But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:

Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them.

or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?

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

If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,

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

but he is a Jew who is so inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.

according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;

there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.

All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:

and way of peace they have not known:

Is God the God of Jews only? is he not of the nations also? Yea, of nations also:

For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

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

but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

blessed the man to whom the Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

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

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

Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him to come.

But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.

What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.

For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

But if what I do not will, this I practise, it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ he is not of him:

So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed to us.

for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope

And not only that, but even we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, that is the redemption of our body.

For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.

And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered.

He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all are Israel which are of Israel;

That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

And not only that, but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst the Jews, but also from amongst the nations?

As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God.

What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.

Wherefore? Because it was not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

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

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;

How then 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 one who preaches?

But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?

But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world.

But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy through them that are not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.

But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.

What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.

let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.

boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not thou bearest the root, but the root thee.

Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.

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

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;

For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance.

For as indeed ye also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of these;

so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that they also may be objects of mercy.

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.