For I long to see you, so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to establish you,

and that is, to be mutually encouraged among you through each other's faith, both yours and mine.

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

So the willingness is in me to preach the good-news also to you in Rome.

Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples?

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous inflicting wrath? (I speak according to a man.)

and not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) that we may do evil so that good things may come (whose condemnation is just)?

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.

What then will we say Abraham, our father according to flesh, to have found?

For what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

Is this blessedness therefore upon men of circumcision, or also upon men of uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Because of this it is from faith, so that it is according to grace, in order for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to the seed from the law, but also to the seed from the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all

Who, against hope, believed in hope, in order for him to become father of many nations according to that which was spoken, So thy seed will be.

And not being weak in faith he did not regard his body, which was now deadened (being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance,

And not only so, but also taking pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming man.

So then, as through an offense of one man was for condemnation for all men, so also through a righteousness of one man was for justification of life for all men.

For as through the one man's disobedience the many were led sinful, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be led righteous.

And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,

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

What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound?

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

Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be inactivated, no longer to enslave us to sin.

So also ye, reckon yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification.

So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.

Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I of myself in the mind indeed serve a law of God, but in the flesh a law of sin.

so that the justice of the law might be fulfilled in us, those who walk not according to flesh, but according to Spirit.

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to flesh.

And if children, also heirs, heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer jointly, so that we may also be glorified jointly.

And not only so, but also ourselves who have the first fruit of the Spirit. And we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait through patience.

What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit,

nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, rather, In Isaac a seed will be called for thee.

And not only so, but also Rebecca having bed from one man, our father Isaac

What will we say then? Is there injustice from God? May it not happen!

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who is merciful.

So then he is merciful to whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.

Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose?

Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved.

What will we say then? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness from faith.

Brothers, truly my heart's desire and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation.

But the righteousness from faith says thus: Thou should not say in thy heart, Who will ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down)

But what does it say? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that is, the word of faith that we preach:

So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

But I say, did they, no, not hear? Rather, Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their sayings to the limits of the inhabited world.

But I say, did Israel, no, not know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy toward a non-nation. Toward a foolish nation, I will make you angry.

I say therefore, did God thrust away his people? May it not happen! For I also am an Israelite from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

But what does the divine response say to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed a knee to Baal.

So then also at this present time there has become a remnant according to the selection of grace.

just as it is written that God gave them a spirit of slumber: eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, until this very day.

Let their eyes be darkened, not to see, and may thou bow down their back always.

I say then, did they stumble so that they would fall? May it not happen! But in their transgression, salvation is to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.

Thou will therefore say, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written, The man who delivers will come from Zion, and will turn away impiety from Jacob.

so also now these have been disobedient for thy mercy, so that they also may receive mercy.

For God has confined all men in disobedience, so that he might be merciful to all.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and each one body-parts of each other.

So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves.

For both if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Both if we live and if we die, therefore, we are the Lord's.

For because of this Christ both died and arose, and he became alive so that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

So then each of us will give account about himself to God.

So then we should pursue the things of peace, and the things of constructiveness for each other.

For as many things as were written previously were written for our learning, so that through perseverance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

so that unanimously, with one mouth, ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And I say, Christ Jesus became a helper of men of circumcision, for the sake of God's truth (in order to confirm the promises of the fathers),

for me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, serving the good-news of God like a priest, so that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in Holy Spirit.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good-news of Christ.

And thus having aspired to proclaim the good-news not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build upon a foundation belonging to another man,

but, as it is written, They will see to whom it was not reported about him, and they will understand who have not heard.

whenever I go to Spain I will come to you. For I hope to see you while passing through, and there to be helped on the way by you, if first I may be partly satisfied from you.

So that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may become acceptable to the sanctified,

so that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and be rested with you.

so that ye may welcome her in Lord worthily of the sanctified, and that ye provide for her in whatever matter she may have need of you, for she also became a helper of many, and of me myself.