by whom we have received grace and apostleship, to obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name;

always in my prayers, making request if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.

For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law.

For when the nations, who do not have the Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law unto themselves;

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law.

What then? Do we excel? No, in no way; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks all with being under sin,

"They are all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one."

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

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

(as it has been written, "I have made you a father of many nations") --before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things which do not exist as though they do exist.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through Him we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice on the hope of the glory of God.

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

For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection;

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

But thanks be to our God that you were the slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.

What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, even to Him raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.

For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba, Father!

And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body.

that I have great heaviness and continual pain in my heart.

For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son."

As it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth."

Therefore He has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will, He hardens.

No, but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me this way?

Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?

And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah."

What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith.

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

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

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

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

But I say, Have they not heard? Yes indeed, their voice went out into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

But to Israel He says, "All day long I have stretched forth My hands to a disobeying and gainsaying people."

But what does the Divine answer say to him? "I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

For this is My covenant with them, when I have taken away their sins."

For as you also then disbelieved God, but now have been shown mercy through their disbelief,

even so these also have not believed now, so that through your mercy they may also obtain mercy.

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

For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

Therefore I have boasting in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to God.

in power of miracles and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and all around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Yea, so I have been eager to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;

but as it is written, "To whom nothing was said about Him, they shall see. And they who have not heard shall understand."

For this cause I also have been greatly hindered from coming to you.

Truly it has pleased them, and they are their debtors. For if the nations have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in fleshly things.

Therefore when I have completed this, and have sealed this fruit to them, I will come by you into Spain.

that I may be delivered from those disbelieving in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted by the saints;

who have laid down their own necks for my life; to whom not only I give thanks, but also the churches of the nations.

And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise as to good, and simple toward evil.