by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith which is in the other, both yours and mine.

But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them.

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

For when those of the nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips:

and way of peace they have not known:

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

Blessed they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:

(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.

And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?

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.

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

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

But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

But now, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.

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.

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

And not only that, but even we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, that is the redemption of our body.

For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst men, that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.

What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

Wherefore? Because it was not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

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

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?

But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world.

But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.

But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.

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

But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.

What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.

Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwise thou also wilt be cut away.

And this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall have taken away their sins.

For as indeed ye also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of these;

so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that they also may be objects of mercy.

For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;

Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil one. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority? practise what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it;

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in what he allows.

For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

But I have written to you the more boldly, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,

I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.

Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you.

whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)

for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.

They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them.

that I may be saved from those that do not believe in Judaea; and that my ministry which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.

I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in the Lord.