And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the gentiles.

so, as much as in me is, I am ready to proclaim the Gospel to you also who are in Rome.

for in it is revealed God's righteousness, from faith to faith; as it has been written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor did they give thanks; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

And, as they did not approve the holding of God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not becoming;

for as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as sinned under law shall be judged by law;

For the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles, because of you, as it has been written.

May it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it has been written, "That Thou mayest be justified in Thy words; and mayest overcome, when Thou judgest."

But, if the truth of God, through my lie, abounded unto His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

And why not (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 has been written, "There is none righteous, no not one;

they have all turned aside, they together became unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one;

Whom God set forth as a propitiation, through faith in His blood, for the manifestation of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the formerly-committed sins in the forbearance of God:

Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt;

Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckoneth righteousness, apart from works,

(as it has been written, "A father of many nations have I made you"), before God Whom he believed, Who maketh alive the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were;

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned;

But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift; 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, Christ Jesus, abound to the many.

And not as through one that sinned, so is the gift; for, indeed, the judgment came of one trespass unto condemnation; but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification.

So, then, as through one trespass, the judgment came to all men unto condemnation; so also, through one righteous act, the free gift came to all men unto justification of life.

For as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners; so also through the obedience of the One, shall the many be constituted righteous.

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

We were buried, therefore, with Him through the immersion into death; that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

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

Know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves as slaves for obedience, his slaves ye are whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness?

I speak after human fashion because of the weakness of your flesh; for, as ye presented your members subservient to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now present your members subservient to righteousness unto holiness.

For, when ye were slaves of sin, ye were free as to righteousness.

Or, are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law has dominion over the man as long as he lives?

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

And, in like manner, the Spirit also helpeth our weakness; for we know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit Himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

As it has been written, "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

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

Even as it has been written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

As He saith in Hosea, "I will call that My people, which was not My people; and her, 'Beloved,' who was not beloved.

And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved;"

And, as Isaiah has said before: "Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and been made like to Gomorrah."

Wherefore? because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the Stone of stumbling;

as it has been written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offense; and he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

that if you shall confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and shall believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;

and how shall they preach, unless they are sent forth? As it has been written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of good things!"

as it has been written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day."

But I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch, indeed, then, as I am an apostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

and so all Israel shall be saved; even as it has been written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

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

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

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;

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

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."

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy;

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

Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

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."

But I wrote to you the more boldly in part, as reminding you again, because of the grace which was given to me from God,

I have, therefore, my glorying in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to God.

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, as it has been written, "Those shall see, to whom nothing was announced concerning Him; and those who have not heard shall understand."

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.