Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

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

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

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you

always in my prayers, requesting, if by any means now at last I may succeed by the will of God to come to you.

So, for my part, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For in it is revealed God's righteousness 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 ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and crawling creatures.

Therefore God also abandoned them in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this reason, God abandoned them to their degrading passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Now we know that the judgment of God is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

And do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

But glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For there is no partiality with God.

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Christ Jesus.

But if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast in God,

You who boast in the law, do you, by disobeying the law, dishonor God?

For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Much in every way. Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

May it never be. Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

May it never be. For then how will God judge the world?

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, there is not even one."

"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the Law and the Prophets;

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

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

whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because in God's forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;

Or is God the God of Jews only? Is not he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For rarely does one die for the righteous. Yet perhaps for a good person someone might dare to die.

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

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

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

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

But if what I do not desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

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

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

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

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

Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

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

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

of whom are the patriarchs, and from whom is the Christ, as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be.

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,