Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

through whom we received grace and the office of apostle, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you;

Now I do not desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

So, for my part, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

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

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. So they are without excuse.

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and crawling creatures.

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this reason, God abandoned them to their degrading passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality -- eternal life.

But glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For there is no partiality with God.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

(for when Gentiles who do not have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

May it never be. For then how will God judge the world?

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

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

whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because in God's forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

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

For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Therefore it also was "credited to him for righteousness."

Now it was not written that it was credited to him for his sake alone,

but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For rarely does one die for the righteous. Yet perhaps for a good person someone might dare to die.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

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

Or do you not know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

For I do not know what I am doing. For I do not practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

For the good which I desire, I do not do; but the evil which I do not desire, that I practice.

For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made you free from the law of sin and of death.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the the Spirit is life and peace;

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba. Father."

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

But if we hope for that which we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we do not know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.