Truly, I first express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For I long to see you, so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to establish you,

So the willingness is in me to preach the good-news also to you in Rome.

in a day when God judges the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my good-news.

May it not happen! But let it come to pass God is true, but every man a liar, as it is written, That thou may ever be justified in thy words, and may prevail when thou are criticized.

May it not happen! Otherwise how will God judge the world?

For if by my lie, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as sinful,

and not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) that we may do evil so that good things may come (whose condemnation is just)?

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.

Do we then make law void through faith? May it not happen! Instead, we establish law.

What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound?

May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?

We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.

What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen!

Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.

And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death.

For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

But now I no longer perform it, but the sin dwelling in me.

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

But if I do this that I do not want, I no longer perform it, but sin dwelling in me.

Consequently I find the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present in me.

but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death.

And if children, also heirs, heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer jointly, so that we may also be glorified jointly.

I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit,

that great distress is in me, and unceasing sorrow in my heart.

For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,

What will we say then? Is there injustice from God? May it not happen!

For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same thing I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose?

Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?

As also he says in Hosea, I will call those not my people, my people, and her who was not beloved, beloved.

And it will be in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there they will be called, sons of the living God.

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved.

Brothers, truly my heart's desire and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation.

For every man, whoever may call upon the name of Lord will be saved.

And Isaiah is very bold and says, I was found by those not seeking me. I became manifest to those not asking for me.

But to Israel he says, The whole day I stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people.

I say therefore, did God thrust away his people? May it not happen! For I also am an Israelite from the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and they have torn down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

Let their eyes be darkened, not to see, and may thou bow down their back always.

I say then, did they stumble so that they would fall? May it not happen! But in their transgression, salvation is to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.

For I speak to you the Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of Gentiles, I enhance my ministry,

if somehow I may provoke my flesh to jealousy and may save some of them.

And this is the covenant from me to them when I will take away their sins.

so also now these have been disobedient for thy mercy, so that they also may receive mercy.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is for me, I will repay, says Lord.

For it is written, I live, says Lord, that every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess to God.

For Christ also did not please himself, but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell upon me.

Now may the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to think the same way among each other, in accord with Christ Jesus,

so that unanimously, with one mouth, ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of Holy Spirit.

And I also myself am persuaded about you, my brothers, that ye yourselves are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

But I wrote more boldly to you, brothers, in part, as reminding you because of the grace that was given to me by God,

for me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, serving the good-news of God like a priest, so that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in Holy Spirit.

For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good-news of Christ.

whenever I go to Spain I will come to you. For I hope to see you while passing through, and there to be helped on the way by you, if first I may be partly satisfied from you.

Now I beseech you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God for me.

So that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may become acceptable to the sanctified,

so that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and be rested with you.

so that ye may welcome her in Lord worthily of the sanctified, and that ye provide for her in whatever matter she may have need of you, for she also became a helper of many, and of me myself.

Salute Prisca and Aquila my co-workmen in Christ Jesus

(who laid down their own neck for my life, to whom not only I thank, but also all the congregations of the Gentiles), and the congregation associated with their house.

Salute Epaenetus my beloved who is the first fruit of Achaia for Christ.

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners who are notable men among the apostles, who also became in Christ before me.

Salute Ampliatus my beloved in the Lord.

Salute Urbanus our co-workman in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute the men from those of Narcissus who are in Lord.

Timothy my co-workman, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

Gaius my host, and of the whole congregation, salutes you. Erastus, the manager of the city, salutes you, and Quartus the brother.

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good-news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times,