The Law Showed Off Our Sin and God’s Grace
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace...
The Gift of God Wins Out Over Our Passive Default
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...
Grace Even More Pervasive than Sin
[12] Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all...
The Value and Judgment of a Righteous, Good, and Wicked Person
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though...
Suffering that is Out of My Control is the Best Suffering
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character...
Given the Grace to Have Hope to Receive the Coming Kingdom
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained...
Abraham’s Righteousness, Credited and Recorded for You
No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God...
Believing God or Believing Anything and Everything Else
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he...
Resting in and Trusting in Christ as the Path to Peace
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...