PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart for the Gospel of God,

through whom we have received grace and apostolic mission among all nations for his name, to bring them to the obedience of faith:

First then I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is proclaimed through the whole 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,

For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, in order that you may be established;

So, as far as is in my power, I am desirous to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.

For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God for salvation to every one who believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For the righteousness of God by faith is therein revealed for belief; as it is written, "Now the just by faith shall live."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding back the truth in unrighteousness.

Because that which is capable of being known relative to God, is evident among them; for God hath manifested it to them.

For from the creation of the world his invisible perfections, discoverable in the works that are made, are clearly seen, even his eternal power and deity; so that they are inexcusable:

who perverted the truth of God by falsehood, and worshipped and paid divine honours to the thing created instead of the Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Amen.

For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to nature;

THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, even every one that judgeth: for in the very thing wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest art living in the practices of the same things.

For thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest those who do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

But after thy obdurate and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath at the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

for there is no acceptance of persons with God.

For as many as have sinned without the law, shall perish also without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

for the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be counted righteous;

(for when the Gentiles, who have not the law naturally, do the things of the law, these, though not having the law, are a law unto themselves:

for the name of God is blasphemed through you among the heathen, as it is written.

For circumcision indeed is advantageous, if thou practise the law: but if thou art a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision becomes uncircumcision,

If then the uncircumcision observe the righteous judgments of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision?

For not he who is outwardly such, is the Jew; neither is that which is outward in the flesh, circumcision.

For what if some were unbelievers? shall their unbelief render the faithfulness of God ineffectual?

God forbid: for how then shall God judge the world?

For if the truth of God by my lying hath more abundantly contributed to his glory; why am I notwithstanding judged as a sinner?

What then? have we pre-eminence? Not at all: for we have before proved that both the Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

there is not the fear of God before their eyes."

Wherefore by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before God: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

the righteousness of God indeed by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all that believe: for there is no difference:

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

whom God hath proposed as the propitiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, in demonstration of his justice for the remission of past sins, through the patience of God;

for a demonstration of his justice at this present time: that he might be just, though justifying him who is of the faith of Jesus.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath cause for glorying; though not before God.

For what doth the scripture say? Abraham truly believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness.

But to him who doth not work, but believeth in him who justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned in account for righteousness.

This blessedness then, [is it] for the circumcision, or for the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousness.

For not by the law [came] the promise to Abraham and his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by the righteousness of faith.

For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith becomes vain, and the promise is useless:

for the law causeth wrath: for where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

for he disputed not against the promise of God with unbelief; but was mighty in faith, giving glory to God;

And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Now it was not written for his sake only, that it was imputed to him;

but also for our sakes, to whom it will be imputed, if we believe in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

For even then when we were without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.

For scarcely for a righteous person will any one die: though for a good man perhaps some one might even dare to die.

For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed if there be no law.

But not as the transgression, so also [is] the gift. For if by the transgression of one the many became dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is in that one man, Christ Jesus, hath abounded unto many.

And the gift [is] not as for one who sinned: for the judgment indeed [came] by one to condemnation, but the free gift [leads] to justification from many offences.

For if by the offence of one, death reigned by that one; much more they who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Christ Jesus.

Well then, as by the offence of one, [judgment issued] against all men unto condemnation; so also by the righteousness of one, [the gift came] to all men for justification unto life.

For as by the disobedience of one man the many were constituted sinners; so also by the obedience of one shall the many be constituted righteous.

For if we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection:

For he that is dead is discharged from sin.

For in that he died, for sin he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.

Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.

For sin shall not hold dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness.

For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

What fruit therefore had ye then in those things at which ye are now confounded? for the end of those things is death.

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

ARE you unacquainted, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know the law,) that the law exercises dominion over a person for as long time as he liveth?

For the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband.

She shall therefore certainly be counted an adulteress, if, her husband being alive, she be for another man: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law; so that she shall be no adulteress, though married to another husband.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead.

For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

And the commandment, which [was] for life, the same was found by me for death.

For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.

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

For that which I am doing I approve not: for not the thing which I wish, that do I practise; but the very thing I hate, that I do.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me (that is, in my flesh) any good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

For I do not the good which I wish: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

For I am delighted with the law of God, as respecting the inward man:

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath liberated me from the law of sin and of death.

For that which was impossible by the law, inasmuch as it was impotent through the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in that flesh:

For they who are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present moment are not worthy to be placed against the future glory that shall be revealed to us.

For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the children of God.

For the creation was made subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him who made it subject,

For we know that the whole creation groaneth together and travaileth in birth to this moment.

For by hope we have been saved: now hope seen is not hope; for that which any man seeth how doth he yet hope for?

But if we hope for what we see not, we with patience expect it.

In like manner also the Spirit affords assistance to our infirmities: for even this, what we should pray for as we ought, we know not: but the same Spirit more abundantly maketh intercession for us with groanings unutterable.

Now he that trieth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, for he maketh intercession for the saints according to God's will.

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

For whom he foreknew, he predestinated also to a conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the first-begotten among many brethren.

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

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

Who is he that condemneth? Christ? He died, yea, rather, also is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.