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

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

always asking in my prayers if somehow now at last I may succeed to come to you in the will of God.

For I desire to see you, in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to strengthen you,

on the day when God judges the secret things of people, according to my gospel, through Christ Jesus.

May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written, "In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are judged."

May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner?

And [why] not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, in order that good may come [of it]? Their condemnation is just!

Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.

Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law.

Because of this, [it is] by faith, in order that [it may be] according to grace, so that the promise may be secure to all the descendants, not only to those of the law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase?

May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with [him], in order that the body of sin may be done away with, [that] we may no longer be enslaved to sin.

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

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

But now we have been released from the law, [because we] have died [to that] by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter [of the law].

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all [kinds of] covetousness. For apart from the law, sin [is] dead.

and I died, and this commandment which [was] to [lead to] life was found with respect to me to [lead to] death.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me].

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

But now I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

But if what I do not want [to do], this I am doing, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.

Wretched man [that] I [am]! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.

and if children, also heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together [with him] so that we may also be glorified together [with him].

I am telling the truth in Christ--[I am] not lying; my conscience bears witness to me in the Holy Spirit--

that my grief is great and [there is] constant distress in my heart.

For I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my fellow countrymen according to the flesh,

What then shall we say? [There is] no injustice with God, [is there]? May it never be!

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very [reason] I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?

On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?

As he also says in Hosea, "I will call those [who were] not my people, 'My people,' and those [who were] not loved, 'Loved.'

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

Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them [is] for [their] salvation.

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

But about Israel he says, "The whole day [long] I held out my hands to a disobedient and resistant people."

Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!"

I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, [did they]? May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation [has come] to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them [to jealousy].

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Therefore, inasmuch as I am apostle to the Gentiles, I promote my ministry,

if somehow I may provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

And this [is] the covenant from me with them when I take away their sins."

so also these have now been disobedient for your mercy, in order that they also may now be shown mercy.

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think {sensibly}, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.

One believes [he may] eat all [things], but the one who is weak eats [only] vegetables.

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

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

Now may the God of patient endurance and of encouragement grant you {to be in agreement} with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus,

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

and that the Gentiles may glorify God for [his] mercy, just as it is written, "Because of this, I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to your name."

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

Now I myself also am convinced about you, my brothers, that [you] yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another.

But I have written to you more boldly on [some] points, so as to remind you [again] because of the grace that has been given to me by God,

with the result that I am a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For I will not dare to speak about anything except [that] which Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

And so, having as my ambition to proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, in order that I will not build on the foundation belonging to someone else,

whenever I travel to Spain. For I hope [while I] am passing through to see you and to be sent on my way by you, whenever I have first enjoyed your [company] for a while.

Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to contend along with me in your prayers on my behalf to God,

that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and my ministry in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

so that, coming to you with joy by the will of God, I may rest with you.

Now [may] the God of peace [be] with all of you. Amen.

in order that you may welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever task she may have need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, even me myself.

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

who risked their own necks for my life, for which not only I am thankful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;

also [greet] the church in their house. Greet Epenetus my dear [friend], who is {the first convert} of Asia for Christ.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my compatriots and my fellow prisoners, who are well known to the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

Greet Ampliatus, my dear [friend] in the Lord.

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my dear [friend] Stachys.

Greet Herodion my compatriot. Greet those of the [household] of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my compatriots.

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