Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,

including you who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ??7 to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world.

on that Day when, as the good news I preach teaches, God through Christ Jesus judges what men have kept secret,

It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus.

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.

But God proves his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

More than that, we actually glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom we owe our reconciliation.

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

so that just as sin had reigned through death, mercy might reign through uprightness and bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

If we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

for we know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more hold on him.

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.

and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

for I could wish myself accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kindred.

and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came??od who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

But this is what the uprightness that springs from faith says: "Do not say to yourself, 'Who will go up to heaven?' " that is, to bring Christ down;

or " 'Who will go down into the depths?' " that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.

so, many as we are, we form one body through union with Christ, and we are individually parts of one another.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.

For Christ died and returned to life for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living.

For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

Whoever serves Christ in that way pleases God and gains the approval of men.

Christ did not please himself, but as the Scripture says, "The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me."

May God, from whom steadfastness and encouragement come, give you such harmony with one another, in following the example of Christ Jesus,

that you may praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one accord and one voice.

Therefore, treat one another like brothers, in God's honor, just as Christ has treated you.

I hold that Christ has become an agent of circumcision to show God's truthfulness in carrying out the promises made to our forefathers,

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

So as a follower of Christ Jesus I have reason to be proud of my work for God.

For I will venture to speak only of what Christ has accomplished through me in winning the heathen to obedience, by word and action,

by the force of signs and marvels, and by the power of the holy Spirit, with the result that I have completed the preaching of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

In all this it has been my ambition to preach the good news only where Christ's name was unknown, so as not to build on foundations other men had laid.

and I know that when I do come to see you, I will come with Christ's fullest blessing.

I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.

Remember me to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in the cause of Christ Jesus,

Remember me to my dear Epaenetus, who was the first man in Asia to turn to Christ.

Remember me to Urbanus, our fellow-worker in Christ's cause, and to my dear Stachys.

Greet one another with a sacred kiss. All the churches of Christ wish to be remembered to you.

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,

and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith??27 to the one wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ. Amen.