who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the 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 the law, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves,

and shew the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience witnessing together with it, and their own thoughts either accusing, or excusing them,)

Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God,

and knowest his will, and approvest things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law.

Thou, that boastest in the law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteous precepts of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted to him for circumcision?

and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance;

Now we know that whatsoever the law saith,

it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of God.

Wherefore by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

But now, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, 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.

Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the law:

Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.

For the promise made to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, was not by the law, but by the righteousness of faith:

for if they only that are of the law be heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is become of no effect.

Now the law worketh wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

for sin was in the world before the law. Now sin is not imputed where there is no law;

Now the law made some entrance, that the offence might appear to abound; but where sin abounded, grace hath superabounded; that as sin had reigned in death,

For sin shall have no power over you, inasmuch as ye are not under the law, but under grace.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath power over a man, only so long as it liveth?

For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.

Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions while we were under the law operated in our bodies so as to bring forth fruit unto death.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were bound, that we might serve God in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust to be sinful, if the law had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."

But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the law sin was dead.

And I was heretofore alive without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died:

So that 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 under sin.

And if I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good:

I find then a kind of law, that when I would do good, evil besets me.

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

but I perceive another law in my body warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my body.

The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath set me free from the law of sin and death.

For that which was impossible for the law to do, and in which it was weak through the corruption of the flesh, God by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sacrifice for sin, hath done; that is, hath condemned sin in the flesh:

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

because the carnal mind is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be:

Who shall lay any accusation against the elect of God? will God, who justifieth us?

I say the truth in Christ, I lye not, (my conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost,)

who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the form of divine worship, and the promises:

but Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness: why?

because they sought it not by faith, but by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

as it is written, "Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence:" and again, "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."

For Christ is the end of the law, for righteousness to every believer.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who doth those things shall live by them."

Be alike affected to each other: not aiming at high things, but accommodating yourselves to persons of low rank. Be not wise in your own conceit.

Owe no one any thing, but to love one another; for he that loveth others hath fulfilled the law:

Love worketh no evil to our neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, not to lay a stumbling-block or scandal before a brother.