First then I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is proclaimed through the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you,

always in my prayers entreating that haply now at last I may have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come to you.

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

and that so I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and of me.

So, as far as is in my power, I am desirous to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.

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

For if the truth of God by my lying hath more abundantly contributed to his glory; why am I notwithstanding judged as a sinner?

And why not admit, (as we are falsely reported of; and as some affirm we say,) That we should do evil things, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound?

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God.

But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead.

And the commandment, which [was] for life, the same was found by me for death.

For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.

Did then that which is good become fatal to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin by that which was good [in itself], was the cause of death to me; that sin through the commandment might become transcendantly sinful.

Now then no more I do this, but sin dwelling in me.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me (that is, in my flesh) any good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

If then I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

I find then a law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is presented to me.

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

O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?

I give thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Well then, I myself with my mind am servant to the law of God; but in my flesh to the law of sin.

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

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

I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, (my conscience also bearing witness to me in the Holy Ghost,)

that great is my sorrow and unceasing the anguish in my heart.

For could I myself wish that an anathema should be from Christ upon my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?

For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, "That for this very end have I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

Wilt thou then say to me, Why yet doth he blame us? Who hath resisted his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that disputest against God? Shall the thing fashioned say to him that fashioned it, Why hast thou made me thus?

As also he saith in Hosea, "I will call her which was not my people, my people; and her which was not beloved, beloved.

And it shall be in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God."

BRETHREN, the kind wish of my heart indeed, and the prayer which I offer to God for Israel, is for their salvation.

But Isaiah is very bold, and saith, "I have been found by those who sought me not; I have become manifest to those who inquired not after me."

But unto Israel he saith, "All the day long have I stretched out my hands unto a people disobedient and contradicting."

"Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I only am left, and they seek my life."

let their eyes be blinded, that they may not see, and bow down their back continually."

For I address myself to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am indeed the apostle of the Gentiles, I exalt my ministry:

if by any means I might provoke to jealousy my flesh, and save some of them.

and this is my covenant with them, When I shall take away their sins."

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

For, I say, by the grace which is given unto me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has divided to every one the measure of faith.

Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto wrath: for it is written, "Vengeance belongeth to me; I will recompence, saith the Lord."

One man indeed thinketh he may eat all meats; another, who is weak, eateth vegetables.

For it is written, "As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall make confession to God."

For even Christ gratified not himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me."

that in one mind, with one mouth, ye may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy, and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Ghost.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another.

But I have written to you, my brethren, in part, with greater freedom, as refreshing your memory through the grace which is given to me of God;

For I will not dare to say any thing of those things which Christ hath not wrought by my ministry, to engage the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Wherefore also I have found many things to hinder me from coming to you;

but now having no longer cause to detain me in these regions, and having an earnest desire to come unto you for many years past,

whenever I proceed on my journey into Spain, I will come unto you: for I hope on my journey to see you, and by you to be forwarded thither, after I shall have first, in a measure, fully enjoyed your society.

Now I exhort you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you wrestle earnestly with me in prayers for me unto God;

that I may be delivered from those who do not believe in Judea; and that my service which regards Jerusalem may be kindly accepted by the saints;

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

that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that you assist her in every matter wherein she may have need of you: for she hath also been a succourer of many, and of me myself.

Salute Priscilla and Aquila my fellow-labourers in Christ Jesus:

(who for my life have laid down their own neck: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:)

and the church which is in their house. Salute Epinetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ.

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

Salute Amplias my beloved in the Lord.

Salute Urban, our fellow-labourer in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute those which belong to the family of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

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

Now to him that is able to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the revelation of the mystery; which was concealed from all former ages,