PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,??2 which he promised by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,??3 concerning his Son born of the posterity of David as to the flesh,

declared to be the Son of God in power as to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,??esus Christ our Lord,??5 through whom we have received grace and an apostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of his name,

among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ,??7 to all who are at Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

asking if by any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened,

that is, that I may be comforted in you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.

For God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith in the faith [the gospel]; as it is written; The righteous shall live by faith.

because what can be known of God is manifest among them; for God has manifested [himself] to them.

For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,

to those who by patience in good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

Affliction and distress [shall be] on every soul of man that does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek;

For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,??13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves,

and know his will, and approve of things which are excellent, being instructed by the law,

and believe yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness,

You who boast of the law, by the transgression of the law do you dishonor God?

If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, shall not its uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision?

And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

By no means; but let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings and overcome when thou art judged.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak as a man;??6 by no means;??ince [if he was] how shall God judge the world?

For if the truth of God abounded by my falsehood to his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

But we know that whatever the law says, it says to those having the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God.

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.

BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

whom God set forth [to be] a propitiator through faith in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing by of the errors committed previously in the forbearance of God,

to show his righteousness at the present time, that he may be righteous and justify him that is of faith.

Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.

We conclude then that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.

since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the [same] faith.

Do we then abrogate the law by the faith? By no means; but we establish the law.

For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God.

But to one that works the reward is not accounted by grace but by debt.

And he received the symbol of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in uncircumcision, so that he became the father of all that believe in uncircumcision, that righteousness may also be accounted to them,

Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all,

as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

and he did not doubt the promise of God by unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

but also for our sakes, to whom it is about to be accounted if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

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

much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved through him from wrath.

For if when enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having become reconciled we shall be saved in his life.

but not as the fall so also is the gift; for if by the fall of one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many;

and not as through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance;

for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;??18 therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life;

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.

By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall much more be of his resurrection;

knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under the grace? By no means.

But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed,

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord.

For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.

and the commandment which was for life was found to be for death.

Did then that which is good become death to me? By no means, but sin; that sin might be made manifest, producing death to me through that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment.

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

that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.

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

For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father.

And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

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

For the creation was subjected to a perishable condition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope

that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees?

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

neither, because they are a posterity of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac shall your posterity be called;

And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac??11 for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,??12 it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger;

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.

For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to him to whom I may be merciful, and I will compassionate him whom I may compassionate.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.

and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God.

But Isaiah cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved;

What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith;

as it is written; Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them.

But the righteousness by faith speaks thus; Say not in your mind, who shall ascend into heaven???hat is, to bring Christ down,??7 or who shall descend into the abyss???hat is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved;

For the Scripture says, No one that believes in him shall be ashamed.

For every one that calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Faith therefore comes by the report, and the report by the word of God.

But I say, did not Israel know? First, Moses says, I will provoke you by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish nation will I excite you to anger.

But Isaiah is more bold and says, I was found by them that sought me not, I was made manifest to them that inquired not after me.

I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

but if by grace, no longer by works; for otherwise grace is no longer grace; but if by works, it is no longer grace; for otherwise a work is no longer a work.

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

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means; but by their fall the nations have salvation to excite them to emulation.

But if their fall is the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of nations, how much more will their fullness be.

For if their falling away is the reconciling of the world, what will their recovery be but life from the dead?

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

Well; they were broken off by unbelief, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear;

See then the goodness and severity of God; towards those that fell, severity, but towards you, the goodness of God, if you continue in goodness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.

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

For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive.