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And not thus only, but also in afflictions we exult; for we know that affliction perfecteth patience in us,

but hope maketh us not ashamed, because the love of Aloha is shed forth upon our hearts by the Spirit of Holiness who is given to us.

But if the Meshiha on account of our infirmity in this time for the wicked hath died:

And not thus only, but we also exult in Aloha through our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

But not as was the fall, so is the gift; for if, on account of the fall of one, many died, how much more the grace of Aloha, and his gift, for the sake of one man, Jeshu Meshiha, in many will abound ?

And not as the transgression of one, so is the gift; for the judgment that was by one was unto condemnation, but the gift (which saves) from many sins was unto righteousness.

But the entrance which was of the law, (made) sin to increase; and where sin increased, there grace hath abounded:

nor prepare your members the instruments of iniquity unto sin, but prepare yourselves for Aloha, as men who from the dead have been made alive, and your members instruments to be for the righteousness of Aloha.

For sin shall not rule over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.

What, then, shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace ? Not so.

But praise to Aloha that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine to which you have been delivered.

BUT know you not, my brethren, for to those who know the law I speak, that the law has authority over a man as long as he liveth ?

as a woman who is bound in law to her husband as long as he liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is freed from the law of her husband.

But if, while her husband lives, she adhere to another man, she becometh an adulteress; but if her husband shall die, she is freed from the law, and is not an adulteress, though she become (the wife) of another man.

but now we are loosed from the law, and are dead to that which held us, that we might serve henceforth in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the writing.

What then, say we the law is sin ? Not so. But sin I had not learned (to know) but by the law: for I had not known concupiscence (to be sinful), but (by) the law, which hath said, Thou shalt not covet.

But I was alive without the law formerly: but when the commandment came, sin lived, and I died.

The good, then, unto me, unto death was made? Not so. But sin, that it might be seen what sin is, by the good (law) effected death in me, that sin might be the more condemned by the commandment.

For we know that the law is spiritual ; [fn] but I am carnal, and sold unto sin.

For what I work, I know [fn] not; and not that which I will, I do; but what I hate, that I do.