shall be justified by deeds of law. For through law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But, as it is, the divine uprightness has been disclosed apart from 22 law, though the law and the prophets witness to it; that is, the divine uprightness which through faith in Jesus Christ is for all who believe. 23 There is no difference; all have sinned and fall short of the majesty of 24 God, being freely justified by his grace through the redemption which 25 is in Christ Jesus, whom God designed to be through faith a sacrifice of propitiation by his blood, in proof of his uprightness, seeing that the 26 former sins had been let pass through the forbearance of God-in proof of his uprightness at the present time, that he might be just himself and 27 might justify the man of faith in Jesus. Then where is the exulting? Shut out. By what kind of law? a law of deeds? No, by a 28 law of faith. For we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from 29 deeds of law. What! is God only the God of Jews? Is he not the God of 30 Gentiles also? Assuredly, of Gentiles also, seeing that it is one God who shall justify the Circumcision in consequence of faith and the Uncircum31 cision through the same faith. Then "through faith" do "we annul the law"? God forbid! we uphold the law. 41 What then shall we say was gained by Abraham our forefather after 2 the flesh? If "Abraham was justified by deeds," he has something to 3 exult about. But not to exult before God. For what saith the scripture? 4 Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as uprightness. Now a 5 worker has his wages counted as a due, not as a favour; whereas one who is no worker but a believer on him who justifies the impious, has his faith 6 counted as uprightness. Just as David also pronounces that man to be "happy," to whom God counts uprightness apart from deeds; 778 Happy they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered! 9 Is this happiness then pronounced for the Circumcision, or for the Uncircumcision as well? We say, Abraham's faith was counted to him as 10 uprightness. Then how was it counted? When he was in circumcision 11 or in uncircumcision? In uncircumcision, not circumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the uprightness which belonged to the faith he had when he was in uncircumcision, so that he might be the father of all who believe amid uncircumcision, that uprightness 12 might be counted to them, and the father of circumcision to those who not only belong to the Circumcision but also walk in the steps of the faith which 13 our father Abraham had when he was in uncircumcision. For the promise made to Abraham or to his offspring, that he should be heir of the world, came not through the law but through the uprightness of 14 faith. For if those who are of the law are heirs, then faith is void, the 15 promise vain. (For the law results in wrath; but where there is no law, 16 there is no transgression either.) Therefore heirship is of faith, so as to be a matter of grace, in order that the promise may be confirmed to all the offspring, not merely to the offspring which is of the law, but also to 17 the seed which is of Abraham's faith (who is father of us all; as it is written father of many nations have I made thee) by the judgment of the God whom he believed, who makes the dead live and calls into being the 18 things which are not-Abraham, who against hope believed in hope; that he should be father of many nations, according to the saying, so shall thy 19 offspring be-without becoming weak in faith, he marked his own body, which was now as good as dead (he was already about a hundred years 20 old), also the deadness of Sara's womb, yet hesitated not in unbelief over 21 God's promise, but grew strong in faith, doing honour to God and being 22 fully convinced that he was able to do what he had promised. Therefore 23 it was1 counted to him as uprightness. Now the word "it was 24 counted to him" was not written for his sake alone but also for the sake of us, to whom it is to be counted, as we believe on him who raised from 25 the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. 51 Justified then by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord 2 Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our access into this grace in which we stand. And we exult in hope of the majesty of God. 3 Not only so, but we exult also in our distresses, knowing that distress 4 results in patient endurance, patient endurance in tried character, 5 tried character in hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the holy Spirit given 6 to us. For Christ, while we were still weak, died at the appointed time 7 for impious men (even for an upright man one will hardly die: though perhaps for what is good, one might, if need be, bring himself to die); 8 God proves his own love to us in this, that Christ died for us while we 9 were still sinners. Much more then, as we are now justified by his blood, 10 we shall be saved through him from the Wrath. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son; much 11 more, after being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 12 Not only so, but we exult also in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Therefore, as through one man sin came into the world, and through 13 sin death; and so death spread to all men, seeing that all sinned:-for sin was in the world already before law; but in the absence of law, sin 14 is not charged. Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned, even over those who did not sin after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who is to come. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 But very different is the free gift from the trespass. Much more did the grace of God and that free gift Which is by the grace of the man Jesus Christ abound to the many. So also through the upright act of One the issue for all is justifica- For just as through the one man's disobedience the many were consti tuted sinners, So also through the obedience of the One shall the many be constituted upright. Now the law came in between to increase the trespass : But where sin increased, grace abounded to overflowing; So that as sin reigned in death, Grace might also reign through uprightness to life eternal, through 1 Omitting [[]]. 2 Reading zomer. 3 Omitting [[ zioru]]. 61 What then shall we say? Are we to "continue in sin that grace may 2 increase"? God forbid! We who died to sin, how shall we live in it 3 any longer? What! are you ignorant that all we who were baptized 4 into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried with him, then, through our baptism into that death of his, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the majesty of the Father, so we might also walk in newness of life. 12 13 14 15 For if we have become united with the likeness of his death, As we know that our old man was crucified with him, In order to do away with the body of sin, We believe we shall also live with him ; For we know that as Christ was raised from the dead, he dies no more, In dying he died once for all to sin, But in living he lives for God. So also do you reckon yourselves as dead to sin, But alive for God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin then reign in your mortal body, getting its desires obeyed, For you are not under any law, but under grace. What then? are we to "sin, because we are not under the law but 16 under grace"? God forbid! Do you not know that you are the slaves of him whom you obey, to whom you present yourselves as obedient slaves, 17 be it of sin for death or of obedience for uprightness? But, thank God, though you were slaves of sin you became cordially obedient to that type 18 of teaching to which you were handed over. Freed from sin you became 19 slaves to uprightness. (I am speaking from a human standpoint, owing to the weakness of your flesh.) 20 21 26 22 As you presented your members to the service of impurity and wickedness for wickedness, So now present your members to the service of uprightness for sanctification. For when you were slaves to sin, you were free so far as uprightness is concerned. What fruit then had you at that time? simply fruit of which you are now ashamed, actions whose outcome is death. But now, freed from sin, and enslaved to God, You have your fruit in sanctification, and-as the outcome-life eternal. 23 For the pay of sin is death, But God's free gift is life eternal in Christ our Lord. 71 What are you ignorant, brothers-I am speaking to men who know 2 what law is that the law is lord over a man during his lifetime? The married woman is by law bound to her husband while he is alive; but 3 if the husband dies, she has done with the law of "the husband." Well then, while the husband is alive, she shall be styled "adulteress" if she becomes another man's; but if the husband dies, she is free from the 4 law, so that she is no adulteress when she becomes another man's. So is it with you also, my brothers. You were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so as to become Another's, to belong to him 5 who was raised from the dead-that we might bear fruit to God. For, when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions which were due to the 6 law wrought in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have done with the law, we died to what held us; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of written law. 7 What then shall we say? That "the law is sin"? God forbid! Yet, had it not been for the law, I would not have come to know sin. For indeed I would not have understood what it is to covet, unless the law 8 had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin seized its opportunity and through the commandment its result in me was covetousness of every kind; for 9 apart from law, sin is lifeless. At one time I was living apart from law; 10 but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. Yea, the commandment which is for life, proved in my experience death. 11 For sin seized its opportunity, beguiled me through the commandment, 12 and through the commandment killed me. So the law at least is holy, 13 and the commandment holy, just, and of value.-Then did what is of value become death to me? God forbid! It was sin, sin resulting in death for me through what is good, that it might be exhibited as sin, that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know the law is spiritual; but I am a creature of flesh, sold 15 under sin; I know not what I am executing. I do not act according to 16 my will; I am doing what I hate. Now if I am acting against my will, 17 I concur in the excellence of the law. Yet as things are, it is no longer 18 I who execute, but sin which dwells within me. For in me, that is in my flesh, I know that no good dwells. To will I find is attainable, but 19 not to execute what is good. For I am not, according to my will, doing 20 good; I am acting against my will, for evil. Now if I am doing what is exactly against my will, it is no longer I who execute, it is sin which dwells 21 in me. As for the law then, this is my experience: when my will is to 22 do good, evil (I find) is alone attainable. For with the inner man 1 23 gladly approve God's law; but in my members I discover another law, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me captive under 24 the law of sin, which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! who 25 shall rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Well then, left to myself, I serve God's law with the 81 mind, but sin's law with the flesh. Now, therefore, there is no 2 condemnation for those in Christ Jesus; the law of the Spirit of life in 3 Christ Jesus has brought freedom from the law of sin and death. For God effected what the law found impossible, as there the flesh made it weak :by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin-offering, 4 he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, as we walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. 5 6 7 8 For those who are after the flesh mind the affairs of the flesh, The mind of the flesh is death But the mind of the spirit is life and peace Inasmuch as the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; For to God's law it does not, indeed it cannot, subject itself. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God: 1 Omitting. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 But you are not in the flesh, you are in the spirit, If anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his ; While the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of uprightness. And if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies live through his Spirit dwelling in you. Well then, brothers, we are debtors-not to the flesh, to live after the flesh; If you live after the flesh, death awaits you: But if by the Spirit you put the doings of the body to death, life shall be yours. For all who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. of God. And if children, then heirs, Heirs of God and heirs along with Christ, Seeing that we suffer with him, that with him also we may be exalted. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to 19 be compared with the majesty which is to be revealed in us. For in eager anticipation the creation waits for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was made subject to frailty, not from its own choice but 21 by the will of him who subjected it, the hope being that the creation itself also was to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the 22 freedom of the majesty of God's children. Indeed we know that all the creation groans and travails in pain, together with them, up to the present 23 time. And not only so, but even we with the firstfruits of the Spirit, we also groan within ourselves as we wait for our sonship, even for the release 24 of our body. Yea for hope were we saved. Now a seen hope is no hope. 25 Who hopes for what he sees? Whereas if we are hoping for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. 26 27 Likewise the Spirit also helps our weakness; For we know not what to pray for, according to our need, But the Spirit itself pleads on our behalf with groans unutterable. And the Searcher of hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, Knows that it is pleading for the saints according to God's will. 28 Now we know that God makes all things work together for good to those who love him, to those who are called in virtue of his purpose. For those whom he fore-knew, he also fore-appointed, 29 30 31 To be made like the image of his Son, That he might be the first-born among many brothers. And whom he justified, these he also exalted. What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also bestow on us all things with him? |