<p class="bodytext">But if our unrighteousness demonstrates<n id="1" /> the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he?<n id="2" /> (I am speaking in human terms.)<n id="3" />

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances<n id="1" /> his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous,<n id="1" /> his faith is credited as righteousness.p>

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice<n id="1" /> in the hope of God&#8217;s glory.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves<n id="1" /> as obedient slaves,<n id="2" /> you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Or do you not know, brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person<n id="2" /> as long as he lives?

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her<n id="1" /> husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.<n id="2" />

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires.<n id="1" /> For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.p> <p class="bodytext">

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

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay<n id="1" /> one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?<n id="2" />

But the righteousness that is by faith says: &#8220;<b><i>Do not say in your hearti>b>,<n id="1" /> &#8216;<i>Who will ascend into heaven?i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" /> (that is, to bring Christ down)

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The<n id="1" /> rest were hardened,

<p class="bodytext">And David says,p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>&#8220;Let their table become a snare and trapb>,i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>a stumbling block and a retribution for themb>;i>p>

<p class="bodytext">I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall,<n id="1" /> did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel<n id="2" /> jealous.

<p class="bodytext">But you who eat vegetables only &#8211; why do you judge your brother or sister?<n id="1" /> And you who eat everything &#8211; why do you despise your brother or sister?<n id="2" /> For we will all stand before the judgment seat<n id="3" /> of God.

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

And again Isaiah says, &#8220;<i><b>The root of Jesse will comeb>, <b>and the one who rises to rule over the Gentilesb>, <b>in him will the Gentiles hopeb>i>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

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