For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.