To all in Rome who are dear to God and have been called to become Christ's People, From Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, who has been called to become an Apostle, and has been set apart to tell God's Good News.

Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

among whom Jesus Christ has also called you:

First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

for in it is revealed God's righteousness, from faith to faith; as it has been written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

because what can be known of God is clear to their inner moral sense; for in this way God Himself has shown it to them.

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

So God has given them up to sexual impurity, in the evil trend of their heart's desires, so that they degrade their own bodies with one another,

This is why God has given them up to degrading passions. For their females have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,

And just as they refused to recognize God any longer, God has abandoned them to unworthy impulses and indecent conduct.

For when He finally judges, He will pay everyone with exactness for what he has done,

tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who has worked out evil; of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

and knowest his will, and hast experience of good and bad, in that thou art informed by the law:

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

For the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles, because of you, as it has been written.

For circumcision is valuable if you observe the Law, but if you break the Law, your having been circumcised has no more value than if you were uncircumcised.

What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or, what benefit does circumcision confer?

May it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it has been written, "That Thou mayest be justified in Thy words; and mayest overcome, when Thou judgest."

But, as you say, if the truthfulness of God has redounded to His glory because of my falsehood, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

as it has been written, "There is none righteous, no not one;

Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

All have swerved from the right path; Every one of them has become corrupt. There is none that practices good, no, not one.

But now God's way of giving men right standing with Himself has come to light; a way without connection with the law, and yet a way to which the law and the prophets testify.

God's own way of giving men right standing with Himself is through faith in Jesus Christ. It is for everybody who has faith, for no distinction at all is made.

For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

yes, to demonstrate His justice at the present time, to prove that He is right Himself, and that He considers right with Himself the man who has faith in Jesus.

So where has human boasting gone? It was completely shut out. On what principle? On that of doing something? No, but on the principle of faith.

For we hold that a man is brought into right standing with God by faith, that observance of the law has no connection with it.

What then shall we say [that] Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has found?

For if he was considered in right standing with God on the condition of what he did, he has something to boast of, but not before God.

the reward is not counted as a favour to him that has done good actions, but as a debt:

but the man who does no work, but simply puts his faith in Him who brings the ungodly into right standing with Himself, has his faith credited to him as right standing.

Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!

'Blessed are those whose wrong-doings have been forgiven and over whose sins a veil has been drawn!

Does this blessedness then rest on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

For if the law party is to possess the world, then faith has been nullified and the promise has been made null and void.

As it is written, "I have made thee a father to many nations," even before God whom thou hast believed, which quickeneth the dead and called those things which be not, as though they were.

and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among the dead Jesus our Lord,

who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

who has given us access by faith to that degree of favour, we are in, by which we triumph in the hopes of divine glory.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

and hope never disappoints us; for through the Holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.

for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.

But God's free gift is not at all to be compared with the offense. For if by one man's offense the whole race of men have died, to a much greater degree God's favor and His gift imparted by His favor through the one man Jesus Christ, has overflowed for the whole race of men.

And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.

For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

Therefore, as, by one offense, sentence came on all men to condemnation, so, also, by one act of righteousness, the gift has come on all men to justification of life.

Then law crept in to multiply the offense. Though sin has multiplied, yet God's favor has surpassed it and overflowed,

in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.

For the person who has died has been freed from sin.

for we know that Christ, who once was raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more power over Him.

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

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.

Then has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; in order that sin might become exceedingly sinful by the commandment.

Now really it is not I that am doing these things, but it is sin which has its home within me.

For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right.

But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is really not I that am doing these things, but it is sin which has its home within me.

Thank God! It has been done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my higher nature I am a slave to the law of God, but in my lower nature, to the law of sin.

For the life-giving power of the Spirit through union with Christ Jesus has set us free from the power of sin and death.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

But you are not living on the plane of the lower nature, but on the spiritual plane, if the Spirit of God has His home within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness.

If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead has His home within you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through His Spirit that has His home within you.

It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

because the creation has become subject to futility, though not by anything it did. The one who subjected it did so in the certainty

Yes, we know that all nature has gone on groaning in agony together till the present moment.

for we are saved but by hope: but hope supposes things not yet present; for how can a man hope for what he has now in possession?

And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.

We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.

Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brethren.

But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified.

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

Who can bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who declared them in right standing;

Who is the one to condemn? It is the Messiah Jesus who is interceding on our behalf. He died, and more importantly, has been raised and is seated at the right hand of God.

As it has been written, "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us.

nor any supernatural forces either of height or depth will be able to separate us from the love God has shown in Christ Jesus our Lord!

the patriarchs, and from them by natural descent the Christ has come, who is exalted over all, God blessed forever. Amen!

But it is not that God's word has failed. For not everybody that is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,

Even as it has been written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

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

So He has mercy on any man that He chooses to, and He hardens any man that He chooses to harden.

You will say to me then, Why then does he yet find fault? for who has resisted his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Has not the potter the right with his clay to make of the same lump one vessel for ornamental purposes, another for degrading service?

And what if God, though wishing to display His anger and make known His power, yet, has most patiently borne with the objects of His anger, already ripe for destruction,