pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness--anger and wrath,

For as many as have sinned without law will also be destroyed without law, and as many as have sinned in law will be judged by law.

For when the Gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these men, not having law, are a law to themselves.

And thou have confidence in thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness,

and the way of peace they have not known.

For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

whom God set forth an expiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for proof of his justice, because of the passing over of the sins that have formerly occurred

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

(as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations), before him whom he believed, of God who makes the dead alive, and who calls things not existing, as existing.

Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God.

And not only so, but also taking pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

For if we have become co-planted in the likeness of his death, then we will also be of the resurrection.

for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace.

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him.

And not only so, but also ourselves who have the first fruit of the Spirit. And we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor heavenly agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming,

And just as Isaiah has foretold, Unless Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.

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

How then will they call on whom they have not believed? And how will they believe of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without preaching?

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and they have torn down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

But what does the divine response say to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed a knee to Baal.

For as ye once were also disobedient to God, but now have received mercy at the disobedience of these,

so also now these have been disobedient for thy mercy, so that they also may receive mercy.

For just as we have many body-parts in one body, and all the body-parts have not the same function,

Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher, for there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God, are those that have been instituted.

So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves.

For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it.

The faith thou have, have in relation to thyself before God. Blessed is the man not condemning himself in what he allows.

For as many things as were written previously were written for our learning, so that through perseverance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

I have therefore a boast in Christ Jesus in things toward God.

but, as it is written, They will see to whom it was not reported about him, and they will understand who have not heard.

so that ye may welcome her in Lord worthily of the sanctified, and that ye provide for her in whatever matter she may have need of you, for she also became a helper of many, and of me myself.