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

For God is my witness, Whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

making request, if by any means now at length, I may be prospered 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 the end that ye may be established;

so, as much as in me is, I am ready to proclaim the Gospel to you also who are in Rome.

For His invisible things, since the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Gospel, through Jesus Christ,

May it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it has been written, "That Thou mayest be justified in Thy words; and mayest overcome, when Thou judgest."

But, if the truth of God, through my lie, abounded unto His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

And why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come?" whose condemnation is just.

Now we know that whatsoever the law says, it speaks to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may be under the sentence of God;

for the manifestation of His righteousness in the present time, to the end that He may be righteous, even when declaring righteous him who has faith in Jesus.

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

What, then? May we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It could not be!

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye might be joined to another??o Him Who was raised from the dead??hat we might bear fruit to God.

but sin, taking occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting; for apart from law sin is dead.

And the commandment which was unto life was itself found by me to be unto death;

for sin, taking occasion through the commandment, thoroughly deceived me, and through it slew me.

Did, then, that which is good become death to me? It could not be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

And now no longer do I accomplish it, but the sin which dwells in me.

For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good; for to wish is present with me: but to do that which is good a not.

But, if what I wish not, this I do, it is no more I that perform it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

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

Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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

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

I am speaking a truth in Christ?? am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit??2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart

(for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise you up, that I might show forth My power in you, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."

You will say to me, then, "Why doth He still find fault? for who has withstood His will?"

Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, "Why didst Thou make me thus?"

As He saith in Hosea, "I will call that My people, which was not My people; and her, 'Beloved,' who was not beloved.

And it shall be that in the place where it was said, 'Ye are not My people,' there shall they be called sons of the living God."

Brethren, the desire, indeed, of my heart, and my supplication to God in their behalf, is that they may be saved.

But Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who sought Me not; I became manifest to those who sought not after Me."

But in respect to Israel He saith, "All the day long did I spread out My hand to a disobedient and gain-saying people."

"Lord, they have killed Thy prophets, they have digged down Thy altars; and I am left alone, and they are seeking my soul."

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

But I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch, indeed, then, as I am an apostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

if by any means I may excite to rivalry my flesh, and save some of them.

and this is the covenant from Me to them, when I shall take away their sins."

even so did these now disobey, that by the mercy shown to you they also may obtain mercy.

and he not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he night to think, but so to think as to think soberly, according as God divided to each one a measure of faith.

One believes that he may eat all things; but he that is weak eats herbs.

For it has been written, "As I live, saith the Lord, to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God."

for even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it has been written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on Me."

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

that with one accord ye may, with one mouth, glorify the God and 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, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

But I wrote to you the more boldly in part, as reminding you again, because of the grace which was given to me from God,

that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the gentiles may become acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I have, therefore, my glorying in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to God.

For I will venture to speak only of the things which God wrought through me for the obedience of the gentiles, by word and deed,

and, making it my aim so to proclaim the Gospel??ot where Christ was already named??hat I might not build upon another's foundation;

whensoever I go to Spain (for I am hoping, in passing through, to see you, and to be sent on my way thither by you, if first I have been satisfied, in a measure, with your company);

And I beseech 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 unbelieving in Judea, and that my ministry to Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

that, coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may with you be refreshed.

that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself became a helper of many, and of myself.

Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus;

who, for my soul, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the gentiles;

and salute the assembly that is in her house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia unto Christ.

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who, indeed, are of note among the apostles, who have been in Christ longer than I.

Salute Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.

Salute Urbanus, our fellow-worker 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-worker salutes you; and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

Gaius my host, and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, salutes you, and Quartus the brother.

Now to Him Who is able to establish you, according to my Gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept in silence during eternal ages,