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  • God's saving justice was witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, but now it has been revealed altogether apart from law: (Romans 3, 21)

  • since, as we see it, a person is justified by faith and not by doing what the Law tells him to do. (Romans 3, 28)

  • Are we saying that the Law has been made pointless by faith? Out of the question; we are placing the Law on its true footing. (Romans 3, 31)

  • For the promise to Abraham and his descendants that he should inherit the world was not through the Law, but through the uprightness of faith. (Romans 4, 13)

  • For if it is those who live by the Law who will gain the inheritance, faith is worthless and the promise is without force; (Romans 4, 14)

  • for the Law produces nothing but God's retribution, and it is only where there is no Law that it is possible to live without breaking the Law. (Romans 4, 15)

  • That is why the promise is to faith, so that it comes as a free gift and is secure for all the descendants, not only those who rely on the Law but all those others who rely on the faith of Abraham, the ancestor of us all (Romans 4, 16)

  • Sin already existed in the world before there was any law, even though sin is not reckoned when there is no law. (Romans 5, 13)

  • When law came on the scene, it was to multiply the offences. But however much sin increased, grace was always greater; (Romans 5, 20)

  • and then sin will no longer have any power over you -- you are living not under law, but under grace. (Romans 6, 14)

  • What is the implication? That we are free to sin, now that we are not under law but under grace? Out of the question! (Romans 6, 15)

  • I am putting it in human terms because you are still weak human beings: as once you surrendered yourselves as servants to immorality and to a lawlessness which results in more lawlessness, now you have to surrender yourselves to uprightness which is to result in sanctification. (Romans 6, 19)


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