5:1Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
5:2by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.
5:3And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;
5:4and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;
5:5and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:
5:6for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.
5:7For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;
5:8but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.
5:9Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.
5:10For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.
5:11And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.
5:12* For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
5:13(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;
5:14but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him to come.
5:15But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.
5:16And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.
5:17For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)
5:18so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.
5:19For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.
5:20But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,
5:21in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6:1What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?
6:2Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
6:3Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?
6:4We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also should walk in newness of life.
6:5For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;
6:6knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.
6:7For he that has died is justified from sin.
6:8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,
6:9knowing that Christ having been raised up from among the dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.
6:10For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
6:11So also *ye*, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
6:13Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.
6:14For sin shall not have dominion over *you*, for ye are not under law but under grace.
6:15What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.
6:16Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
6:17But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.
6:18Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
6:19I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.
6:20For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.
6:21What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* is death.
6:22But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.
6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
7:1Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?
7:2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:
7:3so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.
7:4So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
7:5For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
7:6but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
7:7What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;
7:8but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.
7:9But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.
7:10And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:
7:11for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
7:12So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
7:13Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin.
7:15For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.
7:16But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.
7:17Now then it is no longer *I* that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
7:18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.
7:19For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.
7:20But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, it is no longer *I* that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
7:21I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.
7:22For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:
7:23but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.
7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?
7:25I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then *I* *myself* with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.
8:1There is then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.
8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,
8:4in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit.
8:5For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
8:6For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.
8:7Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:
8:8and they that are in flesh cannot please God.
8:9But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him:
8:10but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.
8:11But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among the dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.
8:12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;
8:13for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:
8:14for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, *these* are sons of God.
8:15For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
8:16The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.
8:17And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
8:18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed to us.
8:19For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:
8:20for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope
8:21that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
8:22For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.
8:23And not only that, but even *we* ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, that is the redemption of our body.
8:24For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?
8:25But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.
8:26And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered.
8:27But he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God.
8:28But we *do* know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.
8:29Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brethren.
8:30But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified.
8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who against us?
8:32He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?
8:33Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God who justifies:
8:34who is he that condemns? It is Christ who has died, but rather has been also raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.
8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
8:36According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
8:37But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us.
8:38For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
8:39nor 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.