What then? Are we better [than they?] Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those [who are] under the law, as under the law, that I might win those [who are] under the law;

to those [who are] without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those [who are] without law;

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

"But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!

"For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God,

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.