3And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations: knowing that tribulation produceth patience; 4and patience, proof; and proof, hope; 5and hope doth not make us ashamed; because the love of God is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us. 6For even then when we were without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. 7For scarcely for a righteous person will any one die: though for a good man perhaps some one might even dare to die. 8But God commendeth his own love towards us, that, though we were yet sinners, Christ died in our stead. 9Therefore much more, being justified already by his blood, shall we be saved by him from wrath. 10For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
11And not so only, but we exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom already we have received reconciliation. 12Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; even so death passed into all men through him, in whom all have sinned. 13For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed if there be no law. 14But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over those who have not sinned after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of him that was to come.
15But not as the transgression, so also is the gift. For if by the transgression of one the many became dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is in that one man, Christ Jesus, hath abounded unto many. 16And the gift is not as for one who sinned: for the judgment indeed came by one to condemnation, but the free gift leads to justification from many offences. 17For if by the offence of one, death reigned by that one; much more they who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Christ Jesus. 18Well then, as by the offence of one, judgment issued against all men unto condemnation; so also by the righteousness of one, the gift came to all men for justification unto life. 19For as by the disobedience of one man the many were constituted sinners; so also by the obedience of one shall the many be constituted righteous. 20But the law was introduced, that the offence might be more abundant. But where sin had abounded, there hath grace abounded more exceedingly: 21that as sin had reigned by death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto life eternal by Jesus Christ our Lord.
[CHAP. VI.]
WHAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. We who are dead to sin, how shall we still live therein? 3Do ye not know, that as many as have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into his death? 4We have been buried therefore with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection: 6knowing this, that our old man hath been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. 7For he that is dead is discharged from sin. 8But if we have been dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death over him hath no more dominion. 10For in that he died, for sin he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God. 11So also do ye account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12Let not therefore sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the passions thereof. 13Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God. 14For sin shall not hold dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16Do ye not know, that to whomsoever ye present yourselves servants to obey, ye are his servants to whom ye obey; if of sin unto death, or of obedience, unto righteousness? 17But thanks be to God, that though ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart the model of doctrine into which ye were delivered. 18Emancipated then from sin, ye became servants to righteousness. 19I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness. 20For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21What fruit therefore had ye then in those things at which ye are now confounded? for the end of those things is death. 22But now being set at liberty from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and at the end life eternal. 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is life eternal in Jesus Christ our Lord.
[CHAP. VII.]
ARE you unacquainted, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know the law,) that the law exercises dominion over a person for as long time as he liveth? 2For the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband. 3She shall therefore certainly be counted an adulteress, if, her husband being alive, she be for another man: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law; so that she shall be no adulteress, though married to another husband. 4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God. 5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. 6But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter. 7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead. 9For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died. 10And the commandment, which was for life, the same was found by me for death. 11For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me. 12So then the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13Did then that which is good become fatal to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin by that which was good in itself, was the cause of death to me; that sin through the commandment might become transcendantly sinful. 14For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 15For that which I am doing I approve not: for not the thing which I wish, that do I practise; but the very thing I hate, that I do. 16But if what I would not, that I do, I concur with the law that it is excellent. 17Now then no more I do this, but sin dwelling in me. 18For I know that there dwelleth not in me (that is, in my flesh) any good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19For I do not the good which I wish: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20If then I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21I find then a law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is presented to me. 22For I am delighted with the law of God, as respecting the inward man: 23but I see another law in my members, militating against the law in my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members. 24O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death? 25I give thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Well then, I myself with my mind am servant to the law of God; but in my flesh to the law of sin.