Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, set apart to preach the gospel of God,

and shown with power to be the Son of God as to his spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;

to all the beloved of God at Rome, called, holy: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

In the first place, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, 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, how constantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

supplicating that, if it be possible, I may at last through the will of God be favored with an opportunity of coming to you.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for to every believer, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, it is the power of God unto salvation.

For therein is revealed the righteousness which is of God from faith to faith; as it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, who keep down the truth in unrighteousness.

Because that which may be known of God is manifest within them; for God made it manifest to them.

Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful to him; but became perverse in their reasonings, and their senseless minds were darkened;

and for the glory of the incorruptible God they substituted images of corruptible man, and of birds and fourfooted beasts and creeping things.

Wherefore God also gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to debase their bodies with one another;

because they changed the true God for false gods, and adored and worshipped created things rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this cause God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women indulged in unnatural lust,

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are shameful;

slanderers, hated of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of mischief, disobedient to parents,

who, although knowing the ordinance of God, that they who practise such things deserve death, not only do them themselves, but approve of those who do them.

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practise such things.

And dost thou suppose, O man, who art judging those who do such things, and art thyself doing the same, that thou wilt escape the judgment of God?

Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?

But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the manifestation of the righteous judgment of God,

but glory, honor, and peace, to every one whoso works are good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

for it is not the hearers of a law who are righteous before God, but the doers of a law will be accounted righteous;

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to the gospel which I have preached.

But if thou art called a Jew, and restest on the Law, and makest thy boast of God,

Dost thou who boastest of the Law, dishonor God by breaking the Law?

For, as it is written, "the name of God is on your account blasphemed among the gentiles."

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, spiritual, not literal, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Great, every way. In the first place, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For what? If some were unfaithful, shall their unfaithfulness make God unfaithful?

Far be it! yea, let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art arraigned."

But if our unrighteousness serve to display the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicteth punishment? (I am speaking as men do.)

Far be it! For then how shall God judge the world?

For if, through my being false, the truth of God hath been more abundantly manifested to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

And why do you not say, as some slanderously charge us with saying, Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of such men is just.

there is none that hath understanding, there is none that diligently seeketh God;

they have all turned aside from the right way, they have become worthless together; there is none that doeth good, not even one.

There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Now we know that whatever the Law saith, it saith to those who are under the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become subject to condemnation before God.

But now, apart from the Law, the righteousness which is of God, to which the Law and the Prophets bear testimony,

even the righteousness which is of God through faith in Jesus Christ, hath been made manifest to all and for all believers. For there is no distinction.

For all have sinned, and fail of obtaining the glory which cometh from God;

whom, in his blood, through faith, God hath set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, in order to manifest his righteousness, on account of his passing by, in his forbearance, the sins committed in former times;

Or is God [the God] of Jews alone? Is he not also the God of gentiles? Yea, of gentiles also.

Seeing there is but one God, who will accept the circumcised as righteous by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

For if Abraham was accepted as righteous through works, he hath ground of boasting. But he hath no ground of boasting before God.

For what saith the scripture? "Abraham had faith in God, and it was accounted unto him as righteousness."

as David also speaketh of the blessedness of the man whom God accepteth as righteous without works:

(as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations") in the sight of that God whom he believed, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

nor did he waver in respect to the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

Therefore being accepted as righteous through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

through whom also we have had admission into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory which God will confer.

and hope will not disappoint us; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which hath been given to us.

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

For if while enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been reconciled shall we be saved by his life;

and not this only, but also having joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

But the free gift was not as the transgression. For if through the offence of the one the many died, much more hath the grace of God, and the gift which is by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many.

God forbid! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer in it?

For in that he died, he died to sin once for all; but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.

Thus do ye too consider yourselves as dead to sin, but alive to God, through Jesus Christ.

nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

What then? Are we to sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? God forbid!

But thanks be to God that, though ye were the bondmen of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching which was delivered to you;

But now having been delivered from the slavery of sin, and having become the bondservants of God, ye have holiness as the fruit, and everlasting life as the end.

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

So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."

So that the Law is holy, and the commandment holy, and right, and good.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! but sin; that it might become manifest as sin, causing death to me by means of that which is good; that sin by means of the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

But if I do what I would not, I assent to the Law that it is good.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good thing; for to desire is present with me, but not to perform that which is good.

For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

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

For I delight in the Law of God, as to the inward man;

Thanks be to God, [who hath delivered me] through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I, the same person, with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God hath done, who on account of sin sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and passed sentence of condemnation on sin in the flesh;

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.

And they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any one hath to not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

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

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and fellowheirs with Christ; if indeed we are suffering with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

in hope that even the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption and brought into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

But he that searcheth the hearts knoweth the mind of the Spirit, because it intercedeth for the holy according to the will of God.

We know moreover that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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

Who shall bring any charge against the chosen of God? God is he who accepteth them as righteous.

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

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God for us, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

who are Israelites; whom God adopted as sons, whose was the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of the sanctuary, and the promises;

whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen.

Not as though the word of God hath failed; for not all they that are of Israel are Israel;

That is, not the children by natural descent are children of God, but the children to whom the promise is made are accounted as the offspring.

before the children were born, or had done any thing good or evil, to the end that Gods purpose according to election might stand, not depending on works, but on the will of him that calleth,

What then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Far be it!

So then it dependeth not on him that willeth, nor on him that runneth, but on God who showeth mercy.

Nay but, O man, who art thou that makest answer to God? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman, Why hast thou made me thus?