This is so because that which may be known of God is manifest among them; for God has made it manifest to them.

For ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his everlasting power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. So they have no excuse.

That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature;

What special privilege, then, has the Jew? Or what is the use of circumcision?

But if by a falsehood of mine the truthfulness of God has been made to redound to his glory, why am I still tried as a sinner?

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, quite apart from any law, a righteousness coming from God has been fully brought to light, continually witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets.

I say, at this present time; that he himself might be just, and yet the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to be proud of, but not before God.

but a man who does not "work," but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith imputed to him for righteousness.

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.

in order that as sin has ruled as king in death, so also grace might rule as king in righteousness which issues in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord,??urs!

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.

For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

And now it is longer I myself who do the deed, but it is sin which has its home in me.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, no good thing has its home; for while to will is present with me, to carry out that which is right is not.

But if I do the very thing I do not intend to do, it is no more I who practise it, but sin which has its home in me.

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

For we know that all nature has been groaning and travailing together until this hour.

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

So then he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will, he hardens.

Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses?

Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.

But I ask, Did they fail to hear? Yes, truly, Their sound has gone out unto all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

What then? that which Israel has been seeking for, that he has not obtained; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened.

According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of slumber, Eyes that they should not see, Ears that they should not hear, unto this day.

I ask then, "Have they stumbled so as to fall?" No indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come unto Gentiles, "to provoke Israel to jealousy."

For I would not, my brothers, have you ignorant of this hidden truth, for fear that you become wise in your own conceits. that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles is come in.

For God has locked up all in the prison of disobedience, that upon all he may have mercy.

Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?

Who has first given to Him, So as to receive payment in return?

For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.

But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith.

Never owe any one anything save the debt of brotherly love; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.

One man has faith to eat anything; but he whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.

He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.

Who are you just that judges the household-servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And stand he will, for his Master has power to make him stand.

But he who has misgivings, and yet eats meat, is condemned already, because his action is not based on faith; and whatever is not based on faith is sin.

For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

For I say that Christ has been made a minister of the Circumcision the people of Israel, in vindication of God's truth, so that he may confirm the promises given to our forefathers;

For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

My ambition has been, however, to preach the gospel where Christ's name was not already known, so that I might not build upon another man's foundation.

For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make an offering for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.

Yes, it has been made their good pleasure, and their debt, too. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual riches, they owe it to them also to minister to them the Jews in worldly goods.

I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

Salute Trypheana and Tryphosa, who are ever toiling in the Lord. Salute dear Persis, who has toiled terribly in the Lord's service.

but now has been brought to light, and by command of the eternal God made known to the Gentiles by the scriptures of the Prophets, so that the Gentiles might hold obedience of the faith.