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,

that is, to be comforted together among you through our mutual faith, both yours and mine.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the gentiles.

I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish;

so, as much as in me is, I am ready to proclaim the Gospel to you also who are in Rome.

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.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their desires one for another; men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error, which was due.

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;

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

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?

for there is no respect of persons with God;

for as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as sinned under law shall be judged by law;

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

And shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, with the letter and circumcision, to be a transgressor of the law?

For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that circumcision, which is outward in flesh;

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.

What, then, is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

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).

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.

as it has been written, "There is none righteous, no not one;

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;

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

there is no fear of God before their eyes."

because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.

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

being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

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:

Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.

For we reckon that a man is justified by faith, apart from works of law.

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.

Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt;

but to him that works not, but believes on Him Who justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

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

"Happy are those whose iniquities were forgiven, and whose sins were covered.

Happy is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin."

for the law works wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

(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;

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.

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

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned;

for until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not reckoned, when there is no law:

but yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who sinned not after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of Him Who was to come.

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.

And not as through one that sinned, so is the gift; for, indeed, the judgment came of one trespass unto condemnation; but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification.

So, then, as through one trespass, the judgment came to all men unto condemnation; so also, through one righteous act, the free gift came to all men unto justification of life.

For as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners; so also through the obedience of the One, shall the many be constituted righteous.

that, as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We were buried, therefore, with Him through the immersion into death; that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

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.

Know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves as slaves for obedience, his slaves ye are whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness?

I speak after human fashion because of the weakness of your flesh; for, as ye presented your members subservient to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now present your members subservient to righteousness unto holiness.

For, when ye were slaves of sin, ye were free as to righteousness.

What fruit, therefore, had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

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

Or, are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law has dominion over the man as long as he lives?

For the married woman has been bound by law to the living husband; but, if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of the husband.

So, then, if, while the husband is living, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but, if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

but sin, taking occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting; for apart from law sin is dead.

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.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

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.

But, if what I wish not, this I do, it is no more I that perform it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

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

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Consequently, there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

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;

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.

And, if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

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

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory about to be revealed for us.

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

For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now;

For by hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for that which he sees?

And, in like manner, the Spirit also helpeth our weakness; for we know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit Himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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.

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

He Who spared not His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

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.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or perils or sword?

As it has been written, "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."