First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you

And this is to be comforted together with you by our mutual faith, both yours and mine.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.

I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the foreigners, both to the wise and to the unwise.

So, as much as is in me lies, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are at Rome also.

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

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

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

because the thing which may be known of God is clearly revealed within them, for God revealed it to them.

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became fools

For they changed the truth of God into a lie, and they worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this cause, God gave them up to dishonorable affections. For even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another; males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

But know that the judgment of God is according to truth on those who practice such things.

For there is no respect of faces with God.

For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law.

For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

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

And the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the Law, shall it not judge you, who through letter and circumcision become transgressors of the Law?

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that outwardly in flesh;

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart; in spirit and not in letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Then what is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged."

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.)

For if in my lie the truth has more abounded to His glory why am I still judged as a sinner?

And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one;

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God."

"They are all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one."

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, 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."

because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law is the knowledge of sin.

even the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ, toward all and upon all those who believe. For there is no difference,

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

Then where is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the works of the Law.

Or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the nations? Yes, of the nations also,

since it is one God who will justify circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

But to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt.

But to him not working, but believing on Him justifying the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Even as David also says of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness without works,

saying, "Blessed are those whose lawlessnesses are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

blessed is the man to whom the Lord will in no way impute sin."

Is this blessedness then on the circumcision only, or on the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

For if they of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is made of no effect;

because the Law works out wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Therefore it is of faith so that it might be according to grace; for the promise to be made sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

(as it has been written, "I have made you a father of many nations") --before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things which do not exist as though they do exist.

but for us also to whom it is to be imputed, to the ones believing on Him who has raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

And hope does not make us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.

But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:

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

But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the type of Him who was to come;

but the free gift shall not be also like the offense. For if by the offense of the one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace; which is of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

And the free gift shall not be as by one having sinned; (for indeed the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses to justification.

Therefore as by one offense sentence came on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came to all men to justification of life.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.

so that as sin has reigned to death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.

knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.

Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.

I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.

What fruit did you have then in those things of which you 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 through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Or are you ignorant, brothers; for I speak to those who know the Law; that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband is dead, she is set free from the law of her husband.

So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress by becoming another man's wife.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.

So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Then has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; in order that sin might become exceedingly sinful by the commandment.

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

If then I do that which I do not desire, I consent to the law that it is good.

But now it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find.

But if I do what I do not desire, it is no more I working it out, but sin dwelling in me.

I find then a law: when I will to do the right, evil is present with me.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace

because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.

But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

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

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

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed in us.

For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it?

Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

And He searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

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

Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Who is he condemning? It is Christ who has died, but rather also who is raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written, "For Your sake we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep of slaughter."