declared to be the Son of God in power as to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,??esus Christ our Lord,??5 through whom we have received grace and an apostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of his name,

First, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in all the 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

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened,

so that as far as depends upon me I am ready also to preach the gospel to those at Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believes, the Jew first and also the Greek.

For God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith in the faith [the gospel]; as it is written; The righteous shall live by faith.

FOR the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth in wickedness,

because what can be known of God is manifest among them; for God has manifested [himself] to them.

For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,

Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,

and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit.

Wherefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge, for in that in which you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

But according to your hardness and unchanged heart you treasure up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and of a revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

to those who by patience in good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

For there is no respect of persons with God.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,??13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves,

For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations as it is written.

For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, shall not its uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision?

For not that which is external is the Jew, nor is that which is external in the flesh circumcision.

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

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief destroy the faith of God?

For if the truth of God abounded by my falsehood to his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

What defense then have we? None at all; for we before asserted that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.

but God's righteousness is through the faith of Jesus Christ, in all and upon all that believe. For there is no difference;

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

For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God.

For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

But to one that works not, but believes on him that justifies the wicked, his faith is [accounted] for righteousness.

Is this blessedness then on the circumcision? or also on the uncircumcision? [Also on the uncircumcision.] For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated.

For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

And being not weak in faith, he did not regard himself as dead, being now about a hundred years old, nor Sarah's incapacity for child-bearing,

Wherefore also it was accounted to him for righteousness.

But it was not written for his sake alone, that it was accounted to him,

but also for our sakes, to whom it is about to be accounted if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

who was delivered up for our sins and raised for our justification.

For when we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked;

for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare to die;

but God commends his love to us, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us;

For if when enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having become reconciled we shall be saved in his life.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law

but not as the fall so also is the gift; for if by the fall of one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many;

and not as through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance;

for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;??18 therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to 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.

For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant,

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall much more be of his resurrection;

for he that died was justified from sin.

For [the death] which he died, he died to sin once; but [the life] which he lives, he lives to God.

For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.

Know you not that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin in death or of obedience in righteousness?

and having become free from sin you served righteousness.

I speak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members servants to impurity and to wickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to righteousness in sanctification.

For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

What fruit had you therefore then in things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of them is death.

But now having been made free from sin and made servants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end eternal life.

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

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.

But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead.

and the commandment which was for life was found to be for death.

For sin having taken occasion through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.

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

For what I do this I approve not; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;

for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do.

for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul],

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,

For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit;

for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace.

Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.

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

For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father.

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

For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

For the creation was subjected to a perishable condition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope

For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now;

and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees?

but if we hope for what we see not, we wait for it with patience.

And in like manner also the Spirit helps our weakness. For we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings unutterable;

and he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because it makes intercession with God for the saints.

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

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;

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

He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us?

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,