For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his descendents through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is the representative of him who was to come.
For if by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equally precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ: