From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness.

To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. May God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you, and give you peace.

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

God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers,

FOR I AM PROUD OF THE GOSPEL. IT IS GOD'S SAVING POWER FOR EVERY ONE WHO BELIEVES. FOR THE JEW FIRST, AND ALSO FOR THE GENTILE.

FOR IN IT IS BEING REVEALED A RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH PROCEEDS FROM GOD, FROM FAITH UNTO FAITH; AS IT IS WRITTEN.

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

This is so because that which may be known of God is manifest among them; for God has made it manifest to them.

For although they knew God, yet they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks; but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.

and exchanged the majesty of the imperishable God for an idol, graven in the likeness of perishable man, or of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies;

because they exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen.

That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature;

And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent.

They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents.

Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.

"We know that God's judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment of God?

Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?

In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed.

but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

For there is no partiality with God.

For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says.

but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart??ircumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.

Much in every way. First of all, because to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

By no means! Be sure that God is ever true, though all mankind prove false. As it is written, That thou mayest be found just in thine argument, And gain thy cause when thou contendest.

But if our unrighteousness thus brings out God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous?? speak after the manner of men??hen he inflicts his anger on us?

Be it far from us; for in that case how could God judge the world?

But if by a falsehood of mine the truthfulness of God has been made to redound to his glory, why am I still tried as a sinner?

And why not say (as I myself am slanderously reported to say), "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such arguments are rightly condemned.

There is none that understands, none that seeks for God!

All have swerved from the right path; Every one of them has become corrupt. There is none that practices good, no, not one.

Reverence for God is not before their eyes.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

But now, quite apart from any law, a righteousness coming from God has been fully brought to light, continually witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets.

I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile,

since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God;

For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness??ince in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed??o show forth his righteousness,

Is God then the God of the Jews alone, and not of the Gentiles also? He is God of the Gentiles also,

since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to be proud of, but not before God.

For what does Scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was set down to his account as righteousness.

Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.

This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

Though he was about a hundred years old, his faith did not fail him when he regarded his own body, now as good as dead. and remembered Sarah's barrenness.

Nor did he with regard to the promise of God waver in unbelief, but he waxed strong in faith, while he gave God glory,

and was fully persuaded that what God had promised, he was able also to perform.

Since we stand justified as the result of faith, let us continue to enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through him also we have had our access into this grace in which we have taken our stand, and are exulting in hope of the glory of God.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

Why, a man will hardly give his life for another, even for a righteous man, though perchance for a good man one might even take it upon himself to die.

But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

By how much more, then, being now justified in his blood, shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved in his life.

And not only that, but we exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now obtained our reconciliation.

But the free gift is not like the transgression; for if through the transgression of that one man the rest on men died, much more did the grace of God and the gift given in his grace in the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow unto the rest of men.

For the death that he died, he died unto sin once for all; but the life that he lives he is living unto God.

Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.

FOR THE POOR WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, OUR MASTER.

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code.

So then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Did then that which was good become for me death? Never! but sin did; that it might be manifest as sin, by that the unutterable malignity of sin might become plain through the commandment.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, no good thing has its home; for while to will is present with me, to carry out that which is right is not.

For the good that I intend to do, I do not; but the evil which I do not; but the evil which I do not intend to do, that I am ever practising.

I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

For in my inmost self I delight in the law of God;

Oh, thank God! it is through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself in my will am in thralldom to the law of God; yet in my animal nature I am in thralldom to the law of sin.

For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;

And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.

But you are not earthly, but spiritual, if indeed the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

For only those are sons of God who are led by God's Spirit.

For his Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;

and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

All nature even is waiting with eager longing for the unveiling of the vision of God's sons.

For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject??21 yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thralldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

Now we know that all things continually work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose.

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

Who shall accuse God's elect? God acquits them;

Who is there to condemn them? Will Christ who died? Yes, and who rose from the dead, The Christ who is also at the right hand of God, And is interceding for us?

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

theirs are the patriarchs, and of them, as concerning the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God, blessed forever, Amen.

It is not, however, as though God's word had failed! For they are not all Israel who have sprung from Israel;

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

and even though they were still unborn, and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that the purpose of God might stand according to election, not of works, but of Him who called,

What shall we say then? that there is injustice with God? No indeed.

So then it is not a question of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

"Nay, but who are you, O man, that replies to God? Shall the thing formed say unto him who formed it, "Why did you do me like this?"

But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?