For I long to see you, that I might bestow among you some spiritual gift, to strengthen you withal.

So, to the best of my ability, I am eager to preach the Gospel to all of you in Rome also.

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

and know his will, and approve of what is best because you have been instructed in the Law;

Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

What, then, is there to boast about? That has been eliminated. On what principle? On that of actions? No, but on the principle of faith.

For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

For it was not through [obedience to] law [See 3:31] that the promise to Abraham or his descendants of inheriting [the best of] the world [was made], but through their being considered righteous because of faith [in God].

Who, past hope, upon hope believed, so that he became father of many nations, - according to what had been said - So shall be thy seed; -

And he fainted not in the faith, nor yet considered his own body, which was now dead, even when he was almost a hundred years old: neither yet that Sara was past childbearing.

by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

For we know well that all things work for the best unto them that love God, which also are called of purpose.

He, at least, who his own Son did not spare, but in behalf of us all delivered him up, how shall he not also, with him, all things upon us in favour bestow?

so as to make known the riches of His glory for the objects of His mercy, whom He prepared in ages past to share His glory --

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:

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

For God hath shut up all together, in a refusal to yield, in order that, upon all, he may bestow mercy.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

in business be not slothful, but of an active mind, making the best use of every incident.

The night is past and the day is come nigh. Let us therefore cast away the deeds of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

But now, as there is no more unoccupied ground in this part of the world, and I have for years past been eager to pay you a visit,

To Him who has it in His power to make you strong, as declared in the Good News which I am spreading, and the proclamation concerning Jesus Christ, in harmony with the unveiling of the Truth which in the periods of past Ages remained unuttered,