First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.

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

asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last find the way to come to you.

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you

that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.

for what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

on that day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

Certainly not! Let God be true, though every man a liar. As it is written: "That you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged."

But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

Why not say as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all his descendantsnot only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all

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

Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit to God.

But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

The very commandment which was to bring life I found to be death to me.

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But it was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.

So then, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will to do what is good, but I cannot do it.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

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

Thanks be to Godthrough Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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

and if children, then heirsheirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, in order that we may also be glorified with him.

I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit,

that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

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

You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"

As indeed he says in Hosea: "I will call them who were not my people 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'my beloved.'"

"And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

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

For Christ is the end of the law, that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

But Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me."

But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

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

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

in the hope that I may somehow arouse to jealousy the kinsmen of my flesh and save some of them.

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins."

so they have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may receive mercy.

For God has bound all men over to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.

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

For by the grace given to me I say to every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.

The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and any other commandment there may be, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

One believes he may eat anything, but the man whose faith is weak eats only vegetables.

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

For even Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

May the God of patience and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, according to Christ Jesus,

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

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

I myself am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

But I have written very boldly to you on some points, so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,

Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God.

For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed

And so I have made it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on another man's foundation,

I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through, and to be helped by you on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.

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

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

so that by God's will I may come to you with joy, and together with you be refreshed.

that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she has need from you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I but also all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;

greet also the church that meets in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert of Asia for Christ.

Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners; they are men of note among the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

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

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

Gaius, who is my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, our brother.

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret for long ages