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and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
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To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
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To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
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but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
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Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”
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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
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Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”
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Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
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but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
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Peace and Hope
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
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Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
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Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
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so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
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Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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Present Suffering and Future Glory
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
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that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
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neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
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What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—
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For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”
