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You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

Verse ConceptsHarvestPlansSowing And ReapingFruitful LabourHindering God's Work

and knowest his will, and hast experience of good and bad, in that thou art informed by the law:

Verse ConceptsInstructionScholarsKnowing God's WillGreat ThingsStudying The LawKnowing God's Characterdiscrimination

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

Verse ConceptsLiving In The LightLightBelieving In Yourself

For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Verse ConceptsRitualIf You Do Not Keep CommandsIf You Keep The Commandments

What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or, what benefit does circumcision confer?

Verse ConceptsAdvantagesNecessity Of CircumcisionJews

it could not be so: but let God be true, and every man a liar; as indeed it has been written, In order that you may be justified in your words, and shall prevail, in your judgment.

Verse ConceptsHonestyReliabilityFar Be It!God SuingThose Who Are LiarsMan's Relation To GodOvercomingTelling The Truth

For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Verse ConceptsLyingWhat Sin?

Everyone has turned away [from God]. All of them have become worthless. No one is [always] kind; no, not even one person."

Verse ConceptsCharacter Of WickedPeople Going AstrayUseless PeopleNot Going GoodNo One Available

God presented Him to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be righteous and declare righteous the one who has faith in Jesus.

Verse ConceptsAssurance, nature ofGod, Justice OfImputed RighteousnessRighteous By Faith

Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!

Verse ConceptsReckoningWorks Of The LawRighteousness imputed

'Blessed are those whose wrong-doings have been forgiven and over whose sins a veil has been drawn!

Verse ConceptsLawlessnessBlessed Through GodGod Will ForgiveForgiveness

Does this blessedness then rest on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

Verse ConceptsCouncil of JerusalemNecessity Of CircumcisionRighteous By Faith

How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

Verse ConceptsRighteousness imputed

For if the law party is to possess the world, then faith has been nullified and the promise has been made null and void.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionSaved By FaithGod's Promise To AbrahamValue

As it is written, "I have made thee a father to many nations," even before God whom thou hast believed, which quickeneth the dead and called those things which be not, as though they were.

Verse ConceptsExistenceFaithChaosGod, The CreatorThe Existence Of ThingsExistence Through GodNon ExistenceThe Dead Are RaisedGod's CallCalling

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through [the action of] one man [i.e., Adam] and [physical] death through that sin, so [physical] death has spread to all people, because all people have sinned. [Note: This difficult passage (verses 12-21) seems to be saying that the entire human race must experience physical death because of Adam's sin (I Cor. 5:22), which is somehow considered to be everyone's sin. See Murray, pp. 180-187, for a thorough discussion].

Verse ConceptsThe DeadDeath, Description OfAdam, DescendantsCondemnation, Causes OfExcusesevil, origins ofBeing Born In SinHistoryLast ThingsLife, HumanUniversality Of DeathMortalityParticipation, In SinPunishment, Nature OfResponsibility, To GodSin, Causes OfSin, Universality OfSinnersSuffering, Nature OfFall Of ManHereditySin, Consequences OfThe Sin NatureAdam, Results Of SinMiscegenation (racial Intermarriage)The Reality Of SinSin Producing DeathAll PeopleOnly One PersonSin Produces DeathThe Entrance Of SinDeathAdam and eveAdam and eve disobey godDeath ofnatural DeathRaceLoss Of A Loved One

And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.

Verse ConceptsAdam and Jesus ChristAssurance, nature ofCondemnation Of The WickedNot Like ThingsJudgementcondemnation

Therefore, as, by one offense, sentence came on all men to condemnation, so, also, by one act of righteousness, the gift has come on all men to justification of life.

Verse ConceptsAtonementJesus Christ, Obedience OfJustification Under The GospelSalvation, Possible To All MenLife In ChristCondemnation Of The WickedAll PeopleLife Is In ChristPatience In Relationships

in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Verse Conceptseternal life, gift ofSin, Causes OfSin, Universality OfGrace, Description OfComplicityJustified By GraceExercise

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

Verse ConceptsChristians, Names OfSinUnder The LawWhilst Alive

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

Verse ConceptsWithout The LawSex Before Marriageadultry

But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.

Verse ConceptsPaul, Teaching OfRitualService To GodChristian Liberty Is Freedom FromNew Birth, Described AsThe Holy Spirit, And RegenerationThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureNew LifeOld ThingsDead To SinWithout The Law

Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstSin Producing DeathGood WordsEffect Of The LawFar Be It!Sin Produces DeathThe Entrance Of SinLegallaw

Now really it is not I that am doing these things, but it is sin which has its home within me.

Verse ConceptsNot MeThe Entrance Of SinLiving In SinLife Struggles

But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is really not I that am doing these things, but it is sin which has its home within me.

Verse ConceptsThe Sin NatureNot MeThe Entrance Of Sin

Thank God! It has been done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my higher nature I am a slave to the law of God, but in my lower nature, to the law of sin.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillThank God!The MindServing God

For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected [it], in hope

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Effects Of FallDecayNot My Will But God'sUseless EndeavourThe Universe AffectedliberationMoral Decay

for we are saved but by hope: but hope supposes things not yet present; for how can a man hope for what he has now in possession?

Verse ConceptsHope, As ConfidenceVisionAnticipationThe Faculty Of SightThe Hope Of The GospelUnseen FaithBeing SavedHope And FaithHope Kjv

And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual UnderstandingSaintsSearchingChristians, Names OfGod, All knowingGod Searching HeartsAll Believers Are SaintsPrayer, And God's Willmindset

nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Verse ConceptsdepthLove, Nature OfChrist, Names ForAgape LoveSpiritual DepthsNothing MissingGod's Love For UsGod's Creation

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Verse ConceptsNot Defeatedisrael

Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?

Verse ConceptsBlameResistanceGod Works His Will