For he who has died has been freed from sin.

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made you free from the law of sin and of death.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

of whom are the patriarchs, and from whom is the Christ, as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)"

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

For from him and by him and in him are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are appointed by God.

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

You are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and does not drink from the flock's milk?

Do you not know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For man is not from woman, but woman from man;

For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is from heaven.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

And I wrote this very thing, so that, when I came, I would not have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? We do not need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you, do we?

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, to prevent the light shining from the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For truly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love from us that is in you, see that you also abound in this grace.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

I robbed other churches, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

When I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I do not know; God knows),

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ,

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should proclaim to you a "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God does not show partiality to man)?they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to slavery, which is Hagar.