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

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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

Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

that if you will 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 commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

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

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't 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 children of God.

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

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

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

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

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

whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

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

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

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

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

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

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."

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

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

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they 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, which we preach:

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

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

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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

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

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

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

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

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

Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

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

(14:24) Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,

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

Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

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

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

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

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

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

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so 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 in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

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

For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

(for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.

Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

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

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

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

For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"

For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

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

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.

Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

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

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

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

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;

but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

"whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

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

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

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

"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."

But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

The way of peace, they haven't known."

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Destruction and misery are in their ways.

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

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

They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

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

I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.

When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."

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

For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.

You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

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

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

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

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

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

David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

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

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

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

but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

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

Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."

Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."

For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

(14:26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

For there is no partiality with God.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who didn't seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

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

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

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

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

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

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

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

Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.