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

(for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;

But it is not as though the word of God has failed: for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel;

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

For the word of the promise is this: "At this season I will come, and Sarah shall have a son."

(for, the children being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him Who calleth),

For He saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy; and I will have compassion on whomsoever I have compassion."

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise you up, that I might show forth My power in you, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."

You will say to me, then, "Why doth He still find fault? for who has withstood His will?"

And what if God, willing to show forth His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

and that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us,

for the Lord will do a work on the earth, finishing it, and cutting it short.

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

for, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God;

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

For Moses writes that the man who did the righteousness of the law shall live thereby;

for with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

For the Scripture says, "Whosoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the Same One is Lord of all, being rich toward all who call upon Him;

for, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

But they did not all obey the glad tidings. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who believed our report?"

I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

But what says the answer of God to him? "I left for Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

What, then? What Israel is seeking for, this he did not obtain; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

For, if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, but you have been standing by faith. Do not cherish lofty thoughts; but fear.

For, if God spared not the natural branches, neither will He spare you.

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

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 shall these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery (lest ye be wise in your own conceits), that a hardening, in part, has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the gentiles come in;

As touching the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sake;

for the gifts and calling of God are not repented of.

For as ye in times past disobeyed God, but just now obtained mercy by their disobedience;

For God shut up all unto disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

For who knew the mind of the Lord? Or who became His counsellor?

Because, of Him, and through Him, and for Him, are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he night to think, but so to think as to think soberly, according as God divided to each one a measure of faith.

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

recompensing to no one evil for evil; providing things honorable in the sight of all men;

if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men;

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath of God: for it has been written, "Vengeance is Mine; I will recompense," saith the Lord.

But, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for, in doing this, you will heap coals of fire upon his head.

Let every soul be in subjection to the authorities that are over him; for there is no authority, except from God; and the authorities that are have been appointed by God.

for rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And do you wish not to fear the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall have praise from the same;

for he is God's minister to you for good. But, if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

For, on this account, ye pay tribute also; for they are God's ministers, attending continually to this very thing.

Render to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

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

For this, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not kill," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet;" and, if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

And this, knowing the season, that it is time already for you to be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when ye believed.

The night was far spent, and the day has drawn near; let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its desires.

But him that is weak in the faith receive ye, yet not for decisions of scruples.

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that does not eat despise him that eats; for God received him.

Who are you that judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. But he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

He that regards the day regards it to the Lord; and he that eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives thanks to God.

For no one of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

For, if we live, we live to the Lord; and, if we die, we die to the Lord: whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

For to this end Christ died, and lived, that He might be Lord of both dead and living.

But you??hy do you judge your brother? or you also??hy do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.

For it has been written, "As I live, saith the Lord, to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God."

For, if because of your food your brother is aggrieved, you are no longer walking in accordance with love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.

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

For he that in these things serves Christ, is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.

Do not, for the sake of food, overthrow the work of God. All things, indeed, are clean; but it is evil to him who eats with offense.

Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification;

for even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it has been written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on Me."

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers;

and that the gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; as it has been written, "For this cause, I will confess to Thee among the gentiles; and to Thy name will I sing praise."

For I will venture to speak only of the things which God wrought through me for the obedience of the gentiles, by word and deed,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, I have fully dispensed the Gospel of Christ;

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

whensoever I go to Spain (for I am hoping, in passing through, to see you, and to be sent on my way thither by you, if first I have been satisfied, in a measure, with your company);

For Macedonia and Achaia were well pleased to make a certain contribution to the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.

Indeed, they were well pleased, and their debtors they are; for, if the gentiles were partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.

And I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself became a helper of many, and of myself.

who, for my soul, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the gentiles;

For those who are such are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and, through their kind words and flattering speeches, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

For your obedience reached unto all. I rejoice, therefore, over you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, but simple as to evil.

but now made manifest, and through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for obedience to the faith: