pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

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.

And we know that the judgment of God is in accordance with truth against those who commit such things.

For there is no partiality with God.

For when the Gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these men, not having law, are a law to themselves.

and know his will, and approve the things that are significant, being instructed out of the law.

as it is written, There is no righteous man, not even one.

There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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.

Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

But now a righteousness of God has been manifested independent of law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

And the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all and upon all those who believe, for there is no distinction.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law, of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Now to the man being employed, the wage is not reckoned according to grace, but according to obligation.

Blessed is a man to whom the Lord does, no, not impute sin.

For the law works wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

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.

Now it was not written because of him alone that it was imputed to him,

Much more then, now having been made righteous by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath through him.

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

For until law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

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.

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.

Know ye not, that to what ye present yourselves as bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to what ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness?

(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.

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

Or are ye ignorant, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over the man for as long a time as he lives?

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.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

But now I no longer perform it, but the sin dwelling in me.

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me.

Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.

For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing together until now.

And likewise also the Spirit helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we would pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to 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?

Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?

For there is no distinction of a Jew and also of a Greek, for the same Lord is of all men, being rich toward all those who call upon him.

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.

God did not thrust away his people whom he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture tells by Elijah? How he encounters God about Israel.

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.

And if it is by grace, it is no longer from works, otherwise grace becomes no longer grace. But if it is from works it is no longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work.

Now if their transgression is wealth of the world, and their failure is wealth of Gentiles, how much more their fullness?

For as ye once were also disobedient to God, but now have received mercy at the disobedience of these,

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

rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men.

Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher, for there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God, are those that have been instituted.

Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law.

Love works no evil to the neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of law.

And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.

But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.

For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.

For it is written, I live, says Lord, that every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess to God.

I know and am persuaded in Lord Jesus, that nothing is profane by itself, except to him who regards anything to be profane. To that man it is profane.

For if thy brother is distressed because of food, thou no longer walk according to love. Do not destroy with thy food that man for whom Christ died.

Now we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the frail, and not to please ourselves.

Now may the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to think the same way among each other, in accord with Christ Jesus,

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of Holy Spirit.

But now, having no more place in these regions, and having a great desire from many years to come to you,

But now I am going to Jerusalem serving the sanctified.

And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the good-news of the Christ.

Now I beseech you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God for me.

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe who is a helper of the congregation at Cenchreae,

Now I beseech you, brothers, watch out for those who make the divisions and the stumbling blocks, contrary to the doctrine that ye learned, and turn away from them.

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good-news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times,

but that was now revealed, and by prophetic scriptures, according to a commandment of the eternal God that was made known to all the nations for obedience of faith,