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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.

For what does the scripture say? " Abraham believed God , and it was credited to him as righteousness ."

Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say, "faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness ."

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants—not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

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.

He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)

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

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

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.

For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!