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So also David pronounces a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:

In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations; as he had been told, "So shall your descendants be."

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned--

Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous.

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

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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

Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.

So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh--

And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.