And I would not ye should be ignorant, brethren, that many times I proposed to come to you, (and I was hindered till this time,) that I might have some fruit also in you, and in the rest of the nations.

And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting;

And not, (as we are defamed, and some have declared us to say,) That we should do evil things, that good things might come: whose judgment is just.

What advantage therefore have we? Not in any way: for we before accused both Jews and Greeks, all to be under sin.

All have bent aside, together have they become unprofitable: there is none doing good, there is not even one.

Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:

For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;

What then shall we say Abraham our father to have found, according to the flesh?

(As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being.

Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ:

By whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast upon hope of the glory of God.

And not only, but also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:

For if grown together we have been in the likeness of his death, but also shall we be of the resurrection:

And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father.

As has been written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated.

I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion.

For the writing says to Pharaoh, That for this same have I raised thee up, so that I might show in thee my power, and so that my name might be announced in all the earth.

For I testify for them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.

But I say, Have they not heard? Surely, in all the earth went out their sound, and their words to the end of the habitable globe.

And to Israel he says, The whole day have I unfolded my hands to an unbelieving and contradicting people.

Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul.

But what say to him the intimations of divine will I have left to myself seven thousand men, who bent not the knee to Baal.

For as also ye, when ye were disobedient to God, but now ye have been commiserated by the unbelief of these:

For as in one body we have many members, and all members have not the same action:

For rulers are not the terror of good works, but of evil. And wilt thou not fear the power do good, and thou shalt have approbation of it:

Thou has faith; have to thyself before God. Happy he judging not himself in what he proves.

For whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope.

I have therefore boasting in Christ Jesus the things toward God.

By power of signs and wonders, by power of the Spirit of God, so that I from Jerusalem, and round about even to Illyricum, have completed the good news of Christ.

But as has been written, to whom it was not announced of him, they shall see: and they who have not heard shall understand.

For they were contented; and they are their debtors. For if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.

That ye receive her in the Lord, worthy of the holy ones, and encourage her in whatever thing she have need of you: for she also has been the rule of many, and of myself.

Who for my soul have laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the nations.

Embrace Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are distinguished among the sent, who also have been in Christ before me.