Hi, and welcome again
to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer. And today
we will be reading from the book
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of Romans. But before we
begin, let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so much
for your love and for your grace
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and thank you for your law.
And write that on our hearts.
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As we read today, the words
of Paul about law and grace,
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give us a deeper understanding.
We know without your mercy,
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none of us would even be here.
We know that without your grace,
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we would never see you. But we
don't want to make the mistake
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of thinking that what your grace
started we can somehow finish
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but nor do we want to
scorn the need to be obedient
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to what you've told us. So give
us an understanding as we read
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today that we might server
you better. We love you so much.
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Amen. Again, I am reading today
from the King James version
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in the book of Romans, chapter
2 and starting with verse 13.
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For not the hearers of
the law are just before God;
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but the doers of the
law shall be justified.
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For when the Gentiles, which
have not the law, do by nature
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the things contained in the
law, these, having not the law,
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are a law unto themselves: Which
shew the work of the law written
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in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness,
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and their thoughts the meanwhile
accusing or else excusing
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one another; - In the day
when God shall judge the secrets
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of men by Jesus Christ
according to my gospel.
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Behold, thou art called a
Jew and restest in the law,
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and makest thy boast of God, and
knowest his will, and approvest
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the things that are more
excellent, being instructed
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out of the law and art confident
that thou thyself art a guide
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of the blind, a light of
them which are in darkness,
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and instructor of the
foolish, a teacher of babes,
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which hast the form of
knowledge and of the truth
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in the law. Thou therefore
which teachest another,
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teachest thou not thyself? thou
that preachest a man should not
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steal, dost thou steal? Thou
that sayest a man should not
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commit adultery,
dost thou commit adultery?
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thou that abhorrest idols,
dost thou commit sacrilege?
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Thou that makest thy boast
of the law, through breaking
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the law dishonourest
thou God? For the name of God
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is blasphemed among
the Gentiles through you,
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as it is written. For
circumcision verily profiteth,
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if thou keep the law: but if
thou be a breaker of the law,
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thy circumcision is
made uncircumcision.
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Therefore if the uncircumcision
keep the righteousness of
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the law, shall not his
uncircumcision be counted
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for circumcision? And
shall not uncircumcision
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which is by nature, if it
fulfill the law, judge thee,
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who by the letter and
circumcision dost transgress
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the law? for he is not a
Jew, which is one outwardly;
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neither is that circumcision,
which is outward in the flesh:
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But he is a Jew, which is
one inwardly; and circumcision
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is that of the heart, in the
spirit, and not in the letter;
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whose praise is
not of men, but of God.
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We're reading today
from the book of Romans,
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the King James version,
beginning now in chapter three
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What advantage then hath the
Jew? or what profit is there of
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circumcision? Much every way:
chiefly, because that unto them
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were committed
the oracles of God.
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For what if some did not
believe? shall their unbelief
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make the faith of God
without effect? God forbid:
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Yea, let God be true, but every
man a liar; as it is written,
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That thou mightest be
justified in thy sayings,
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and mightest
overcome when thou art judged.
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But if our unrighteousness
commend the righteousness of God
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what shall we say? Is God
unrighteous who taketh vengeance
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- I speak as a man - God forbid:
for then how shall God judge
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the world? For if the truth of
God hath more abounded through
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my lie unto his glory; why yet
am I also judged as a sinner?
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And not rather - as we
be slanderously reported
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and as some affirm that we
say - Let us do evil, that good
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may come? whose
damnation is just. What then?
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Are we better than they? No
in no wise: for we have before
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proved both Jews and Gentiles,
that they are all under sin;
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As it is written, There is
none righteous, no, not one:
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There is none that understandeth
there is none that seeketh after
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God. They are all gone out
of the way, they are together
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become unprofitable; there is
none that doeth good, no not one
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Their throat is an open
sepulcher; with their tongues
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they have used
deceit; the poison of asps
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is under their lips:
Whose mouth is full of cursing
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and bitterness: their
feet are swift to shed blood:
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Destruction and
misery are in their ways:
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And the way of
peace have they not known:
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There is no fear of
God before their eyes.
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Now we know that what
things so ever the law saith,
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it saith to them who are
under the law: that every mouth
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may be stopped, and all
the world may become guilty
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before God. Therefore
by the deeds of the law
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there shall no flesh
be justified in his sight:
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for by the law is
the knowledge of sin.
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But now the righteousness of God
without the law is manifested,
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being witnessed by
the law and the prophets;
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Even the righteousness
of God which is by faith of
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Jesus Christ unto all and
upon all them that believe:
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for there is no difference: For
all have sinned, and come short
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of the glory of God; Being
justified freely by his grace
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through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath
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set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood,
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to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins
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that are past, through
the forbearance of God;
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To declare, I say, at
this time his righteousness:
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that he might be just, and the
justifier of him which believeth
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in Jesus. Where is
boasting then? It is excluded.
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By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith.
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Therefore we conclude that
a man is justified by faith
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without the deeds of the law.
Is he the God of the Jews only?
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Is he not also of the Gentiles?
Yes, of the Gentiles also:
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Seeing it is one God, which
shall justify the circumcision
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by faith, and
uncircumcision through faith.
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Do we then make void
the law through faith?
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God forbid: yea,
we establish the law.
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We're reading again
from the book of Romans,
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beginning now in chapter
4. What shall we say then
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that Abraham our father,
as pertaining to the flesh,
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hath found? For if
Abraham were justified by works,
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he hath whereof to
glory; but not before God.
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For what saith the
scripture? Abraham believed God,
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and it was counted
unto him for righteousness.
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Now to him that worketh is the
reward not reckoned of grace,
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but of debt. But to
him that worketh not,
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but believeth on him
that justifieth the ungodly,
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his faith is
counted for righteousness.
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Even as David also describeth
the blessedness of the man,
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unto whom God imputeth
righteousness without works,
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Saying, Blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven,
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and whose sins are
covered. Blessed is the man
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to whom the Lord
will not impute sin.
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Cometh this blessedness
then upon the circumcision only,
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or upon the uncircumcision
also? for we say that faith
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was reckoned to
Abraham for righteousness.
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How was it then reckoned?
when he was in circumcision,
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or in uncircumcision?
Not in circumcision,
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but in uncircumcision.
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and he received the sign
of circumcision, a seal of the
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righteousness of the faith which
he had yet being uncircumcised:
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that he might be the
father of all them that believe,
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though they be not
circumcised; that righteousness
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might be imputed unto them also:
And the father of circumcision
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to them who are not
of the circumcision only,
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but who also walk in the steps
of that faith of our father
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Abraham, which he had
being yet uncircumcised.
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For the promise, that he
should be the heir of the world,
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was not to Abraham, or to
his seed, through the law,
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but through the
righteousness of faith.
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For if they which are of the law
be heirs, faith is made void,
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and the promise made of
none effect: Because the law
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worketh wrath: for where no law
is, there is no transgression.
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Therefore it is of faith,
that it might be by grace;
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to the end the promise
might be sure to all the seed;
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not to that only which is of the
law, but to that also which is
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of the faith of Abraham;
who is the father of us all,
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- As it is written, I have made
thee a father of many nations, -
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before him whom he
believed, even God,
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who quickeneth the dead
and calleth those things
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which be not as
though they were.
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Who against hope believed in
hope, that he might become the
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father of many nations according
to that which was spoken,
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so shall thy seed be. And being
not weak in faith, he considered
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not his own body, now dead,
when he was about 100 years old,
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neither yet the
deadness of Sarah's womb:
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He staggered not at the
promise of God through unbelief;
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but was strong in
faith, giving glory to God.
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And being fully persuaded
that, what he had promised,
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he was able also to perform. And
therefore it was imputed to him
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for righteousness. Now it was
not written for his sake alone,
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that it was imputed
to him; but for us also,
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to whom it shall be imputed, if
we believe on him that raised up
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Jesus our Lord from
the dead; Who was delivered
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for our offences, and was raised
again for our justification.
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Reading again, the
book of Romans, chapter 5
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Therefore being justified by
faith, we have peace with God
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through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access
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by faith into this grace wherein
we stand, and rejoice in hope
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of the glory of
God. And not only so,
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but we glory in
tribulations also; knowing that
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tribulation worketh patience;
and patience, experience;
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and experience, hope;
and hope maketh not ashamed;
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because the love of God
is shed abroad in our hearts
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by the Holy Ghost
which is given unto us.
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For when we were yet
without strength, in due time
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Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man
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will one die: yet
peradventure for a good man
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some would even dare to
die. But God commendeth his love
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toward us, in that,
while we were yet sinners,
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Christ died for us. Much
more then, being now justified
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by his blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through him.
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For if, when we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God
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by the death of his Son,
much more, being reconciled,
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we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy
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in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we have now
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received the atonement.
Wherefore, as by one man
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sin entered into the
world, and death by sin;
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and so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned;
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- For until the law, sin
was in the world: but sin is
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not imputed when there is no
law. Nevertheless death reigned
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from Adam to Moses, even
over them that had not sinned
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after the similitude
of Adam's transgression,
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who is the figure of
him that was to come.
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But not as the offence,
so also is the free gift.
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For is through the
offence of one, many be dead,
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much more the grace of
God, and the gift by grace,
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which is by one
man, Jesus Christ,
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hath abounded unto many. And
not as it was by one that sinned
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so is the gift: for the judgment
was by one to condemnation,
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but the free gift is of many
offences unto justification.
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For if by one man's
offence death reigned by one;
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much more they which
receive abundance of grace
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and of the gift of righteousness
shall reign in life by one,
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Jesus Christ. - Until
we come together again
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may you know the joy
of his grace. Goodbye.
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