Who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead??ven Jesus Christ our Lord,

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;

that is, to be comforted together among you through our mutual faith, both yours and mine.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the gentiles.

for in it is revealed God's righteousness, from faith to faith; as it has been written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

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:

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

to those who, by patience in well-doing, are seeking for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life;

but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,

for as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as sinned under law shall be judged by law;

for not the hearers of law are righteous before God, but the doers shall be justified;

(for, when gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

And shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, with the letter and circumcision, to be a transgressor of the law?

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."

It could not be! for, then, how shall God judge the world?

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;

because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.

But now, apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

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.

Where, then, is the boasting? It was excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? Nay; but by a law of faith.

For we reckon that a man is justified by faith, apart from works of law.

if, indeed, God is One Who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

Do we, then, make void the law through faith? It could not be! Yea, we establish the law.

For, if Abraham was justified by works, he has ground of boasting, but not toward God.

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all who believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them;

For, not through law, was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but it was through the righteousness of faith.

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

who, past hope, believed against hope, to the end that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So shall your seed be."

but for ours also, to whom it will be reckoned, if we believe on Him Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead;

Having been justified, therefore, by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through Whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have been standing; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Much more, therefore, being now justified by His blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son; much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life;

But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift; for, if by the trespass of the one, the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the One Man, Christ Jesus, abound to the many.

For, if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall those who receive the abundance of the grace, and of the gift of righteousness, reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

For as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners; so also through the obedience of the One, shall the many be constituted righteous.

It could not be! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer therein?

For, if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection;

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be brought to nought, that we should no more be in bondage to sin;

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

But thanks be to God that, though ye were slaves of sin, ye did, however, obey from the heart that form of teaching unto which ye were delivered;

For the married woman has been bound by law to the living husband; but, if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of the husband.

So, then, if, while the husband is living, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but, if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

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.

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

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

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.

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Accordingly, therefore, I myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but, with the flesh, the law of sin.

that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can it be;

for, if ye live according to the flesh, ye are going to die; but, if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

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.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory about to be revealed for us.

For the creation was made subject to vanity, not of choice, but by reason of Him Who subjected it, in hope

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

For by hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for that which he sees?

And, in like manner, the Spirit also helpeth our weakness; for we know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit Himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called."

And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac

What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? It could not be!

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."

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."

And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved;"

Wherefore? because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the Stone of stumbling;

as it has been written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offense; and he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

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

that if you shall confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and shall believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;

For the Scripture says, "Whosoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

for, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger."

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."

I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

But, if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise the grace becomes no longer grace. [But, if of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise, the work is no longer work.]

And David says, "Let their table be a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:

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

I Say, then, did they stumble, that they might fall? It could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry.

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

For, if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

You will say, then, "The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, but you have been standing by faith. Do not cherish lofty thoughts; but fear.

Behold, then, God's kindness and severity; toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise, you also shall be cut off.

And they also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.

For, if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery (lest ye be wise in your own conceits), that a hardening, in part, has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the gentiles come in;

and so all Israel shall be saved; even as it has been written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

For as ye in times past disobeyed God, but just now obtained mercy by their disobedience;

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

Or who first gave to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?

Because, of Him, and through Him, and for Him, are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

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.

Let love be without hypocrisy; abhorring that which is evil; cleaving to that which is good;

Be ready to rejoice with those who rejoice; to weep with those who weep;

thinking the same thing one toward another; minding not lofty things, but being carried along with the lowly. Be ye not wise in your own conceits;

if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men;