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.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

<p class="bodytext">Now I urge you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join fervently with me in prayer to God on my behalf.

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another&#8217;s faith,<n id="1" /> both yours and mine.

For all who have sinned apart from the law<n id="1" /> will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

And will not the physically uncircumcised man<n id="1" /> who keeps the law judge you who, despite<n id="2" /> the written code<n id="3" /> and circumcision, transgress the law?

For <i>no one is declared righteous before himi><n id="1" /> by the works of the law,<n id="2" /> for through the law comes<n id="3" /> the knowledge of sin.

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ<n id="1" /> for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

Since God is one,<n id="1" /> he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have<n id="2" /> peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.<n id="1" />

For the creation was subjected to futility &#8211; not willingly but because of God<n id="1" /> who subjected it &#8211; in hope

Why not? Because they pursued<n id="1" /> it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works.<n id="2" /> They stumbled over the stumbling stone,<n id="3" />

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and make their backs bend continually.&#8221;i>b><n id="1" />p>

For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities<n id="1" /> are God&#8217;s servants devoted to governing.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">First of all,<n id="1" /> I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

<p class="bodytext">For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,<n id="1" />

on the day when God will judge<n id="1" /> the secrets of human hearts,<n id="2" /> according to my gospel<n id="3" /> through Christ Jesus.p>

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God<n id="1" /> has been poured out<n id="2" /> in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.p>

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?