So indeed it was credited to Abraham<n id="1" /> as righteousness.p>

<p class="bodytext">Consequently,<n id="1" /> just as condemnation<n id="2" /> for all people<n id="3" /> came<n id="4" /> through one transgression,<n id="5" /> so too through the one righteous act<n id="6" /> came righteousness leading to life<n id="7" /> for all people.

<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>

and I died. So<n id="1" /> I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!<n id="2" />

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness<n id="1" /> and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.<n id="2" />

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" />

<p class="bodytext">But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.

Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.

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

<p class="bodytext">For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.p>

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

<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" />

And the gift is not like the one who sinned.<n id="1" /> For judgment, resulting from the one transgression,<n id="2" /> led to condemnation, but<n id="3" /> the gracious gift from the many failures<n id="4" /> led to justification.

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 now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith &#8211;

<t /><p class="bodytext">From Paul,<n id="1" /> a slave<n id="2" /> of Christ Jesus,<n id="3" /> called to be an apostle,<n id="4" /> set apart for the gospel of God.<n id="5" />

but Israel even though pursuing<n id="1" /> a law of righteousness<n id="2" /> did not attain it.<n id="3" />

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.p>

or &#8220;<b><i>Who will descend into the abyss?i>b>&#8221;<n id="1" /> (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.<n id="1" />p>