and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,

For if he was made upright by what he did, it is something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God,

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants that the world should belong to him did not come to him or his descendants through the Law, but through the uprightness that resulted from his faith.

as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." The promise is guaranteed in the very sight of God in whom he had faith, who can bring the dead to life and call into being what does not exist.

His faith did not weaken, although he realized that his own body was worn out, for he was about a hundred years old, and that Sarah was past bearing children.

He did not incredulously question God's promise, but his faith gave him power and he praised God

but also on ours, for it is to be credited also to us who have faith in him who raised from the dead our Lord Jesus,

Through baptism we have been buried with him in death, so that just as he was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too may live a new life.

for when a man is dead he is free from the claims of sin.

for we know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more hold on him.

For when he died, he became once for all dead to sin; the life he now lives is a life in relation to God.

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death!

So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Did what was good, then, prove the death of me? Certainly not! It was sin that did so, so that it might be recognized as sin, because even through something that was good it effected my death, so that through the command it might appear how immeasurably sinful sin was.

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.

Will not he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, with that gift give us everything?

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.

On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?"

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.

And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

or " 'Who will go down into the depths?' " that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

For if with your lips you acknowledge the message that Jesus is Lord, and with your mind you believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

But I ask again, did Israel fail to understand? Why, to begin with, Moses said, "I will make you jealous of what is no nation at all, I will exasperate you at a senseless nation."

For if their rejection has meant the reconciling of the world, what can the acceptance of them mean but life from the dead?

for if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you.

For Christ died and returned to life for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

Christ did not please himself, but as the Scripture says, "The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me."

Remember me to Andronicus and Junias, my fellow-countrymen, who went to prison with me. They are noted men among the missionaries, and they became Christians before I did.