Most Popular Bible Verses in Romans

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Know ye not, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?

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

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And thinkest thou, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgement of God?

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(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger:

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But how 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 a preacher?

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intreating if I may now at length have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come unto you.

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Now if their fall be the riches of the world, and their diminution be the riches of the Gentiles, how much more will their fulness be?

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And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come unto you, (but have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentiles.

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for what is to be known of God is manifest among them, for God hath manifested it to them.

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For I would not have you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, (least ye should be wise in your own eyes) that blindness in part is befallen Israel, till the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

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Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost the same things.

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it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of God.

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"What then are we the better?" Not at all, in point of justification; for we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin: as it is written,

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bring up Christ from the dead)" but what saith it? "The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart." This is the word of faith which we preach: that if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,

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For the earnest expectation of the world is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God:

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therefore am I ready, as much as in me lies, to preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome.

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But why dost thou censure thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? since we shall all stand before the tribunal of Christ;

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for then how shall God judge the world?

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God forbid! Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey? either of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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Now to Him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, (conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret in former times,

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but to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him who justifieth the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

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I say then, Hath God cast off his people? God forbid! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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What shall we say then that Abraham our father obtained according to the flesh?

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And not only others, but those also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit the redemption of our body.

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God forbid: yea, let God be acknowledged true, though every man be a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome, when thou judgest.

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Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath power over a man, only so long as it liveth?

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Therefore as by the offence of one the effect of it was upon all men to condemnation: so also by the righteousness of one, the effect was upon all men to justification of life.

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One preferreth some days to others; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every one be fully satisfied in his own mind.

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So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

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nor is that circumcision, which is only in appearance, in the flesh;

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for when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves,

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Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

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Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

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Not that the word of God hath failed. For they are not all Israel, who are descended from Israel.

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What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

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Now the law made some entrance, that the offence might appear to abound; but where sin abounded, grace hath superabounded; that as sin had reigned in death,

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for what saith the scripture? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

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for if the rejecting of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving them again be but life from the dead?

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separated unto the gospel of God, (which He had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures) concerning his Son,

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

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I extol my office, that if possible I may excite to emulation my brethren according to the flesh, and may save some of them:

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"But, say you, if the truth of God hath abounded unto his glory through my falshood, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

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for this command, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet, and every other social precept, is summed up in this, namely, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

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(for the world was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but through him who made it subject:)

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But thanks be to God, that ye who were servants of sin, have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you:

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and the men likewise, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust to one another, men with men committing shame, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their error which they deserved.

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Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole heap: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

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For I speak to you Gentiles: inasmuch indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles,

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(as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations,") in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not as if they were:

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

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And if by grace, it is no more of works: for then grace is no longer grace. But if of works, it is no more grace: for then work is no longer work.

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Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.

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Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God,

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Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.

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and the commandment which was intended to life, I found to be unto death.

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slanderers, haters of God, injurious, haughty, proud, inventers of mischief, undutiful to parents, void of understanding,

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for sin was in the world before the law. Now sin is not imputed where there is no law;

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that in these serveth Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

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Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

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For I shall not go about to speak of any thing, but what Christ hath wrought by me, (to gain the obedience of the Gentiles,) both in word and deed:

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For if God spared not the natural branches, neither would He spare thee.

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and if thou boastest, remember thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

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Well; they were broken off for their infidelity, and thou standest by faith: therefore be not high-minded but fear.

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Now is this blessedness upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? for we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

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through the efficacy of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round as far as to Illyricum, I have fully declared the gospel of Christ:

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

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As to the gospel indeed they are enemies on your account, but as to the election they are beloved on account of the fathers.

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but glory, and honor, and peace to every one that worketh good, both to the Jew, and to the Greek:

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For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive, which was natural to thee, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive; how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

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How then was it accounted to him? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

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Timothy my fellow-laborer, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

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For the gift is not as the sentence was by one that sinned; for the sentence is passed from one offence to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences to justification.

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so grace might reign through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

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And if I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good:

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and the way of peace they have not known; and the fear of God is not before their eyes."

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

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but now having no more to detain me in these parts, and having had a great desire for many years to come to you, when I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you:

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Now we know that whatsoever the law saith,

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And they, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able again to graft them in.

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As He saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

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but now I am no more the doer of it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

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for I hope to see you as I pass by, and to be brought forward by you on my way thither, after I have first had some enjoyment of you.

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But we know that the judgement of God is according to truth against those that do such things.

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

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and knowest his will, and approvest things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

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Gaius my host, and that of the whole church saluteth you. Erastus, the chamberlain of the city, and our brother Quartus saluteth you.

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God hath not cast off his people, whom He foreknew. Do ye not know what the scripture saith of Elias? how he complains to God against Israel,

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

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

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Therefore when I have dispatched this, and sealed this fruit of love to them, I will come by you into Spain.

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For as ye were heretofore disobedient to God, but have now obtained mercy in their disobedience:

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Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and always bow down their back.

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and art persuaded that thou art a guide of the blind,

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For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

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Thou then, who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou, that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

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For the Macedonians and Achaians have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints at Jerusalem.

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

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Do not for the sake of meat destroy thy brother who is the work of God: all things indeed are pure; but to the man that eateth with offence it is evil.

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a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law.

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Now if I do that which I would not, I am no more the doer of it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

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Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteous precepts of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted to him for circumcision?

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and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance;

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saying, "Lord, they have slain thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

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

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for if they only that are of the law be heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is become of no effect.

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And not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, being about an hundred years old; nor the deadness of Sarah's womb.

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and that He might make known the riches of his glory in the vessels of mercy, which He hath prepared for glory?

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whom He hath also called, even us, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles.

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And David saith, Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them.

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Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

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Now it was not written on his account only, that it was imputed to him:

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surely of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision also through faith.

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But what saith the oracle of God to him? "I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

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or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles?

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And Esaias crieth out concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved.

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And thus I have been much hindered from coming to you:

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but for our sakes also, to him it will be imputed, as we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead:

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It pleased them, I say, and they are indeed their debtors; for if the Gentiles have partook of their spiritual things, they ought also to be helpful to them in carnal ones.

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that I have great grief and continual sorrow in my heart:

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and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

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And I know that when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

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And as Esaias said before, "Except the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and we had been made like unto Gomorrah."

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Nor because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children of promise: but "in Isaac shall thy seed be called."

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But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

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But I say, Have they not heard? Verily their sound is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

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But all have not obeyed the gospel: for Esaias saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"

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For in finishing the account and cutting it short in righteousness, the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.

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For this is the word of the promise, "According to this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son:"

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for the obedience of faith) to the only wise God be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.

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

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For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established:

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and yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of Him that was to come.

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For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen, is not hope; for what any one sees, how doth he yet hope for?

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for one believeth that he may eat any food; another, who is weak, liveth upon herbs.

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But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were bound, that we might serve God in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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and Esaias positively affirms, "I was found of them that sought me not, I was made manifest to them that asked not after me:"

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But I say again, Did not Israel know this? when first Moses saith, "I will move you to jealousy by those who are not a people, I will provoke you to anger by a foolish nation:"

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But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh thus, "Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven, (that is, to bring Christ down) or,

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What shall we say then? that the Gentiles, who sought not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;

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for a demonstration, I say, of his righteousness at this time: that He might be just, and the justifier of him, that believeth in Jesus.

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What shall we say then? Is there injustice in God?

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Salute Priscilla and Aquila my fellow-laborers in Christ Jesus:

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But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou a wild-olive wert grafted in among them, and art made a partaker together with them of the root and fatness of the olive; boast not against the branches:

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and not to her only; but Rebecca also being with child by our father Isaac,

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For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness which is of God.

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So that he who resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive condemnation.

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Nay but, O man, who art thou, that disputest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

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For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who doth those things shall live by them."

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who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the form of divine worship, and the promises:

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

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and shew the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience witnessing together with it, and their own thoughts either accusing, or excusing them,)

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for I could wish that I myself were made a curse after the manner of Christ, for my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh;

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Render therefore to all what is their due: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, reverence to whom reverence, honor to whom honor.

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For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wouldest thou then not be afraid of the civil power? do what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it:

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who though they knew the just judgement of God, (that they who commit such practises are worthy of death) yet not only do these very things, but also countenance and encourage others in the practice of them.

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God forbid! For He saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

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Wherefore it is necessary to submit, not only on account of punishment, but also of conscience.

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Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? To his own master he standeth or falleth: yea, he shall be established; for God is able to establish him.

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but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, not in the letter: whose praise is not from men, but from God.

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so these also in your mercy have now been disobedient, that they themselves might be the objects of mercy.

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that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that this my service at Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints:

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Now Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the manifestation of the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers:

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And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all that believe though not circumcised, that righteousness may be imputed to them also:

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who against hope believed, with hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was said unto him, "So shall thy seed be."

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But if thy brother be grieved by thy food, thou dost not herein walk in love. Do not by thy food destroy him, for whom Christ died.

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"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered:

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nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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as it is written, "Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence:" and again, "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."

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And He that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit; for he intercedeth for the saints according to the will of God.

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But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the law sin was dead.

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and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written, "For this cause will I celebrate Thee among the Gentiles, and sing praises unto thy name."

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God forbid! how shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

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I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: as ye have yielded your bodies servants to impurity and iniquity to work iniquity; so now present your bodies servants to righteousness, unto holiness.

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Thou wilt say then, Why doth he yet blame us? who hath resisted his will?

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but Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness: why?

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Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: towards them that fell, severity; but towards thee, goodness; if thou continue in his goodness: for else thou also shalt be cut off.

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(as it is written, "for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter:")

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For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor?

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Now the law worketh wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

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Much, every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

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and saith to Israel, "All the day long have I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people."

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And the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, for this very purpose have I raised thee up, that I may shew forth my power in thee, and that my name may be declared through all the earth.

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For God hath included them all in the charge of disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all.

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knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more power over Him: for as He died, He died once for all on account of sin;

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So then He hath mercy on whom He pleaseth, and whom He will, He hardeneth.

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that ye receive her in the Lord as becometh saints, and assist her in whatever affair she may have need of you; for she also hath been a helper of many others, as well as of myself.

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For Christ also pleased not himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of them that reproached thee, fell upon me."

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And I was heretofore alive without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died:

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What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he sought: but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded,

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Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin might be shewn by the commandment to be exceeding sinful.

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For what if some did not believe? shall their incredulity make the faithfulness of God of no effect?

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For I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to the learned and the unlearned:

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They are all gone out of the way, they are become unprofitable, there is none that practiseth goodness, no not one.

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who shall descend into the deep, (that is, to

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Or who hath first given to Him? and it shall be returned.

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and why may we not do evil that good may come?"---as we are injuriously charged, and as some affirm that we say; whose condemnation is just.

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For your obedience is come to the knowledge of all: and therefore I rejoice on your account; but yet I would have you wise to that which is good, and simple as to that which is evil.

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The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

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and the church in their house. Salute my beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ.

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"But if our unrighteousness confirm the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unrighteous, who inflicteth his wrath?" (I speak as a man) God forbid:

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As David also describeth the blessedness of the man to whom: God imputeth righteousness without works, saying,

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He that regardeth a day regardeth it to the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, in deference to the Lord he doth not regard it. So he, that eateth all sorts of food, eateth to the Lord; for he giveth God thanks for it; and he that eateth not of some kinds of food, in deference to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

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Hath not the potter power over the clay, out of the same mass to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?

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For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

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And again Esaias saith, "There shall be a root of Jesse, and one that shall rise to rule over the Gentiles: in Him shall the Gentiles trust."

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because they sought it not by faith, but by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

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Let not your liberty then be evil-spoken of: for the kingdom of God consists not in meat and drink;

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However, I have written to you, brethren, somewhat the more freely, in reminding you of your duty; because of the favor bestowed upon me by God,

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but is now manifested, and made known to all nations by the writings of the prophets, according to the appointment of the eternal God,

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(who for my life exposed their own; to whom not I only give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:)

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Salute Mary, who took much pains on our account.

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Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who are labouring in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, who hath laboured much in the Lord.

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And again he saith, "Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people."

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And again, "Praise the Lord, all ye nations, praise Him, all ye people."

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Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints that are with them.

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Salute those of the family of Aristobulus. Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute those of the family of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

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Salute Apelles, a man approved in Christ.

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Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren that are with them.

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Salute Amplias my beloved in the Lord. Salute Urbanus, our fellow-laborer in Christ,