who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever, amen.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,??13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves,

and they show the work of the law written in their minds, their consciences testifying with them, and their judgments mutually acusing or defending one another;??16 in the day when God shall judge the secret [doings] of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

But [what] if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and boast of God,

and know his will, and approve of things which are excellent, being instructed by the law,

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law;

You who boast of the law, by the transgression of the law do you dishonor God?

For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, shall not its uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision?

And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

But we know that whatever the law says, it says to those having the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God.

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.

BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,

Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.

We conclude then that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.

Do we then abrogate the law by the faith? By no means; but we establish the law.

For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated.

For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all,

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law

For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant,

For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under the grace? By no means.

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;

but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.

But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead.

And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died,

The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

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

But if what I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good;

I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me;

for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul],

but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord; therefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin.

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death.

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

that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.

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

who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises,

but Israel who pursued the law of righteousness did not attain to the law of righteousness.

For what reason? Because they are not of faith, but as it were of works of the law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

as it is written; Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.

For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them.

Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law.

Love does no evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law.

The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.