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Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is of the faith of Jesus Christ

But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith.

And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara.

But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.

Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son: much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death?

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.

But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?

What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?

For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.