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

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among the dead, thou shalt be saved.

but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

There is then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:

For every one whosoever, who shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.

Let every soul be subject to the authorities that are above him. For there is no authority except from God; and those that exist are set up by God.

So faith then is by a report, but the report by God's word.

according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;

for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, so as to render them inexcusable.

Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?

What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?

But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ he is not of him:

Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brethren.

And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

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

We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed to us.

For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;

among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;

for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.

For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

concerning his Son (come of David's seed according to flesh,

The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to God's glad tidings,

Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and practisest them thyself, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

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

always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith which is in the other, both yours and mine.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

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

But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.

Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

O depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!

But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?

Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.

and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

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

whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.

Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:

But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether it be prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to the determining of questions of reasoning.

Because what is known of God is manifest among them, for God has manifested it to them,

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;

For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich towards all that call upon him.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us.

Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

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

And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.

or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among the dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.

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

Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.

What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:

righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all,and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

who is he that condemns? It is Christ who has died, but rather has been also raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.

But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?

For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who are in Rome.

For with the heart is believed to righteousness; and with the mouth confession made to salvation.

marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of the dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;

who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.

For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.

who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation.

but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?

for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:

And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

And not only that, but even we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, that is the redemption of our body.

Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.

For of him, and through him, and for him are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:

So also ye, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

But we ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

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

if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;

and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

thus we, being many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of the other.

recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.

One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.

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

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

For when those of the nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of Christ salute you.

So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.

by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

whose are the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to every one that believes.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.

Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all are Israel which are of Israel;

I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because it is not of faith; but whatever is not of faith is sin.

What then is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,

for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?

Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.

(which he had before promised by his prophets in holy writings,)

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

Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;

if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified.

Wherefore receive ye one another, according as the Christ also has received you to the glory of God.

For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.

for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

who shall render to each according to his works:

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

distributing to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.

Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope

But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

Love works no ill to its neighbour; love therefore is the whole law.

But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance.

Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God who justifies:

So then each of us shall give an account concerning himself to God.

as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.

For the scripture says, No one believing on him shall be ashamed.

void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;

Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:

But the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.

What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as I am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;

(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;

For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,

But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace.

Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: no, but we establish law.

But if thou art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,

it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:

For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

blessed the man to whom the Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

For he that in this serves the Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men.

Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.

For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,

if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.

boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not thou bearest the root, but the root thee.

Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

Does this blessedness then rest on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

And this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall have taken away their sins.

As regards the glad tidings, they are enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.

but glory and honour and peace to every one that works good, both to Jew first and to Greek:

tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

For if thou hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.

in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips:

but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.

But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.

and way of peace they have not known:

What fruit therefore had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of them is death.

ruin and misery are in their ways,

But now, having no longer place in these regions, and having great desire to come to you these many years,

swift their feet to shed blood;

there is no fear of God before their eyes.

And they too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.

As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.

Now then it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)

and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who do such things.

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in what he allows.

and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

Gaius, my host and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the steward of the city, salutes you, and the brother Quartus.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in the Lord.

Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.

For as indeed ye also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of these;

let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,

For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.

thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?

for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.

thou that sayest man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:

But if what I do not will, this I practise, it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,

and uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the law, judge thee, who, with letter and circumcision, art a law-transgressor?

For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written.

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

or service, let us occupy ourselves in service; or he that teaches, in teaching;

thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

For if they which are of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.

For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst the Jews, but also from amongst the nations?

And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

since indeed it is one God who shall justify the circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.

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

Is God the God of Jews only? is he not of the nations also? Yea, of nations also:

But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:

Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you.

and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among the dead Jesus our Lord,

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

that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

But I know that, coming to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

And according as Esaias said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God.

but now I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;

But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world.

But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?

for he is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting it short in righteousness; because a cutting short of the matter will the Lord accomplish upon the earth.

For this word is of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me.

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to establish you;

but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him to come.

And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit.

So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

for there is no acceptance of persons with God.

that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

But now, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.

(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.

or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness.

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy through them that are not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.

But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;

What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

for the shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of the faith of Jesus.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought.

Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus,

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

And not only that, but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

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

So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority resists the ordinance of God; and they who thus resist shall bring sentence of guilt on themselves.

Aye, but thou, O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.

And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

For it is written, I live, saith the Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.

who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing themselves between themselves;)

for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

Render to all their dues: to whom tribute is due, tribute; to whom custom, custom; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil one. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority? practise what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it;

who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them.

and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion.

If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience.