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who will render to every man according to his actions: eternal life to those,

for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin.

being justified by his unmerited favour through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ:

whom God had ordained, thro' faith, to be the propitiatory victim by his blood, for the manifestation of his goodness, by patiently passing over their past transgressions: to manifest,

I say, his goodness at this time: that he might appear to be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.

whereas he that trusts in God to be made righteous, tho' he has not done such actions, shall find his faith accounted as righteousness.

even as David also speaks of the happiness of the man whom God accounted righteous independently of his works,

Besides, the promise that he should possess the world, was not made to Abraham, or to his posterity in consideration of the law, but with regard to the righteousness by faith.

therefore the inheritance is of faith, that it might be meerly of favour, to the end the promise might be assured to all his posterity, not to that part only who have the law, but to that also who have the faith of Abraham, the father of us all, as it is written,

far from being weak in faith, unconcern'd at his own bodily decay, being then about an hundred years old, and at Sarah's incapacity of child-bearing,

now this saying, "that it was accounted to him," was not written for his sake alone,

but herein hath God displayed his love towards us, in that Christ died for us, even while we were yet sinners.

much more then being now justified by his blood, shall we thro' him be delivered from the wrath to come.

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.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, so death by this sin; and thereby death passed upon all men, who all by his means became mortal.

don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death.

for if we resembled him with regard to death, certainly we shall likewise do so with regard to his resurrection:

for as to his death, he died upon the account of sin once for all; but as to his being alive, he lives to the glory of God for ever.

by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?

God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.