Chapter 4 – Chapter 7

Chapter 4

CHAPTER 4

1 What shall we then say, that Abraham, our father according to the flesh, had obtained?

2 For if Abraham was by works justified, he has what he may glory in, but not before God.

3 But what saith the Scripture? “Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness.”

4 To him indeed who works the reward is not imputed as a grace, but as a debt:

5 But to him who works not, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, imputed is his faith for righteousness.

6 As David also describes the blessedness of the man, to whom God imputes righteousness without works,

7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

8 Blessed is the man to whom God has not imputed sin.”

9 Was then this blessedness on the circumcision only, or also on the uncircumcision? for we say, that imputed to Abraham was faith for righteousness:

10 How then was it imputed? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all who believe while in uncircumcision, in order that to them also righteousness might be imputed, —

12 And the father of the circumcision, not to those who are in circumcision only, but who walk in the footsteps of that faith which our father Abraham had in uncircumcision.

13 It was not indeed by the law that the promise was to Abraham and to his seed, that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

14 For if they who are of the law are heirs, then made void is faith, and abolished is the promise.

15 For the law causeth wrath: but where no law is, there is also no transgression.

16 It is therefore by faith, that it might be through grace, in order that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but which also is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

17 (As it is written, “The father of many nations have I made thee,”) before God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls things which are not, as though they were:

18 Who against hope believed through hope, that he would be the father of many nations, according to what had been said, “So shall thy seed be.”

19 And being not in faith weak, he considered not his own body, now dead, when he was nearly an hundred years old, nor the dead womb of Sarah;

20 Nor did he indeed search into the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened by faith, giving glory to God;

21 And being assuredly persuaded, that what he had promised he was also able to perform:

22 And it was therefore imputed to him for righteousness.

23 Now it was not written on his account only, that it was imputed to him

24 But also on our account, to whom it shall be imputed, even to us who believe on him, who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead;

25 Who was delivered for our offenses and raised for our justification.

Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5

1 Being then justified, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

2 Through whom we have had access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and glory in the hope of the glory of God:

3 And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations; knowing that tribulation produces patience;

4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

5 Moreover, hope makes us not ashamed, because the love of God is diffused in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

6 For Christ, when we were as yet as to time weak, died for the ungodly.

7 Hardly indeed for the just will any one die; but for the good perhaps some one may even venture to die:

8 But God confirms his love towards us, because when we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Much more then, having been now justified by his blood, shall we be saved by him from wrath.

10 If indeed when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life:

11 And not only so, but we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death; and so over all men has death spread, since all have sinned;

13 (For until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

14 Yet reign did sin from Adam to Moses, even over them who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the figure of him that was to come.

15 But not as the offense, so also the gift: for if through the offense of one many died, much more has the grace of God, and the gift of God through grace, abounded unto many.

16 And not as through one who had sinned, so the gift; for judgment was from one offense to condemnation, but the gift is from many offenses unto justification.

17 For if by the offense of one death reigned through one, much more shall they who have received abundance of grace, and the gift of righteousness, reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.)

18 Therefore as through the offense of one judgment came on all men to condemnation, so also through the justification of one, the gift comes to all men to the justification of life:

19 For as through the disobedience of one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one many shall be made righteous.

20 But the law intervened, that the offense might abound: but where sin abounded, grace has superabounded;

21 That as sin has reigned through death, so grace also might reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Chapter 6

CHAPTER 6

1 What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound

2 By no means: we who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

3 Know ye not, that we all, who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death?

4 Buried then have we been with him through baptism unto death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life:

5 For if we have been ingrafted in the likeness of his death, doubtless we shall also be partakers of his resurrection;

6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified, together with him, that abolished might be the body of sin, so that we may no longer serve sin:

7 For he who has died, has been freed from sin.

8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

9 Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more, death no more reigns over him:

10 For that he died, he once for sin died; and that he lives, he lives to God.

11 So also regard ye yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 Let not sin then reign in your mortal body, so as to obey it. in its lusts.

13 Neither present your members, as weapons of unrighteousness, to sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members, as weapons of righteousness, to God:

14 For sin shall not rule over you, since ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? By no means:

16 Know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are the servants of him whom ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness?

17 But thanks to God; for ye have been the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine into which you were delivered;

18 And having been freed from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19 I speak what is human on account of the infirmity of your flesh: As ye have presented your members to uncleanness and to iniquity for iniquity, so also now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness:

20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

21 What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which ye are now ashamed? for their end is death;

22 But now, having been freed from sin and made servants to God, ye have your fruit, holiness, and your end, eternal life:

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Chapter 7

CHAPTER 7

1 Know ye not, brethren, (for to those who know the law I speak,) that the law rules over a man as long as he lives.

2 For a woman, subject to a husband, is bound by the law to a living husband: but if the husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 While then the husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be united to another man: but if the husband be dead, she is freed from his law, so that she is not an adulteress by marrying another man.

4 And thus, my brethren, are ye also dead to the law through the body of Christ, that hereafter ye should be united to another, even to him who has been raised from the dead, that ye might bring forth fruit to God.

5 For when ye were in the flesh, the emotions of sin which are through the law wrought in your members to bring forth fruit to death:

6 But now ye are loosed from the law, having died to that by which we were held, that we might serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? By no means: yet sin I knew not except through the law; for concupiscence I had not known, had not the law said, “Thou shalt not lust.”

8 And the occasion being taken, sin through the commandment wrought in me every concupiscence. Sin indeed without the law is dead:

9 And I lived some time without the law; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

10 And the commandment, which was for life, was found by me to be unto death:

11 For sin taking occasion through the commandment, led me astray, and through it slew me.

12 So then the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

13 Did then what is good become death to me? By no means: but sin, that it might appear to be sin, wrought death in me through that which is good, in order that sin through the commandment might become above measure sinful.

14 We indeed know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin:

15 For what I work I know not; since what I would, this I do not, but what I hate, this I do.

16 If then, what I would not, this I do, I consent to the law of God, that it is good:

17 And now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin which dwells in me.

Note 486. Here is repeated in a different way what had been before stated, only the reference before was to the weakness of good, but here to the power of evil.

18 I indeed know that no good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for to will is present with me, but to perform what is good I find not;

19 Since the good I would I do not; but the evil I would not, that I do.

20 But if what I would not, that I do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin which dwells in me.

21 I find then a law that while I am willing to do good, evil lies in wait for me.

22 I consent then to the law of God according to the inner-man:

23 But I see another law in my members, resisting the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 Miserable man am I! who shall rescue me from this body of death?

25 I give thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord: so then with the mind I serve myself the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.