Romans:1-9
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Paul ,
a servant of Jesus Christ ,
called to be an apostle ,
separated unto the gospel of God ,
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Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures ,)
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Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord ,
which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh ;
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And declared to be the Son of God with power ,
according to the spirit of holiness ,
by the resurrection from the dead :
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By whom we have received grace and apostleship ,
for obedience to the faith among all nations ,
for his name :
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Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ :
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To all that be in Rome ,
beloved of God ,
called to be saints :
Grace to you and peace from God our Father ,
and the Lord Jesus Christ .
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First ,
I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all ,
that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world .
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For God is my witness ,
whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son ,
that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers ;
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Making request ,
if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you .
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For I long to see you ,
that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift ,
to the end ye may be established ;
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That is ,
that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me .
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Now I would not have you ignorant ,
brethren ,
that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you , (
but was let hitherto ,)
that I might have some fruit among you also ,
even as among other Gentiles .
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I am debtor both to the Greeks ,
and to the Barbarians ;
both to the wise ,
and to the unwise .
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So ,
as much as in me is ,
I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also .
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For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ :
for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth ;
to the Jew first ,
and also to the Greek .
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For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith :
as it is written ,
The just shall live by faith .
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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men ,
who hold the truth in unrighteousness ;
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Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them ;
for God hath shewed it unto them .
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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen ,
being understood by the things that are made ,
even his eternal power and Godhead ;
so that they are without excuse :
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Because that ,
when they knew God ,
they glorified him not as God ,
neither were thankful ;
but became vain in their imaginations ,
and their foolish heart was darkened .
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Professing themselves to be wise ,
they became fools ,
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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man ,
and to birds ,
and fourfooted beasts ,
and creeping things .
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Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts ,
to dishonour their own bodies between themselves :
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Who changed the truth of God into a lie ,
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator ,
who is blessed for ever .
Amen .
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For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections :
for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature :
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And likewise also the men ,
leaving the natural use of the woman ,
burned in their lust one toward another ;
men with men working that which is unseemly ,
and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet .
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And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge ,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind ,
to do those things which are not convenient ;
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Being filled with all unrighteousness ,
fornication ,
wickedness ,
covetousness ,
maliciousness ;
full of envy ,
murder ,
debate ,
deceit ,
malignity ;
whisperers ,
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Backbiters ,
haters of God ,
despiteful ,
proud ,
boasters ,
inventors of evil things ,
disobedient to parents ,
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Without understanding ,
covenantbreakers ,
without natural affection ,
implacable ,
unmerciful :
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Who knowing the judgment of God ,
that they which commit such things are worthy of death ,
not only do the same ,
but have pleasure in them that do them .
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Therefore thou art inexcusable ,
O man ,
whosoever thou art that judgest :
for wherein thou judgest another ,
thou condemnest thyself ;
for thou that judgest doest the same things .
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But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things .
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And thinkest thou this ,
O man ,
that judgest them which do such things ,
and doest the same ,
that thou shalt escape the judgment of God ?
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Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering ;
not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance ?
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But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God ;
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Who will render to every man according to his deeds :
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To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality ,
eternal life :
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But unto them that are contentious ,
and do not obey the truth ,
but obey unrighteousness ,
indignation and wrath ,
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Tribulation and anguish ,
upon every soul of man that doeth evil ,
of the Jew first ,
and also of the Gentile ;
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But glory ,
honour ,
and peace ,
to every man that worketh good ,
to the Jew first ,
and also to the Gentile :
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For there is no respect of persons with God .
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For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law :
and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law ;
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For not the hearers of the law are just before God ,
but the doers of the law shall be justified .
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For when the Gentiles ,
which have not the law ,
do by nature the things contained in the law ,
these ,
having not the law ,
are a law unto themselves :
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Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts ,
their conscience also bearing witness ,
and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;)
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In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel .
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Behold ,
thou art called a Jew ,
and restest in the law ,
and makest thy boast of God ,
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And knowest his will ,
and approvest the things that are more excellent ,
being instructed out of the law ;
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And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind ,
a light of them which are in darkness ,
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An instructor of the foolish ,
a teacher of babes ,
which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law .
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Thou therefore which teachest another ,
teachest thou not thyself ?
thou that preachest a man should not steal ,
dost thou steal ?
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Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery ,
dost thou commit adultery ?
thou that abhorrest idols ,
dost thou commit sacrilege ?
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Thou that makest thy boast of the law ,
through breaking the law dishonourest thou God ?
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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you ,
as it is written .
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For circumcision verily profiteth ,
if thou keep the law :
but if thou be a breaker of the law ,
thy circumcision is made uncircumcision .
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Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law ,
shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision ?
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And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature ,
if it fulfil the law ,
judge thee ,
who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law ?
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For he is not a Jew ,
which is one outwardly ;
neither is that circumcision ,
which is outward in the flesh :
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But he is a Jew ,
which is one inwardly ;
and circumcision is that of the heart ,
in the spirit ,
and not in the letter ;
whose praise is not of men ,
but of God .
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What advantage then hath the Jew ?
or what profit is there of circumcision ?
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Much every way :
chiefly ,
because that unto them were committed the oracles of God .
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For what if some did not believe ?
shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect ?
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God forbid :
yea ,
let God be true ,
but every man a liar ;
as it is written ,
That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings ,
and mightest overcome when thou art judged .
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But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God ,
what shall we say ?
Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance ? (
I speak as a man )
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God forbid :
for then how shall God judge the world ?
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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory ;
why yet am I also judged as a sinner ?
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And not rather , (
as we be slanderously reported ,
and as some affirm that we say ,)
Let us do evil ,
that good may come ?
whose damnation is just .
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What then ?
are we better than they ?
No ,
in no wise :
for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles ,
that they are all under sin ;
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As it is written ,
There is none righteous ,
no ,
not one :
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There is none that understandeth ,
there is none that seeketh after God .
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They are all gone out of the way ,
they are together become unprofitable ;
there is none that doeth good ,
no ,
not one .
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Their throat is an open sepulchre ;
with their tongues they have used deceit ;
the poison of asps is under their lips :
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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness :
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Their feet are swift to shed blood :
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Destruction and misery are in their ways :
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And the way of peace have they not known :
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There is no fear of God before their eyes .
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Now we know that what things soever the law saith ,
it saith to them who are under the law :
that every mouth may be stopped ,
and all the world may become guilty before God .
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Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight :
for by the law is the knowledge of sin .
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But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested ,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets ;
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Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe :
for there is no difference :
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For all have sinned ,
and come short of the glory of God ;
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Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus :
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Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood ,
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past ,
through the forbearance of God ;
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To declare ,
I say ,
at this time his righteousness :
that he might be just ,
and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus .
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Where is boasting then ?
It is excluded .
By what law ?
of works ?
Nay :
but by the law of faith .
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Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law .
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Is he the God of the Jews only ?
is he not also of the Gentiles ?
Yes ,
of the Gentiles also :
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Seeing it is one God ,
which shall justify the circumcision by faith ,
and uncircumcision through faith .
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Do we then make void the law through faith ?
God forbid :
yea ,
we establish the law .
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What shall we say then that Abraham our father ,
as pertaining to the flesh ,
hath found ?
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For if Abraham were justified by works ,
he hath whereof to glory ;
but not before God .
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For what saith the scripture ?
Abraham believed God ,
and it was counted unto him for righteousness .
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Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace ,
but of debt .
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But to him that worketh not ,
but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly ,
his faith is counted for righteousness .
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Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man ,
unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works ,
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Saying ,
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven ,
and whose sins are covered .
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Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin .
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Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only ,
or upon the uncircumcision also ?
for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness .
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How was it then reckoned ?
when he was in circumcision ,
or in uncircumcision ?
Not in circumcision ,
but in uncircumcision .
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And he received the sign of circumcision ,
a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised :
that he might be the father of all them that believe ,
though they be not circumcised ;
that righteousness might be imputed unto them also :
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And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only ,
but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham ,
which he had being yet uncircumcised .
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For the promise ,
that he should be the heir of the world ,
was not to Abraham ,
or to his seed ,
through the law ,
but through the righteousness of faith .
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For if they which are of the law be heirs ,
faith is made void ,
and the promise made of none effect :
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Because the law worketh wrath :
for where no law is ,
there is no transgression .
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Therefore it is of faith ,
that it might be by grace ;
to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed ;
not to that only which is of the law ,
but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham ;
who is the father of us all ,
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As it is written ,
I have made thee a father of many nations ,)
before him whom he believed ,
even God ,
who quickeneth the dead ,
and calleth those things which be not as though they were .
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Who against hope believed in hope ,
that he might become the father of many nations ,
according to that which was spoken ,
So shall thy seed be .
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And being not weak in faith ,
he considered not his own body now dead ,
when he was about an hundred years old ,
neither yet the deadness of Sara '
s womb :
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He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief ;
but was strong in faith ,
giving glory to God ;
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And being fully persuaded that ,
what he had promised ,
he was able also to perform .
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And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness .
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Now it was not written for his sake alone ,
that it was imputed to him ;
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But for us also ,
to whom it shall be imputed ,
if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead ;
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Who was delivered for our offences ,
and was raised again for our justification .
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Therefore being justified by faith ,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ :
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By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand ,
and rejoice in hope of the glory of God .
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And not only so ,
but we glory in tribulations also :
knowing that tribulation worketh patience ;
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And patience ,
experience ;
and experience ,
hope :
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And hope maketh not ashamed ;
because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us .
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For when we were yet without strength ,
in due time Christ died for the ungodly .
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For scarcely for a righteous man will one die :
yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die .
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But God commendeth his love toward us ,
in that ,
while we were yet sinners ,
Christ died for us .
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Much more then ,
being now justified by his blood ,
we shall be saved from wrath through him .
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For if ,
when we were enemies ,
we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son ,
much more ,
being reconciled ,
we shall be saved by his life .
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And not only so ,
but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ ,
by whom we have now received the atonement .
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Wherefore ,
as by one man sin entered into the world ,
and death by sin ;
and so death passed upon all men ,
for that all have sinned :
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For until the law sin was in the world :
but sin is not imputed when there is no law .
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Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses ,
even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam '
s transgression ,
who is the figure of him that was to come .
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But not as the offence ,
so also is the free gift .
For if through the offence of one many be dead ,
much more the grace of God ,
and the gift by grace ,
which is by one man ,
Jesus Christ ,
hath abounded unto many .
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And not as it was by one that sinned ,
so is the gift :
for the judgment was by one to condemnation ,
but the free gift is of many offences unto justification .
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For if by one man '
s offence death reigned by one ;
much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one ,
Jesus Christ .)
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Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation ;
even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life .
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For as by one man '
s disobedience many were made sinners ,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous .
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Moreover the law entered ,
that the offence might abound .
But where sin abounded ,
grace did much more abound :
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That as sin hath reigned unto death ,
even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord .
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What shall we say then ?
Shall we continue in sin ,
that grace may abound ?
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God forbid .
How shall we ,
that are dead to sin ,
live any longer therein ?
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Know ye not ,
that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death ?
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Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death :
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father ,
even so we also should walk in newness of life .
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For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death ,
we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection :
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Knowing this ,
that our old man is crucified with him ,
that the body of sin might be destroyed ,
that henceforth we should not serve sin .
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For he that is dead is freed from sin .
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Now if we be dead with Christ ,
we believe that we shall also live with him :
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Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more ;
death hath no more dominion over him .
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For in that he died ,
he died unto sin once :
but in that he liveth ,
he liveth unto God .
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Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin ,
but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord .
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Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body ,
that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof .
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Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin :
but yield yourselves unto God ,
as those that are alive from the dead ,
and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God .
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For sin shall not have dominion over you :
for ye are not under the law ,
but under grace .
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What then ?
shall we sin ,
because we are not under the law ,
but under grace ?
God forbid .
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Know ye not ,
that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey ,
his servants ye are to whom ye obey ;
whether of sin unto death ,
or of obedience unto righteousness ?
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But God be thanked ,
that ye were the servants of sin ,
but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you .
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Being then made free from sin ,
ye became the servants of righteousness .
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I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh :
for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity ;
even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness .
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For when ye were the servants of sin ,
ye were free from righteousness .
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What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed ?
for the end of those things is death .
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But now being made free from sin ,
and become servants to God ,
ye have your fruit unto holiness ,
and the end everlasting life .
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For the wages of sin is death ;
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord .
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Know ye not ,
brethren , (
for I speak to them that know the law ,)
how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth ?
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For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth ;
but if the husband be dead ,
she is loosed from the law of her husband .
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So then if ,
while her husband liveth ,
she be married to another man ,
she shall be called an adulteress :
but if her husband be dead ,
she is free from that law ;
so that she is no adulteress ,
though she be married to another man .
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Wherefore ,
my brethren ,
ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ ;
that ye should be married to another ,
even to him who is raised from the dead ,
that we should bring forth fruit unto God .
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For when we were in the flesh ,
the motions of sins ,
which were by the law ,
did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death .
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But now we are delivered from the law ,
that being dead wherein we were held ;
that we should serve in newness of spirit ,
and not in the oldness of the letter .
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What shall we say then ?
Is the law sin ?
God forbid .
Nay ,
I had not known sin ,
but by the law :
for I had not known lust ,
except the law had said ,
Thou shalt not covet .
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But sin ,
taking occasion by the commandment ,
wrought in me all manner of concupiscence .
For without the law sin was dead .
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For I was alive without the law once :
but when the commandment came ,
sin revived ,
and I died .
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And the commandment ,
which was ordained to life ,
I found to be unto death .
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For sin ,
taking occasion by the commandment ,
deceived me ,
and by it slew me .
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Wherefore the law is holy ,
and the commandment holy ,
and just ,
and good .
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Was then that which is good made death unto me ?
God forbid .
But sin ,
that it might appear sin ,
working death in me by that which is good ;
that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful .
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For we know that the law is spiritual :
but I am carnal ,
sold under sin .
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For that which I do I allow not :
for what I would ,
that do I not ;
but what I hate ,
that do I .
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If then I do that which I would not ,
I consent unto the law that it is good .
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Now then it is no more I that do it ,
but sin that dwelleth in me .
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For I know that in me (
that is ,
in my flesh ,)
dwelleth no good thing :
for to will is present with me ;
but how to perform that which is good I find not .
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For the good that I would I do not :
but the evil which I would not ,
that I do .
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Now if I do that I would not ,
it is no more I that do it ,
but sin that dwelleth in me .
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I find then a law ,
that ,
when I would do good ,
evil is present with me .
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man :
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But I see another law in my members ,
warring against the law of my mind ,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members .
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O wretched man that I am !
who shall deliver me from the body of this death ?
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I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord .
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God ;
but with the flesh the law of sin .
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There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus ,
who walk not after the flesh ,
but after the Spirit .
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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death .
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For what the law could not do ,
in that it was weak through the flesh ,
God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh ,
and for sin ,
condemned sin in the flesh :
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That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us ,
who walk not after the flesh ,
but after the Spirit .
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For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh ;
but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit .
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For to be carnally minded is death ;
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace .
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Because the carnal mind is enmity against God :
for it is not subject to the law of God ,
neither indeed can be .
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So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God .
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But ye are not in the flesh ,
but in the Spirit ,
if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you .
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ ,
he is none of his .
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And if Christ be in you ,
the body is dead because of sin ;
but the Spirit is life because of righteousness .
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But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you ,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you .
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Therefore ,
brethren ,
we are debtors ,
not to the flesh ,
to live after the flesh .
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For if ye live after the flesh ,
ye shall die :
but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ,
ye shall live .
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For as many as are led by the Spirit of God ,
they are the sons of God .
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For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear ;
but ye have received the Spirit of adoption ,
whereby we cry ,
Abba ,
Father .
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The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit ,
that we are the children of God :
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And if children ,
then heirs ;
heirs of God ,
and joint-heirs with Christ ;
if so be that we suffer with him ,
that we may be also glorified together .
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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us .
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For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God .
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For the creature was made subject to vanity ,
not willingly ,
but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope ,
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Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God .
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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now .
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And not only they ,
but ourselves also ,
which have the firstfruits of the Spirit ,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves ,
waiting for the adoption ,
to wit ,
the redemption of our body .
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For we are saved by hope :
but hope that is seen is not hope :
for what a man seeth ,
why doth he yet hope for ?
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But if we hope for that we see not ,
then do we with patience wait for it .
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Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities :
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought :
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered .
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And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit ,
because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God .
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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God ,
to them who are the called according to his purpose .
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For whom he did foreknow ,
he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son ,
that he might be the firstborn among many brethren .
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Moreover whom he did predestinate ,
them he also called :
and whom he called ,
them he also justified :
and whom he justified ,
them he also glorified .
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What shall we then say to these things ?
If God be for us ,
who can be against us ?
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He that spared not his own Son ,
but delivered him up for us all ,
how shall he not with him also freely give us all things ?
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Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God '
s elect ?
It is God that justifieth .
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Who is he that condemneth ?
It is Christ that died ,
yea rather ,
that is risen again ,
who is even at the right hand of God ,
who also maketh intercession for us .
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ?
shall tribulation ,
or distress ,
or persecution ,
or famine ,
or nakedness ,
or peril ,
or sword ?
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As it is written ,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long ;
we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter .
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Nay ,
in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us .
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For I am persuaded ,
that neither death ,
nor life ,
nor angels ,
nor principalities ,
nor powers ,
nor things present ,
nor things to come ,
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Nor height ,
nor depth ,
nor any other creature ,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God ,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord .
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I say the truth in Christ ,
I lie not ,
my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost ,
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That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart .
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For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren ,
my kinsmen according to the flesh :
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Who are Israelites ;
to whom pertaineth the adoption ,
and the glory ,
and the covenants ,
and the giving of the law ,
and the service of God ,
and the promises ;
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Whose are the fathers ,
and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came ,
who is over all ,
God blessed for ever .
Amen .
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Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect .
For they are not all Israel ,
which are of Israel :
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Neither ,
because they are the seed of Abraham ,
are they all children :
but ,
In Isaac shall thy seed be called .
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That is ,
They which are the children of the flesh ,
these are not the children of God :
but the children of the promise are counted for the seed .
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For this is the word of promise ,
At this time will I come ,
and Sara shall have a son .
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And not only this ;
but when Rebecca also had conceived by one ,
even by our father Isaac ;
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For the children being not yet born ,
neither having done any good or evil ,
that the purpose of God according to election might stand ,
not of works ,
but of him that calleth ;)
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It was said unto her ,
The elder shall serve the younger .
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As it is written ,
Jacob have I loved ,
but Esau have I hated .
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What shall we say then ?
Is there unrighteousness with God ?
God forbid .
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For he saith to Moses ,
I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy ,
and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion .
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So then it is not of him that willeth ,
nor of him that runneth ,
but of God that sheweth mercy .
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For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh ,
Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up ,
that I might shew my power in thee ,
and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth .
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy ,
and whom he will he hardeneth .
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Thou wilt say then unto me ,
Why doth he yet find fault ?
For who hath resisted his will ?
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Nay but ,
O man ,
who art thou that repliest against God ?
Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it ,
Why hast thou made me thus ?
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Hath not the potter power over the clay ,
of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour ,
and another unto dishonour ?
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What if God ,
willing to shew his wrath ,
and to make his power known ,
endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction :
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And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy ,
which he had afore prepared unto glory ,
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Even us ,
whom he hath called ,
not of the Jews only ,
but also of the Gentiles ?
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As he saith also in Osee ,
I will call them my people ,
which were not my people ;
and her beloved ,
which was not beloved .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that in the place where it was said unto them ,
Ye are not my people ;
there shall they be called the children of the living God .
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Esaias also crieth concerning Israel ,
Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea ,
a remnant shall be saved :
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For he will finish the work ,
and cut it short in righteousness :
because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth .
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And as Esaias said before ,
Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed ,
we had been as Sodoma ,
and been made like unto Gomorrha .
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What shall we say then ?
That the Gentiles ,
which followed not after righteousness ,
have attained to righteousness ,
even the righteousness which is of faith .
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But Israel ,
which followed after the law of righteousness ,
hath not attained to the law of righteousness .
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Wherefore ?
Because they sought it not by faith ,
but as it were by the works of the law .
For they stumbled at that stumblingstone ;
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As it is written ,
Behold ,
I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence :
and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed .
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Brethren ,
my heart '
s desire and prayer to God for Israel is ,
that they might be saved .
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