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The Good News – Making Us Right

November 10th, 2012 · No Comments

Romans 1:16-17 (New Living Translation)

16 For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile. 17 This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”

I love the New Living Translation’s wording of these two verses. Simple, direct:

This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight.

Without the good news of the one anointed to take away our sins, we are lousy in the sight of God. (“lousy” is a very charitable word) With the good news of the one anointed to take away our sins, we are made right in the sight of God.

Simple, direct, plain. I love the translation.

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