Posts with the tag “romans”

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Wet Paint
December 6th, 2023
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You s...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Not Guilty
December 5th, 2023
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the la...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Released from the Law
December 5th, 2023
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. Fo...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Death Changes Everything
December 4th, 2023
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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A Free Gift
December 3rd, 2023
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is dea...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Slaves to Righteousness
December 2nd, 2023
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Maturity
December 1st, 2023
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have b...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Dead to Sin, Alive to God
November 30th, 2023
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of si...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Abounding in Grace
November 29th, 2023
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jes...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Death in Adam, Life in Christ
November 28th, 2023
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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A Free Gift
November 27th, 2023
But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. ...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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A Type of the One to Come
November 26th, 2023
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin i...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Saved by His Life
November 25th, 2023
9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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Christ Died for Us
November 24th, 2023
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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Peace With God
November 23rd, 2023
5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we ...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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Hope Against Hope
November 22nd, 2023
18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body,...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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The Father of Many Nations
November 21st, 2023
16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of A...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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No Law Means No Transgression
November 20th, 2023
13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if it is the adherents of the law who are...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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The Footsteps of Faith
November 20th, 2023
9 Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. 10 How then was it counted to him? Was it before or afte...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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Abraham’s Faith
November 18th, 2023
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scrip...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Justified
November 17th, 2023
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is Go...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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All Are Equal
November 16th, 2023
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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The Law
November 15th, 2023
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no huma...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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No Righteous One
November 14th, 2023
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands;...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Faithful
November 13th, 2023
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) By no means! For then how could God jud...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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God’s Promise
November 12th, 2023
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faith...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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By the Spirit
November 11th, 2023
25 For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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God's Judgment
November 10th, 2023
17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God 18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19 and if you are sure that you your...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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Written on your heart
November 9th, 2023
12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous ...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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No Partiality
November 8th, 2023
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 He will render to each one according to his wo...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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Lead to Repentance
November 7th, 2023
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2 We know that the jud...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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God's Righteous Decree
November 6th, 2023
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, ma...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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Natural Things
November 5th, 2023
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with ...  Read More
by Steven Cholak
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The Truth About God
November 4th, 2023
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served ...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Foolish Hearts
November 3rd, 2023
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fool...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Unfair
November 2nd, 2023
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, beca...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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To Live by Faith
November 1st, 2023
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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The Gospel Light
October 31st, 2023
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. I do not want you to be un...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Prayer
October 30th, 2023
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg
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Called
October 29th, 2023
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descend...  Read More
by Kelly Krieg