through whom we have received grace and apostolic mission among all nations for his name, to bring them to the obedience of faith:

always in my prayers entreating that haply now at last I may have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come to you.

But I would not that ye should be unacquainted, brethren, that oftentimes I have been purposing to come to you (and have been prevented until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentile nations.

For as many as have sinned without the law, shall perish also without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

(for when the Gentiles, who have not the law naturally, do the things of the law, these, though not having the law, are a law unto themselves:

What then? have we pre-eminence? Not at all: for we have before proved that both the Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have spoken craftily; the poison of asps is under their lips:

And they have not known the way of peace:

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

(as it is written "that I have constituted thee father of many nations,") before God, in whom he trusted, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth things that are not as if existing.

BEING justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

by whom also we have had an introduction through faith into this grace in which we have stood fast, and are rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.

For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

And not so only, but we exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom already we have received reconciliation.

Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; even so death passed into all men through him, in whom all have sinned.

But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over those who have not sinned after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of him that was to come.

Do ye not know, that as many as have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into his death?

We have been buried therefore with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

For if we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection:

But if we have been dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

But thanks be to God, that though ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart the model of doctrine into which ye were delivered.

I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness.

But now being set at liberty from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and at the end life eternal.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.

But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter.

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in ourselves, expecting the adoption, the redemption of our body.

For by hope we have been saved: now hope seen is not hope; for that which any man seeth how doth he yet hope for?

As it is written, "That for thy sake we have been put to death the whole day long; we have been reckoned indeed as sheep for slaughter."

For the word of promise is this, At that time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

As it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

For he saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, "That for this very end have I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

Even as Isaiah had said before, "Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left unto us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrha."

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who pursued not after righteousness, have attained unto righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith.

For I am a witness for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? but how shall they hear without a preacher?

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"

But I say, Have they not heard? Yea verily, "the sound of their voice is gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world."

But Isaiah is very bold, and saith, "I have been found by those who sought me not; I have become manifest to those who inquired not after me."

But unto Israel he saith, "All the day long have I stretched out my hands unto a people disobedient and contradicting."

"Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I only am left, and they seek my life."

But what saith the oracle of God to him? "I have left to myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? God forbid: but by their stumbling salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

But if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou though a wild olive hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

For as ye also in times past did not believe in God, but now have obtained mercy through their unbelief:

so also these now have not believed in your mercy, that they also might obtain mercy.

For God hath shut up all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

For as we have in one body many members, but the members, though many, have not the same function,

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from it:

For whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written for our instruction; that by patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we might have hope.

But I have written to you, my brethren, in part, with greater freedom, as refreshing your memory through the grace which is given to me of God;

I have therefore cause to glory in Christ Jesus with regard to the things of God.

by the power of signs and miracles, by the might of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and in a circle quite round unto Illyricum, I have fully spread the gospel of Christ.

But I have in such manner endeavoured to preach the gospel, not where Christ's name had been heard, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

but as it is written, "To whom the tidings concerning him have not reached, they shall see, and they who have not heard, shall understand."

Wherefore also I have found many things to hinder me from coming to you;

whenever I proceed on my journey into Spain, I will come unto you: for I hope on my journey to see you, and by you to be forwarded thither, after I shall have first, in a measure, fully enjoyed your society.

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints that are at Jerusalem.

They have been so pleased indeed, and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been admitted to a participation in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.

When therefore I have completed this work, and sealed unto them this fruit, I will pass by you into Spain.

that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that you assist her in every matter wherein she may have need of you: for she hath also been a succourer of many, and of me myself.

(who for my life have laid down their own neck: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:)

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have laboured hard in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who laboured much in the Lord.

Now I beseech you, brethren, keep a sharp eye over those who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned, and turn away from them.

I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in the Lord.