Study Desk

He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham's sake,

but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

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

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

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

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

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

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

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.