In the first place, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

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

supplicating that, if it be possible, I may at last through the will of God be favored with an opportunity of coming to you.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, which may be for your confirmation;

that is, that I may be edified among you, and you also, through each others faith, both yours and mine.

But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, though I have been hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit of my labors among you also, as among the other gentiles.

So, according to my ability, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also in Rome.

Because that which may be known of God is manifest within them; for God made it manifest to them.

For if, through my being false, the truth of God hath been more abundantly manifested to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

And why do you not say, as some slanderously charge us with saying, Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of such men is just.

Now we know that whatever the Law saith, it saith to those who are under the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become subject to condemnation before God.

in order to manifest his righteousness at the present time, so that he may be righteous, and accept as righteous him who hath faith.

What shall we say then? Let us continue in sin, that grace may abound still more?

So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

But sin, seizing the opportunity, wrought in me by means of the commandment all manner of sinful desire; for without the Law sin is dead.

For sin, seizing the opportunity, deceived me through the commandment, and through it slew me.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! but sin; that it might become manifest as sin, causing death to me by means of that which is good; that sin by means of the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

Now, however, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good thing; for to desire is present with me, but not to perform that which is good.

But if I do what I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

I find then that there is a law to me, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

but I perceive another 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 from the body of this death?

Thanks be to God, [who hath delivered me] through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I, the same person, with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

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

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and fellowheirs with Christ; if indeed we are suffering with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

I speak truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that

I have great grief and unceasing anguish in my heart.

For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;

For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be made known in all the earth."

Hence thou wilt say to me, Why then doth he still find fault? for who resisteth his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that makest answer to God? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman, Why hast thou made me thus?

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

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

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

For Christ is the end of the Law, so that every one that believeth may obtain righteousness.

But Isaiah is very bold, and saith, "I was found by those who sought me not, I became known to those who inquired not for me."

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

"Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they are seeking my life."

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

For I am speaking to you gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the gentiles, I magnify my office,

that I may, if possible, excite to emulation those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

And this will be my covenant with them, when I shall have taken away their sins."

so they too have now become disobedient, that they also may obtain mercy through the mercy shown to you.

and be not conformed to the fashion of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that ye may learn by experience what is the will of God, what is good, and wellpleasing, and perfect.

For through the grace given to me I warn every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God hath imparted to each.

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

For Christ did not seek his own pleasure, but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me."

And may the God of patience and consolation grant that ye may be of the same mind one with another, according to Christ Jesus;

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

And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

But I have written to you, brethren, in a manner somewhat bold on some subjects, as putting you in mind, on account of the grace given me by God

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles, performing the office of a priest in respect to the gospel of God, that the oblation of the gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I have then ground for glorying in Christ Jesus in regard to the things pertaining m God.

For I will not be bold to say anything hut of what Christ hath actually wrought by me to bring the gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

when I go to Spain, I will come to you; for I hope to see you on my way, and to be helped forward thither by you, after I have in some degree satisfied myself with your company.

But I beseech you, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love produced by the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers to God for me;

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

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

And may the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

that ye may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the holy, and assist her in whatever business she may need your aid; for she hath been a helper of many, and of myself also.

Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellowlaborers in Christ Jesus;

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

salute also the church that is in their house. Salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruit gathered from Asia for Christ.

Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

Salute Urbanus, our fellowlaborer in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

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

Timothy, my fellowlaborer, salutes you, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater my kinsmen.

Gaius my host, and the host of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the treasurer of the city saluteth you, and Quartus, the 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 for eternal ages was unrevealed,