among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ,

to all that are in Rome, be loved of God, called saints: Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

So that, as far as I am able, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also, who are in Rome.

(for, since the creation of the world, his attributes, which are invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,) that they may be without excuse;

who, acknowledging the judgment of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but approve those who practice them.

For which reason, you are without excuse, man, who ever you are, that judge; for in that in which you judge an other, you condemn yourself; for you who judge, practice the same things.

but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, anger and wrath,

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 a law, do, by nature, the things of the law, these who have not a law, are a law to themselves,

But if you are named Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God.

if you are also confident that you yourself are a guide for the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Then, why not say, (as we are slanderously reported as saying, and, as some affirm, that we do say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? Of such persons the condemnation is just.

their feet. are swift to shed blood;

destruction and misery are in their ways;

Now we know that what the law says, it speaks- to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God.

Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins. are covered.

Comes this blessedness then on those who are circumcised only, or on those who are uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness.

and the father of circumcision to those who are not only circumcised, but who, also, walk in the steps of that faith which our father Abraham had while he was yet uncircumcised.

For if they that are of the law be heirs, the faith is made powerless, and the promise is unmeaning;

Therefore, the inheritance is by faith, that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise may be sure to all his posterity, not to those only who are of the law, but to those, also, who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

(as it is written: I have made you a father of many nations,) in the sight of him in whom he believed, even God, who makes the dead alive, and calls those things which are not, as though they were.

much more, then, since we are now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through him.

It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

Therefore, we are buried with him, by immersion, into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in a new life.

For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.

Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?

What fruit, therefore, had you at that time, in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Know you not, brethren, for I speak to you that are acquainted with law, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

but now we are made free from the law, being dead to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

There is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

For those who are according to the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Those, then, who are in the flesh, can not please God.

But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now, if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

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

The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are the children of God;

For we are saved by this hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for, what any one sees, why does he also hope for it?

And we know that all things work together for good, to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

As it is written: For thy sake, we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Yet, in all these things, we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us.

who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises;

It is not possible that the word of God has failed; for they are not all Israel who are of Israel.

Nor, because they are the posterity of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall your posterity be called.

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the posterity.

No, but rather, O man, who are you that dispute with God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed, it, Why have you made me thus?

And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

And how shall they preach, unless they be sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring joyous news of good things!

if, by any means, I may excite to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.

Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also.

For if you were cut out from an olive-tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, against nature, into a good olive, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive?

As it respects the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sakes; but as it respects their election, they are beloved for the fathers sakes:

for God's gifts and calling are irrevocable.

the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

For from him, and by him, and for him, are all things. To him be glory through the ages! Amen.

so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and members one of another.

cultivate the same disposition, one to ward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but from God: the authorities that are, have been appointed by God.

For rulers are not a terror to works that are good, but to those which are evil. Will you, then, not be afraid of the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall receive praise from the same.

On this very account, too, pay tribute also: for they are the public servants of God, attending continually to this very thing.

For these commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not indulge evil desire; and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up in this saying, namely: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls; indeed, he shall stand, for God is able to make him stand.

For if we live, we live to the Lord; or if we die, we die to the Lord. "Whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord s.

Destroy not the work of God on account of food. All meats, indeed, are clean; but meat is an evil to that man who, by eating, causes another to stumble.

But we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.

And I myself am persuaded concerning you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of all goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another.

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints who are in Jerusalem:

they have been pleased to do so, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have become partakers of their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them in things pertaining to the flesh.

Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are noted among the apostles, who, also, were in Christ before me.

Salute Appelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints that are with them.