be the Father of circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but also to those who walk in the steps of the faith our Father Abraham had when he was uncircumcised.
13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not given to Abraham, or to his seed, through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if those who are of the Law are heirs, then faith is made void, and the promise is made to no effect.
15 For the Law causes wrath. For where there is no Law, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore, it is by faith, so that it might come by grace (and the promise might be a surety) to all the seed; not only to that which is of the Law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the Father of us all,
17 (as it is written: “I have made you a Father of many nations.”) before God, Whom he believed, Who quickens the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were;
18 which Abraham, hoping against all hope, believed. So that he should be the Father of many nations, according to that which was spoken to him, “So shall your seed be.”
19 And he, not being weak in the faith, did not consider his own body, which was now dead (being almost a hundred years old), nor the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
20 Nor did he, through unbelief, doubt the promise of God. But he was strengthened in the faith. And gave glory to God,
21 being fully assured that He Who had promised, was also able to do it.
22 And therefore, it was counted to him as righteousness.
23 Now, it is not only written for him that it was counted to him as righteousness,
24 but it shall also be reckoned as righteousness for us who believe in Him Who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 Who was delivered for our sins. And is risen again for our justification.
5 Then, being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 by Whom, through faith, we also have access into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in the hope of the Glory of God.
3 Not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings forth patience
4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope.
5 And hope does not humiliate. Because the Holy Ghost, Who is given to us, drenches our hearts with the love of God.
6 For Christ, when we were still without strength, at His time, died for the ungodly.
7 Doubtless, one will scarcely die for a righteous man. Although, for a good man it may be that one dare die.
8 But God exhibits his love towards us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more, then, being justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more so (being reconciled) shall we be saved by his life.
11 And not only that, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now received reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, so also death spread to all mankind. For all mankind has sinned.
13 For until the time of the Law, sin was in the world. But sin was not taken into account while there was no Law.
14 But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in a similar way to the transgression of Adam, who was the model of Him Who was to come.
15 But still, the gift is not like the offense. For if, through the offense of the one, many died, much more so has the grace of God, and the gift (by grace) of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.
16 Nor is the gift as if it were from one who sinned. Indeed, judgment unto condemnation came from one. But the gift unto justification came from many offenses.
17 For if, by the offense of one, death reigned through one, much more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and the gift of righteousness, reign in life through One - Jesus Christ.
18 Likewise then, as by the offense of one, judgment unto condemnation came to all mankind, so also by the righteousness of One, the benefit abounded toward all mankind, to the justification of life.
19 For, as by one man’s disobedience, many were made sinners, so also by the obedience of One, shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover, there the Law entered, so that offense might abound. Nevertheless, where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.
21 So that, as sin had reigned unto death, so also might grace reign by righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6 What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, so that grace may abound? Absolutely not!
2 How shall we, who are dead to sin, still live in it?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death?
4 We are then buried with Him, through baptism, into His death; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead, to the glory of the Father, we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we are united with Him in the likeness of His death, we shall also be so in the likeness of His resurrection,
6 knowing this: that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be made useless and that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For whoever has died is freed from sin.
8 Therefore, if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death has no more dominion over Him.
10 For, in that He died, He died once to sin. But in that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Likewise, you also consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God, in Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts;
13 nor give the parts of your body to sin, as weapons of unrighteousness. But give yourselves to God, as those who are alive from the dead. And give the parts of your body to God, as weapons of righteousness.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you. For you are not under the Law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? Absolutely not!
16 Do you not know that to whomever you give yourselves as servants, to obey, you are his servants whom you obey; whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 Thanks be to God that, although you had been the servants of sin, you have obeyed (from the heart) the type of doctrine by which you were delivered.
18 Being then made free from sin, you are made the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. For as you have given the parts of your body over as servants to impurity and lawlessness, to commit lawlessness, so now give the parts of your body over as servants to righteousness in holiness.
20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were freed from righteousness.
21 What fruit did you then have in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now, being freed from sin, and made servants to God, you have your fruit in holiness; and in the end, everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
7 Do you not know, brothers, (for I speak to those who know the Law) that the Law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
2 For the woman who is in subjection to a man, is bound by the Law to the man, while he lives. But if the man is dead, she is released from the Law of the man.
3 So then, if while the man lives, she takes another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But, if the man is dead, she is free from the Law; so that she is not an adulteress, even though she takes another man.
4 So you, my brothers, are also dead to the Law, by the body of Christ; so that you should belong to Another (that is, to Him Who was raised up from the dead) so that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sufferings of sins (which were by the Law) were at work in our limbs, bringing forth fruit unto death.
6 But now, we are delivered from the Law (that being dead in which we were held), so that we should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of letter.
7 What shall we then say? Is the Law sin? Absolutely not! No, I did not know sin, except through the Law. For I had not known lust until the Law had said, “You shall not lust”.
8 But sin, taking opportunity through the Commandment, wrought in me all manner of lusts. For without the Law, sin is dead.
9 For I was once alive apart from the Law. But when the Commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And this Commandment, which was life to me, was found to be death.
11 For sin, taking opportunity through the Commandment, deceived me; and thereby killed me.
12 Therefore, the Law is holy. And the Commandment is holy, and just, and good.
13 Was, then, that which is good made death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it might appear sin, wrought death in me by that which is good, so that sin (through the Commandment) might be excessively sinful.
14 For we know that the Law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For I do not understand that which I do. For what I will to do, that do I not do. But what I hate, that I do.
16 If, then, I do that which I do not want to do, I consent to the Law, that it is good.
17 So, then, it is no more me who does it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) no good thing dwells. For to will is present with me. But I find no means to perform that which is good.
19 For I do not do the good thing which I want to do. But the evil, which I do not want to do, that I do.
20 Now, if I do that which I do not want, it is no more I who do it, but the sin which dwells in me.
21 I find, therefore, a law that when I would like to do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the Law of God, concerning the inner man.
23 But I see another law in my limbs, rebelling against the law of my mind, and leading me captive to the law of sin, which is in my limbs.
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, I, myself, serve the Law of God in my mind, but the law of sin in my flesh.
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