through whom also we have [obtained] access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned.

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, {sold into slavery to sin}.

that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

But the righteousness from faith speaks like this: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down),

or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are {natural branches} be grafted into their own olive tree?