making request, if by any means now at length, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those practicing such things.

for there is no respect of persons with God;

(for, when gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

as it has been written, "There is none righteous, no not one;

there is no fear of God before their eyes."

Now we know that whatsoever the law says, it speaks to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may be under the sentence of God;

because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.

But now, apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

even a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe; for there is no distinction;

Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.

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

for the law works wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned to him;

Much more, therefore, being now justified by His blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

and not only so, but we are rejoicing in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we now received the reconciliation.

for until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not reckoned, when there is no law:

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be brought to nought, that we should no more be in bondage to sin;

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death no more has dominion over Him.

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.

What fruit, therefore, had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

But now, having been made free from sin, and having been made slaves to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life;

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?

So, then, if, while the husband is living, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but, if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

But now we have been fully discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

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

For what I accomplish, I know not; for not what I wish, this do I practice; but what I hate, this I do.

And now no longer do I accomplish it, but the sin which dwells in me.

For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good; for to wish is present with me: but to do that which is good a not.

But, if what I wish not, this I do, it is no more I that perform it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

Consequently, there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory about to be revealed for us.

For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now;

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.

And we know that all things are working together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose;

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us.

Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, "Why didst Thou make me thus?"

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the Same One is Lord of all, being rich toward all who call upon Him;

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger."

God did not cast off His people whom He foreknew. Or know ye not what the Scripture says of Elijah? how he pleads with God against Israel:

But what says the answer of God to him? "I left for Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

But, if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise the grace becomes no longer grace. [But, if of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise, the work is no longer work.]

Now, if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the gentiles, how much more their fulness?

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

even so did these now disobey, that by the mercy shown to you they also may obtain mercy.

For who knew the mind of the Lord? Or who became His counsellor?

recompensing to no one evil for evil; providing things honorable in the sight of all men;

Let every soul be in subjection to the authorities that are over him; for there is no authority, except from God; and the authorities that are have been appointed by God.

Owe no one anything, but to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

Love works no ill to one's neighbor: therefore, love is a fulfillment of the law.

And this, knowing the season, that it is time already for you to be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when ye believed.

For no one of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

For it has been written, "As I live, saith the Lord, to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God."

I know, and have been persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: except that to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

For, if because of your food your brother is aggrieved, you are no longer walking in accordance with love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.

Now we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Now the God of patience and of consolation grant you to be of the same mind one with another, according to Christ Jesus:

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

but now, having no longer any place in these regions; and, having a desire for many years to come to you,

but now I am going to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.

and I know that, when coming to you, I will come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which ye learned; and turn away from them.

Now to Him Who is able to establish you, according to my Gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept in silence during eternal ages,

but now made manifest, and through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for obedience to the faith: