Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.

But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.

Now paying a workman is not considered a favor, but an obligation,

by whom we have been introduced through faith to the favor of God that we now enjoy, and let us glory in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

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

I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.

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

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.

But now the Law no longer applies to us; we have died to what once controlled us, so that we can now serve in the new Spirit, not under the old letter.

For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us.

We know that all creation has been groaning in agony together until now.

For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because they disobeyed,

so they are now disobedient in order that they in turn may experience the same mercy as you.

All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

But now there is no more work for me in this part of the world, and as I have had a great desire for many years to come to see you,

Just now I am starting for Jerusalem, to take help to God's people.

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,