including yourselves who also belong to Jesus Christ by calling:

To all who are in Rome, loved by God, called as saints.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

So I am eager to preach the good news to you also who are in Rome.

For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.

know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,

For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

They are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

How joyful are those whose lawless acts are forgiven
and whose sins are covered!

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also.

And he became the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised.

If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made empty and the promise is canceled.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.

What then are we to say about these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?

As it is written:
Because of You
we are being put to death all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

No, in all these things we are more than victorious
through Him who loved us.

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.

The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the gospel of good things!

But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said:

I will make you jealous
of those who are not a nation;
I will make you angry by a nation
that lacks understanding.

Lord, they have killed Your prophets
and torn down Your altars.
I am the only one left,
and they are trying to take my life!

Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.

Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,

since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.

For from Him and through Him
and to Him are all things.
To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

Everyone must submit to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are instituted by God.

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval.

And for this reason you pay taxes, since the authorities are God’s public servants, continually attending to these tasks.

The commandments:

Do not commit adultery;
do not murder;
do not steal;
do not covet;

and whatever other commandment—all are summed up by this: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Who are you to criticize another’s household slave? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand. For the Lord is able to make him stand.

For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one Christ died for by what you eat.

Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.

My brothers, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

Yes, they were pleased, and indeed are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual benefits, then they are obligated to minister to Jews in material needs.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are noteworthy in the eyes of the apostles, and they were also in Christ before me.

Greet Herodion, my fellow countryman.
Greet those who belong to the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.