Study Desk

God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about his Son—that I constantly mention you,

For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

Or do you despise the riches of his kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

He will repay each one according to his works:

and know his will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

So if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

But if by my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?

For no one will be justified in his sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

God presented him as an atoning sacrifice in his blood, received through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.

God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so that he would be righteous and declare righteous the one who has faith in Jesus.

But to the one who does not work, but believes on him who declares the ungodly to be righteous, his faith is credited for righteousness.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about a hundred years old) and also the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

He did not waver in unbelief at God’s promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

How much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by his blood, will we be saved through him from wrath.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection.