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Romans 5 |
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Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ;
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in
which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing
that suffering works perseverance;
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been
poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given
to us.
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for
the ungodly.
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a
righteous person someone would even dare to die.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be
saved from God’s wrath through him.
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through
the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be
saved by his life.
Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and
death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all
sinned.
For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged
when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over
those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a
foreshadowing of him who was to come.
But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the
trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of
God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ,
abound to the many.
The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came
by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many
trespasses to justification.
For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the
one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one,
Jesus Christ.
So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so
through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to
life.
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made
sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be
made righteous.
The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but
where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through
righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Romans 6 |
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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may
abound?
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any
longer?
Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into his death?
We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that
just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of
the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his
death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the
body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer
be in bondage to sin.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live
with him;
knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more.
Death no more has dominion over him!
For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the
life that he lives, he lives to God.
Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to
God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you
should obey it in its lusts.
Neither present your members to sin as instruments of
unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from
the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to
God.
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under
law, but under grace.
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under
grace? May it never be!
Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants
to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin
to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of
sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching
whereunto you were delivered.
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of
righteousness.
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh,
for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and
to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members
as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to
righteousness.
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which
you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of
God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of
eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 7 |
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Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to
men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for
as long as he lives?
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband
while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from
the law of the husband.
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another
man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies,
she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though
she is joined to another man.
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law
through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another,
to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth
fruit to God.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were
through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to
death.
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to
that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the
spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be!
However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For
I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You
shall not covet.”*
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in
me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died.
The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for
death;
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me,
and through it killed me.
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and
righteous, and good.
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be!
But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to
me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin
might become exceeding sinful.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold
under sin.
For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I
desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that
it is good.
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good
thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing
that which is good.
For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I
don’t desire, that I practice.
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do
it, but sin which dwells in me.
I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good,
evil is present.
For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law
of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin
which is in my members.
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of
this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the
mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s
law.
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7:1 The word for
“brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly
translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
7:7 Exodus 20:17;
Deuteronomy 5:21
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Romans 8 |
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There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in
Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the
flesh, but according to the Spirit.*
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free
from the law of sin and of death.
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the
things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit,
the things of the Spirit.
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit
is life and peace;
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is
not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that
the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the
Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the
spirit is alive because of righteousness.
But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will
also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who
dwells in you.
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
after the flesh.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the
Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children
of God.
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba!
Father!”
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are
children of God;
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with
Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be
glorified with him.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed
toward us.
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children
of God to be revealed.
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will,
but because of him who subjected it, in hope
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage
of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain
together until now.
Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
for adoption, the redemption of our body.
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope.
For who hopes for that which he sees?
But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with
patience.
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we
don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes
intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind,
because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
We know that all things work together for good for those who
love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the
image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brothers.
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those
he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who
can be against us?
He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God
who justifies.
Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who
was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who
also makes intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression,
or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril,
or sword?
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day
long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”*
No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him
who loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able
to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
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8:1 NU omits “who
don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit”
8:15 Abba is an
Aramaic word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and
respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.
8:29 The word for
“brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly
translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
8:36 Psalm 44:22
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