Hi, and welcome again
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer. Today
we will be reading from the
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book of Romans, but before
we start, let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank you for
this book that we're reading
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particularly for those of us who
sometimes feel overwhelmed with
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all the ways that we mess up
and do what we know is wrong.
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And wonder if your
grace can cover even us.
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Thank you for your grace.
Thank you for this teaching
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about your grace. Please give us
minds and hearts to understand
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it so that we don't somehow
pervert it and dishonor you.
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But instead, keep us grateful
for your mercy and the desire
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burning in us all the more to
serve you better and to show you
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how much we love you.
Thank you again. Amen.
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Again I am reading this
from the King James Version,
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in the book of Romans, chapter 5
and we're starting with verse 18
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Therefore as by the offence of
one judgment came upon all men
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to condemnation; even so
by the righteousness of one,
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the free gift came upon all
men unto justification of life.
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For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners,
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so by the obedience of one
shall many be made righteous.
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Moreover the law entered,
that the offence might abound.
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But where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound:
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That as sin hath reigned unto
death, even so might grace reign
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through righteousness unto
eternal life by Jesus Christ
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our Lord. - We're reading again
the Book of Romans chapter 6. -
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What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin,
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that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we,
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that are dead to sin,
live any longer therein?
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Know ye not, that so many of
us as were baptized into Jesus
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Christ were
baptized into his death?
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Therefore we are buried
with him by baptism into death;
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that like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory
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of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life.
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For if we have been
planted together in the likeness
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of his death, we shall
be also in the likeness
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of his resurrection:
Knowing this, that our old man
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is crucified with him, that the
body of sin might be destroyed,
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that henceforth we should not
serve sin. For he that is dead
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is freed from sin. Now
if we be dead with Christ,
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we believe that we
shall also live with him.
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Knowing that Christ
being raised from the dead
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dieth no more; death hath
no more dominion over him.
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For in that he died,
he died unto sin once:
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but in that he liveth, he liveth
unto God. Likewise reckon ye
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also ourselves to be
dead indeed unto sin,
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but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Let not sin therefore
reign in your mortal body,
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that ye should obey
it in the lusts thereof.
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Neither yield ye your
members as instruments
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of unrighteousness unto sin:
but yield yourselves unto God,
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as those that are alive from
the dead, and your members as
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instruments of
righteousness unto God.
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For sin shall not
have dominion over you:
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for ye are not under
the law, but under grace.
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What then? shall we sin,
because we are not under the law
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but under grace? God forbid.
Know ye not, that to whom
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ye yield yourselves servants
to obey, his servants ye are
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to whom ye obey; whether of
sin unto death, or of obedience
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unto righteousness?
But God be thanked,
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that ye were the servants
of sin, but ye have obeyed
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from the heart that form of
doctrine which was delivered you
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Being then made free from
sin, ye became the servants
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of righteousness. I
speak after the manner of men
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because of the
infirmity of your flesh:
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for as ye have yielded your
members servants to uncleanness
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and to iniquity unto iniquity;
even so now yield your members
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servants to righteousness unto
holiness. For when ye were the
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servants of sin, ye
were free from righteousness,
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What fruit had ye then in
those things whereof ye are now
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ashamed? for the end
of those things is death.
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But now being made free from
sin, and become servants to God
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ye have your fruit
unto holiness, and the end
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everlasting life. For
the wages of sin is death;
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but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ
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our Lord. - reading chapter
seven, in the book of Romans. -
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Know ye not, brethren, - for I
speak to them that know the law-
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how that the law hath dominion
over a man as long as he liveth?
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For the woman which hath
an husband is bound by the law
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to her husband so long as
he liveth; but if the husband
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be dead, she is loosed
from the law of her husband.
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So then if, while her
husband liveth, she be married
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to another man, she
shall be called and adulteress:
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but if her husband be
dead, she is free from that law;
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so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married
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to another man. Wherefore,
my brethren, ye also are become
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dead to the law by the body
of Christ; that ye should be
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married to another, even to
him who is raised from the dead,
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that we should bring
forth fruit unto God.
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For when we were in the
flesh, the motions of sins,
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which were by the law, did work
in our members to bring forth
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fruit unto death. But now
we are delivered from the law,
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that being dead wherein we
were held; that we should serve
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in newness of spirit, and
not in oldness of the letter.
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What shall we say then?
Is the law sin? God forbid.
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Nay, I had not
known sin, but by the law;
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for I had not known
lust except the law had said,
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Thou shalt not covet.
But sin taking occasion
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by the commandment, wrought in
me all manner of concupiscence.
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For without the
law sin was dead.
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For I was alive
without the law once:
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but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died.
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And the commandment,
which was ordained to life,
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I found to be unto
death. For sin, taking occasion
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by the commandment,
deceived me, and by it slew me.
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Wherefore the law is holy, and
the commandment holy, and just,
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and good. Was then that which
is good made death unto me?
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God forbid. But sin, that it
might appear sin, working death
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in me by that which is good;
that sin by the commandment
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might become exceeding
sinful. For we know that the law
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is spiritual: but I am
carnal, sold under sin.
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For that which I do I allow not:
for what I would, that do I not;
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But what I hate, that
do I; If then I do that
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which I would not, I consent
unto the law that it is good.
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Now then it is no more I that do
it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
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For I know that in
me - that is my flesh, -
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dwelleth no good thing:
for to will is present with me;
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but how to perform that
which is good I find not.
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For the good that I
would I do not: but the evil
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which I would not, that I
do. Now if I do that I would not
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it is no more I that do it,
but sin that dwelleth in me.
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I find then a law,
that, when I would do good,
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evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God
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after the inward man: but I
see another law in my members,
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warring against the law
of my mind, and bringing me
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into captivity to the law
of sin which is in my members.
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O wretched man that I am! who
shall deliver me from the body
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of this death? I thank God
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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So then with the mind I
myself serve the law of God;
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but with the
flesh the law of sin.
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We're reading from the book of
Romans in the King James version
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We are beginning
now chapter eight.
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There is therefore now
no condemnation to them
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which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh,
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but after the Spirit. For
the law of the Spirit of life
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in Christ Jesus hath made
me free from the law of sin
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and death. For what
the law could not do,
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in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son
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in the likeness of sinful flesh,
and for sin, condemned sin
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in the flesh: that the
righteousness of the law
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might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh,
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but after the Spirit. For
they that are after the flesh
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do mind the things of the flesh.
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But they that are after the
Spirit the things of the Spirit.
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For to be carnally minded
is death; but to be spiritually
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minded is life and
peace. Because the carnal mind
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is enmity against God: for it is
not subject to the Law of God,
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neither indeed can be. So
then they that are in the flesh
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cannot please God. But
ye are not in the flesh,
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but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you.
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Now if any man have
not the Spirit of Christ,
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he is none of his. And if Christ
be in you, the body is dead
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because of sin; but the Spirit
is life because of righteousness
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But if the spirit of him that
raised up Jesus from the dead
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dwell in you, he that
raised up Christ from the dead
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shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit
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that dwelleth in you. Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors,
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not to the flesh, to
live after the flesh.
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For if ye live after
the flesh, ye shall die:
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but if ye through the Spirit
do mortify the deeds of the body
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ye shall live. For as many
as are led by the Spirit of God,
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they are the sons of God. For
ye have not received the spirit
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of bondage again to
fear; but ye have received
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the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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The Spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit,
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that we are the children of God:
and if children, then heirs;
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heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ;
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if so be that we suffer
with him, that we may be also
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glorified together. For I
reckon that the sufferings
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of this present time are
not worthy to be compared
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with the glory which
shall be revealed in us.
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For the earnest expectation
of the creature waiteth
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for the manifestation
of the sons of God.
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For the creature was made
subject to vanity, not willingly
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but by reason of him who
hath subjected the same in hope,
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Because the creature
itself also shall be delivered
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from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty
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of the children of God. For
we know that the whole creation
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groaneth and travaileth
in pain together until now.
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And not only they, but ourselves
also, which have the firstfruits
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of the Spirit, even we ourselves
groan within ourselves,
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waiting for the adoption, to
wit, the redemption of our body.
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For we are saved by hope: but
hope that is seen is not hope:
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for what a man seeth,
why doth he yet hope for?
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But if we hope for that we see
not, then do we with patience
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wait for it. Likewise the Spirit
also helpeth our infirmities:
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for we know not what we
should pray for as we ought:
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but the Spirit itself
maketh intercession for us
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with groanings
which cannot be uttered.
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And he that searcheth the
hearts knoweth what is the mind
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of the Spirit, because he maketh
intercession for the saints
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according to the will of
God. And we know that all things
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work together for
good to them that love God,
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to them who are the
called according to his purpose.
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For whom he did foreknow,
he also did predestinate
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to be conformed to the image
of his Son, that he might be the
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firstborn among many
brethren. Moreover whom he did
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predestinate,
them he also called:
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and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified
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them he also glorified..
What shall we then say
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to these things? If God be
for us, who can be against us?
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He that spared not his own Son,
but delivered him up for us all,
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how shall he not with him
also freely give us all things?
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Who shall lay anything to
the charge of God's elect?
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It is God that justifieth.
Who is he that condemneth?
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It is Christ that died, yea
rather, that is risen again,
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who is even at
the right hand of God,
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who also maketh
intercession for us.
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Thank you for reading
with me today about God's grace
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and mercy. Please
join me again next time.
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