And first I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is celebrated through the whole world:

for God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

that is to say, that being among you we may be comforted together by the faith of each, both yours and mine.

And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come unto you, (but have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentiles.

therefore am I ready, as much as in me lies, to preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, both Jew and Greek:

for the righteousness of God is therein revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who withhold the truth in unrighteousness;

for what is to be known of God is manifest among them, for God hath manifested it to them.

Inasmuch as from the first creation of the world, the invisible things of Him, even his eternal power and Godhead, are, if attended to, clearly seen in his works:

so that they are inexcusable; because having thus known God they glorified Him not as God, neither were they thankful; but were infatuated by their own reasonings, and their heart being void of understanding was darkened.

Pretending to be wise they Became fools:

who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Therefore God gave them up to infamous passions: for even their women changed the natural use into that which is unnatural,

and the men likewise, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust to one another, men with men committing shame, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their error which they deserved.

And as they were not careful to acknowledge God, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things that were not fit to be done:

But we know that the judgement of God is according to truth against those that do such things.

for there is no respect of persons with God.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law.

for through you the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.

For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance;

nor is that circumcision, which is only in appearance, in the flesh;

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

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

God forbid: yea, let God be acknowledged true, though every man be a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome, when thou judgest.

"But if our unrighteousness confirm the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unrighteous, who inflicteth his wrath?" (I speak as a man) God forbid:

"But, say you, if the truth of God hath abounded unto his glory through my falshood, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

and why may we not do evil that good may come?"---as we are injuriously charged, and as some affirm that we say; whose condemnation is just.

"What then are we the better?" Not at all, in point of justification; for we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin: as it is written,

"There is none righteous, no not one;

there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

They are all gone out of the way, they are become unprofitable, there is none that practiseth goodness, no not one.

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

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

and the way of peace they have not known; and the fear of God is not before their eyes."

Wherefore by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

But now, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets;

and this righteousness of God is by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all believers; for there is no difference;

being justified freely by his grace, because of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Where then is boasting? it is excluded: by what law? of works? no: but by the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the law:

or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles?

surely of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision also through faith.

Now to him that worketh the reward is not reckoned as a favor, but as a debt:

but to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him who justifieth the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

As David also describeth the blessedness of the man to whom: God imputeth righteousness without works, saying,

"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered:

blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not sin."

Now is this blessedness upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? for we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all that believe though not circumcised, that righteousness may be imputed to them also:

for if they only that are of the law be heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is become of no effect.

Now the law worketh wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

(as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations,") in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not as if they were:

but for our sakes also, to him it will be imputed, as we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead:

and experience hope, and this hope maketh us not ashamed; because the love of God is diffused in our hearts by the holy Spirit that is given to us.

But God recommendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for to that all have sinned:

for sin was in the world before the law. Now sin is not imputed where there is no law;

and yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of Him that was to come.

But not as the offence, so also is the free gift: for if through the offence of one many died, much more hath the grace of God, and the gift bestowed by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

For the gift is not as the sentence was by one that sinned; for the sentence is passed from one offence to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences to justification.

Therefore as by the offence of one the effect of it was upon all men to condemnation: so also by the righteousness of one, the effect was upon all men to justification of life.

For as by the disobedience of one man many were made sinners; so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.

Now the law made some entrance, that the offence might appear to abound; but where sin abounded, grace hath superabounded; that as sin had reigned in death,

Know ye not, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?

Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life:

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be inslaved to sin:

for he that is thus dead with Christ, is delivered from sin.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more power over Him: for as He died, He died once for all on account of sin;

but as He liveth, He liveth unto God.

Neither yield your bodies as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

For sin shall have no power over you, inasmuch as ye are not under the law, but under grace.

I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: as ye have yielded your bodies servants to impurity and iniquity to work iniquity; so now present your bodies servants to righteousness, unto holiness.

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

For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath power over a man, only so long as it liveth?

For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.

Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions while we were under the law operated in our bodies so as to bring forth fruit unto death.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust to be sinful, if the law had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."

So that the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin might be shewn by the commandment to be exceeding sinful.

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

And if I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good:

For I know that in me (that is in my flesh) dwelleth no good: for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not.

For I delight in the law of God, as to the inward man:

but I perceive another law in my body warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my body.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

For that which was impossible for the law to do, and in which it was weak through the corruption of the flesh, God by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sacrifice for sin, hath done; that is, hath condemned sin in the flesh:

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

Now to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace:

because the carnal mind is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be:

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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

And I account the sufferings of this present time not worthy to be set against the glory that shall be revealed to us.