concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers,

For since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his eternal power and deity, has been clearly seen, being understood by the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;

What then? Are we Jews any better off? Certainly not; for we have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin.

Therefore no flesh will be justified in his sight by works of the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin."

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be reckoned to them.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

(For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted when there is no law.

And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the gift following many trespasses brings justification.

Law came in, that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live any longer in it?

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

So you also, consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you obey its passions.

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one to obey as slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

and, having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.

When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is holiness and its end, eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But it was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

So then, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

Thanks be to Godthrough Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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

For what the law could not do, in that it was weakened through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin: he condemned sin in the flesh,

But if Christ is in you, although your body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

For this is what the promise said: "About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son."

as it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, and a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

But he who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.