declared to be the Son of God in power as to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,??esus Christ our Lord,??5 through whom we have received grace and an apostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of his name,

asking if by any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.

For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,

who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who do such things deserve death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,??13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves,

What defense then have we? None at all; for we before asserted that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

all have turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, there is not even one;

and the way of peace they have not known.

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

as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

Having been justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have been introduced into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

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

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall much more be of his resurrection;

For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.

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

So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart;

for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh,

For this was the word of promise; According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.

As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge;

for not knowing God's righteousness, and seeking to set up their righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God's righteousness.

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one preaching?

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those that publish good news of peace, that publish good news of good things.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

But what says the response to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means; but by their fall the nations have salvation to excite them to emulation.

For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive.

For as you once disobeyed God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

so also they now have disobeyed that they may obtain mercy by your mercy.

For God has concluded all in disobedience that he may have mercy on all.

For as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office,

Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it;

You have faith; have it for yourself before God, Blessed is he that condemns not himself in what he approves;

For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.

And the God of patience and consolation grant you to have the same mind one to another, according to Christ Jesus,

but I have written more boldly to you in part, to refresh your minds on account of the grace given me by God

I have therefore cause of boasting in Christ Jesus in respect to things relating to God;

by the power of miracles and prodigies, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation;

but as it is written, They shall see to whom nothing was told concerning him, and they who have not heard shall understand.

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints at Jerusalem.

They have been pleased indeed, and their debtors they are; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.

that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.