And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come unto you, (but have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentiles.

for a demonstration, I say, of his righteousness at this time: that He might be just, and the justifier of him, that believeth in Jesus.

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all that believe though not circumcised, that righteousness may be imputed to them also:

For the promise made to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, was not by the law, but by the righteousness of faith:

for if they only that are of the law be heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is become of no effect.

And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

(as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations,") in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not as if they were:

Whereas one would hardly die for a just man, though perhaps for a good man one might dare even to die.

For as by the disobedience of one man many were made sinners; so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.

Now the law made some entrance, that the offence might appear to abound; but where sin abounded, grace hath superabounded; that as sin had reigned in death,

so grace might reign through righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be inslaved to sin:

And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were bound, that we might serve God in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin might be shewn by the commandment to be exceeding sinful.

(for the world was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but through him who made it subject:)

for those whom he foreknew, He also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be as the first-born among many brethren: and whom He before ordained, these He also called;

for I could wish that I myself were made a curse after the manner of Christ, for my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh;

(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger:

and that He might make known the riches of his glory in the vessels of mercy, which He hath prepared for glory?

And as Esaias said before, "Except the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and we had been made like unto Gomorrah."

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

and Esaias positively affirms, "I was found of them that sought me not, I was made manifest to them that asked not after me:"

But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou a wild-olive wert grafted in among them, and art made a partaker together with them of the root and fatness of the olive; boast not against the branches:

Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

so these also in your mercy have now been disobedient, that they themselves might be the objects of mercy.

For God hath included them all in the charge of disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all.

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and lives again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Let not your liberty then be evil-spoken of: for the kingdom of God consists not in meat and drink;

Do not for the sake of meat destroy thy brother who is the work of God: all things indeed are pure; but to the man that eateth with offence it is evil.

For whatever things were written heretofore, were written for our instruction; that we through patience and the consolation of the scriptures might have hope.

Now Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the manifestation of the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers:

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written, "For this cause will I celebrate Thee among the Gentiles, and sing praises unto thy name."

that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, administring the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the holy Spirit.

but is now manifested, and made known to all nations by the writings of the prophets, according to the appointment of the eternal God,