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But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed!

and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth—

For just as it is written, " the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you ."

God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus' faithfulness.

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God's wrath.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned—

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly but because of God who subjected it—in hope