<p class="bodytext">So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

But they are justified<n id="1" /> freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know<n id="1" /> that God&#8217;s kindness leads you to repentance?

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God&#8217;s children.

<p class="bodytext">Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in<n id="1" /> the richness of the olive root,

(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)<n id="1" />p>

Now may the God of peace be with all of you. Amen.<n id="1" />p>

an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth &#8211;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant<n id="1" /> of the church in Cenchrea,

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised,<n id="1" /> so that he would become<n id="2" /> the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised,<n id="3" /> that they too could have righteousness credited to them.

For if, by the transgression of the one man,<n id="1" /> death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!p>

For just as through the disobedience of the one man<n id="1" /> many<n id="2" /> were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man<n id="3" /> many<n id="4" /> will be made righteous.

For the law of the life-giving Spirit<n id="1" /> in Christ Jesus has set you<n id="2" /> free from the law of sin and death.

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.p>

This means<n id="1" /> it is not the children of the flesh<n id="2" /> who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another<n id="1" /> in accordance with Christ Jesus,

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.p>

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

<p class="bodytext">Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?