In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life,

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.

who was given up to death to make up for our offenses, and raised to life to make us upright.

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

and hope will not disappoint us. For, through the holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

Why, a man will hardly give his life for an upright person, though perhaps for a really good man some may be brave enough to die.

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

If, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, it is far more certain that now that we are reconciled we shall be saved through sharing in his life!

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

So as one offense meant condemnation for all men, just so one righteous act means acquittal and life for all men.

so that just as sin had reigned through death, mercy might reign through uprightness and bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

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 if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,

If we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with 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.

and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.

For sin must no longer control you, for you live not under law but under mercy.

What follows, then? Are we to sin, because we live not under law but under mercy? Certainly not!

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

and the command that should have meant life in my case proved to mean death.

For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane.

For to be physically minded means death, but to be spiritually minded means life and peace.

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.

So, brothers, we are under obligations, but not to the physical nature, to live under its control,

for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor their hierarchies nor the present nor the future

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!

Moses said that anyone who carried out the uprightness the Law prescribed would find life through it.

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, I am the only one left and they are trying to take my life."

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

Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor,

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be too ambitious, but accept humble tasks. Do not be conceited.

If possible, for your part, live peaceably with everybody.

Owe nobody anything??xcept the duty of mutual love, for whoever loves his fellow-men has fully satisfied the Law.

For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet," and any other commandments there are, are all summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

Let us live honorably, as in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, or in immorality and indecency, or in quarreling and jealousy.

if we live, we are responsible to the Lord, and if we die, we are responsible to him; so whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

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

For the Scripture says, "As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend before me, And every tongue will make its confession to God."

For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.

who risked their necks to save my life. Not only I but also all the churches among the heathen thank them. Remember me also to the church that meets at their house.