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

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

that ye may be established, That is, to be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and me.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come to you, (though I have been hindred hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentiles.

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

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

For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, both to the Jew and to the Gentile.

For the righteousness of God is revealed therein 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 detain the truth in unrighteousness.

For what is to be known of God, is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it to them.

Because knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature above the creator, who is blessed for ever!

Amen. Therefore God gave them up to vile affections; for even their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: And likewise also the men,

leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust toward each other, men with men working filthiness, and receiving in themselves the just recompence of their error.

And as they were not careful to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind, to do things not expedient, Filled with all injustice, maliciousness, covetousness, wickedness:

For we know that the judgment of God is according to truth, against them who do such things.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

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

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

Circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

Yea, the uncircumcision that is by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision transgressest the law.

For he is not a Jew, who is one in outward shew, neither is that circumcision which is apparent in the flesh.

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

What then is the advantage of the Jew, or what the profit of the circumcision?

God forbid: let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unjust, who taketh vengeance?

I speak as a man. God forbid; for then how should God judge the world?

But if the truth of God hath abounded to his glory through my lie, why am I still judged as a sinner?

And why may we not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) do evil, that good may come? Whose damnation is just.

What then? Are we better than they? In no wise: for we have before proved all, both Jews and Gentiles, to be under sin.

As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.

There is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

They have all turned aside; they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doth good, no not one.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

The fear of God is not before their eyes.

Therefore no flesh shall be justified in his sight by the works of the law; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

But the righteousness of God without the law is now manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets,

Even the righteousness of God, by the faith of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all that believe; for there is no difference:

And are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:

Whom God hath set forth as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness by the remission of past sins, through the forbearance of God: For a demonstration,

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works?

Nay, but by the law of faith. We conclude then, that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the law.

Is God the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles? Surely of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith,

Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is imputed to him for righteousness.

Happy are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

Happy is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise of no effect.

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be of grace, that the promise might be firm 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 is written,

I have made thee a father of many nations) before God in whom he believed, as quickning the dead, and calling the things that are not, as though they were:

And hope shameth us not, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

But God recommendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, even so death passed upon all men, in that all had sinned.

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

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Yet not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if by the offence of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, that of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

And not as the loss by one that sinned, so is the gift; for the sentence was by one offence to condemnation; but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

As therefore by one offence the sentence of death came upon all men to condemnation, so also by one righteousness the free gift came upon all men to justification of life.

For as by the disobedience of one man, many were constituted sinners, so by the obedience of one, many shall be constituted righteous.

That as sin had reigned through death, so grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Know ye not, that as many of us have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death?

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

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer serve sin.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Neither present your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. As ye have presented your members servants to uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity, so now present your members servants of righteousness, unto holiness.

What fruit had ye then from those things whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as it liveth?

For the married woman is bound to her husband while he is alive; but if her husband be dead, she is freed from the law of her husband.

Therefore if she marry another man while her husband liveth, she will be called an adultress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law, so as to be no adultress, though she marry another man.

For when we were in the flesh, sinful passions, which were by the law, wrought in our members, so as to bring forth fruit unto death.

What shall we say then? That the law is sin? God forbid. Yea, I should not have known sin, but for the law. I had not known lust, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid: But sin: so that it appeared sin, working death in me by that which is good: so that sin might by the commandment become exceeding sinful.

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

If then I do what I would not, I consent to the law, that it is good.

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good, I find not.

Now, if I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my members.

Therefore there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Now 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 be.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Now if Christ be in you, the body indeed 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 the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth, how doth he yet hope for?

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us, with groanings which cannot be uttered.

But he who searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit: for he maketh intercession for the saints, according to God.

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

He that spared not 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 any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is also at the right-hand of God, who likewise maketh intercession for us.