First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout 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, requesting, if by any means now at last I may succeed by the will of God to come to you.

For I long to see you, 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, both yours and mine.

So, for my part, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Christ Jesus.

May it never be. Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

May it never be. For then how will God judge the world?

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be. No, we establish the law.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

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

May it never be. We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

But if what I do not desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

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

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 with him.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

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

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

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

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

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

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

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

Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me. I was revealed to those who did not ask for me."

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

I ask then, has God rejected his people? May it never be. For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be. But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

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

This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."

even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Do not seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."

For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

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

that with one accord you may with one mouth 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, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

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

I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

yes, making it my aim to proclaim the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.

whenever I journey to Spain. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

Now I beg you, brothers, 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 those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

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

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

Greet the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Asia to Christ.

Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also 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 them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

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

Gaius, my host and host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

25 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the proclaiming of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,