Romans 4 - 5
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What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, t our forefather according to the flesh?
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For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but u not before God.
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For what does the Scripture say? v "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
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Now w to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
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And to the one who does not work but x believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
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just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
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y "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
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blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not z count his sin."
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Is this blessing then only for a the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? b We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
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How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
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c He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was d to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
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and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
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For e the promise to Abraham and his offspring f that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
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g For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.
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For h the law brings wrath, but i where there is no law j there is no transgression.
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That is why it depends on faith, k in order that the promise may rest on grace and l be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, m who is the father of us all,
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as it is written, n "I have made you the father of many nations" - in the presence of the God in whom he believed, o who gives life to the dead and calls into existence p the things that do not exist.
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In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, q "So shall your offspring be."
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He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was r as good as dead ( s since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered t the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
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No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
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fully convinced that u God was able to do what he had promised.
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That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
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But v the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone,
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but for ours also. It will be counted to us w who believe in x him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
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y who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised z for our justification.
Romans 5
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a Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, b we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Through him we have also c obtained access by faith into this grace d in which we stand, and e we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
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More than that, we f rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering g produces endurance,
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and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
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and h hope does not put us to shame, because God's love i has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
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For j while we were still weak, at the right time k Christ died for the ungodly.
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For one will scarcely die for a righteous person - though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die -
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but l God shows his love for us in that m while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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Since, therefore, n we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from o the wrath of God.
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For if p while we were enemies q we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by r his life.
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More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received s reconciliation.
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Therefore, just as t sin came into the world through one man, and u death through sin, and v so death spread to all men because w all sinned -
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for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but x sin is not counted where there is no law.
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Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not y like the transgression of Adam, z who was a type of a the one who was to come.
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But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for b many.
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And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For c the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought d justification.
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For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness e reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
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Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for f all men.
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For as by the one man's g disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's h obedience the many will be made righteous.
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Now i the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, j grace abounded all the more,
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so that, k as sin reigned in death, l grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Romans 4:16
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
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1 Corinthians 1:31
So that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.
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Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised,...
Romans 4:22
That is why his faith was "counted to him as ri...
Galatians 3:6
Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was count...
James 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abr...
Genesis 15:6
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to ...
Titus 3:8
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to in...
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Genesis 15:6
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
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Romans 11:6
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
Deuteronomy 9:4 - 5
Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you.
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Romans 3:22
The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
John 6:29
Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.
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Psalms 32:1 - 2
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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Psalms 32:1 - 2
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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2 Corinthians 5:19
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
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Romans 3:30
Since God is one - who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
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Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
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Genesis 17:10 - 11
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
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Romans 4:12
And to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
Romans 4:16
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Romans 3:22
The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Luke 19:9
And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
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Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to hi...
Hebrews 6:15
And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obta...
Hebrews 6:17
So when God desired to show more convincingly t...
Hebrews 7:6
But this man who does not have his descent from...
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise...
Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered u...
Romans 9:8
This means that it is not the children of the f...
Acts 13:32
And we bring you the good news that what God pr...
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Genesis 17:4 - 6
Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
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Galatians 3:17 - 18
This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
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Romans 7:7
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet.
Romans 7:10 - 25
The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
2 Corinthians 3:7
Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end.
2 Corinthians 3:9
For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
Galatians 3:10
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.
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Romans 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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Galatians 3:19
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
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Romans 3:24
And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Romans 15:8
For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs.
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Romans 9:8
This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
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Genesis 17:5
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Romans 4:18
In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be.
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Hebrews 11:19
He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
John 5:21
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
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1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are.
Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
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Genesis 17:5
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
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Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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Hebrews 11:12
Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
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Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
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Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
Hebrews 11:19
He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
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Romans 15:4
For whatever was written in former days was wri...
1 Corinthians 9:9 - 10
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You sha...
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things took place as examples for us,...
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as an example...
2 Timothy 3:16 - 17
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profit...
Psalms 102:18
Let this be recorded for a generation to come, ...
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Romans 10:9
Because, 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.
1 Peter 1:21
Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
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Acts 2:24
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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Romans 5:6
For while we were still weak, at the right time...
Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we ...
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him u...
Isaiah 53:5 - 6
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he w...
Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served bu...
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us fro...
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Romans 5:18
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
1 Corinthians 15:17
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
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Romans 3:28
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
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Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Hebrews 12:28
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe.
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Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Ephesians 3:12
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
Hebrews 10:19 - 20
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
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1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand.
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Romans 5:11
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
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Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
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Luke 21:19
By your endurance you will gain your lives.
James 1:3
For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
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Psalms 119:116
Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!
Philippians 1:20
As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
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Acts 2:17 - 18
'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
Acts 2:33
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
Titus 3:6
Whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!
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Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Hosea 13:9
He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper.
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved -
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Romans 4:25
Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
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John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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Romans 5:6
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
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Romans 3:25
Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
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1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved - so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
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Romans 5:6
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Colossians 1:21
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds.
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
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2 Corinthians 5:18 - 20
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
Ephesians 2:16
And might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Colossians 1:20 - 21
And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
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2 Corinthians 4:10 - 11
Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
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Romans 11:15
For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
2 Corinthians 5:18 - 19
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
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Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and ev...
Genesis 3:6
So when the woman saw that the tree was good fo...
1 Corinthians 15:21 - 22
For as by a man came death, by a man has come a...
Romans 5:15 - 17
But the free gift is not like the trespass. For...
Romans 6:9
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead...
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in...
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Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
James 1:15
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
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Romans 5:14
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Romans 5:21
So that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
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Ephesians 2:3
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
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Romans 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
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1 Corinthians 15:45
Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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Matthew 11:3
And said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?
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Romans 5:19
For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
Isaiah 53:11
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
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1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
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Romans 5:18
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
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Revelation 22:5
And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
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John 12:32
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.
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2 Corinthians 10:6
Being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
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Hebrews 5:8
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
Philippians 2:8
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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Galatians 3:19
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Romans 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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1 Timothy 1:14
And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned -
Romans 5:14
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
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John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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