Romans redux (ch.5-7a)
5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we are having peace with God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, 2 through whom we have also have been given access by faith into this grace in which we have been established, and we are boasting in the hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this, but we are also boasting in sufferings, having realized that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance, character, and character, hope. 5 And hope is not disappointing, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
6 For while we were still weak—at the appointed time—the Messiah died for the ungodly. (7 For rarely someone might die on behalf of a righteous person, though perhaps on behalf of a good person one might dare to die!) 8 But God is demonstrating his own love for us in that with our being sinners, The Messiah died on behalf of us!
9 And not only that, but [lit. “Much more therefore”], now being justified by his blood, we will be saved through him from wrath. 10 For if we being hostile were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life? 11 And not only that, but we are also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one human and death through sin, thus death also passed on into all humans, because everyone sinned (13 for before Law, sin was in the world, [because even] though sin is not reckoned when there is no law, 14 death reigned from Adam until Moses—even over those who did not sin in the same form as the transgression Adam, who is a type of the coming one).
15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one man the many died, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by grace of the one man Jesus the Messiah abound to the many!
16 And the gift is not like [what resulted] through the one having sinned. For judgment [that resulted] from the one [led] to condemnation, but the gift led to the removal of guilt from many trespasses. 17 For if, by the trespass of one, death reigned through the one, how much more will the ones receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus the Messiah!
18 As a result, therefore, through one trespass condemnation [came] to all humanity, and so also through the one righteous act righteousness of life [came] to all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of one human many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one many will be made righteous.
20 Now the law came in so that it might intensify the trespass, but whereas sin increased grace overflowed in abundance, 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus The Messiah our Lord.
6:1 ‘What then are we saying? Are we to remain in sin so that grace will increase?’
2 May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Or don’t you know that as many as were baptized into the Messiah Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as the Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, thus we will also walk in a new life. 5 For if we have become planted together [with him] in the likeness of his death, then also we will be [planted together with him in] his resurrection.
6 [We are] knowing this: that our old person was crucified with him so that the body of sin would be abolished, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (7 For the one who has died has been made free [lit. “has been justified”] from sin.)
8 Now if we died with the Messiah, we are believing that we will also live with him. 9 We have come to know that since The Messiah has been raised from the dead, he will no longer die; death is no longer lord over him. 10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So also you [must] reckon yourselves to be dead to sin on the one hand, but alive to God in The Messiah Jesus on the other hand.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey his desires, 13 nor be presenting your members to sin as tools of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead and your members to God as tools of righteousness.
14 For sin will not be lord over you, because you are not under Law but under grace.
15 ‘What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?’
May it never be!
16 Don’t you know that whoever you are presenting yourselves to as obedient slaves, you are slaves to whoever you are obeying—either of sin [leading] into death, or obedience [leading] into righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that though you were being slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching that you were handed over to, 18 and now, having been freed from sin, and being slaves to righteousness. 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.)
For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and unlawfulness [leading] into lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness [leading] into holiness.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 So then, what fruit did you have? [Those things] on account of which you are now ashamed of! For the result of those things is death!
22 But now, having been freed from sin and being slaves to God, you have your fruit [leading] into holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in the Messiah Jesus our Lord.
7:1 Or are you not knowing, brothers [and sisters]—for I am speaking to those who are knowing Law—that Law is lord over a person as long as he [or she] is living? 2 For the married woman is has been bound by law to a living husband, but if the husband dies, she has been released from the law of the marriage. 3 Therefore as a result, if she is joined to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the [marriage] law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
4 So, my brothers [and sisters], you also died to the law through the body of the Messiah, in order to be joined to another—to the one having been raised from the dead—so that you might bear fruit to God.
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