Romans 4-6

Romans 4

¹What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?

²For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

³for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

⁴Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:

⁵but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

⁶Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:

⁷Blessed they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:

⁸blessed the man to whom the Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

⁹Does this blessedness then rest on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

¹⁰How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision as seal of the righteousness of faith which he had being in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;

¹²and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

¹³For it was not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by righteousness of faith.

¹⁴For if they which are of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

¹⁵For law works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression.

¹⁶Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

¹⁷(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

¹⁸who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

¹⁹and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

²⁰and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

²¹and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

²²wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

²³Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

²⁴but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among the dead Jesus our Lord,

²⁵who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

Romans 5

¹Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

²by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

³And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

⁴and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

⁵and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

⁶for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.

⁷For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;

⁸but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

⁹Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

¹⁰For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.

¹¹And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

¹²For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

¹³(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

¹⁴but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him to come.

¹⁵But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

¹⁶And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.

¹⁷For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

¹⁸so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.

¹⁹For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

²⁰But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,

²¹in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6

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

²Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

³Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?

⁴We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also should walk in newness of life.

⁵For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;

⁶knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.

⁷For he that has died is justified from sin.

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

⁹knowing that Christ having been raised up from among the dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.

¹⁰For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.

¹¹So also *ye*, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹²Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.

¹³Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over *you*, for ye are not under law but under grace.

¹⁵What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

¹⁶Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

¹⁸Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

¹⁹I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

²⁰For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.

²¹What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* is death.

²²But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.

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