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For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,

But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.

Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.

But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.