through whom we received grace and the office of apostle, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

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

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

always in my prayers, requesting, if by any means now at last I may succeed by the will of God to come to you.

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

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

And do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality -- eternal life.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

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

and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Much in every way. Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

May it never be. For then how will God judge the world?

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, there is not even one."

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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

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

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

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

Happy is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be credited to them.

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.

Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

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

Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

What a wretched man I am. Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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

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

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

for the Lord will fulfill his word completely and without delay upon the earth."

even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock that will make them fall; and no one who believes in him will be put to shame."

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);

or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)"

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on him.

For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a proclaimer?

And how will they proclaim unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things."

But they did not all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

But I say, did they not hear? Yes, truly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

But I ask, did not Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."

But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

They also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."

For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

"Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?"

For from him and by him and in him are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members do not have the same function,

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Do not seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."