Paul a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,

separated unto the gospel of God, (which He had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures) concerning his Son,

but powerfully declared to be the Son of God, according to the spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead, even Jesus Christ our Lord;

by whom we have received grace and apostleship to preach the obedience of faith for his name's sake, to all nations;

to all that are in Rome beloved of God, called and holy: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

intreating if I may now at length have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come unto you.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established:

that is to say, that being among you we may be comforted together by the faith of each, both yours and mine.

for the righteousness of God is therein revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

for what is to be known of God is manifest among them, for God hath manifested it to them.

so that they are inexcusable; because having thus known God they glorified Him not as God, neither were they thankful; but were infatuated by their own reasonings, and their heart being void of understanding was darkened.

Pretending to be wise they Became fools:

And as they were not careful to acknowledge God, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things that were not fit to be done:

But by thy hardness and impenitence of heart thou art treasuring up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgement of God,

to them, who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, and honor, and immortality, eternal life:

Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul of man that worketh evil, both of the Jew, and of the Gentile:

For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

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

for when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves,

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

Thou, that boastest in the law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteous precepts of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted to him for circumcision?

and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance;

God forbid: yea, let God be acknowledged true, though every man be a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome, when thou judgest.

it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of God.

Wherefore by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

But now, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets;

and this righteousness of God is by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all believers; for there is no difference;

being justified freely by his grace, because of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

whom God hath appointed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, in the remission of past sins, according to the forbearance of God;

for a demonstration, I say, of his righteousness at this time: that He might be just, and the justifier of him, that believeth in Jesus.

Where then is boasting? it is excluded: by what law? of works? no: but by the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the law:

surely of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision also through faith.

for if Abraham were justified by works, he hath something to boast of; but this he hath not before God:

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all that believe though not circumcised, that righteousness may be imputed to them also:

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

for if they only that are of the law be heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is become of no effect.

And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

who against hope believed, with hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was said unto him, "So shall thy seed be."

but for our sakes also, to him it will be imputed, as we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead:

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

through whom also we have admission by faith into this grace in which we stand, and boast in hope of the glory of God.

and experience hope, and this hope maketh us not ashamed; because the love of God is diffused in our hearts by the holy Spirit that is given to us.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through Him.

For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more being reconciled shall we be saved by his life.

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

Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for to that all have sinned:

But not as the offence, so also is the free gift: for if through the offence of one many died, much more hath the grace of God, and the gift bestowed by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

For the gift is not as the sentence was by one that sinned; for the sentence is passed from one offence to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences to justification.

For if, by the offence of one, death reigned through one, much more they who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life through one, even Jesus Christ.

Therefore as by the offence of one the effect of it was upon all men to condemnation: so also by the righteousness of one, the effect was upon all men to justification of life.

For as by the disobedience of one man many were made sinners; so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.

so grace might reign through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life:

for if we have been planted together in the resemblance of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection.

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be inslaved to sin:

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him:

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

But thanks be to God, that ye who were servants of sin, have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you:

For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.

Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were bound, that we might serve God in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust to be sinful, if the law had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."

But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the law sin was dead.

and the commandment which was intended to life, I found to be unto death.

For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me, and by it slew me.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin might be shewn by the commandment to be exceeding sinful.

For that which was impossible for the law to do, and in which it was weak through the corruption of the flesh, God by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sacrifice for sin, hath done; that is, hath condemned sin in the flesh:

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

For they who are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they who are led by the Spirit, do mind spiritual things.

Now to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace:

because the carnal mind is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be:

And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

And if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwelleth in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead, will also restore your mortal bodies to life, by his Spirit that now dwelleth in you.

for if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ: if so be we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified with Him.

And I account the sufferings of this present time not worthy to be set against the glory that shall be revealed to us.

in hope that they also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen, is not hope; for what any one sees, how doth he yet hope for?

for those whom he foreknew, He also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be as the first-born among many brethren: and whom He before ordained, these He also called;

What shall we say then to these things? if God be for us, who can be against us?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Nor because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children of promise: but "in Isaac shall thy seed be called."

and not to her only; but Rebecca also being with child by our father Isaac,

And the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, for this very purpose have I raised thee up, that I may shew forth my power in thee, and that my name may be declared through all the earth.

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

And Esaias crieth out concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved.

What shall we say then? that the Gentiles, who sought not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;

because they sought it not by faith, but by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

as it is written, "Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence:" and again, "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who doth those things shall live by them."

and believe in thine heart, that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him, shall not be ashamed.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

and how shall they preach unless they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good tidings of peace, who bring the good tidings of good things?