in God’s sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

We have also obtained access through Him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

or, “Who will go down into the abyss?” that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?