So indeed it was credited to Abraham ¹  as righteousness.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all people. ¹ 

and do not present your members to sin as instruments ¹  to be used for unrighteousness, ²  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ³  to be used for righteousness.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¹ 

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” ¹ 

Therefore do not let what you consider good ¹  be spoken of as evil.

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

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters ¹  (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person ²  as long as he lives?

Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” ¹ 

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

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) ¹  For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys ¹  the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited ¹  to him as righteousness.” ² 

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being ¹  shown up as a liar, ²  just as it is written: “so that you will be justified ³  in your words and will prevail when you are judged.” ⁴ 

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances ¹  his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?