Now I do not desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

I have an obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. So they are without excuse.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

(for when Gentiles who do not have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, there is not even one."

"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

The way of peace, they have not known."

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

As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls 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 we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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 will also be part of his resurrection;

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

What fruit then did you have at that time in the 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 servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

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

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

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

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

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

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

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

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

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a proclaimer?

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

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

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

For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

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

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not judge himself in that which he approves.

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

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

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who have not heard will understand."

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

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

that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.