for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice -- alive, holy, and pleasing to God -- which is your reasonable service.

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

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God -- what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

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

because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned --

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God's appointment, and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.

just as it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one,

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

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

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

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed --

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God's children.

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God's judgment?

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) --

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, "The righteous by faith will live."

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

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another's faith, both yours and mine.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration bring?

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.

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

God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.

because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God's wrath.

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ) -- if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God's kindness leads you to repentance?

Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God's wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

For we know that the law is spiritual -- but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.

For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all -- how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit --

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.

But you who eat vegetables only -- why do you judge your brother or sister? And you who eat everything -- why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

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

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that had been kept secret for long ages,

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

Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all people.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people.

Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. Each must be fully convinced in his own mind.

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how 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 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate.

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision?

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

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

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God's glory.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

for it is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God's servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.

He will reward each one according to his works:

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news."

For the commandments, "Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet," (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, "Love your neighbor as yourself."

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed!

Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.

But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

For the creation was subjected to futility -- not willingly but because of God who subjected it -- in hope

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

(as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed -- the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God's glory.

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

For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger,"

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin."

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."

Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say, "faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness."

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins."

In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

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

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

"Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips."

but as it is written: "Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."

But if I do what I don't want, I agree that the law is good.

and the way of peace they have not known."

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

ruin and misery are in their paths,

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

"Their feet are swift to shed blood,

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

And even they -- if they do not continue in their unbelief -- will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

As he also says in Hosea: "I will call those who were not my people, 'My people,' and I will call her who was unloved, 'My beloved.'"

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

when I go to Spain. For I hope to visit you when I pass through and that you will help me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

Now we know that God's judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

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I, Tertius, who am writing this letter, greet you in the Lord.

Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set out for Spain by way of you,

Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually."

and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth --

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

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

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!"

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory --

as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day."

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about -- but not before God.

even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham's sake,

Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

But what was the divine response to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.

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

For they were pleased to do this, and indeed they are indebted to the Jerusalem saints. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Now may the God of peace be with all of you. Amen.

So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

and I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of Christ's blessing.

Just as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah."

nor are all the children Abraham's true descendants; rather "through Isaac will your descendants be counted."

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

"And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.

But I ask, have they not heard? Yes, they have: Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly."

For this is what the promise declared: "About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son."

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever! Amen.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my compatriots and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

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

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

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

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

For there is no partiality with God.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God's children.

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants -- not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me."

if it is exhortation, he must exhort; if it is contributing, he must do so with sincerity; if it is leadership, he must do so with diligence; if it is showing mercy, he must do so with cheerfulness.

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

But again I ask, didn't Israel understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger."

But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down)

What shall we say then? -- that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus' faithfulness.

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac --

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

But who indeed are you -- a mere human being -- to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God."

They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

For I could wish that I myself were accursed -- cut off from Christ -- for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

(for rulers cause no fear for good conduct but for bad). Do you desire not to fear authority? Do good and you will receive its commendation,

Although they fully know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

For he says to Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head.

Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath of the authorities but also because of your conscience.