14 a world; but through righteousness of faith. For if they of law are heirs, faith has become vain, and the 15 promise has been made void. For the law works wrath:

but where no law is, neither is there transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, in order that the promise may be steadfast to all the seed, not only to that of the law, but also to that of the 17 faith of Abraham who is father of us all, (even as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) in the presence of God before whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which are not 18 as though they were; who against hope believed in hope, that he might become father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be; 19 and being not weak in the faith, he considered his own body become dead, when he was about an hundred years 20 old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb: and with respect

to the promise of God, he doubted not in unbelief; but 21 became strong in the faith, giving glory to God, and being fully persuaded that, what he has promised, he is able 22 also to do. Wherefore also it was reckoned to him for 23 righteousness. But it was not written for his sake alone 24 that it was reckoned to him; but for our sakes also, to whom it is about to be reckoned, if we believe on him that 25 raised Jesus our Lord from the dead; who was delivered up on account of our trespasses, and was raised on account of our justification.

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BEING then justified by faith, let us have peace with 2 God through our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom also we have had the access by faith into this grace wherein we 3 stand, and let us glory in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but let us glory in our afflictions also, knowing 4 that affliction works patience; and patience approval; 5 and approval hope; and hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured forth in our 6 hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given unto us. For still did Christ, when we were still without strength, in due 7 season die for the ungodly; for scarcely for a righteous

man will one die; yet for the good man peradventure some one may even dare to die; but God commends 8 his own love toward us, that when we were still sinners, Christ died for us; much more then, being now justified 9 by his blood, we shall be saved through him, from the wrath. For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God 10 through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life; and not only so, but 11 also glorying in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, 12 and through sin death, and thus death came through unto all men, inasmuch as all sinned; for until law sin 13 was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, 14 even over them that did not sin after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the one to come. But not as the trespass is also the free gift; for if by 15 the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound unto the many. And not as it was 16 through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment came of one unto condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification. For if by the trespass 17 of the one death reigned through the one; much more will they who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. Accordingly then, as through one trespass the 18 result was unto all men to condemnation; so also through one righteous act, the result was unto all men unto justification of life: for as through the disobedience of the 19 one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one will the many be constituted righteous. But law entered besides, that the trespass 20 might be multiplied; but where sin multiplied, grace superabounded; that as sin reigned in the death, so also grace 21 might reign through righteousness unto life everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord.

CH. VI. WHAT then shall we say? let us continue in sin that 2 grace may be multiplied? God forbid. We who died 3 unto sin, how shall we still live therein? What? know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Christ 4 Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through the baptism into the death: that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of 5 life. For if we have become grown together in the likeness of his death, surely we shall be also in the 6 likeness of his resurrection; knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, in order that we might no longer be in 7 bondage to sin; for he that died has been made free 8 from sin. But if we died with Christ, we believe that we 9 shall also live with him, knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has dominion over him 10 no more. For the death that he died, he died unto sin

once for all but the life that he lives, he lives unto God. 11 So also reckon ye yourselves to be dead unto sin, but living 12 unto God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in

your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof, 13 neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as being alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of 14 righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under law but under grace.

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What then? are we to sin, because we are not under 16 law but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of 17 obedience unto righteousness? But thanks be to God,

that ye were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart 18 the type of doctrine into which ye were delivered, and being made free from sin, were made servants to 19 righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as ye presented your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto

iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness unto sanctification. For when ye were 20 servants of sin, ye were free as to righteousness. What 21 fruit then had ye at that time? Things whereof ye are now ashamed; for the end of them is death. But now 22 being made free from sin, and made servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift 23 of God is life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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WHAT? know ye not, brethren, for I speak to them that VII. know law, that the law has dominion over the man as long as he lives? For the woman who has an husband 2 is bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband die, she is loosed from the law of the husband. So then while the husband lives she will be called an 3 adulteress if she be connected with another man; but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress though she be connected with another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law 4 through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, him that was raised from the dead, in order that we might bring forth fruit unto God. For when we 5 were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death; but now we are loosed from the law, having died 6 to that wherein we were held; so that we are in bondage in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God 7 forbid; but I did not know sin, except through law; for I had not known coveting, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin took occasion, and through the 8 commandment wrought in me all manner of coveting; for apart from law sin is dead. And I was alive apart 9 from law once: but when the commandment came, sin came to life again, and I died; and the commandment, 10 which was for life, this I found to be for death. For sin 11 took occasion, and through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me. So that the law is holy, and 12

13 the commandment holy, and just, and good. Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid, but it was sin that became so; that it might appear sin, working death to me through that which is good, that sin might 14 become exceeding sinful through the commandment. For

we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold 15 under sin. For what I work I know not: for not what I 16 desire, that I commit; but what I hate, that I do. But if

what I desire not that I do, I consent unto the law that it 17 is good; but now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin 18 that dwells in me. For I know that there dwells not in

me, that is, in my flesh, a good thing. For to desire is present with me; but to work that which is good, not; 19 for the good that I desire I do not: but the bad which I 20 desire not, that I commit. But if I do that which I desire

not, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that dwells 21 in me. I find therefore this law, that, when I desire to do 22 the good, the bad is present with me. For I delight in the 23 law of God after the inward man, but see a different law in

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my members, warring against the law of my mind, and making me a captive in the law of sin which is in my 24 members. Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me 25 from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So that I myself with the mind am in bondage to God's law, but with the flesh to sin's law. THERE is therefore now no condemnation to them who 2 are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set me free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God by sending his own Son in likeness of the flesh of sin and on account of sin, condemned sin in 4 the flesh; that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the 5 spirit. For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the spirit the things of 6 the spirit; for the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind 7 of the spirit life and peace. Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subjected to the