To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. May God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you, and give you peace.

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

God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers,

always entreating him that now at length, if such be his will, the way may be made clear for me to come to you.

For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established;

that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the other's faith, yours and mine.

So much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

This is so because that which may be known of God is manifest among them; for God has made it manifest to them.

For they show that the work of the Law is written in their hearts, while their conscience bears them witness, as their reasonings accuse, or it may be defend, them,

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

And why not say (as I myself am slanderously reported to say), "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such arguments are rightly condemned.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

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

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

But when sin had gained a vantage-ground, by means of the commandment, it stirred up within me all manner of lust; for where there is no law, sin is dead.

For sin, when it had gained a vantage-ground through the commandment, beguiled me, and through it slew me.

Did then that which was good become for me death? Never! but sin did; that it might be manifest as sin, by that the unutterable malignity of sin might become plain through the commandment.

For we know that the Law is spiritual; but as for me, I am a creature of flesh, bought and sold under the dominion of sin.

And now it is longer I myself who do the deed, but it is sin which has its home in me.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, no good thing has its home; for while to will is present with me, to carry out that which is right is not.

But if I do the very thing I do not intend to do, it is no more I who practise it, but sin which has its home in me.

I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

For in my inmost self I delight in the law of God;

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

Oh, thank God! it is through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself in my will am in thralldom to the law of God; yet in my animal nature I am in thralldom to the law of sin.

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"

I am speaking the truth in Christ, it is no lie. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have deep sorrow

and incessant anguish in my heart.

For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, It is for this very purpose that I have raised you up, To show in you my power, And to proclaim my name far and wide, in all the earth.

Then you will say to me. "Why does he still go on finding fault? Who can withstand his will?"

"Nay, but who are you, O man, that replies to God? Shall the thing formed say unto him who formed it, "Why did you do me like this?"

As he also said in Hosea. Those who were not my people I will call "my people," And her "beloved" who was not beloved;

And in that very spot where it was told them, "You are not my people," There they shall be called "Sons of the living God."

Brothers, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for my countrymen, that they may be saved.

But Isaiah speaks very boldly, I was found of those who were not seeking me, I was made manifest to those who were not asking for me.

But to Israel he says, All day long I have been spreading out my hands unto a disobedient and contrary people.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have overthrown thine altars; And now I alone am left, and they seek my life.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their backs forever.

For to you who are Gentiles I say that since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

if by any means I might "provoke to jealousy" my kinsmen, and save some among them.

For I would not, my brothers, have you ignorant of this hidden truth, for fear that you become wise in your own conceits. that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles is come in.

This is my covenant with them, When I shall take away their sins.

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

For God has locked up all in the prison of disobedience, that upon all he may have mercy.

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

For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.

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

For even Christ pleased not himself; but as it is written, The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell upon me.

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

For I say that Christ has been made a minister of the Circumcision the people of Israel, in vindication of God's truth, so that he may confirm the promises given to our forefathers;

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

And I myself also am confident regarding you, my brothers, that you yourselves are already full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and well able to give advice to one another.

Still I have written unto you the more boldly, in part, by way of reminding you, because of that gift of grace which God bestowed upon me, in making me a priest of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles.

I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

I have then my boast in Christ Jesus concerning the things of God.

For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

My ambition has been, however, to preach the gospel where Christ's name was not already known, so that I might not build upon another man's foundation.

whenever I go to Spain, I am hoping to see you on my way there, and to be set forward by you on my way there, and to be set forward by you on my journey thither, after I have enjoyed your company for a little while.

Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judea; that my mission to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the saints;

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

I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

Salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow laborers in the cause of Jesus Christ,

who risked their own lives to save mine; who are thanked not only by me,

but by all the churches among the Gentiles. Salute likewise the church that meets in their home. Salute Epaenetus, my dearly beloved, the first man in Roman Asia to believe in Christ.

and Andronicus and Junia, my kinsfolk and fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, and who became Christians before I did.

Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord;

and Urbanus, my fellow toiler in Christ; and Stachys, my dear, dear friend.

and Herodion, my kinsman. Salute the believing members of the household of Narcissus.

Timothy, my fellow worker, salutes you; so do my fellow countrymen Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater.

Gaius, my host, and the host of the church, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, salutes you, and so does brother Quartus.

Now I commend you to Him who is able to keep you stedfast, according to my gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, whereby is unveiled the secret truth which was kept secret through immemorial ages,