concerning His Son, Who was born of the seed of David, according to His flesh,

Who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead??ven Jesus Christ our Lord,

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the gentiles.

because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor did they give thanks; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

and, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their desires one for another; men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error, which was due.

Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.

For, if Abraham was justified by works, he has ground of boasting, but not toward God.

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

Does this happiness, therefore, come upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness."

How, then, was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

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

but, in view of the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but was made strong in faith, giving glory to God,

and being fully assured that what He had promised, He was able also to perform.

Wherefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

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

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

and hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the holy Spirit, Who was given to us.

for until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not reckoned, when there is no law:

but yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who sinned not after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of Him Who was to come.

We were buried, therefore, with Him through the immersion into death; that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be brought to nought, that we should no more be in bondage to sin;

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another??o Him Who was raised from the dead??hat we might bear fruit to God.

And I was alive apart from the law once; but, when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

And the commandment which was unto life was itself found by me to be unto death;

For, what was impossible under law, wherein it was weak through the flesh. God, sending His Own Son in likeness of sinful flesh, and, respecting sin, condemned sin in the flesh;

For the creation was made subject to vanity, not of choice, but by reason of Him Who subjected it, in hope

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

(for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;

it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger."

As He saith in Hosea, "I will call that My people, which was not My people; and her, 'Beloved,' who was not beloved.

And it shall be that in the place where it was said, 'Ye are not My people,' there shall they be called sons of the living God."

But Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who sought Me not; I became manifest to those who sought not after Me."

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he night to think, but so to think as to think soberly, according as God divided to each one a measure of faith.

And, having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

The night was far spent, and the day has drawn near; let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

But I wrote to you the more boldly in part, as reminding you again, because of the grace which was given to me from God,

and, making it my aim so to proclaim the Gospel??ot where Christ was already named??hat I might not build upon another's foundation;

but, as it has been written, "Those shall see, to whom nothing was announced concerning Him; and those who have not heard shall understand."

Wherefore, also, I was being hindered many times from coming to you;