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whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith, for a demonstration of His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;

for the demonstration of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Now to the one who works, his wage is not counted according to grace, but according to what is due.

But to the one who does not work, but believes upon Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

For the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

And without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb;

Now not for his sake only was it written that it was counted to him,

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

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

Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,

For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.

Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers;

He who indeed did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?

for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that the purpose of God according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"

And what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,