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For the promise to Avraham and his seed that he would inherit the world did not come through legalism but through the righteousness that trust produces.

For what law brings is punishment. But where there is no law, there is also no violation.

The reason the promise is based on trusting is so that it may come as God's free gift, a promise that can be relied on by all the seed , not only those who live within the framework of the Torah, but also those with the kind of trust Avraham had — Avraham avinu for all of us.

But the words, "it was credited to his account . . . ," were not written for him only.

But not only that, let us also boast in our troubles; because we know that trouble produces endurance,

But God demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

And not only will we be delivered in the future, but we are boasting about God right now, because he has acted through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, through whom we have already received that reconciliation.

Sin was indeed present in the world before Torah was given, but sin is not counted as such when there is no Torah.

But the free gift is not like the offence. For if, because of one man's offence, many died, then how much more has God's grace, that is, the gracious gift of one man, Yeshua the Messiah, overflowed to many!

No, the free gift is not like what resulted from one man's sinning; for from one sinner came judgment that brought condemnation; but the free gift came after many offences and brought acquittal.

And the Torah came into the picture so that the offence would proliferate; but where sin proliferated, grace proliferated even more.

For his death was a unique event that need not be repeated; but his life, he keeps on living for God.

In the same way, consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God, by your union with the Messiah Yeshua.

For sin will not have authority over you; because you are not under legalism but under grace.

Therefore, what conclusion should we reach? "Let's go on sinning, because we're not under legalism but under grace"? Heaven forbid!

but what benefit did you derive from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end result of those things was death.

For what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.

For example, a married woman is bound by Torah to her husband while he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is released from the part of the Torah that deals with husbands.

Therefore, while the husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress if she marries another man; but if the husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah; so that if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.

But now we have been released from this aspect of the Torah, because we have died to that which had us in its clutches, so that we are serving in the new way provided by the Spirit and not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the law.