Romans 4 - 7
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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.
Romans 6
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What shall we say then? m Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
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By no means! How can n we who died to sin still live in it?
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Do you not know that all of us o who have been baptized p into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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We were q buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as r Christ was raised from the dead by s the glory of the Father, we too might walk in t newness of life.
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For u if we have been united with him in v a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
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We know that w our old self x was crucified with him in order that y the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
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For z one who has died a has been set free from sin.
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Now b if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
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We know that c Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; d death no longer has dominion over him.
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For the death he died he died to sin, e once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
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So you also must consider yourselves f dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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Let not g sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
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h Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but i present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
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For j sin k will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
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What then? l Are we to sin m because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
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Do you not know that if you present yourselves n to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
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But o thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the p standard of teaching to which you were committed,
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and, q having been set free from sin, r have become slaves of righteousness.
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s I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For t just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members u as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
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v For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
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w But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things x of which you are now ashamed? y For the end of those things is death.
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But now that you z have been set free from sin and a have become slaves of God, b the fruit you get leads to sanctification and c its end, eternal life.
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d For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7
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Or do you not know, brothers - for I am speaking to those who know the law - that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
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For e a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
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Accordingly, f she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
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Likewise, my brothers, g you also have died h to the law i through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, j in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work k in our members l to bear fruit for death.
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But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the m new way of n the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
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What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, o I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if p the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
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But sin, q seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. r For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
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I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
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The very commandment s that promised life proved to be death to me.
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For sin, t seizing an opportunity through the commandment, u deceived me and through it killed me.
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So v the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
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Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
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For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, w sold under sin.
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For I do not understand my own actions. For x I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
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Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with y the law, that it is good.
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So now z it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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For I know that nothing good dwells a in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
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b For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
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Now if I do what I do not want, c it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
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For d I delight in the law of God, e in my inner being,
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but I see in my members f another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
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Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from g this body of death?
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Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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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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Romans 6:15
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Romans 3:8
And why not do evil that good may come? - as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
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Romans 6:11
So you also must consider yourselves dead to si...
Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to th...
Romans 7:6
But now we are released from the law, having di...
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law, so that ...
Colossians 2:20
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirit...
Colossians 3:3
For you have died, and your life is hidden with...
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tre...
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Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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Colossians 2:12
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
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Romans 6:9
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
Romans 8:11
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
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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John 11:40
Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?
2 Corinthians 13:4
For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
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2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Ephesians 4:23 - 24
And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds.
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Romans 7:6
But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
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2 Corinthians 4:10
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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Philippians 3:10 - 11
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.
Colossians 2:12
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 3:1
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
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Ephesians 4:22
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.
Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
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Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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Romans 7:24
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
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1 Peter 4:1
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
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Romans 6:18
And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
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2 Timothy 2:11
The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him.
2 Corinthians 4:10
Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
2 Corinthians 13:4
For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
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Acts 13:34
And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, "'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.
Revelation 1:18
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
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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 5:17
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 reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews 7:27
He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
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Romans 6:2
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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Romans 6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Psalms 19:13
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
Psalms 119:133
Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
Micah 7:19
He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
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Romans 7:5
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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Romans 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 4:2
So as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
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Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
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Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
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Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
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1 Corinthians 9:21
To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
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Romans 6:20
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
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Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
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2 Timothy 1:13
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 6:7
For one who has died has been set free from sin.
John 8:32
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
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Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
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Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? ( I speak in a human way.)
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Romans 6:13
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
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1 Corinthians 9:27
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
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Romans 6:16
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
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Romans 7:5
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
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Romans 1:32
Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Romans 8:6
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Galatians 6:8
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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Romans 6:18
And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
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1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
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Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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1 Peter 1:9
Obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
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Romans 2:7
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
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 -
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1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
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Matthew 5:32
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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Romans 7:6
But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
Romans 6:2
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
Galatians 5:18
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Ephesians 2:15
By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace.
Colossians 2:14
By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
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Ephesians 2:16
And might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Colossians 1:22
He has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.
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Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
Ephesians 5:9
(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true).
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Romans 6:13
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
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Romans 6:21
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
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Romans 2:27
Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
Romans 2:29
But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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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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Romans 13:9
For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
Deuteronomy 5:21
"'And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
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Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
Deuteronomy 5:21
"'And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
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Romans 7:11
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
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1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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Romans 10:5
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
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Romans 7:8
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
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Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Psalms 19:8 - 9
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 119:137
Righteous are you, O Lord, and right are your rules.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
Romans 7:16
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
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1 Kings 21:20
Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.
1 Kings 21:25
( There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.
2 Kings 17:17
And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus says the Lord : "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Isaiah 52:3
For thus says the Lord : "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.
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Romans 7:18 - 19
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Galatians 5:17
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
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1 Timothy 1:8
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully.
Romans 7:12
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
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Romans 7:20
Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 8:21
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
Job 15:14
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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Romans 7:15
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
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Romans 7:17
So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 112:1
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
Psalms 119:35
Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.
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2 Corinthians 4:16
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Ephesians 3:16
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being.
1 Peter 3:4
But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
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Galatians 5:17
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
James 4:1
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
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Romans 6:6
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 8:23
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
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