For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all people.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the written code. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?