BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,

Having been justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have been introduced into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

and the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us.

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

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall much more be of his resurrection;

But now having been made free from sin and made servants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end eternal life.

For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now;

who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us?

that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart;

As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those that publish good news of peace, that publish good news of good things.

For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive.

Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God.

And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation;

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints at Jerusalem.

They have been pleased indeed, and their debtors they are; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.

that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.