haps, for a good man, some one might even dare to die; 8 but, God confirmed his love toward us in this; that Christ died for us, while we were yet sinners:

9 much rather then, now that we are justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath, through him:

10 for if, when we were his enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled to him, shall we be saved by his life:

11 and not in this only, but we rejoice also in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now obtained the reconciliation.

12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; so also death passed on all men, inasmuch as all have sinned:

13 (for, sin was in the world until the law, but sin is not imputed if there is no law: 14 nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of him who was to come :)

15 yet, not as was the transgression, is the free gift: for, if through the transgression of one many have died, much more hath the grace of God, and the gift by grace of one

man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many:

16 and not as it was by one that sinned, is the gift: for, the judgment was of one transgression to condemnation, but the free gift is of many transgressions, to justification: 17 for if, by the transgression of one, death reigned through one; much more will they who receive the abundance of the grace of justification, reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. 18 As, therefore, by the transgression of the one, judgment came on all men to condemnation; even so, by the righteousness of the other, the free gift is come on all men to justification of life:

19 for as, by the disobedience of the one man, many have been rendered sinners; so, by the obedience of the other, will many be rendered just:

20 and the law entered, when the transgression had abounded; but when sin abounded, v. 6. grace did much more abound:

21 that, as sin had reigned to death, so also grace might reign to eternal life, by justification through Christ Jesus our Lord.

CHAPTER VI.

WHAT then shall we say?

Let us continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid! how shall we,

who have died to sin, still live in it?

3 Know ye not, that all of us who have been baptized into Christ, have been baptized into his death?

4 we have, therefore, been buried with him, by baptism, into his death; that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life :

5 if, then, we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, so also shall we be in that of his resurrection:

6 knowing also this, that our former manhood is crucified with him, that our body of sin may be destroyed; that we should no longer serve sin:

7 for, he who hath so died, is justified from sin.

8 And we believe, that, if we are so dead with Christ, we shall also live with him;

9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no longer dominion over him:

10 for, in that he died, he died to sin, once for all; but, in that he liveth, he liveth to God.

11 And account ye yourselves, to be so dead to sin, but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12 Let not sin, therefore, reign in your body thus dead, so as that ye should obey its lusts;

13 neither yield ye your members to sin, as instruments of iniquity: but, yield yourselves to God, as having become alive from the dead; and your members also to God, as instruments of justification:

14 for so, sin will not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

16 know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, ye are his servants whom John, viïi. % ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to justification?

17 but, thanks be to God, that though ye were the servants of sin, yet ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you.

18 When, then, ye were freed from sin, ye became the servants of justification:

19 (I speak according to the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh :)

20 as, therefore, ye have yielded your members to iniquity, as servants of uncleanness and of iniquity; even so, now yield your members to holiness, as servants of justification : 21 for, when ye were vants of sin, ye were free from justification :

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c. ii. 16.

Col. ii. 14.

2 Cor. xi. 2.

22 what fruit had ye, then, from those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death:

23 but now, being freed from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit to holiness, and its end eternal life:

24 for, the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

CHAPTER VII.

KNOW ye not, brethren, (for

I am now speaking to them that know the law,) that the law hath dominion over a man so long as he liveth?

2 for the woman that hath an husband, is bound to her husband by the law, so long as he liveth; but, if the husband die, she is loosed from the law of the husband:

3 if, then, while her husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband die, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress if she be wedded to another man.

4 And so, my brethren, ye also have died to the law, through the body of Christ; Eph. v. 30-32. that ye may be wedded to another, even to him who hath been raised from the dead; that we may bring forth fruit to God:

5 for, while we were in the flesh, the motions of the sins which were made such by the c. iii. 20. law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death; 6 but now, we are loosed from the law, having died in that in which we were held to it; so as to serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What, then, shall we say? That the law is sin? God forbid! yet I had not known sin, but through the law; for I had not known concupiscence to be sin, unless the law had said,

Thou shalt not covet:

8 but sin, taking its occasion, through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence;

9 for, without a law, sin is dead; and I lived, at first, without a law:

10 but, when the commandment came to my knowledge, sin came to life, and I died; and the commandment, which was ordained for life, was found to be for death to me:

11 for sin, taking its occasion from the commandment, seduced me, and by it slew me: 12 so that the law itself, is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Was it, then, that which was good, that became death to me? God forbid! but the sin:

c. ix. 11.

14 that it might appear, that sin, which wrought death in c. v. 20.

Gal. v. 17.

me by that which is good, became sinful above measure, through the commandment.

15 For we know, that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin:

16 for, I condemn that which I do; for I do not that which I would, but I do that which I hate :

17 but, if I do that which I would not, I assent to the law that it is good.

18 Now, then, it is no longer I alone that do it, but the sin also that dwelleth in me:

Matt. xix. 17. 19 for I know, that nothing good dwelleth in me (that is, in my flesh); for, though to will that which is good, is present with me, yet, how to perform it, I find not;

20 for I do not the good that I would; but I do the evil I would not:

21 but, if I do that which I would not, it is no longer I alone that do it, but the sin also, that dwelleth in me:

22 I find, therefore, a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me;

23 for I delight in the law of the mind, in my inward manhood;

24 but I see another law, in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity, to the law of the sin which is in my members.

25 O! wretched man that I am! who will deliver me from this body of death!

26 Thanks be to God, who 1 Cor. xv. 5. hath delivered me, through Jesus Christ our Lord!

27 So, then, in the mind, I myself serve the law of God; though in the flesh, the law of sin.

CHAPTER VIII.

THERE is now, therefore,

no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

2 for, the law of the spirit of life, hath freed them, in Christ Jesus, from the law of sin and of death:

3 for, (which the law was not able to do, in that it was rendered weak through the flesh,) God, sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in his flesh; 4 that the justification of the law might be accomplished in us, who walk, not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

5 For they that are according to the flesh, regard the things of the flesh; but they that 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 in enmity towards God; for

it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be;

8 and they that are in the flesh, cannot please God.

9 But, ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwelleth in you: and he is not his, whoever hath not the Spirit of Christ :

10 but, if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, on account of sin; but the spirit is life, on account of justifi

cation:

11 and, if the Spirit of him who raised the man Jesus from the dead, dwelleth in you, he who raised the Christ from the dead, will give life even to your dead bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you:

12 Wherefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; 13 for, if ye live according to the flesh, ye will die; but, if ye deaden the actions of the body by the Spirit, ye will live.

14 Now, all who are led by the Spirit of God, are children of God:

15 for, ye have not again received a spirit of bondage, to fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption.

16 When we cry, Abba, Father, the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;

17 and if children, heirs also;

heirs indeed of God, and jointheirs with Christ, since we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

18 And I reckon, that the sufferings of the present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us:

19 for, the expectation of the human creature, looketh earnestly for the manifestation of the sons of God:

20 for, the creature was not subjected to vanity of his own will, but by him who subjected him to the same;

21 in hope, that the creature himself also will be delivered, from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

22 For we know, that the whole human creation groaneth, 2 Cor. v. 2. and laboureth in pain together, until now;

23 and not they only, but ourselves, also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves; looking earnestly for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our body.

24 For we are saved, by hope: but hope, when it is seen, is not hope; for, why doth any one hope, for that which he seeth?

25 but, when we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it, with patience.