Truly, I first express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

and that is, to be mutually encouraged among you through each other's faith, both yours and mine.

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

So the willingness is in me to preach the good-news also to you in Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the good-news of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to every man who believes, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.

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

because what is knowable of God is apparent in them, for God made it known to them.

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the creation against him who created it, who is blessed into the ages. Truly.

Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature.

And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

Therefore, O man, thou are without excuse, every man who judges, for in what thou judge the other man, thou condemn thyself, for the man who judges is doing the same things.

And we know that the judgment of God is in accordance with truth against those who commit such things.

For there is no partiality with God.

For as many as have sinned without law will also be destroyed without law, and as many as have sinned in law will be judged by law.

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

For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.

For he is not a Jew in what is visible, nor is circumcision in what is visible, in flesh,

but he is a Jew in what is hidden, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit not a document, whose praise is not from men but from God.

What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

May it not happen! But let it come to pass God is true, but every man a liar, as it is written, That thou may ever be justified in thy words, and may prevail when thou are criticized.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous inflicting wrath? (I speak according to a man.)

For if by my lie, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as sinful,

and not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) that we may do evil so that good things may come (whose condemnation is just)?

as it is written, There is no righteous man, not even one.

There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.

All turned away. Together they became useless. There is not a man who does goodness; there is not as much as one.

Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.

Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

And the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is for all and upon all those who believe, for there is no distinction.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law, of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Or is God of Jews only and not also of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also,

since God is one, who will make the man of circumcision righteous from faith, and the man of uncircumcision through faith.

Now to the man being employed, the wage is not reckoned according to grace, but according to obligation.

But to the man not being employed, but who believes in him who makes the impious man righteous, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

Just as David also tells the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness independent of works,

saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

Blessed is a man to whom the Lord does, no, not impute sin.

Is this blessedness therefore upon men of circumcision, or also upon men of uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of his faith during uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those who believe during uncircumcision (for righteousness to also be imputed to them),

For the law works wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Because of this it is from faith, so that it is according to grace, in order for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to the seed from the law, but also to the seed from the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all

(as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations), before him whom he believed, of God who makes the dead alive, and who calls things not existing, as existing.

but also because of us to whom it is going to be imputed, to those who believe in him 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 that was given to us.

But God commends his love toward us, that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.

For until law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming man.

But in this way also, the gift is not as the transgression. For if by the trespass of the one man the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many.

And the gift is not as through one man who sinned, for indeed the judgment from one man was for condemnation, but the gift from many offenses is for righteousness.

So then, as through an offense of one man was for condemnation for all men, so also through a righteousness of one man was for justification of life for all men.

For as through the one man's disobedience the many were led sinful, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be led righteous.

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

Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death?

We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.

Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be inactivated, no longer to enslave us to sin.

And do not present your body-parts as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out of the dead, and your body-parts as instruments of righteousness to God,

Know ye not, that to what ye present yourselves as bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to what ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness?

(I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification.

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Or are ye ignorant, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over the man for as long a time as he lives?

So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.

But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.

And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death.

So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

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

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

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.

so that the justice of the law might be fulfilled in us, those who walk not according to flesh, but according to Spirit.

For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace.

Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him.

And if Christ is in you, the body is indeed dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

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

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not comparable to the glory that is going to be revealed for us.

For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing together until now.

For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that?

And likewise also the Spirit helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we would pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mentality of the Spirit, because he appeals to God for the sanctified.

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

He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

Who will accuse against the chosen of God? God is he who makes righteous.

Who is he who will condemn? It is Christ who died, but more, who also was raised up, who also is at the right hand of God, who also appeals for us.