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but also for us. It will be credited to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.

For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.

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

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.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift which comes through the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed to the many.

So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is justification leading to life for everyone.

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

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.

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us to bear fruit for death.