First, through Jesus Christ I thank my God for you all, because the report of your faith is spreading all over the world.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who believes, of the Jew first and of the Greek as well.

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

because what can be known of God is clear to their inner moral sense; for in this way God Himself has shown it to them.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

because, although they once knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give Him thanks, but became silly in their senseless speculations, and so their insensible hearts have been shrouded in darkness.

Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.

because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will;

Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are reserving wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

because God does not show partiality.

for they show that the deeds the law demands are written on their hearts, because their consciences will testify for them, and their inner thoughts will either accuse or defend them,

and know his will, and approve of what is best because you have been instructed in the Law;

an instructor of ignorant people, and a teacher of infants because you have the full content of knowledge and truth in the Law

For, as the Scripture says, the name of God is abused among the heathen because of you.

For a person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision something just external and physical.

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

But, as you say, if the truthfulness of God has redounded to His glory because of my falsehood, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

being justified freely by his grace, because of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God --

This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus' faithfulness.

If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

Do we then [intend to] destroy law [observance] because faith [in Christ is now required]? Certainly not! But [instead], we uphold [the validity of] law.

He received the sign of circumcision as a seal [confirming] that he had been [considered] righteous because of the faith he had before being circumcised. Thus, he became the [spiritual] father of all people who believe [in God], even though they have not been circumcised, so that they could be considered righteous [by their faith].

And that he might be the father of the circumcised: not because they are circumcised only: but because they walk also in the steps of that faith, that was in our father Abraham before the time of circumcision.

For it was not through [obedience to] law [See 3:31] that the promise to Abraham or his descendants of inheriting [the best of] the world [was made], but through their being considered righteous because of faith [in God].

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

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

Because he never weakened in faith, he calmly contemplated his own vital powers as worn out (for he was about one hundred years old) and the inability of Sarah to bear a child,

and yet he never staggered in doubt at the promise of God but grew powerful in faith, because he gave the glory to God

because he was fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

So therefore, God considered him righteous [i.e., because of such faith].

Now, it was not because of him only that this was said,

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,

who was given up to death because of our shortcomings and was raised again to give us right standing with God.

Therefore, [because we] have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God's glory.

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

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

And God commends his love to us, because, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore, by much more, [because we] have been declared righteous now by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath.

So here is the comparison: As through one man sin came into the world, and death as the consequence of sin, and death spread to all men; because all men sinned.

Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

But the free gift [of salvation through Christ] is not [exactly] like the sin [of Adam]. For if many people died [physically] because of the sin of the one man [i.e., Adam], how much more did God's favor abound by [providing] His gracious gift [of salvation] to many people because of the one man, Jesus Christ.

And the gift is not like the one man’s sin, because from one sin came the judgment, resulting in condemnation, but from many trespasses came the gift, resulting in justification.

For if, through one man, death ruled because of that man's offense, how much more will those who receive such overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness rule in life because of one man, Jesus the Messiah!

So then, just as [God's] judgment came, condemning all people [to physical death] because of one sin [i.e., Adam's]; even so the free gift of being made right with God and [resulting in] life may be received by all people because of one man's [i.e., Christ's] act of righteousness. [Note: This "life" may refer to spiritual life now, or to being made alive in the resurrection, which would reverse the curse of physical death caused by Adam's sin].

Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.

Because he who is dead is free from sin.

knowing that Christ, [because he] has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him.

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

For sin will not have mastery over you, because you are not under Law but under grace.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.

But now we have been released from the law, [because we] have died [to that] by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter [of the law].

But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

Did what was good, then, prove the death of me? Certainly not! It was sin that did so, so that it might be recognized as sin, because even through something that was good it effected my death, so that through the command it might appear how immeasurably sinful sin was.

For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want [to do], this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

Thank God through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, because with my mind I myself can serve the Law of God, even while with my human nature I serve the law of sin.

because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

For though the law could not do it, because it was made helpless through our lower nature, yet God, by sending His own Son in a body similar to that of our lower nature, and as a sacrifice for sin, passed sentence upon sin through His body,

Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death; but for it to be given up to spiritual things means Life and peace.

Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.

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

Wherefore, if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from death, dwell in you: even he that raised up Christ from death, shall quicken your mortal bodies, because that this spirit dwelleth in you.

because the creation has become subject to futility, though not by anything it did. The one who subjected it did so in the certainty

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

I am telling the truth as a Christian man. I am telling no lie, because my conscience enlightened by the Holy Spirit is bearing me witness to this fact,

nor are they all children of Abraham, because they are his descendants, but the promise was "In the line of Isaac your descendants will I be counted."

though the twins were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might stand, not because of works but because of his call,

For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

Why? Because they did not try through faith but through what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble,

Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed.

But there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is over them all, because He is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him.

Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation.

I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall in utter ruin, did they? Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to heathen peoples, to make the Israelites jealous.

I am speaking to you gentiles. Because I am an apostle to the gentiles, I magnify my ministry

Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.

Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

for if God did not spare the natural branches [because of unbelief], He will not spare you either.

If the Jews do not persist in their unbelief, they will be grafted in again, because God is able to graft them in.

As measured by the good news the Jews are God's enemies for your sakes, but as measured by God's choice they are His beloved because of their forefathers,

Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because of their disobedience,

so they too are now disobedient because of the mercy shown you, that they too may now have mercy shown them.

because of Him, and through Him, and to Him are the all things; to Him is the glory -- to the ages. Amen.