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Romans · read by Don McClure
145 verses, in order. Only the verses Don read aloud are shown.
Romans 1
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Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—Read from KJV · Introduction to Romans
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regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,Read from KJV · Grace & Peace
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and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.Read from NKJV · Grace & Peace
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Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.Read from KJV · Grace & Peace
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And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.Read from KJV · Grace & Peace
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To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Read from KJV · Grace & Peace
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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.Read from NKJV · Loving People
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God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember youRead from NKJV · Loving People
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in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God's will I may succeed in coming to you.Read from KJV · Loving People
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For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,Read from NKJV · Loving People
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that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.Read from KJV · Loving People
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I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.Read from KJV · Loving People
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That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.Read from KJV · Loving People
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The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.Read from KJV · Man's Rebellion
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For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.Read from KJV · Man's Rebellion
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For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.Read from KJV · Man's Rebellion
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Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.Read from KJV · Man's Rebellion
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For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.Read from KJV · Man's Rebellion
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slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.Read from KJV · Man's Rebellion
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Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.Read from KJV · Man's Rebellion
Romans 2
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You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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And we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you to repentance?Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.Read from KJV · God's Judgement
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Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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As it is written: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
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No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise does not come from men, but from God.Read from KJV · Boasting in the Law
Romans 3
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What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?Read from KJV · Responsibility
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Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.Read from KJV · Responsibility
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What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness?Read from KJV · Responsibility
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Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge."Read from KJV · Responsibility
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But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.Read from KJV · Responsibility
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However, if my falsehood accentuates God's truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?Read from KJV · Responsibility
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Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, "Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved!Read from KJV · Responsibility
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Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.Read from KJV · The Law of Grace
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But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.Read from KJV · The Law of Grace
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And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,Read from KJV · The Law of Grace
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and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.Read from NKJV · The Law of Grace
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God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.Read from KJV · The Law of Grace
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For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.Read from KJV · The Law of Grace
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Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,Read from KJV · The Law of Grace
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since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.Read from KJV · The Law of Grace
Romans 4
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If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.Read from KJV · Grace, Not Works
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For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."Read from KJV · Grace, Not Works
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Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.Read from KJV · Grace & Peace
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However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.Read from KJV · Grace, Not Works
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And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:Read from KJV · Grace, Not Works
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"Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.Read from KJV · Grace, Not Works
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Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."Read from KJV · Grace, Not Works
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Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness.Read from KJV · All by Faith
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In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.Read from KJV · All by Faith
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And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.Read from KJV · All by Faith
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And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.Read from KJV · All by Faith
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For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.Read from KJV · All by Faith
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For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,Read from KJV · All by Faith
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because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.Read from KJV · All by Faith
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Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.Read from KJV · Faith
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As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.Read from KJV · Faith
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Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."Read from KJV · Faith
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Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah's womb.Read from KJV · Faith
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Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,Read from KJV · Faith
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Now the words "it was credited to him" were written not only for Abraham,Read from NKJV · Royal Treatment
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but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.Read from KJV · Faith
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He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.Read from KJV · Faith
Romans 5
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Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,Read from KJV · Royal Treatment
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through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.Read from KJV · Royal Treatment
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For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.Read from KJV · Costly Love
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Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.Read from KJV · Costly Love
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But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.Read from KJV · Costly Love
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Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!Read from KJV · Costly Love
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Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.Read from KJV · Costly Love
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Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.Read from KJV · The Gift of Grace
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For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.Read from NASB1995 · The Gift of Grace
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Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.Read from KJV · The Gift of Grace
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But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!Read from KJV · The Gift of Grace
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For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!Read from KJV · The Gift of Grace
Romans 6
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What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?Read from NKJV · Dead to Sin
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Or aren't you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?Read from KJV · Dead to Sin
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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 walk in newness of life.Read from KJV · Dead to Sin
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For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.Read from KJV · Dead to Sin
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We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.Read from KJV · Dead to Sin
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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.Read from KJV · Dead to Sin
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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.Read from KJV · Dead to Sin
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The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.Read from KJV · Dead to Sin
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So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.Read from KJV · Reckon It Dead
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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.Read from KJV · Reckon It Dead
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Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.Read from KJV · Reckon It Dead
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Read from KJV · Foundations
Romans 7
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Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?Read from KJV · Law & Grace
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For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.Read from KJV · Law & Grace
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So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.Read from KJV · Law & Grace
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Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.Read from KJV · Anger Management
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For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.Read from KJV · Law Breakers
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But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.Read from KJV · Law Breakers
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Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.Read from NKJV · Law Breakers
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So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.Read from KJV · Anger Management
Romans 8
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For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.Read from KJV · Law & Grace
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For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,Read from KJV · Law & Grace
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so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.Read from KJV · Law & Grace
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Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.Read from KJV · Law & Grace
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The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,Read from NKJV · Law & Grace
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because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.Read from KJV · Law & Grace
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You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.Read from KJV · Law & Grace
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The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.Read from ESV · Royal Treatment
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I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.Read from KJV · Suffering
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The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.Read from KJV · Suffering
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For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hopeRead from KJV · Ask, Seek, Knock
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that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.Read from KJV · Suffering
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We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.Read from KJV · Suffering
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Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.Read from KJV · Suffering
Romans 9
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For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,Read from KJV · Loving People
Romans 11
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And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.Read from KJV · Grace & Peace
Romans 12
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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.Read from NKJV · Hebrews 13:1-3
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Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.Read from KJV · Mercy, Mercy!
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Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord."Read from KJV · Mercy, Mercy!
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On the contrary, "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head."Read from KJV · Mercy, Mercy!
Romans 13
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Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.Read from NASB1995 · Hebrews 13:7-25
Romans 16
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who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.Read from NKJV · Marriage Series #1 - Aquila & Priscilla