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For if the truth of God is made abundant through my falsehood to his glory, why then am I to be judged as a sinner?

For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified before his presence: for by means of the law, sin is known.

Whom God has foreordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood for the remission of our sins that are past;

By the opportunity which God has given us through his forbearance, for the manifestation of his righteousness at the present time, that he might be declared righteous; and for the justification of righteousness to him who is in the faith of our LORD Jesus Christ.

And to him who works not, but only believes in him who justifies sinners, his faith is counted for righteousness.

For he received circumcision as a sign and a seal of the righteousness of his faith while he was uncircumcised: that he might become the father of all them who believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be given to them also;

For the promise to Abraham and his seed that he should inherit the world was not made through the law, but through the righteousness of his faith.

Therefore it is by faith that we will be justified by grace; so that the promise might be sure to all his seed; not only to him who is of the law, but also to him who is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all,

His faith never weakened even when he examined his old body when he was a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah''s womb.

He did not doubt the promise of God as one who lacks faith; but his faith gave him strength, and he gave glory to God.

That his faith was given for righteousness, was not written for his sake alone,

God has here manifested his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Much more then, being justified by his blood, we shall be delivered 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, we shall be saved by his life.

Do you not know, that those of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death?

Therefore, we are buried with him by baptism into death: so that as Jesus Christ arose from the dead by the glory of his Father, even so we also shall walk in a new life.

For if we have been planted together with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Do you not know, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are, for you obey him, whether it be to sin or whether it be of obedience to righteousness?

For the law was weak through the weakness of the flesh, so God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin, in order to condemn sin by means of his flesh:

And if the Spirit of Him who raised our LORD Jesus Christ from the dead dwells within you, so he who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells within you.