Rm2:12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.) 16This will take place on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares. - NIV
Rm3:20Therefore no one will be declared righteous in
his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of
sin. 21But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made
known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22This
righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
There is no difference, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God, 24and are justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25God presented him as a
sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in
his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished-- 26he
did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the
one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. 27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On
that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. 28For we
maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the
law. - NIV
Rm4:1What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in
this matter? 2If, in fact, Abraham was justified
by works, he had
something to boast about--but not before God. 3What does the
Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as
righteousness." 4Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift,
but as an obligation. 5However, to the man who does not work but
trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. 6David
says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God
credits righteousness apart from works:
7�Blessed are they
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
8Blessed is the man
whose sin the Lord will never count
against him." (Psa32:1-2)
- NIV
Rm7:1Do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to men who know the
law--that the law has authority over a man only as long as he
lives? 2For
example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive,
but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. 3So
then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called
an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not
an adulteress, even though she marries another man. - NIV
Rm7:4So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of
Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead,
in order that we might bear fruit to God. 5For when we were
controlled by the sinful nature,
the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we
bore fruit for death. 6But now, by dying to what once bound us,
we
have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit,
and not in the old way of the written code. - NIV
Rm7:7What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I
would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have
known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not
covet." 8But sin,
seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind
of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. 9Once
I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life
and I died. 10I found that the very
commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11For
sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and
through the commandment put me to death. - NIV
Rm7:21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is
right there with me. 22For
in my inner being I delight in God's law;
23but I see another law
at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and
making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.
24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me
from this body of death? 25Thanks be to
God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. - NIV
Rm 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus, 2because through Christ Jesus the
law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3For
what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened
by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, 4in
order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in
us, who
do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. 5Those
who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature
desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set
on what the Spirit desires. 6The mind of sinful
man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7the
sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do
so. 8Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. - NIV
Rm8:9You, however,
are controlled not by the sinful nature but by
the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not
have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10But
if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive
because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit
of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ
from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who
lives in you. 12Therefore, brothers, we have an
obligation--but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. 13For
if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by
the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14because
those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
15For you did not receive a spirit that makes
you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we
cry, "Abba, Father." 16The Spirit
himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 17Now
if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if
indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. - NIV
Rm9:30What shall we say, then? That [the] Gentiles[,] who did not
pursue righteousness[,] have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by
faith; 31but that Israel
who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching
that law [it]. 32Why?
Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works.
They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33as
it is written,
"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling [that causes
men to stumble],
and a rock of offense [that makes them
fall];
and whoever believes [trusts] in him will not be put to shame." (Isa8:14,28:16)
- ESV
Rm10:5For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the
law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. 6But
the righteousness based on faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will
ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7or
"'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from
the dead). 8But
what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your
heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9because,
if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For
with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses
and is saved. 11For the Scripture
says, "Everyone [anyone] who believes [trusts] in him will not [will never] be put
to shame." 12For there is no
distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his
riches [blessings richly] on all who call on him. 13For
"everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." - ESV
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