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and know his will and determine what is best because you are instructed in the law,

For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to show his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;

and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

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

If, because of the one man's trespass, death exercised dominion through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,

because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.

Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,

Therefore one must be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.

The faith that you have, have as your own conviction before God. Blessed are those who have no reason to condemn themselves because of what they approve.

But those who have doubts are condemned if they eat, because they do not act from faith; for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Nevertheless on some points I have written to you rather boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus,

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.