for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service:

But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose.

and he not fashioned after this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,

That if you may confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and may believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved:

And God commends his love to us, because, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and death by sin; and thus death came upon all men, in that all sinned;

Therefore having been justified by faith, let us have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For every one who may call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority except that which is from God; and the existing authorities have been ordained of God.

Then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

as has been written, There is no one good, not one:

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are seen, being known by the things which are made, even His eternal power and divinity; so that they are without excuse:

Whether do you not know, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?

Then what shall we say? must we abide in sin, in order that grace may abound?

But ye are not in depravity, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

And likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmity. For we know not what we should pray for as it behooves us: but the Spirit himself makes intercession with unutterable groanings:

For I am persuaded that, neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come,

For so many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

Then what shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death: in order that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so must we also walk in newness of life.

For I reckon that the sufferings of these present times are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is about to be revealed in us.

On account of this God gave them up to the lusts of dishonor: for indeed their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature:

among whom ye are also called of Jesus Christ:

For so many things as were previously written were written for our instruction, in order that through the patience and through the consolation of the scriptures we may have hope.

And now the righteousness of God without law has been made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

For we being yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly:

For I speak, through the grace which has been given unto me, for every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has imparted to each one the measure of faith.

concerning his Son, having been born of the seed of David according to the flesh;

The Spirit Himself witnesses along with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

being freely justified by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, having been separated unto the gospel of God,

Let love be free from hypocrisy. Abhorring the evil, cleaving to the good:

But do you consider this, O man, judging those doing such things, and doing the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

for the children not having been born, neither having done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God might stand according to election not of works, but of him that calleth,

And not only so, but let us also rejoice in tribulation; knowing that tribulation works out endurance;

Then how can they call on him on whom they have not believed? and how can they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

praying, if by any means I shall be prospered in the will of God to come to you.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in him from faith to faith: as has been written, But the just shall live by faith.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you received the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry; Father, Father.

but this is the consolation among you through faith in one another, both of you and me.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how I unceasingly make mention of you always in my prayer;

But I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and stumblings, contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and depart from them.

Owe no man anything, but to love one another with divine love: for the one loving another with divine love has fulfilled the law.

O the depth of the riches of the wisdom of the knowledge of God! His judgments are unsearchable, and his ways past tracing out.

But if the fall of them was the riches of the world, and the depletion of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

Therefore no flesh shall be justified by works of law: for through law there is a perfect knowledge of sin.

and hope makes not ashamed; because the divine love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who has been given unto us.

because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were they thankful; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened.

But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that frequently I purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, in order that I may have some fruit among you, as well as also among other Gentiles.

In the first place, indeed, I praise my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

whom God sent forth an expiation through faith in his blood, unto the manifestation of His righteousness through the remission of the sins which are passed,

Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

Therefore God gave them up, in the lusts of their hearts, to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves:

But having gifts differing according to the grace given unto us, whether prophecy, it is according to the analogy of faith;

And the God of hope fill you in all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Ghost.

But receive to yourselves him who is weak in faith, not into disputations of doubtful matters.

because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God has revealed it to them:

I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to this mystery, in order that you may not he wise with yourselves, that blindness in part has happened unto Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles may come in;

For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: for the same is Lord of all, rich unto all that call on him.

Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be.

But in all these we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

How much more then, having now been justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.

For we indeed have many members in one body, but all the members have not the same office:

And if children, indeed heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if we suffer together, in order that we may also be glorified together.

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one judging. For in whatsoever thou art judging another, thou art condemning thyself; for thou judging art doing the same things.

knowing this, that our old man is crucified along with him, in order that the body of sin may be destroyed, that we may no longer serve sin;

Do you look with contempt upon the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God is leading you to repentance?

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one having raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also create life in your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who dwells in you.

avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it has been written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

But we know that so many things as the law speaks, it says to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may become guilty before God.

Then what? are we the better? By no means: for we have proven already that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

But what says it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach.

kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

For the earnest expectation of the creature awaits the revelation of the sons of God.

but the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ is unto all who believe: for there is no difference,

It is God who justifies: who is he that condemns? It is Christ who died, and rather who is risen, who is on the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding in our behalf.

I commend unto you our sister Phoebe, being a minister of the church which is in Cenchrea,

For there was an impotency of the law, in which it was weak through depravity, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the sin of depravity and for sin, condemned sin in depravity:

Indeed he who spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not with him, freely give us all things?

For those being in harmony with depravity, do mind the things of depravity, and those in harmony with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit:

I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith without works of law.

so to my utmost ability, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.

for with the heart it is believed unto righteousness; and with the mouth it is confessed unto salvation.

having been ordained the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, from the resurrection of the dead, of Jesus Christ our Lord:

who was delivered on account of our transgressions, and raised for our justification.

But why do you judge your neighbor, or indeed why do you discount your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

For if being enemies we are reconciled to God through the death of his Son; how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved through his life:

for the mind of depravity is death: and the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.

It could not be so: then how will God judge the world?

Then what shall we say? is the law sin? It could not be so; but I did not know sin except through the law: for indeed I had not known lusts, unless the law said, Thou shalt not covet.

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves servants unto obedience, ye are servants to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness?

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for evermore: amen.

To Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery having been hidden during the eternal times,

For the law of the Spirit of life has made thee free from the law of sin and of death.

Brethren, indeed the desire of my heart and my prayer to God in their behalf, is for their salvation.

but to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

Then I say, Did God cast away his people? it could not be so. For I am indeed an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Then what shall we say that Abraham, our father according to the flesh, has found?

For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live.

And as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are inappropriate;

and not only so, but we ourselves, having the earnest of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of sons, the redemption of our body.

it could not be so: but let God be true, and every man a liar; as indeed it has been written, In order that you may be justified in your words, and shall prevail, in your judgment.

Because of Him, and through him, and unto him, are all things: to him be glory forever: amen.

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

So you also thus reckon yourselves dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ.

But we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Whether are you ignorant, O brethren, for I speak to those knowing the law, for the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he may live?

For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now;

If possible, so far as it is within your power, living in peace with all men;

and so all Israel shall be saved: as has been written, A leader shall come out of Zion, shall turn ungodliness from Jacob.

so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and members one of another.

Returning to no one evil for evil; providing things beautiful in the sight of all men.

Therefore then, as by the transgression of one, judgment came to all men to condemnation; so also through the righteousness of one, the free gift came on all men unto the justification of life:

For one indeed judges a day above a day: another judges every day (alike); let each one be fully persuaded in his own mind.

And recognizing this time, that it is already the hour we should wake out of sleep: for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome the evil with the good.

Then it is not of him that willeth, nor him that runneth, but of God who shows mercy.

For if by the transgression of one death reigned through one; how much more shall those receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Christ Jesus!)

For I know that in me, that is, in my carnal mind, there dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but to do that which is beautiful is not:

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is circumcision that which is outwardly in the flesh.

For that which I do, I know not: for I do that which I do not will; but I do that which I hate.

For when the Gentiles, not having the law, may by nature do the things of the law, they, not having the law, are a law unto themselves:

Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

Then therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to depravity, to live according to depravity.

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and scold not.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it:

through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the Gentiles, in behalf of his name:

to all the beloved of God who are in Rome, saints having been called. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

of whom are the fathers, and of whom is Christ according to the flesh. Who is over all, God blessed forever: amen.

Saying that they were wise, they became fools,

for as by the disobedience of one man many were made sinners, so also by the obedience of one man shall many be made righteous.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one who believes.

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the lust of the flesh.

But not as that the word of God has been a failure. For these are not all Israel who are of Israel;

Moreover I have boldness in Christ Jesus as to the things appertaining to God:

but if he may eat doubting, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; but every thing which is not of faith is sin.

Then what more belongs to the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

But the law came, that the transgression might abound; but where sin did abound, there did grace superabound:

For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.

For if the casting away of them was the reconciling of the world, what will their reception be, but life from the dead?

Then let us no longer judge one another: but rather judge this, not to place before a brother an offence for a stumblingblock.

which He proclaimed beforehand through His prophets in the holy scriptures,

For the promise to Abraham or his seed, that he should be the heir of the world, was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

But may the God of patience and consolation grant unto you to think the same things among one another with reference to Christ Jesus.

if perchance I may provoke my flesh, and save some of them.

And if the truth of God through my falsehood abounded unto His glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead so far as sin is concerned; but the Spirit is life so far as righteousness is concerned.

and whom He did foreknow, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them He also glorified.

Therefore receive one another, as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives unto God.

for he is the minister of God for you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, executing judgment unto wrath unto the one doing evil.

who will give to each one according to his works:

And how can they preach, unless they may be sent forth? as has been written, How beautiful are the feet of those, who preach the gospel of good things!

For, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet, and if there is any other commandment, it is fulfilled in this word, in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself with divine love.

But according to thy hardness and thy impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

communicating to necessities of the saints; pursuing hospitality.

But I am indeed persuaded, my brethren, concerning you, that you are also full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish one another.

Then therefore we pursue the things belonging to peace, and edification towards one another.

Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:

neither present your members arms of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members arms of righteousness unto God.

For the creature has been subordinated to mortality, not willingly, but through Him who subordinated it;

But not as was the transgression, even so is the free gift: for if by the transgression of one many died, how much more by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, did the grace of God and the gift abound unto many!

Divine love works no evil to its neighbor: for divine love is the fulfilling of the law.

But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered:

for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Have the same mind toward one another, not thinking high things, but condescending to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Who will lay anything to the charge of God's elect?

Then therefore each one of us shall give an account to God for himself.

not slothful in business; boiling over in spirit; serving the Lord;

But if we died along with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him:

likewise also the men, having left the natural use of the woman, burned in their desire towards one another; men with men working out disgrace, and receiving the reward of their error among themselves which it behooved.

For the scripture says, Every one believing on him shall not be ashamed.

covenant-breakers, incontinent, without natural affections, unmerciful,

But to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt;

The God of peace will speedily crush Satan beneath your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

But if the first fruit was holy, the lump is also: if the root was holy, the branches are also.

What then? can we commit sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? it could not be so.

But I speak to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry:

as it has been written, That I have constituted thee the father of many nations, before God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls things which are not as really existing:

through whom we also have access by faith unto this grace in which we stand, and let us rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

For if we have grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection:

For so many as sinned without law will also perish without law; and so many as sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

and if by grace, it is not at all by works: since in that case grace is no more grace.

Then do we make void the law through faith? It could not be so: but we establish the law.

But if you are denominated a Jew, and rest in the law, and boast in God,

and it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger:

So, my brethren, ye are dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, to him who is risen from the dead, in order that we may bring forth fruit unto God.

Then I say; Whether did they stumble that they may fall? it could not be so: but by their fall, salvation came to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.

and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, the same was unto death.

For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach; and through fair speeches and eulogies deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it slew me.

blessed is the man of whom the Lord may not impute sin.

whisperers, calumniators, haters of God, insulters, proud, arrogant, practitioners of evils, disobedient to parents,

(for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed, there being no law;

For in this the one serving Christ is acceptable to God, and approved unto men.

Then you will say, The branches were broken off, that I may be grafted in.

for I will not dare to speak anything save those things which Christ has wrought through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed,

For if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

boast not against the branches: but if you boast, you are not bearing the root, but the root you.

Beautifully; they were broken off by unbelief, but you stand by faith, Think not high things, but fear.

but to those who are of self-seeking, and disobedient to the truth, but obedient to unrighteousness, there are indignation and wrath.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Then does this blessedness come on the circumcision, or on the uncircumcision? for we say That faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousness.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and around about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

And this is the covenant with me unto them, that I may take away their sins.

They are enemies indeed, as touching the gospel, for your sakes: but beloved with reference to election for the sake of the fathers:

but glory and honor and peace to every one doing good; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that is working out evil, both the Jew first, and the Greek;

For if you, having been cut off the olive tree which is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall these, who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Then how was it imputed? to him, being in circumcision or uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

Timothy my fellow-laborer salutes you; and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my consanguinity, salute you.

And not as by the one having sinned, is the free gift; for indeed, judgment was from one unto condemnation, but the free gift is from many transgressions unto justification.

in order that as sin reigned through death, so may grace reign also through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips.

but, as has been written, Those, to whom he has not been preached, shall see concerning him, and they who have not heard shall understand.

But if I do that which I do not will, I consent to the law that it is beautiful;

and they have not known the way of peace.

What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death.

destruction and misery are in their ways:

but now, no longer having a place in these regions, and having an earnest longing for many years to come to you,

Whose feet are swift to shed blood:

The fear of God is not before their eyes.

But these also, if they may not abide in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

as he says in Hosea, I will call them my people, who are not my people; and her beloved, who is not beloved:

but now it is no more I that do it, but sin dwelling in me.

as I may journey into Spain, for I hope traveling through to see you, and by you to be sent forth thither, if in the first place I may be satisfied with your company??25 but now I journey to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.

and endurance, approval; and approval, hope:

For we know that the judgment of God according to truth is against those doing such things.

The faith which you have, have it with yourself before God. Happy is the one not judging himself in that which he approves:

and the father of circumcision to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

and know his will, and approve the things which are excellent, being taught by the law;

Gaius my host, and that of the whole church salutes you. Erastus the steward of the city, and brother Quartus, salute you.

God did not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says in Elijah, how he makes intercession to God against Israel?

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I Tertius, the one writing the epistle, salute you in the Lord.

Then having completed and sealed this fruit unto them, I will sail away for Spain by you;

For as you at one time were disobedient to God, but now you have received mercy through their disobedience,

and let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.

and persuade yourself that you are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, an instructor of the ignorant,

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

therefore do not you who teach another teach yourself? do you, who preach not to steal, steal?

For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution to the poor who are in Jerusalem.

do you, who say not to commit adultery, commit adultery? do you, who abominate idolatry, rob temples?

Do not destroy the work of God on account of meat. All things are pure; but it is evil to the man who eats with offence:

a teacher of the juveniles, having a form of knowledge and truth in the law;

If I do that which I do not will, it is no longer I that do it, but sin dwelling in me.

Then if uncircumcision may keep the righteousness of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

and that which is uncircumcision by nature, perfecting the law, will judge you, who through the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

For the name of God is blasphemed by you among the Gentiles, as has been written.

Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars: and I am left alone, and they are seeking my life.

or ministry, it is in the ministry; or he that teacheth, in teaching;

do you, who boast in the law, through the transgression of the law dishonor God?

For if the heirs were by the law, faith has been made void, and the promise vitiated.

and being not weak in faith, he considered not his body already dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb: