“Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”

(as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.

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

Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.

that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),

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

But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? Indeed they have;
“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,
And their words to the ends of the world.”

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?