American Standard Version of 1901
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and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, {Deuteronomy 9:19.}I exceedingly fear and quake:
And I was alive apart from {Or, law}the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
through whom also we have had our access {Some ancient authorities omit by faith.}by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and {Or, let us rejoice}we {Greek: glory. Verse 11; Hebrew 3:6.}rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession {Or, above}from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
They have {Or, corrupted themselves, they &c.}dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, {Or, but a blot upon them}it is their blemish;They are a perverse and crooked generation.
And he said, I will hide my face from them,I will see what their end shall be:For they are a very perverse generation,Children in whom is no faithfulness.
For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.