and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have some harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

For in it the righteousness of God is 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 wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth,

He is a Jew who is one inwardly; and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, and not by the written code. His praise is not from men but from God.

But now the righteousness of God has been revealed apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it,

For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

So also David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:

but for us also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

For we know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

and, having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.

But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is holiness and its end, eternal life.

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of her husband.

So then, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and though she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.

Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit to God.

But now, by dying to what once held us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

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

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

because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who is also interceding for us.

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

nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

Of them are the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, forever blessed. Amen.

But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel,

even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

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

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

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will have praise from him.

And do this, knowing the hour, that now it is full time for you to wake from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

But he who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

But I have written very boldly to you on some points, so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,

For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

This is the reason why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she has need from you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself also.