The freedom we have in Christ should not be used for licentious living. Rather, the Christian is a slave to righteousness, compelled to do as God desires.

Being set free by the work of Jesus Christ, we must use our freedom for the good things God has. We are no longer bound by the pull of sin in our lives and in Christ CAN rule over it to God's glory.

Since we are dead in regards to sin, the life we live we live in light of a future hope of resurrection and in agreement with what the God who saves us says is right.

If we have been saved, and in faith had Christ's righteousness applied to us, we are dead in regards to sin. 

Since we live in Christ, we ought to live lives that LOOK like Jesus. 

Like Adam's trespass produced death in all mean, so Christ's righteousness can produce life in all who believe.

In Adam, all die because all sin. Adam, as our ancestral, human representative passes original sin to all who would come from him.

Through the reconciliation Jesus provides in his death, we can be at peace with God. Uniquely, God does ALL the work of reconciliation AND provides the means for it.

Faith is the means by which we can be at peace with God in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Our Faith gives us assurance, and security of the promises of God.

The promise of God to the Hebrew people, and the promises of God extended to all people, are secured not by the law, but on the basis of faith.

Circumcision, which predates the law, was not a means of being declared righteous, and was evidence of belief, not the means of salvation itself. 

Abraham's faith as means of being declared righteous predates the Hebrew law.

Christians boast in a new law of faith which declares any who believe in Jesus righteous.

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But, God in his grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, declares us righteous.

Paul notes that the Jewish people, though loved by God, cannot be saved by the law. The law gives the knowledge of sin by showing you the standard, but it does not deal with the consequences of that sin.

Based on God's standard, found both in the underpinnings of the created order and in the Law he has given to man, it is clear that none are righteous.

God's righteousness stands the standard. The Jewish people received the law to hold them accountable to this righteousness. Their failure to meet the standard in no way impacts God's righteousness.

The Jews had physical circumcision. Here, Paul notes this is not criteria to be a part of the people of God. Rather, a changed heart is the necessary requirement to be God's people.

Just as there are implications for unbelief, there are implications for being under the law, and not living like it.