From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness.

FOR IN IT IS BEING REVEALED A RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH PROCEEDS FROM GOD, FROM FAITH UNTO FAITH; AS IT IS WRITTEN.

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

Be it far from us; for in that case how could God judge the world?

All have swerved from the right path; Every one of them has become corrupt. There is none that practices good, no, not one.

But now, quite apart from any law, a righteousness coming from God has been fully brought to light, continually witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets.

I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile,

since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God;

For I conclude that a man is justified by faith, altogether apart from the deeds of the Law.

Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.

For it will be "reckoned for righteousness." to us also, who believe on him that raised from the dead our Lord Jesus;

By how much more, then, being now justified in his blood, shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned as king, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Now Adam is a type of Him who was to come.

And it is not with the free gift as it was through the one that sinned; for the judgment came from one transgression unto condemnation; but the free gift came from many transgressions unto acquittal.

We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.

Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.

For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man.

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code.

Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject??21 yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thralldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

Who is there to condemn them? Will Christ who died? Yes, and who rose from the dead, The Christ who is also at the right hand of God, And is interceding for us?

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Nor height, nor depth, Nor any other created thing, Shall be able to separate us from the love of God Which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

It is not, however, as though God's word had failed! For they are not all Israel who have sprung from Israel;

Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.

Nor, ??ho shall descend into the abyss?"??hat is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved.

So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written. The deliver will come from Zion, He will banish all ungodliness from Jacob;

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

Every one should be in the higher authorities; for there is no authority apart from God. The authorities that now exist have been appointed by God.

This is why I have been so hindered from coming to you.

that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judea; that my mission to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the saints;

Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.