Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that often I purposed to come unto you, (but was prevented thus far,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

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

For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not proper;

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

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)

For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

And not rather, (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?

Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes righteousness without works,

(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were.

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body as now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

I speak after the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Likewise the Spirit also helps our weakness: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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

Not as though the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

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

Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

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

Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;

As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.

And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

(According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

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

If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.

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

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

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

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached you fell on me.

Therefore receive one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing unto your name.

Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some way, as reminding you, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

That you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you assist her in whatever business she has need of you: for she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.