to all the beloved of God at Rome, called, holy: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For therein is revealed the righteousness which is of God from faith to faith; as it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, who keep down the truth in unrighteousness.

For, ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, even his eternal power and divinity, being perceived from his works, are clearly seen, so that they might be without excuse.

they have all turned aside from the right way, they have become worthless together; there is none that doeth good, not even one.

But now, apart from the Law, the righteousness which is of God, to which the Law and the Prophets bear testimony,

For all have sinned, and fail of obtaining the glory which cometh from God;

but for our sakes also, to whom it will be so accounted through our faith in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

who was delivered up on account of our trespasses, and raised from the dead that we might be accepted as righteous.

Much more then, being now accepted as righteous through his blood, we shall be saved through him from the [coming] wrath.

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the manner in which Adam transgressed; who is a type of him who was to come.

We then by this baptism into his death were buried with him; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

for he that hath died hath been set free from sin.

since we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath dominion over him no longer.

nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

But thanks be to God that, though ye were the bondmen of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching which was delivered to you;

and being made free from sin, ye became the bondmen of righteousness.

What fruit then had ye at that time from those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now having been delivered from the slavery of sin, and having become the bondservants of God, ye have holiness as the fruit, and everlasting life as the end.

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is released from the law which bound her to him.

So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

But now we are delivered from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, that we might serve in the new life of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the letter.

And I, apart from the Law, was once alive; but when the commandment came, sin came to life again, and I died;

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

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

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

in hope that even the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption and brought into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

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

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

For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;

whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen.

nor because they are descendants of Abraham are they all children; but, "Thy offspring shall be reckoned from Isaac."

whom he also called, even us, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the gentiles?

Or, "Who shall descend into the abyss?" that is, to bring up Christ from the dead.

for if thou shalt acknowledge with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, "Lord, who hath believed what he hath heard from us?"

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

For if thou hast been cut off from an olivetree wild by nature, and hast against thy nature been ingrafted into a good olivetree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be ingrafted into their own olivestock?

And thus will all Israel be saved; as it is written, "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

For from him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Let every one submit to the authorities that are over him; for there is no authority which is not from God: and the authorities which exist have been ordained by God.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wouldst thou then not be afraid of the government? Do that which is good, and thou wilt have praise from it;

But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because he doeth it not from faith; but every thing which is not from faith is sin.

And again Isaiah saith: "There shall be the shoot from Jesse, and he that riseth up to rule the gentiles; in him shall the gentiles hope."

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and in the country around even to Illyricum, I have fully made known the gospel of Christ;

For which cause also, for the most part, I have been hindered from coming to you.

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

salute also the church that is in their house. Salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruit gathered from Asia for Christ.