Romans 5:1-9:33 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

MKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through Him we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice on the hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience, ⁴ and patience works out experience, and experience works out hope. ⁵ And hope does not make us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us. ⁶ For we yet being without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ For one will with difficulty die for a righteous one, yet perhaps one would even dare to die for a good one. ⁸ But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. ¹⁰ For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. ¹¹ And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation. ¹² Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned: ¹³ for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. ¹⁴ But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the type of Him who was to come; ¹⁵ but the free gift shall not be also like the offense. For if by the offense of the one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace; which is of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. ¹⁶ And the free gift shall not be as by one having sinned; (for indeed the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses to justification. ¹⁷ For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.) ¹⁸ Therefore as by one offense sentence came on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came to all men to justification of life. ¹⁹ For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous. ²⁰ But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, ²¹ so that as sin has reigned to death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. ⁶ ¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? ² Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? ³ Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection; ⁶ knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin. ⁷ For he who died has been justified from sin. ⁸ But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that when Christ was raised from the dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him. ¹⁰ For in that He died, He died to sin once; but in that He lives, He lives to God. ¹¹ Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. ¹³ Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under Law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Let it not be! ¹⁶ Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness. ¹⁷ But thanks be to our God that you were the slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. ¹⁸ Then being made free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness. ²⁰ For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ⁷ ¹ Or are you ignorant, brothers; for I speak to those who know the Law; that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? ² For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband is dead, she is set free from the law of her husband. ³ So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress by becoming another man's wife. ⁴ So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, even to Him raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death. ⁶ But now we having been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust. ⁸ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin was dead. ⁹ For I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. ¹⁰ And the commandment, which was to life, was found to be death to me. ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. ¹² So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. ¹³ Then has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; in order that sin might become exceedingly sinful by the commandment. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. ¹⁵ For that which I do, I know not. For what I desire, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do. ¹⁶ If then I do that which I do not desire, I consent to the law that it is good. ¹⁷ But now it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not will, that I do. ²⁰ But if I do what I do not desire, it is no more I working it out, but sin dwelling in me. ²¹ I find then a law: when I will to do the right, evil is present with me. ²² For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man; ²³ but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members. ²⁴ O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? ²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. ⁸ ¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ² But the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; ⁴ so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of flesh, but they who are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace ⁷ because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be. ⁸ So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, indeed the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you. ¹² Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. ¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba, Father! ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. ¹⁷ And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but because of Him who subjected it on hope ²¹ that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. ²² And we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. ²³ And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it? ²⁵ But if we hope for that which we do not see, then we wait for it with patience. ²⁶ Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. ²⁷ And He searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. ²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. ²⁹ For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers. ³⁰ But whom He predestinated, these He also called; and whom He called, those He also justified. And whom He justified, these He also glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ³³ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he condemning? It is Christ who has died, but rather also who is raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written, "For Your sake we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep of slaughter." ³⁷ But in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ⁹ ¹ I tell the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, ² that I have great heaviness and continual pain in my heart. ³ For I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh, ⁴ who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises; ⁵ whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ⁶ Not however that the Word of God has failed, for not all those of Israel are Israel; ⁷ nor because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children. But, "In Isaac shall your Seed be called." ⁸ That is, not the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for a seed. ⁹ For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son." ¹⁰ And not only this, but when Rebekah also had conceived by one, by our father Isaac ¹¹ (for the children had not yet been born, neither had done any good or evil; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who called,) ¹² it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger." ¹³ As it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." ¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there not unrighteousness with God? Let it not be! ¹⁵ For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." ¹⁶ So then it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of God, the One showing mercy. ¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth." ¹⁸ Therefore He has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will, He hardens. ¹⁹ You will then say to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will? ²⁰ No, but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me this way? ²¹ Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor? ²² What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; ²³ and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory; ²⁴ whom He also called, not only us, of Jews, but also of the nations? ²⁵ As He also says in Hosea, "I will call those not My people, My people; and those not beloved, Beloved." ²⁶ And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them. "You are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God." ²⁷ Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. ²⁸ For He is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work on the earth." ²⁹ And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah." ³⁰ What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith. ³¹ But Israel, who followed after a law of righteousness did not arrive at a law of righteousness. ³² Why? Because it was not of faith, but as it were by the works of the Law. For they stumbled at that Stumbling-stone; ³³ as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a Stumbling-stone and a Rock-of-offense, and everyone believing on Him shall not be put to shame."