God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

(as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

If we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son when we were enemies, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

For if the trespass of one man allowed death to reign through that one man, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ.

Well then, as one man's trespass issued in doom for all, so one man's act of redress issues in acquittal and life for all.

so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

We believe that as we have died with Christ we shall also live with him;

the death he died was for sin, once for all, but the life he lives is for God.

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

Sin must have no hold over you, for you live under grace, not under law.

What follows, then? Are we 'to sin, because we live under grace, not under law'? Never!

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

the command that meant life proved death for me.

the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

in order to secure the fulfilment of the Law's requirements in our lives, as we live and move not by the flesh but by the Spirit.

The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

Well then, my brothers, we owe a duty ??but it is not to the flesh! It is not to live by the flesh!

If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future,

no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thine altars; I alone am left, and they seek my life.

For if their exclusion means that the world is reconciled to God, what will their admission mean? Why, it will be life from the dead!

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

Magistrates are no terror to an honest man, though they are to a bad man. If you want to avoid being alarmed at the government-authorities, lead an honest life and you will be commended for it;

Be in debt to no man ??apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.

You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet ??these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself.

Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

let us live decorously as in the open light of day ??no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.

if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die;

it was for this that Christ died and rose and came to life, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

So why do you criticize your brother? And you, why do you look down upon your brother? All of us have to stand before the tribunal of God ??11 for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bend before me, every tongue shall offer praise to God.

If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

or again, as Isaiah says, Then shall the Scion of Jessai live, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; on him shall the Gentiles set their hope.

Brothers, I beg of you, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love that the Spirit inspires, rally round me by praying to God for me;