who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

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

For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

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

who show that the work which the law requires, is written in their hearts, their conscience bearing testimony, and their reasonings with each other accusing, or making excuse.

But if you are named Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God.

and know his will, and approve what is excellent, being instructed by the law:

an instructor of the simple, a teacher of the unlearned, because you have the form of true knowledge in the law;

You who make your boast in the law, do you, by transgressing the law, dishonor God?

Now, circumcision is indeed profitable, if you keep the law: but, if you transgress the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

If, then, he who is uncircumcised keeps the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

And shall not he whose want of circumcision is owing to his birth, if he keeps the law, condemn you, who, by the literal circumcision, transgress the law?

Yet, if the truth of God has, through my lie, been greatly advanced to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

Now we know that what the law says, it speaks- to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God.

Wherefore, by works of law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin.

But now, God's plan of justifying men without law is revealed, being attested by the law and the prophets;

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without deeds of law.

Do we, then, make law void through the faith? It can not be. On the other hand, we establish law.

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, nor to his posterity, through law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For if they that are of the law be heirs, the faith is made powerless, and the promise is unmeaning;

for the law inflicts punishment; for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Therefore, the inheritance is by faith, that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise may be sure to all his posterity, not to those only who are of the law, but to those, also, who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

for till the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged where there is no law.

But, besides the first offense, law was introduced, in order that offenses might abound: but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

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

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.

Know you not, brethren, for I speak to you that are acquainted with law, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

So then, if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband die, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.

So then, my brethren, you, also, have died to the law, by the body of the Christ, in order that you may be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:

but now we are made free from the law, being dead to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, rendered active within me every evil desire. For without the law, sin was dead.

Indeed, I was alive with out the law, once; but when the commandment came, sin be came alive, and I died:

Therefore, the law is holy, and the commandment, holy and just and good.

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin.

If, then, I do that which I wish not to do, I give assent to the law, that it is good.

I find, then, this law: That, when I wish to do good, evil is present with me.

For, in the inward man, I delight in the law of God:

but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.

I thank God that I shall be delivered through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I my self, with the mind, serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin, and of death.

For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God has done, who, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for a sin-offering, condemned sin in the flesh,

that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.

I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,

who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises;

but Israel, who sought after a law of justification, has not attained to a law of justification.

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as if by works of law: for they stumbled against that stone of stumbling,

as it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense: and whoever believes on him, shall not be ashamed.

For Christ is the end of the law for justification, to every one that believes.

For Moses describes the justification which is by the law: That the man who does these things shall live by them.

Owe no one any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another, has fulfilled the law.

Love works no evil to our neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.