In the first place, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how constantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, which may be for your confirmation;

For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for to every believer, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, it is the power of God unto salvation.

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.

Because that which may be known of God is manifest within them; for God made it manifest to them.

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.

and for the glory of the incorruptible God they substituted images of corruptible man, and of birds and fourfooted beasts and creeping things.

because they changed the true God for false gods, and adored and worshipped created things rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this cause God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women indulged in unnatural lust,

and in like manner the men also, neglecting the natural use of the female, burned with lust for one another, men with men practising that which is shameful, and receiving in themselves the due recompense of their error.

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man that judgest, whoever thou art. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the manifestation of the righteous judgment of God,

everlasting life to those who by patient continuance in welldoing seek for glory, and honor, and incorruption;

For there is no respect of persons with God.

For as many as have sinned without a law, will also perish without a law; and as many as have sinned under a law, will be judged by a law,

for it is not the hearers of a law who are righteous before God, but the doers of a law will be accounted righteous;

for when the gentiles, who have no law, do by nature what is required by the Law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

For, as it is written, "the name of God is on your account blasphemed among the gentiles."

For circumcision is indeed a benefit to thee, if thou keep the Law; but if thou art a breaker of the Law, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision, which is outward, in the flesh;

For what? If some were unfaithful, shall their unfaithfulness make God unfaithful?

Far be it! yea, let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art arraigned."

Far be it! For then how shall God judge the world?

For if, through my being false, the truth of God hath been more abundantly manifested to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

What then? Are we better than others? By no means! For we have already brought a charge both against Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Because by works of the Law no flesh shall be accepted as righteous: for by the Law is the knowledge of sin.

even the righteousness which is of God through faith in Jesus Christ, hath been made manifest to all and for all believers. For there is no distinction.

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

Do we then make void the Law through faith? Far be it! On the contrary, we establish the Law.

For if Abraham was accepted as righteous through works, he hath ground of boasting. But he hath no ground of boasting before God.

For what saith the scripture? "Abraham had faith in God, and it was accounted unto him as righteousness."

Doth this blessedness belong to the circumcised alone, or to the uncircumcised also? For we are saying that Abrahams faith was accounted as righteousness.

For not through the Law was the promise made to Abraham or his offspring that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

For if they that are of the Law are heirs, then faith becometh a vain thing, and the promise is made of no effect.

For the Law is the cause of wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

For he had confident hope in that which was past hope, that he should become a father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, "Thus shall thy offspring be;"

And therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness.

And that it was so accounted was not written for his sake alone,

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,

For while we were yet without strength, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

Now hardly for a righteous man will one die; perhaps, however, for a benefactor one might even dare to die.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if while enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been reconciled shall we be saved by his life;

(for all the time before the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not set to ones account when there is no law.

But the free gift was not as the transgression. For if through the offence of the one the many died, much more hath the grace of God, and the gift which is by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many.

And the free gift is not like what happened through one man who sinned. For sentence of condemnation followed one offence; but the free gift is a justification after many offences.

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

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

For if we have been made completely like him in his death, we shall be made like him in his resurrection also;

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

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

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

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

I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.

For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were not 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.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is everlasting life, through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Know ye not, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who are acquainted with the Law,) that the Law hath dominion over a man only as long as he liveth?

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.

For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.

What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."

But sin, seizing the opportunity, wrought in me by means of the commandment all manner of sinful desire; for without the Law sin is dead.

For sin, seizing the opportunity, deceived me through the commandment, and through it slew me.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! but sin; that it might become manifest as sin, causing death to me by means of that which is good; that sin by means of the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, a slave sold to sin.

For I know not what I do. For I do not what I would, but I do what I hate.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good thing; for to desire is present with me, but not to perform that which is good.

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

For I delight in the Law of God, as to the inward man;

There is then now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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

For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God hath done, who on account of sin sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and passed sentence of condemnation on sin in the flesh;

For they who are according to the flesh have their mind on the things of the flesh; but they who are according to the Spirit, on the things of the Spirit.

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are sure to die; but if by the Spirit ye make an end of the deeds of the body, ye will live.

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

For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage so as to be again in fear; but ye received the spirit of adopted children, whereby we cry, Abba, Father!

For I esteem the sufferings of the present time as of no account, when compared with the glory which is about to be revealed to us.

For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

For the creation was brought into subjection to vanity not of its own will, but by reason of him who put it into subjection,

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.

For we know that the whole creation is together groaning and suffering the pains of labor, up to this time;

and not only so, but even we ourselves also, though having the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption as sons, for the redemption of our body.

For we were saved only in hope. But hope which is seen is not hope; how can a man hope for that which he seeth?

But if we hope for that which we do not see, then do we with patience wait for it.

In like manner the Spirit also helpeth our weakness; for we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedeth with groans which cannot be expressed in words.

But he that searcheth the hearts knoweth the mind of the Spirit, because it intercedeth for the holy according to the will of God.

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

For he determined beforehand that those whom he foreknew should be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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

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

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

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?

As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we were accounted as sheep for slaughter."

For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

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.