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

who was declared Son of God in power according to {the Holy Spirit} by the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord,

To all those in Rome who are loved by God, called [to be] saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world.

For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, how constantly I make mention of you,

always asking in my prayers if somehow now at last I may succeed to come to you in the will of God.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, "But the one who is righteous by faith will live."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of people, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

because what can be known about God is evident among them, for God made [it] clear to them.

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God with the likeness of an image of mortal human beings and birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to immorality, [that] their bodies would be dishonored among themselves,

who exchanged the truth of God with a lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed for eternity. Amen.

Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature,

And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, contrivers of evil, disobedient to parents,

who, [although they] know the requirements of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same [things], but also they approve of those who do [them].

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

But do you think this, O man who passes judgment on those who do such things, and who does the same [things], that you will escape the judgment of God?

Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,

but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and to the Greek.

For [there] is no partiality with God.

For it is not the hearers of the law [who are] righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

on the day when God judges the secret things of people, according to my gospel, through Christ Jesus.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

Who boast in the law, by the transgression of the law you dishonor God!

For just as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

And the uncircumcised person by nature who carries out the law will judge you who, [though provided] with {the precise written code} and circumcision [are] a transgressor of the law.

But the Jew {is one inwardly}, and circumcision [is] of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter, whose praise [is] not from people but from God.

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

{What is the result} if some refused to believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, [will it]?

May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written, "In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are judged."

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, [is] not unjust, [is he]? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.)

May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?

And [why] not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, in order that good may come [of it]? Their condemnation is just!

[there] is no one who understands; [there] is no one who seeks God.

The fear of God is not before their eyes."

Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified about by the law and the prophets--

that is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. For [there] is no distinction,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

whom God made publicly available as the mercy seat through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previously committed sins,

in the forbearance of God, for the demonstration of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just and the one who justifies the [person] by faith in Jesus.

Or [is God] the God of the Jews only? [Is he] not also [the God] of the Gentiles? Yes, also of the Gentiles,

since God [is] one, who will justify {those who are circumcised} by faith and {those who are uncircumcised} through faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

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

just as David also speaks about the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

(just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as [though] they are,

And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, [because he] was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God

Therefore, [because we] have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have [obtained] access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For only rarely will someone die on behalf of a righteous person (for on behalf of a good person possibly someone might even dare to die),

but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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

And not only [this], but also [we are] boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

{But the gift is not like the trespass}, for if by the trespass of the one, the many died, by much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, multiply to the many.

For that [death] he died, he died to sin once and never again, but that [life] he lives, he lives to God.

So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.

But thanks [be] to God that you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted,

But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit [leading] to sanctification, and its end [is] eternal life.

For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

But if what I do not want [to do], this I do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.

Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.

For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],

and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person {does not belong to him}.

For all those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

The Spirit himself confirms to our spirit that we are children of God,

and if children, also heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together [with him] so that we may also be glorified together [with him].

For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God.

that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

And the one who searches our hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit [is], because he intercedes on behalf of the saints according to [the will of] God.

And we know that all [things] work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to [his] purpose,

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

Who will bring charges against God's elect? God [is] the one who justifies.

Who [is] the one who condemns? Christ [is] the one who died, and more than that, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

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

[to] whom [belong] the patriarchs, and from whom [is] the Christ according to human descent, who is God over all, blessed {forever}! Amen.

But [it is] not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those [who are descended] from Israel [are truly] Israel,

That is, [it is] not the children {by human descent} [who are] children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

for [although they] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

What then shall we say? [There is] no injustice with God, [is there]? May it never be!

Consequently therefore, {it does not depend on the} one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.

On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?