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Romans 2-6
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Romans 2-6
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God’s Righteous Judgment
2 You, therefore, have no excuse,(A) you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.(B) 2 Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3 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? 4 Or do you show contempt for the riches(C) of his kindness,(D) forbearance(E) and patience,(F) not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?(G)
5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath(H), when his righteous judgment(I) will be revealed. 6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”[a](J) 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor(K) and immortality,(L) he will give eternal life.(M) 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,(N) there will be wrath and anger.(O) 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil:(P) first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;(Q) 10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.(R) 11 For God does not show favoritism.(S)
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law(T) will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey(U) the law who will be declared righteous. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law,(V) they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets(W) through Jesus Christ,(X) as my gospel(Y) declares.
The Jews and the Law
17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;(Z) 18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; 19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(AA) 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?(AB) 23 You who boast in the law,(AC) do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[b](AD)
25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law,(AE) but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.(AF) 26 So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements,(AG) will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?(AH) 27 The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you(AI) who, even though you have the[c] written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly,(AJ) nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.(AK) 29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart,(AL) by the Spirit,(AM) not by the written code.(AN) Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.(AO)
God’s Faithfulness
3 What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? 2 Much in every way!(AP) First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.(AQ)
3 What if some were unfaithful?(AR) Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?(AS) 4 Not at all! Let God be true,(AT) and every human being a liar.(AU) As it is written:
5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly,(AW) what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)(AX) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?(AY) 7 Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,(AZ) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”(BA) 8 Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?(BB) Their condemnation is just!
No One Is Righteous
9 What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage?(BC) Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.(BD) 10 As it is written:
“There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”[e](BE)
13 “Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit.”[f](BF)
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”[g](BG)
14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”[h](BH)
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 ruin and misery mark their ways,
17 and the way of peace they do not know.”[i](BI)
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”[j](BJ)
19 Now we know that whatever the law says,(BK) it says to those who are under the law,(BL) so that every mouth may be silenced(BM) and the whole world held accountable to God.(BN) 20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;(BO) rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.(BP)
Righteousness Through Faith
21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God(BQ) has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.(BR) 22 This righteousness(BS) is given through faith(BT) in[k] Jesus Christ(BU) to all who believe.(BV) There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,(BW) 23 for all have sinned(BX) and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified(BY) freely by his grace(BZ) through the redemption(CA) that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,[l](CB) through the shedding of his blood(CC)—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished(CD)— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
27 Where, then, is boasting?(CE) It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. 28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.(CF) 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,(CG) 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.(CH) 31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
Abraham Justified by Faith
4 What then shall we say(CI) that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh,(CJ) discovered in this matter? 2 If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God.(CK) 3 What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[m](CL)
4 Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift(CM) but as an obligation. 5 However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.(CN) 6 David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the one
whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”[n](CO)
9 Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised?(CP) We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.(CQ) 10 Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! 11 And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised.(CR) So then, he is the father(CS) of all who believe(CT) but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. 12 And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
13 It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise(CU) that he would be heir of the world,(CV) but through the righteousness that comes by faith.(CW) 14 For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless,(CX) 15 because the law brings wrath.(CY) And where there is no law there is no transgression.(CZ)
16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace(DA) and may be guaranteed(DB) to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.(DC) 17 As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”[o](DD) He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life(DE) to the dead and calls(DF) into being things that were not.(DG)
18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations,(DH) just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”[p](DI) 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead(DJ)—since he was about a hundred years old(DK)—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.(DL) 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened(DM) in his faith and gave glory to God,(DN) 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.(DO) 22 This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”(DP) 23 The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us,(DQ) to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him(DR) who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.(DS) 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins(DT) and was raised to life for our justification.(DU)
Peace and Hope
5 Therefore, since we have been justified(DV) through faith,(DW) we[q] have peace(DX) with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,(DY) 2 through whom we have gained access(DZ) by faith into this grace in which we now stand.(EA) And we[r] boast in the hope(EB) of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[s] also glory in our sufferings,(EC) because we know that suffering produces perseverance;(ED) 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope(EE) does not put us to shame, because God’s love(EF) has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit,(EG) who has been given to us.
6 You see, at just the right time,(EH) when we were still powerless,(EI) Christ died for the ungodly.(EJ) 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.(EK)
9 Since we have now been justified(EL) by his blood,(EM) how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath(EN) through him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies,(EO) we were reconciled(EP) to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!(EQ) 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.(ER)
Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man,(ES) and death through sin,(ET) and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned(EU)—
13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.(EV) 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam,(EW) who is a pattern of the one to come.(EX)
15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man,(EY) how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ,(EZ) overflow to the many! 16 Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death(FA) reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life(FB) through the one man, Jesus Christ!
18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people,(FC) so also one righteous act resulted in justification(FD) and life(FE) for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man(FF) the many were made sinners,(FG) so also through the obedience(FH) of the one man the many will be made righteous.
20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase.(FI) But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,(FJ) 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death,(FK) so also grace(FL) might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life(FM) through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
6 What shall we say, then?(FN) Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?(FO) 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin;(FP) how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized(FQ) into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death(FR) in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead(FS) through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.(FT)
5 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.(FU) 6 For we know that our old self(FV) was crucified with him(FW) so that the body ruled by sin(FX) might be done away with,[t] that we should no longer be slaves to sin(FY)— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.(FZ)
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.(GA) 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead,(GB) he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.(GC) 10 The death he died, he died to sin(GD) once for all;(GE) but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin(GF) but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign(GG) in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness,(GH) 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.(GI) 14 For sin shall no longer be your master,(GJ) because you are not under the law,(GK) but under grace.(GL)
Slaves to Righteousness
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?(GM) By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey(GN)—whether you are slaves to sin,(GO) which leads to death,(GP) or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God(GQ) that, though you used to be slaves to sin,(GR) you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching(GS) that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin(GT) and have become slaves to righteousness.(GU)
19 I am using an example from everyday life(GV) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness(GW) leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin,(GX) you were free from the control of righteousness.(GY) 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!(GZ) 22 But now that you have been set free from sin(HA) and have become slaves of God,(HB) the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.(HC) 23 For the wages of sin is death,(HD) but the gift of God is eternal life(HE) in[u] Christ Jesus our Lord.
Footnotes
- Romans 2:6 Psalm 62:12; Prov. 24:12
- Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22
- Romans 2:27 Or who, by means of a
- Romans 3:4 Psalm 51:4
- Romans 3:12 Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Eccles. 7:20
- Romans 3:13 Psalm 5:9
- Romans 3:13 Psalm 140:3
- Romans 3:14 Psalm 10:7 (see Septuagint)
- Romans 3:17 Isaiah 59:7,8
- Romans 3:18 Psalm 36:1
- Romans 3:22 Or through the faithfulness of
- Romans 3:25 The Greek for sacrifice of atonement refers to the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant (see Lev. 16:15,16).
- Romans 4:3 Gen. 15:6; also in verse 22
- Romans 4:8 Psalm 32:1,2
- Romans 4:17 Gen. 17:5
- Romans 4:18 Gen. 15:5
- Romans 5:1 Many manuscripts let us
- Romans 5:2 Or let us
- Romans 5:3 Or let us
- Romans 6:6 Or be rendered powerless
- Romans 6:23 Or through
Romans 2-6
King James Version
Romans 2-6
King James Version
2 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
3 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
4 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
5 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified 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, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and 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.
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