Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

including you who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ??7 to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world.

on that Day when, as the good news I preach teaches, God through Christ Jesus judges what men have kept secret,

It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus.

For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.

but also on ours, for it is to be credited also to us who have faith in him who raised from the dead our Lord Jesus,

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

More than that, we actually glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom we owe our reconciliation.

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

so that just as sin had reigned through death, mercy might reign through uprightness and bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.

nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

For if with your lips you acknowledge the message that Jesus is Lord, and with your mind you believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.

I know and as a follower of the Lord Jesus I am convinced that nothing is unclean in itself; a thing is unclean only to the man who regards it as unclean.

May God, from whom steadfastness and encouragement come, give you such harmony with one another, in following the example of Christ Jesus,

that you may praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one accord and one voice.

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

So as a follower of Christ Jesus I have reason to be proud of my work for God.

I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.

Remember me to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in the cause of Christ Jesus,

And God, who is the source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The blessing of our Lord Jesus be with you.

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,

and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith??27 to the one wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ. Amen.