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.

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;

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

all have gone away, they have all together become unprofitable; there is no one who is doing good, there is not one.

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

and they have not known the way of peace.

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:

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

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

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:

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servants unto God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

But now we have been made free from the law, being dead in that in which we were held; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

as has been written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I do have mercy, and I will commiserate whom I do commiserate.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing have I raised you up, that I may show forth my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

and as Isaiah has before spoken; Unless the Lord of Sabaoth left to us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and would have been made like unto Gomorrah:

For I testify to them, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to perfect knowledge;

for being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

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?

But they have not all heard the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?

But I say, Have they not all heard? Yea, truly, Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

But to Israel he says, All day long have I reached forth my hands to a gainsaying and disobedient people.

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

But what says the answer to him? I have left unto myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

And if certain ones of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive-tree are grafted in among them, and have become a partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive-tree;

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

For God has shut up all in unbelief, in order that he may have mercy on all.

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

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

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.

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Whether do you not wish to fear the authority? do the good, and you shall have praise from it:

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

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.

But I have written unto you more boldly in part, as reminding you, on account of the grace which has been given unto me from God,

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

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;

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