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But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?

being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

whom God made publicly available as the mercy seat through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previously committed sins,

in the forbearance of God, for the demonstration of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just and the one who justifies the person by faith in Jesus.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited according to grace, but according to his due.

But to the one who does not work, but who believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness,

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

And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, because he was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

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

Therefore, by much more, because we have been declared righteous now by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath.

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

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

For if we have become identified with him in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be identified with him in the likeness of his resurrection,

For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.

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

because those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brothers.

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all things?

Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?

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