that make mention of his son, the which was begotten unto him of the seed of David, as pertaining to the flesh:

Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

For I am longing to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong,

And I want you to be aware, brothers, of how frequently I [had] planned to visit you (but was prevented from doing so until now). I wanted to come in order to bear some fruit [i.e., make additional converts] among you, just as I have done among the other Gentiles [i.e., unconverted people].

For [God does not overlook sin and] the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who in their wickedness suppress and stifle the truth,

Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent?

To each man He will make an award corresponding to his actions;

For merely hearing the law read does not make men upright with God, but men who practice the law will be recognized as upright.

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,

You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God?

Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen.

But the [true] Jew is the person who is one on the inside, and [his] circumcision is a heart condition, [produced] by the Holy Spirit and not by the written law of Moses. [Note: Some translate "Spirit" here as "spirit" and make it simply an amplification of "heart"]. This person receives his praise from God and not [merely] from people.

For what? If some distrusted, shall their distrust make, the trust of God, void?

If our unrighteousness make the righteousness of God more excellent: what shall we say? Is God unrighteous which taketh vengeance? I speak after the manner of men.

You say, "If my perfidy serves to make the truthfulness of God redound to his glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

(in the forbearance of God), for proof of his justice at the present time, for him to be righteous, and who makes the man from Jesus' faith righteous.

since God is one, who will make the man of circumcision righteous from faith, and the man of uncircumcision through faith.

Do we then make, law, void through means of our faith? Far be it! On the contrary, law, we do establish!

But to the man not being employed, but who believes in him who makes the impious man righteous, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also.

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

(just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as [though] they are,

full certified that what he had promised, that he was able to make good.

[This] Jesus was delivered up [to die] for our sins and was raised [from the dead] to make us right with God.

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

But God makes known his love to us in this, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us:

For just as that one man's disobedience made the mass of mankind sinners, so this one's obedience will make the mass of them upright.

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

for we know that our former self was crucified with Him, to make our body that is liable to sin inactive, so that we might not a moment longer continue to be slaves to sin.

Accordingly, sin must not continue to reign over your mortal bodies, so as to make you continue to obey their evil desires,

(I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness.

For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.

but I see another power operating in my lower nature in conflict with the power operated by my reason, which makes me a prisoner to the power of sin which is operating in my lower nature.

How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

And if Christ lives in your hearts, even though the body is [doomed to] death because of [Adam's ?] sin; yet the spirit is [destined to] live [forever] because of being [made] right with God. [Note: Some take "spirit" here to be "Spirit" and make it "The Holy Spirit gives you life." See next verse].

If, moreover, the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from among the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised from among the dead Christ Jesus, shall make alive evenyour death-doomed bodies, through means of his indwelling Spirit within you.

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are sure to die; but if by the Spirit ye make an end of the deeds of the body, ye will live.

It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth us, we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

but he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession towards God in behalf of the saints.

and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.

Who will accuse against the chosen of God? God is he who makes righteous.

who shall condemn them? shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us?

for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,

For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.

So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

O man! Who, nevertheless, art, thou, that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it - Why didst thou make me thus?

Or hath not the potter a right over the clay - out of the same lump, to make some, indeed, into a vessel for honour, and some for dishonour?

And, if God - wishing to shew his anger and to make known his power - bare, in much patience, with vessels of anger already fitted for destruction,

In order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy which he prepared beforehand for glory, -

For, a complete and concise account, will the Lord make upon the earth.

And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

As it is written, "Behold I put in Zion a stumbling stone, and a rock which shall make men fall. And none that believe on him, shall be ashamed."

For not knowing about God’s righteousness [which is based on faith], and seeking to establish their own [righteousness based on works], they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:)

Or, Who will go down into the deep? (that is, to make Christ come again from the dead:)

For in their hearts people exercise the faith that leads to right standing, and with their lips they make the acknowledgment which means salvation.

But I say: Hath, Israel, not come to know? First, Moses, saith - I, will provoke you to jealousy on account of a no-nation, on account of an undiscerning nation, will I make you very angry.

God did not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says in Elijah, how he makes intercession to God against Israel?

But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; Make their backs bend forever under their burden!"

I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:

And this my covenant I make with them, when I shall take away their sins."

O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercifulness of God, that ye make your bodies a living sacrifice: holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable serving of God.

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

Now through the unmerited favor God has shown me I would say to every one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself, in accordance with the degree of faith which God has apportioned to him.

so we who are many, make all but one body in Christ, and every member subservient to one another.

And we [all] have different gifts, in harmony with the unearned favor [God has] shown us. If our gift is the ability to prophesy [i.e., to speak for God], we should make use of this gift in harmony with the amount of faith we have.

Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;

contribute to needy saints, make a practice of hospitality.

Bless those who make a practice of persecuting you; bless them instead of cursing them.

Be of like affection one towards another. Be not high minded, but make yourselves equal to them of the lower sort. Be not wise in your own opinions.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather make room for wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."

if your enemy is hungry, feed him, if he is thirsty, give him drink; for in this way you will make him feel a burning sense of shame.

For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times.

Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.

Make it your practice to receive into full Christian fellowship people who are overscrupulous, but not to criticize their views.

for one makes no difficulty of eating all sorts of food: another is so scrupulous, he lives upon herbs.

Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.

for the Scripture says: "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee shall bend before me, and every tongue shall make acknowledgment to God.'"

Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

for the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking [what one likes], but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

It is a noble thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

for he that makes a difference, is self-condemn'd, if he eats against his own persuasion: for every action of that kind is sin .

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

Now may the God who gives comfort and strength in waiting make you of the same mind with one another in harmony with Christ Jesus: