From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

but was by his resurrection from the dead instated as Son of God, with power, in respect of his spirit of holiness.

among whom you also are called to be Jesus Christ's.

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.

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.

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

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

While they professed to be wise, they became fools,

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.

For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves.

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.

So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision.

but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart??ircumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.

By no means! Be sure that God is ever true, though all mankind prove false. As it is written, That thou mayest be found just in thine argument, And gain thy cause when thou contendest.

Be it far from us; for in that case how could God judge the world?

But if by a falsehood of mine the truthfulness of God has been made to redound to his glory, why am I still tried as a sinner?

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.

For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

But now, quite apart from any law, a righteousness coming from God has been fully brought to light, continually witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets.

but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus.

For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness??ince in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed??o show forth his righteousness,

I say, at this present time; that he himself might be just, and yet the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

For I conclude that a man is justified by faith, altogether apart from the deeds of the Law.

since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to be proud of, but not before God.

Now if a man earn his pay by his work, it is not counted to him as a favor, but it is paid him as a debt;

and he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the faith-righteousness which he had while he was in uncircumcision; in order that he might be the father of all who believe, even though they are uncircumcised; so that righteousness might be imputed to them.

For the promise that he should be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his posterity through law, but through faith-righteousness.

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,

For Abraham, hoping against hope, had faith to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So numberless shall your descendants be.

For it will be "reckoned for righteousness." to us also, who believe on him that raised from the dead our Lord Jesus;

But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

By how much more, then, being now justified in his blood, shall we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved in his life.

For just as through the disobedience of one man the rest were made sinners; even so by the obedience of One shall all the rest be made righteous.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, so we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.

For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.

Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness?

But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man.

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.

For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.

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.

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 God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

To be earthly minded means death; To be spiritually minded means life and peace.

For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For only those are sons of God who are led by God's Spirit.

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!"

and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

For I count as nothing what we now suffer, in comparison with the glory which will soon be unveiled to us.

For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject??21 yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thralldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

For by hope we are saved; but hope which is clearly seen is no longer hope.

In the same way the Spirit also takes hold with us in our weakness; for we know knot how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;

What shall we say then, to these things? If God be for us, Who can be against us?

Nor height, nor depth, Nor any other created thing, Shall be able to separate us from the love of God Which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

they are not all children of Abraham because they are Abraham's descendants. The promise was, In Isaac shall thy posterity be called.

And not only so, but when Rebecca was pregnant by our forefather Isaac, though one man was the father of both children,

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."

And in regard to Israel, Isaiah exclaims. Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sands of the sea, it is but a remnant of those who shall be saved;

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

even as it is written. Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; but he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame.

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

For Moses writes concerning the righteousness of the Law, saying, The man that doeth it shall live by it.

Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved.

The Scriptures say, Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.

for Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

In the same way also at this time there is a remnant chosen by gift of grace.

But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works; or else grace is no more grace.

As David says. Let their table be made a snare and a trap, And a stumbling-block and a recompense unto them;

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

I ask then, "Have they stumbled so as to fall?" No indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come unto Gentiles, "to provoke Israel to jealousy."

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

For if their casting out is the reconciliation of the world to God, what will their restoration be but life out of death?

"Branches have been broken off," you say, "that I might be grafted in."

True, through their unbelief they were broken off, and by your faith you stand. Do not be puffed up, but fear;

Fix your gaze, therefore, on the goodness and the severity of God; towards those who fell, severity, but towards you, God's goodness, if you continue stedfast in his goodness; otherwise you, too, will be cut off.

And they also those Jews, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in again; for God is able to graft them in again.

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

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written. The deliver will come from Zion, He will banish all ungodliness from Jacob;

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

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

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.

Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.

As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another.