Romans 5:7

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(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)

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  • Ps 112:5 : 5 It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.
  • John 15:13 : 13 No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.
  • Acts 11:24 : 24 because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a significant number of people were brought to the Lord.
  • Rom 16:4 : 4 who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
  • 2 Sam 18:3 : 3 But the soldiers replied,“You should not do this! For if we should have to make a rapid retreat, they won’t be too concerned about us. Even if half of us should die, they won’t be too concerned about us. But you are like ten thousand of us! So it is better if you remain in the city for support.”
  • 2 Sam 18:27 : 27 The watchman said,“It appears to me that the first runner is Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” The king said,“He is a good man, and he comes with good news.”
  • 2 Sam 23:14-17 : 14 David was in the stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem. 15 David was thirsty and said,“How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!” 16 So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate. They carried it back to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the LORD 17 and said,“O LORD, I will not do this! It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.

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    9Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

    10For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

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    6For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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    14For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

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    10For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

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    11For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

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    15But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

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  • Rom 6:7-8
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    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

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    20For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

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    11This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

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    21so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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    6You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.

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    30Why too are we in danger every hour?

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    26When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

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    7For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?