but as to his holy spirit miraculously declared to be the son of God, by his resurrection from the dead:

to all the beloved of God, the saints by this vocation, who are in Rome, grace to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

or indeed that we may have mutual consolation from the faith which is in common to you and to me.

there the divine wrath is revealed from heaven against all impiety, and injustice of men, who wickedly suppress the truth.

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what benefit is there from circumcision?

How then can we assert, "that Abraham our father obtained this from circumcision?"

for if Abraham was justified by works, he had matter of pretension, whereas he had no such claim from God.

far from being weak in faith, unconcern'd at his own bodily decay, being then about an hundred years old, and at Sarah's incapacity of child-bearing,

but for us also, to whom it shall be accounted, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

much more then being now justified by his blood, shall we thro' him be delivered from the wrath to come.

nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned by violating a positive law, as did Adam, who is

neither is the gift, as was the fall by one sin: for the sentence of condemnation, was for one offence; but the divine favour extends to justification from a multitude of sins.

therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life.

for by its being dead, we are set free from sin.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, is to die no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

but now being set free from sin, and actually in the service of God, the present advantage you reap is holiness, and the future everlasting life.

now a married woman is bound by the law to her living husband: but if her husband dieth, she is released from the marriage-contract.

wherefore she will be reputed an adulteress if she become another man's during her husband's life: but if her husband dies, she is clear from that law, from the imputation of being an adulteress, though she become another man's.

thus, my brethren, the law is become dead with respect to you by the body of Christ; that you might be subject to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

O wretched man that I am, what shall deliver me from this body of death?

for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

and therefore hope to be removed from this slavish condition of mortality to the free inheritance of divine glory.

and not only they, but even those who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we our selves do inwardly groan for the fruit of our adoption, by the deliverance of our body from corruption.

What shall we conclude then from this? if God be for us, who can be against us?

what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or penury, or peril, or sword?

neither the high, nor the low, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God by Christ Jesus our Lord.

for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self,

However, the divine promise cannot but have its effect. for they are not the whole of Israel, who are descended from Israel:

this appears too from the case of Rebecca, who conceived twins by our father Isaac.

to such as we, whom he has called, both from among the Jews, and from among the Gentiles.

but the justification which is by faith, speaks in this manner; "say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven, in order to bring Christ down from above?

or, who shall descend into the deep, in order to bring up Christ again from the dead?"

for if you openly confess, that Jesus is the Lord, and sincerely believe, that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

for if you were taken from the wild olive, which was natural to you, to be grafted into a good olive-stock of a different nature, with how much greater reason shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

and then all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, "there shall come out of Sion the deliverer, and shall turn away Jacob from his impiety.

wherefore you ought to submit not only from an apprehension of punishment, but

from a principle of conscience. for this is the reason why you also pay tribute, because under God, they are continually

he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty. he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off.

by virtue of the miracles and prodigies wrought by the power of the divine spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and the neighbouring country, quite to Illyricum,

This has chiefly hindred me from coming to you.

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that the charitable service which I am employed about, for the converts at Jerusalem, may be acceptable to them:

Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret from antient times, but now is laid open,