But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, though I have been hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit of my labors among you also, as among the other gentiles.

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

for when the gentiles, who have no law, do by nature what is required by the Law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to the gospel which I have preached.

What then? Are we better than others? By no means! For we have already brought a charge both against Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

they have all turned aside from the right way, they have become worthless together; there is none that doeth good, not even one.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have practised deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips.

For all have sinned, and fail of obtaining the glory which cometh from God;

And he received the outward sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all the uncircumcised who have faith, so that righteousness might be put to their account also;

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

Therefore being accepted as righteous through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

through whom also we have had admission into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory which God will confer.

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

As then through one trespass all men have come under condemnation, so through one act of righteousness all obtain the gift of righteousness unto life.

For if we have been made completely like him in his death, we shall be made like him in his resurrection also;

But now having been delivered from the slavery of sin, and having become the bondservants of God, ye have holiness as the fruit, and everlasting life as the end.

What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."

For they who are according to the flesh have their mind on the things of the flesh; but they who are according to the Spirit, on the things of the Spirit.

I have great grief and unceasing anguish in my heart.

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

For he saith to Moses, "On whom I have mercy, on him will I have mercy; and on whom I have compassion, on him will I have compassion."

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

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

For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and endeavoring to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness which is 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 a preacher?

But concerning Israel he saith, "All the day long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people."

"Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they are seeking my life."

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

And if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou, a wild olive, hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker with them of the root and fatness of the olivetree,

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness hath to some extent come upon Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles shall have come in.

And this will be my covenant with them, when I shall have taken away their sins."

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

so they too have now become disobedient, that they also may obtain mercy through the mercy shown to you.

For God delivered up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

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

Having then gifts which dither according to the grace which hath been bestowed upon us, if we have prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

Render to no one evil for evil; have regard to what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Let every one submit to the authorities that are over him; for there is no authority which is not from God: and the authorities which exist have been ordained by God.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wouldst thou then not be afraid of the government? Do that which is good, and thou wilt have praise from it;

Thou hast faith; have it to thyself before God. Happy is he who doth not condemn himself in that which he alloweth.

For whatever things were written aforetime, were written for our instruction; that we through the patience and the consolation of the Scriptures might have hope.

But I have written to you, brethren, in a manner somewhat bold on some subjects, as putting you in mind, on account of the grace given me by God

I have then ground for glorying in Christ Jesus in regard to the things pertaining m God.

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and in the country around even to Illyricum, I have fully made known the gospel of Christ;

but, as it is written: "They, to whom no tidings concerning him came, shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand."

For which cause also, for the most part, I have been hindered from coming to you.

when I go to Spain, I will come to you; for I hope to see you on my way, and to be helped forward thither by you, after I have in some degree satisfied myself with your company.

For Macedonia and Achaia have thought it good to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

They have thought it good, and they owed it to them. For if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought in return to minister to them in temporal things.

When therefore I have completed this business, and secured to them this fruit, I shall set out to pass through you to Spain.

For your obedience hath become known to all. Over you, then, I rejoice; but I would have you wise as to that which is good, and simple as to that which is evil.