First, I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, on account of you all, because your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

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 making request, that, if possible, I may at length have a prosperous journey, by the will of God to come to you.

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, in order that you may be established;

that is, that I may both give and receive com fort, while I am among you, through our common faith.

Because that which may be known of God, is manifest among them; for God has made it manifest to them,

(for, since the creation of the world, his attributes, which are invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,) that they may be without excuse;

in the day when God shall judge the secret works of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

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

Then, why not say, (as we are slanderously reported as saying, and, as some affirm, that we do say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? Of such persons the condemnation is just.

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.

yet may be justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

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,

What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

knowing this, that our former man has been crucified with him, in order that the sinful body may be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer serve sin:

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.

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.

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

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

Has, then, that which is good become death to me? It can not be. But sin, that it, might appear sin, was causing death to me through that which is good, in order that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

Now, then, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good; for to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not.

Now, if I do that which I wish not to do, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

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

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.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body that subjects me to death?

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 you have not again received the spirit of bondage, that you may fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

and, if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.

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

That I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart;

for I could wish my self to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose have I raised you up, that I may show in you my power, and that my name may be published in all the earth.

You will then say to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?

No, but rather, O man, who are you that dispute with God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed, it, Why have you made me thus?

As he says also in Hosea: I will call that my people which is not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.

But Isaiah is very bold, and says: I was found by them that sought me not: I was made manifest to them that asked not after me.

But with respect to Israel, he says: All day long have I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.

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

let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and let them bow down their back always.

I say, then, Have they stumbled, in order that they may fall? It can not be. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to excite them to jealousy.

For I speak to you, Gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I do honor to my ministry,

if, by any means, I may excite to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.

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

so, also, these have not now believed, that through the mercy shown to you, they also may obtain mercy.

For God has delivered them all over to unbelief, that he may have mercy on them all.

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, that he must not think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but that he be disposed to think modestly, as God has distributed to each a measure of faith.

If possible, as far as may be in your power, be at peace with all men.

One believes that he may eat all things; another, who is weak, eats herbs.

For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God.

For the Christ did not please himself; but as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee, fell on me.

Now, may the God of patience and comfort make you of the same mind one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;

that with one mind and with one voice you may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in the hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit. PAET IV. Conclusion.

And I myself am persuaded concerning you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of all goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another.

Yet I have written to you more boldly in part, my brethren, as if I would put you in remembrance, on account of the grace which is given to me by God,

that I may be the public servant of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating as a priest with respect to the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, by word and deed, in order to make the Gentiles obedient,

when I make my journey into Spain, I hope, in passing through, to see you, and to be conducted by you on my journey thither, after I am first partly satisfied with your company.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me, in your prayers to God for me,

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that this service of mine, which is for Jerusalem, may be acceptable to the saints;

that I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed among you.

that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of saints, and that you aid her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she has aided many, and myself also.

Salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-laborers in Christ Jesus;

who, for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only do I give thanks, but all the churches of the Gentiles:

and salute the church that is in their house. Salute Epenetus my beloved, who is the first fruits of Asia to Christ.

Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are noted among the apostles, who, also, were in Christ before me.

Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

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

Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

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

Gains, my host, and the host of the whole church, salutes you. Erastus the treasurer of the city, and Quartus, my brother, salute you.

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel, even the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was concealed during the times of the ages,