Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God,

Who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead??ven Jesus Christ our Lord,

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

For God is my witness, Whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

making request, if by any means now at length, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

For I am not ashamed of the Gospel; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek

for in it is revealed God's righteousness, from faith to faith; as it has been written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

For God's wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;

because that which is known of God is manifested in them; for God manifested it to them.

because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor did they give thanks; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles.

Wherefore, God gave them up in the desires of their hearts unto the uncleanness of dishonoring their bodies among themselves;

who, indeed, change the truth of God into falsehood; and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions; for both their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;

And, as they did not approve the holding of God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not becoming;

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents,

who, indeed, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with those who practice them.

Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those practicing such things.

And do you reckon this, O man, who judge those who practice such things, and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Or, do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading you to repentance?

but, after your hardness and impenitent heart, you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

but glory and honor and peace to every one who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

for there is no respect of persons with God;

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

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Gospel, through Jesus Christ,

But, if you are called a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and are boasting in God,

You who boast in law, do you dishonor God through your transgression of the law?

For the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles, because of you, as it has been written.

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

Much every way: first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For what, if some did disbelieve? Shall their disbelief make void the faithfulness of God?

May it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it has been written, "That Thou mayest be justified in Thy words; and mayest overcome, when Thou judgest."

But, if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, Who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of a man).

It could not be! for, then, how shall God judge the world?

But, if the truth of God, through my lie, abounded unto His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

And why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come?" whose condemnation is just.

there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;

they have all turned aside, they together became unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one;

there is no fear of God before their eyes."

Now we know that whatsoever the law says, it speaks to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may be under the sentence of God;

But now, apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

even a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe; for there is no distinction;

for all sinned, and are coming short of the glory of God;

Whom God set forth as a propitiation, through faith in His blood, for the manifestation of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the formerly-committed sins in the forbearance of God:

Or is He the God of Jews only? Is He not of gentiles also! Yes, of gentiles also;

if, indeed, God is One Who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

For, if Abraham was justified by works, he has ground of boasting, but not toward God.

For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness."

Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckoneth righteousness, apart from works,

(as it has been written, "A father of many nations have I made you"), before God Whom he believed, Who maketh alive the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were;

but, in view of the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but was made strong in faith, giving glory to God,

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

through Whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have been standing; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

and hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the holy Spirit, Who was given to us.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; for, peradventure, in behalf of a good man, some one even dares to die.

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

Much more, therefore, being now justified by His blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

For if, while we were 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 only so, but we are rejoicing in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we now received the reconciliation.

But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift; for, if by the trespass of the one, the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the One Man, Christ Jesus, abound to the many.

For the death that He died, He died to Sin once for all; but the life that He liveth He liveth to God.

Even so reckon ye also yourselves dead, indeed, to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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.

But thanks be to God that, though ye were slaves of sin, ye did, however, obey from the heart that form of teaching unto which ye were delivered;

But now, having been made free from sin, and having been made slaves to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life;

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

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another??o Him Who was raised from the dead??hat we might bear fruit to God.

So that the law is holy, and the command is holy and righteous and good.

Did, then, that which is good become death to me? It could not be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

But, if what I wish not, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good; for to wish is present with me: but to do that which is good a not.

For the good that I wish, I do not; but the evil which I wish not, this I practice.

Consequently, I find the law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is present.

or I delight in the law of God after the inward man;

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Accordingly, therefore, I myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but, with the flesh, the law of sin.

For, what was impossible under law, wherein it was weak through the flesh. God, sending His Own Son in likeness of sinful flesh, and, respecting sin, condemned sin in the flesh;

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can it be;

and those 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 is dwelling in you. And, if any one has not the spirit of Christ, he is not His.

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

The Spirit Himself testifieth with our spirit, that we are children of God;

and, if children, heirs also; heirs, indeed, of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if, indeed, we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified with Him.

For the earnest longing of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

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

And we know that all things are working together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose;

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

Who will bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God Who justifieth;

who is he that condemns? It is Christ Who died, yea, rather, That was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God, Who also is making intercession for us.

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

whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

But it is not as though the word of God has failed: for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel;

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

(for, the children being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him Who calleth),

What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? It could not be!

So, then, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God Who hath mercy.

Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, "Why didst Thou make me thus?"

And what if God, willing to show forth His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

And it shall be that in the place where it was said, 'Ye are not My people,' there shall they be called sons of the living God."