hat it was counted to him; 24 out for the sake of us also, to whom faith will be thus counted, f we believe in him who raised p Jesus, our Lord, from the lead; 25 who was delivered up or our offences;* and was aised from the dead for our ustification. ot written for his sake only, | Christ died for us. 9 Much more therefore, having been now justified in his blood, we shall be saved from anger through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God, through the death of his Son, much more, being thus reconciled, shall be saved in his life. 11. And not only so, but we boast likewise in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. CH. V. 1 THEREFORE, having been thus justified, by faith, in this method of justification, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2 through whom we have access also [by faith] into this favour, wherein we stand, and boast, in the hope of the glory of God. 3 (And not only so, but we boast also in afflictions; knowing that affliction worketh patience; 4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope. 5 And hope will not make us ashamed: for the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, through the holy spirit which | is given us.) 6 For though we were weak, still Christ died, in due season, for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will any one die: (yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die :) 8 but God commended his love towards us, in that, while we were still sinners, we 12 For this reason, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and thus [death] hath passed upon all men, inasmuch as all have sinned: 13 (for until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed, when there is no law: 14 nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had [not] sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a resemblance of him who was to come:) 15 yet the free gift likewise is not so, as was the offence; for if through the of fence of one, the many died; much more, the favour of God, and the gift, which is through the favour of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to the so, many.§ 16 Neither is the gift * Christ was delivered up for our offences; not to bear the punishment of them, nor to appease the anger of God; but to abolish the dispensation by which men were condemned as sinners, and to introduce a new and better dispensation by which they should be justified and treated as righteous. Thus he rose for their justification. See Eph. ii. 14-16. † It renders the sense here much more consistent by supposing the comma, in the Greek, to be placed after ovv, instead of being placed after TOTES, which is here connected with Heavy peace. "Jesus was raised for our justification: therefore, being justified, we now, by faith in this justification have peace with God." It is well known that the apostles wrote without points, especially commas. This also refers to, God's method of justification spoken of ch. i. 17; see above, ver. 1. § Oi wonnen, the many, "the great body of mankind. See ver. 18, 19." Newcome. fore buried with him, through baptism, into his death; that, as Christ was raised from the dead, by the glorious power of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, certainly also we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 knowing this, that our old man hath been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be servants to sin. 7 For he who is dead, is freedt from sin. as it was through one who sin-ye not that as many of us as ned: for the judgment was of have been baptized into Jesus one offence to condemnation, but | Christ, have been baptized into the free gift is of many offences his death? 4 We were there. to justification. 17 For if, through the offence of one, death reigned through one; much more, those who receive the abound ing of favour and [of the gift] of justification, will reign in life through one, even Jesus Christ. 18 So then, as through the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation; so likewise, through the righteousness of one, the free gift hath come upon all men to justification of life. 19 For as through this disobedience of one the many were made sinners, so likewise through the obedience of one the many will be made righteous.* 20 Now the law entered in, privily, so that of fences abounded. But where sin abounded, the favour of God, hath much more abounded: 21 that, as sin hath reigned in death, so favour likewise might reign, through justification, to aionian life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. CH. VI. 1 WHAT shall we say then? shall we continue in sin, that the favour of God may abound? 2 By no means. How shall we, who have died to sin, live any longer in it? 3 Know 8 Since then we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God. 11 In like manner, reckon ye yourselves also to be indeed dead to sin, but alive to God, in Christ Jesus. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it: 13 nor yield your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness; "Though the construction of this paragraph is intricate and obscure, nothing can be more obvious than this, that it is the apostle's intention to represent all mankind, without exception, as deriving greater benefit from the mission of Christ, than they suffered injury from the fall of Adam. The universality of the apostle's expressions is very remarkable. The same "may," who were made sinners through the disobedience of the one, are made righteous through the obedience of the other. If all men are condemned through the offence of one, the same all are justified through the righteousness of the other. These universal terms, so frequently repeated, and so variously diversified, cannot be reconciled to the limitation of the blessings of the gospel to the elect alone, or to a part only of the human race. Compare 1 Cor. xv. 22, 23. See Chauncy on Universal Salvation. Prop. iv. p. 22, etc." Im. Ver. note. + Gr. justified. but yield yourselves to God, as hose who are alive from the lead, and yield your members o God, as instruments of righeousness. 14 For sin shall not ave dominion over you: for -e are not under law, but under avour. 15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under law, ■ut under favour? By no means. 6 Know ye not, that to whom e yield yourselves servants to bey, his servants ye are, whom e obey; whether of sin [unto eath], or of obedience unto ustification? 17 But thanks be God, that though ye were he servants of sin, yet ye have beyed from the heart that orm of doctrine to which ye were delivered over; 18 and, aving been made free from in, are become the servants of ighteousness: 19 (I speak failiarly, because of the weakess of your flesh) for as ye ave yielded your members ervants to uncleanness, and to niquity, unto iniquity; so now ield your members servants to Eghteousness, unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the ervants of sin, ye were free with regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit therefore had ye at hat time in the things of which e are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now, having been made ree from sin, and become serants to God, ye have your ruit unto holiness; and the end ionian life. 23 For the wages of sin is death: but the free gift of God is aionian life, n Jesus Christ our Lord. CH. VII. 1 KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to those who know the law,) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2 For the woman, who hath a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he liveth; but if the husband die, she is delivered from the law of her husband. 3 So then, while her husband liveth, if she be married to another man, she will be called an adultress: but if her husband die, she is freed from that law; so that she is no adultress, though she be mar ried to another man. 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law, through the body of Christ; that ye might be married to another, even to him who hath been raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God. 5 For, when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were under the law, wrought in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death; 6 but now we are delivered from the law, having died to that by which we were holden; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means: nay, I had not known sin, but through the law: for I had not known even strong desire to be sin, unless the law had said, "Thou shalt not covet." 8 But sin took occasion by the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of desire; for, without law, sin is dead. 9 Now I was alive God, according to the inner man; 23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bring. ing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my mem without law once: but, when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died: 10 and the commandment, which was appointed unto life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the command-bers. 24 O wretched me! who ment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12 So that the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death to me? By no means, but sin: that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold to sin. 15 That which I do, I approve not: for what I would, [that] I do not; but what I hate, that I do. 16 But if I do that which I would not, I consent to the law, that it is good. 17 And now it is no more I who doth it, but sin which dwelleth in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh), dwelleth no good: for to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not. 19 For the good which I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 But if I do that which I would not, it is no more I who doth it, but sin which dwelleth in me. 21 I find therefore a law, that, when I am willing to do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of will deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God that I am delivered, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Do I myself then, as a slave, serve with the mind, the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin? By no means. CH. VIII. 1 FOR indeed, there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak, through the flesh, God hath done, who, by having sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh: 4 that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us; who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. 5 For those who are according to the flesh, desire the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the spirit, the things of the spirit 6 Now to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace: 7 because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, * Aga our autos yw, etc. Here, (says Dr. Macknight,) aga is "a particle of interroga tion." This, however, is a deviation from the pointing of Griesbach. The improved ver sion has it thus, "So then I, the same man, with my mind, serve the law of God: but with my flesh the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation," etc. nor indeed can be; 8 since those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 However, ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit; since the spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any one have not the spirit of Christ, he is mot of him. 10 But if Christ be in you, the body as to sin, is dead; but the spirit is alive, as Eo righteousness. 11 But if the spirit of him. who raised Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he, who raised Christ from the dead, will give life also to your mortal bodies, because of mis spirit which dwelleth in you. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for this revelation to the sons of God. 20 For the creation was made subject to vanity, (not willingly, but through him who subjected it :) 21 in hope, that the creation itself will also be delivered, from the slavery of corruption, into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and is in labour until now : 23 and not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, looking for an adoption, even the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved under this hope: but hope which is seen, is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, then we look for it with patience. 26 And in like manner, the spirit also helpeth our weaknesses: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the spirit itself intercedeth 12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; 13 for if ye live according to the flesh, ye are about to die: but, if, through the spirit, ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not again received the spirit of slavish fear; but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Ab-[for us] in groans which cannot ba, Father. 16 The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God 17 But if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ: since we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him. 18 FOR I Count, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which, hereafter, will be revealed to us. be expressed. 27 But he who searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the desire of the spirit, that it intercedeth for the saints, according to the will of God. 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born |