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

through whom we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name,

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,

For I desire to see you, in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to strengthen you,

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 from the creation of the world, his invisible [attributes], both his eternal power and deity, are discerned clearly, being understood in the things created, so that they are without excuse.

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.

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 likewise also the males, abandoning the natural relations with the female, were inflamed in their desire toward one another, males with males committing the shameless deed, and receiving in themselves the penalty that was necessary for their error.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, every one [of you] who passes judgment. For in that which you pass judgment on someone else, you condemn yourself, for you who are passing judgment are doing the same [things].

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,

[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,

For [there] is no partiality with God.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and 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 in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, [although they] do not have the law, are a law to themselves,

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

For circumcision is of value if you do the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Therefore, if the uncircumcised person follows the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be credited for circumcision?

For the Jew is not {one outwardly}, nor [is] circumcision {outwardly}, in the flesh.

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

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

What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

The fear of God is not before their eyes."

For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

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.

For we consider a person to be justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

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."

But to the one who does not work, but who believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness,

Therefore, [is] this blessing for {those who are circumcised}, or also for {those who are uncircumcised}? For we say, "Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness."

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants, [that] he would be heir of the world, [was] not through the law, but through the righteousness by faith.

For if those of the law [are] heirs, faith is rendered void and the promise is nullified.

For the law produces wrath, but where [there] is no law, neither [is there] transgression.

Therefore it was credited to him for righteousness.

But it was not written for the sake of him alone that it was credited to him,

but also for the sake of us to whom it is going to be credited, to those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

For [while] we were still helpless, yet at the proper time Christ died for the ungodly.

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.

For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one's account [when there] is no law.

{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.

And the gift [is] not as through the one who sinned, for on the one hand, judgment from the one [sin] [led] to condemnation, but the gift, from many trespasses, [led] to justification.

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

For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.

For if we have become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be [identified with him in the likeness] of [his] resurrection,

For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

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

For sin will not be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, [leading] to death, or obedience, [leading] to righteousness?

and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members [as] slaves to immorality and lawlessness, [leading] to lawlessness, so now present your members [as] slaves to righteousness, [leading] to sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.

Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.

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.

Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is master of a person for as long a time [as] he lives?

For the married woman is bound by law to [her] husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man [while] her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress [if she] belongs to another man.

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.

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all [kinds of] covetousness. For apart from the law, sin [is] dead.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me].

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.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, {sold into slavery to sin}.

For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want [to do], this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

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.

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

Consequently, [there is] now no condemnation for those [who are] in Christ Jesus.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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,

For those who are [living] according to the flesh are intent on the things of the flesh, but those [who are living] according to the Spirit [are intent on] the things of the Spirit.

For the mindset of the flesh [is] death, but the mindset of the Spirit [is] life and peace,

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],

For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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

For you have not received a spirit of slavery [leading] to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"

For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.

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

For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected [it], in hope

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

For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now.

For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we await [it] eagerly with patient endurance.

And likewise also, the Spirit helps [us] in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes [for us] [with] unexpressed groanings.

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?

Indeed, [he] who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all [things]?

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.