Brethren, if, as enemies, we have been reconciled to God by the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life. And this is not enough, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Therefore, just as sin entered into the world by one man, and death by sin, so death passed into all people, because in him all sinned. For even before the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses and over those who had not sinned, like the transgression of Adam, who is an image of the future. But the gift of grace is not like a crime. For if many have been put to death by the transgression of one, how much more will the grace of God and the gift by grace of one man, Jesus Christ, abound in many. And the gift is not as a judgment for one sinner; for judgment for one crime leads to condemnation; and the gift of grace is for justification from many transgressions.

Romans 5:10–16

Thursday 2 weeks

The Epistle to the Romans, conceived 90

Brethren, if by the transgression of one death reigned through one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through Jesus Christ alone. Therefore, as by the transgression of one man is condemnation to all men, so by the righteousness of one man is justification unto life. For just as by the disobedience of one man many have become sinners, so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous. But the law came afterward, and thus the transgression increased. And when sin abounded, grace abounded, so that as sin reigned unto death, so grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. What shall we say? Shall we remain in sin so that grace may abound? Nohow. We have died to sin: how can we live in it?

Romans 5:17–6:2

Friday of the 2nd Week

The Epistle to the Romans, conceived 91

Brethren, were all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we are united to Him in the likeness of His death, then we must also be united in the likeness of the resurrection, knowing that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin may be abolished, so that we may no longer be slaves to sin; for he who died was freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, then we believe that we will also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having risen from the dead, no longer dies: death no longer has power over Him. For because He died, He died once to sin; and what lives, lives for God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:3–11

Holy Saturday

The Epistle to the Romans, conceived 92

Brethren, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts; and do not give your members to sin as instruments of iniquity, but present yourselves to God as having come alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. Sin must not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Nohow. Do you not know that to whom you give yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are also slaves to whom you obey, or slaves of sin unto death, or slaves of obedience unto righteousness? Thanks be to God that you, having formerly been slaves to sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you have given yourselves.

Romans 6:11–17