free gift (tautology) just gift

46-ROM/02.usfm

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 \v 24 For "the name of God is dishonored among the Gentiles because of you," just as it has been written.
 
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-\v 25 For circumcision indeed benefits you if you obey the law, but if you are a violator of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
+\v 25 For circumcision indeed benefits you if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
 \v 26 If, then, the uncircumcised person keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered as circumcision?
 \v 27 And will not the one who is naturally uncircumcised condemn you if he keeps the law? This is because you have the written law and circumcision, yet you break the law!
 

46-ROM/03.usfm

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-\v 5 But if our unrighteousness shows the righteousness of God, what can we say? God is not unrighteous when he is inflicting his wrath, is he? I am speaking according to human logic.
+\v 5 But if our unrighteousness shows the righteousness of God, what can we say? Can we say that God is unrighteous to bring his wrath upon us? (I am using a human argument.)
 \v 6 May it never be! For then how would God judge the world?
 
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-\v 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to the ones who are under the law. This is in order that every mouth may be shut, and so that all the world may become answerable to God.
+\v 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to the ones who are under the law. This is in order that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world held accountable to God.
 \v 20 This is because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
 
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 \v 22 that is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe. For there is no distinction.
 
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-\v 23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God
-\v 24 They are freely justified by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
+\v 23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
+\v 24 and they are freely justified by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
 
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 \v 25 For God provided Christ Jesus as a propitiation through faith in his blood. He offered Christ as proof of his justice, because of his disregard of previous sins

46-ROM/04.usfm

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 \v 16 For this reason it is by faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all of Abraham's descendants—not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all, 
-\v 17 as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations." Abraham was in the presence of him whom he trusted, that is, God, who gives life to the dead and calls the things that do not exist into existence.
+\v 17 as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations." Abraham was in the presence of him whom he trusted, that is, God, who gives life to the dead ones and calls the things that do not exist into existence.
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 \v 18 Despite all outward circumstances, Abraham confidently trusted God for the future. So he became the father of many nations, according to what had been spoken, "Thus will be your descendants."
 \v 19 He was not weak in faith. Abraham understood that his own body was unable to have children (because he was about a hundred years old). He also acknowledged that Sarah's womb was not able to bear children.

46-ROM/05.usfm

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 \v 14 Nevertheless, death ruled from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin like Adam's disobedience, who is a pattern of him who was to come.
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-\v 15 But even so, the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound for the many.
+\v 15 But even so, the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound for the many.
 
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-\v 16 For the gift is not like the outcome of the one who sinned. For on the one hand, the judgment of condemnation came because of the trespass of one man. But on the other hand, the free gift resulting in justification came after many trespasses.
+\v 16 For the gift is not like the outcome of the one who sinned. For on the one hand, the judgment of condemnation came because of the trespass of one man. But on the other hand, the gift resulting in justification came after many trespasses.
 \v 17 For if, by the trespass of one, death ruled through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness rule through the life of the one, Jesus Christ.
 
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46-ROM/06.usfm

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 \v 22 But now that you have been made free from sin and are enslaved to God, you have your fruit for sanctification. The result is eternal life.
-\v 23 For the wages of sin are death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
+\v 23 For the wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

46-ROM/14.usfm

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 \v 7 For none of us lives for himself, and none dies for himself.
 \v 8 For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Then whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
-\v 9 For to this purpose Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
+\v 9 For to this purpose Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead one and those who are living.
 
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 \v 10 But you, why do you judge your brother? And you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.