Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)

"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.

which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.