First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world.

For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, how constantly I make mention of you,

that is, to be encouraged together with you through {our mutual faith}, both yours and mine.

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I intended to come to you, and was prevented until now, in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as also among the rest of the Gentiles.

I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, "But the one who is righteous by faith will live."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of people, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

because what can be known about God is evident among them, for God made [it] clear to them.

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

who exchanged the truth of God with a lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed for eternity. Amen.

And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,

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

For [there] is no partiality with God.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not the hearers of the law [who are] righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

For just as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

For circumcision is of value if you do the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

For the Jew is not {one outwardly}, nor [is] circumcision {outwardly}, in the flesh.

But the Jew {is one inwardly}, and circumcision [is] of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter, whose praise [is] not from people but from God.

Therefore, what [is] the advantage of the Jew, or what [is] the use of circumcision?

{What is the result} if some refused to believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, [will it]?

May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written, "In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are judged."

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, [is] not unjust, [is he]? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.)

But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?

And [why] not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, in order that good may come [of it]? Their condemnation is just!

just as it is written, "[There] is no one righteous, not even one;

[there] is no one who understands; [there] is no one who seeks God.

All have turned aside together; they have become worthless; [There] is no one who practices kindness; [there] is not even one.

Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

The fear of God is not before their eyes."

that is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. For [there] is no distinction,

being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

whom God made publicly available as the mercy seat through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previously committed sins,

Therefore, where [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Or [is God] the God of the Jews only? [Is he] not also [the God] of the Gentiles? Yes, also of the Gentiles,

since God [is] one, who will justify {those who are circumcised} by faith and {those who are uncircumcised} through faith.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited according to grace, but according to his due.

But to the one who does not work, but who believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness,

just as David also speaks about the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

"Blessed [are they] whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins are covered over.

Blessed [is] the person against whom the Lord will never count sin."

Therefore, [is] this blessing for {those who are circumcised}, or also for {those who are uncircumcised}? For we say, "Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness."

And he received the sign of circumcision [as] a seal of the righteousness by faith which [he had] {while uncircumcised}, so that he could be the father of all who believe {although they are uncircumcised}, so that righteousness could be credited to them,

For if those of the law [are] heirs, faith is rendered void and the promise is nullified.

For the law produces wrath, but where [there] is no law, neither [is there] transgression.

Because of this, [it is] by faith, in order that [it may be] according to grace, so that the promise may be secure to all the descendants, not only to those of the law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

(just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as [though] they are,

And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, [because he] was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

but also for the sake of us to whom it is going to be credited, to those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned.

For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one's account [when there] is no law.

But death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one who is to come.

{But the gift is not like the trespass}, for if by the trespass of the one, the many died, by much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, multiply to the many.

And the gift [is] not as through the one who sinned, for on the one hand, judgment from the one [sin] [led] to condemnation, but the gift, from many trespasses, [led] to justification.

Consequently therefore, as through one trespass [came] condemnation to all people, so also through one righteous deed [came] justification of life to all people.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.

Now the law came in as a side issue, in order that the trespass could increase, but where sin increased, grace was present in greater abundance,

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

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

knowing that Christ, [because he] has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him.

and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.

Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, [leading] to death, or obedience, [leading] to righteousness?

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members [as] slaves to immorality and lawlessness, [leading] to lawlessness, so now present your members [as] slaves to righteousness, [leading] to sanctification.

Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.

But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit [leading] to sanctification, and its end [is] eternal life.

For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is master of a person for as long a time [as] he lives?

For the married woman is bound by law to [her] husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man [while] her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress [if she] belongs to another man.

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all [kinds of] covetousness. For apart from the law, sin [is] dead.

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, {sold into slavery to sin}.

But if what I do not want [to do], this I do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.

Consequently, [there is] now no condemnation for those [who are] in Christ Jesus.

in order that the requirement of the law would be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For the mindset of the flesh [is] death, but the mindset of the Spirit [is] life and peace,

because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],

But if Christ [is] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin, but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.

For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

And likewise also, the Spirit helps [us] in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes [for us] [with] unexpressed groanings.

And the one who searches our hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit [is], because he intercedes on behalf of the saints according to [the will of] God.

What then shall we say about these [things]? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us?

Indeed, [he] who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all [things]?

Who will bring charges against God's elect? God [is] the one who justifies.

Who [is] the one who condemns? Christ [is] the one who died, and more than that, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?

Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."

[No], but in all these [things] we prevail completely through the one who loved us.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.