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

so that, just as sin exercised dominion in death, so grace might also exercise dominion through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin 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 presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.

In the same way, my friends, 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 are slaves 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 I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand.

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

so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ—if, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

Even before they had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's purpose of election might continue,

So it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

So then he has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses.

and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—