And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

<t /><p class="bodytext">What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?

Now the law came in<n id="1" /> so that the transgression<n id="2" /> may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

To all those loved by God in Rome,<n id="1" /> called to be saints:<n id="2" /> Grace and peace to you<n id="3" /> from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!p>

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.p>

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed<n id="1" /> from the heart that pattern<n id="2" /> of teaching you were entrusted to,

The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.p>

Thanks be<n id="1" /> to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then,<n id="2" /> I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but<n id="3" /> with my flesh I serve<n id="4" /> the law of sin.p>

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression.<n id="1" /> For if the many died through the transgression of the one man,<n id="2" /> how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!