And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;

They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one:

Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

And the way of peace have they not known:

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

(as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

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

through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

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

But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

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

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

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

But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;

For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

even so have these also now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they also may now obtain mercy.

For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

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

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same:

The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God. Happy is he that judgeth not himself in that which he approveth.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand.

whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)--

Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.

When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.

that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judaea, and that my ministration which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self.

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.

For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil.