Posts Tagged ‘grace’

Romans 8:1

Romans 8:1:
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, (NIV)
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (NASB)
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (KJV)
From Rom 1:18–7:25 Paul had [...]

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Romans 6:23

Romans 6:23:
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NIV)
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NASB)
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God [...]

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Romans 6:19

Romans 6:19:
I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. (NIV)
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness [...]

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Romans 6:15–17

Romans 6:15–17:
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which [...]

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Romans 6:14

Romans 6:14:
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. (NIV)
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. (NASB)
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (KJV)
Paul now provides [...]

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Grace Requires Love AND Justice

As I was thinking about various issues that had been recently weighing on my mind this morning, I happened across a thought regarding the concept of grace and its common (mis)usage.
What we tend not to acknowledge is that grace requires two components:

Love
Justice

We like to focus on the love component, in which something is given to [...]

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Romans 6:1

Romans 6:1:
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? (NIV)
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? (NASB)
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? (KJV)
In chapter 6, Paul is beginning a new avenue [...]

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Romans 5:21

Romans 5:21:
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (NIV)
so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (NASB)
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even [...]

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Romans 5:20

Romans 5:20:
The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, (NIV)
The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, (NASB)
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much [...]

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Romans 5:17

Romans 5:17:
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. (NIV)
For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the [...]

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