Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionTherefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.New Living TranslationFor no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands....
11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Read full chapter Footnotes Romans 5:1 Many manuscripts let us Romans 5:2 Or let us Romans 5:3 Or let us Chinese Union Version (Simpli...
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13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy. Read full chapter Footnotes Romans 13:11 tn Grk“and this,” probably referring to the command to love (13:8-10); ...
Paul later describes how the law causes sin to increase with regards to his own experience in chapter 7."Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought deat...
Paul wants to explain to the Roman church what God has been up to and where they belong on the map of his purposes. Accustomed as we are to translating dikaiosynē as 'right- eousness', we should nonetheless recognize that the other meaning, 'justice', is not far away. The sense of...