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because the law can only bring God's anger. But if there is no law, there is nothing to disobey.

but also for us. God will accept us also because we believe in the One who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

who through our faith has brought us into that blessing of God's grace that we now enjoy. And we are happy because of the hope we have of sharing God's glory.

We also have joy with our troubles, because we know that these troubles produce patience.

And this hope will never disappoint us, because God has poured out his love to fill our hearts. He gave us his love through the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us.

So through Christ we will surely be saved from God's anger, because we have been made right with God by the blood of Christ's death.

Sin came into the world because of what one man did, and with sin came death. This is why everyone must die—because everyone sinned.

But God's free gift is not like Adam's sin. Many people died because of the sin of that one man. But the grace from God was much greater; many people received God's gift of life by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

One man sinned, and so death ruled all people because of that one man. But now those people who accept God's full grace and the great gift of being made right with him will surely have true life and rule through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law but under God's grace.

So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? No!

I use this example because this is hard for you to understand. In the past you offered the parts of your body to be slaves to sin and evil; you lived only for evil. In the same way now you must give yourselves to be slaves of goodness. Then you will live only for God.

The law was without power, because the law was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. By sending his Son to be an offering for sin, God used a human life to destroy sin.

When people's thinking is controlled by the sinful self, they are against God, because they refuse to obey God's law and really are not even able to obey God's law.

Your body will always be dead because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God.

Everything God made was changed to become useless, not by its own wish but because God wanted it and because all along there was this hope:

God can see what is in people's hearts. And he knows what is in the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit speaks to God for his people in the way God wants.

We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. They are the people he called, because that was his plan.

Who can accuse the people God has chosen? No one, because God is the One who makes them right.

Who can say God's people are guilty? No one, because Christ Jesus died, but he was also raised from the dead, and now he is on God's right side, appealing to God for us.