(which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

definitively marked out as the Son of God by miracle, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of the dead:

always in my prayers entreating that haply now at last I may have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come to you.

For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, in order that you may be established;

and that so I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and of me.

But I would not that ye should be unacquainted, brethren, that oftentimes I have been purposing to come to you (and have been prevented until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentile nations.

For the righteousness of God by faith is therein revealed for belief; as it is written, "Now the just by faith shall live."

Affecting to be sophists, they turned idiots,

Wherefore God abandoned them, through the lusts of their own hearts, unto impurity, to dishonour their own bodies by themselves:

who perverted the truth of God by falsehood, and worshipped and paid divine honours to the thing created instead of the Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Amen.

But glory and honour and peace be to every man who doeth that which is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek:

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

for the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be counted righteous;

in the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men, according to my gospel by Jesus Christ.

thou who gloriest in the law, dishonourest thou God by the transgression of the law?

If then the uncircumcision observe the righteous judgments of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision?

And the uncircumcision by nature which fulfilleth the law shall condemn thee, who through the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law.

God forbid: but let God be true, though every man were a liar; as it is written, "That thou mayest be acknowledged just in thy sayings, and overcome when thou art judged."

For if the truth of God by my lying hath more abundantly contributed to his glory; why am I notwithstanding judged as a sinner?

Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith, it speaks to those who are under the law: that every mouth might be sealed up, and all the world become criminal before God.

Wherefore by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before God: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

the righteousness of God indeed by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all that believe: for there is no difference:

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

for a demonstration of his justice at this present time: that he might be just, though justifying him who is of the faith of Jesus.

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

We conclude therefore that by faith a man is justified, without works of law.

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

WHAT then shall we say that Abraham our father hath obtained by the flesh?

For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath cause for glorying; though not before God.

And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had when uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though uncircumcised; that to them also the righteousness might be imputed:

For not by the law [came] the promise to Abraham and his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by the righteousness of faith.

Therefore it is by faith, that it might be of grace; in order that the promise might be secured to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

Who contrary to hope, in hope believed, that he should be the father of many nations, according to what was said, "So shall thy seed be."

but also for our sakes, to whom it will be imputed, if we believe in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

BEING justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

by whom also we have had an introduction through faith into this grace in which we have stood fast, and are rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.

and hope doth not make us ashamed; because the love of God is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us.

Therefore much more, being justified already by his blood, shall we be saved by him from wrath.

For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; even so death passed into all men through him, in whom all have sinned.

For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed if there be no law.

But not as the transgression, so also [is] the gift. For if by the transgression of one the many became dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is in that one man, Christ Jesus, hath abounded unto many.

And the gift [is] not as for one who sinned: for the judgment indeed [came] by one to condemnation, but the free gift [leads] to justification from many offences.

For if by the offence of one, death reigned by that one; much more they who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Christ Jesus.

Well then, as by the offence of one, [judgment issued] against all men unto condemnation; so also by the righteousness of one, [the gift came] to all men for justification unto life.

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

But the law was introduced, that the offence might be more abundant. But where sin had abounded, there hath grace abounded more exceedingly:

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

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

For if we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection:

knowing this, that our old man hath been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

But thanks be to God, that though ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart the model of doctrine into which ye were delivered.

For the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband.

She shall therefore certainly be counted an adulteress, if, her husband being alive, she be for another man: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law; so that she shall be no adulteress, though married to another husband.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.

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

But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead.

And the commandment, which [was] for life, the same was found by me for death.

For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.

Did then that which is good become fatal to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin by that which was good [in itself], was the cause of death to me; that sin through the commandment might become transcendantly sinful.

For that which was impossible by the law, inasmuch as it was impotent through the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in that flesh:

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

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

Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

But if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead on account of sin; but the Spirit is alive through righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him who hath raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he who raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his indwelling Spirit in you.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

But if children, then heirs; heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be we suffer with him, that we may also together with him be glorified.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present moment are not worthy to be placed against the future glory that shall be revealed to us.

For the creation was made subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him who made it subject,

in hope that the same creation shall be emancipated from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For by hope we have been saved: now hope seen is not hope; for that which any man seeth how doth he yet hope for?

For whom he foreknew, he predestinated also to a conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the first-begotten among many brethren.

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

nor exaltation, nor deepest depression, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For could I myself wish that an anathema should be from Christ upon my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?

nor, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And not only so; but when Rebecca also had conception by one, even Isaac our father;

it was said unto her, "That the elder shall be servant to the younger."

For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, "That for this very end have I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

And it shall be in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God."

But Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who pursued not after righteousness, have attained unto righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith.

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as by the works of the law. For they stumbled against that stone of stumbling;

as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence: and every one that believeth in him shall not be confounded."

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is by the law, "That the man who doeth these things shall live by them."

But the righteousness that is by faith speaketh thus, "Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:)

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

For the scripture saith, "Every one who believeth in him shall not be confounded."

"For every one shall be saved, whosoever calleth on the name of the Lord."

Faith then cometh by report, but the report by the word of God.

But I say, Did not Israel know? Moses first saith, "I will excite your jealousy by what is no nation, and by an ignorant people will I provoke you to wrath."

But Isaiah is very bold, and saith, "I have been found by those who sought me not; I have become manifest to those who inquired not after me."

But if by grace, it is no more by works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if by works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

And David saith, "Let their table be for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompence unto them:

let their eyes be blinded, that they may not see, and bow down their back continually."