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.

First, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in all the world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

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 am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believes, the Jew first and also the Greek.

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.

FOR the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth in wickedness,

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

because having known God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their ignorant mind was darkened.

and changed the glory of the imperishable God into the likeness of the image of perishable man, and of birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles.

Wherefore God also gave them up with the desires of their hearts to impurity, to disgrace their bodies among themselves,

who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever, amen.

Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not proper,

evil speakers, haters of God, injurious, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who do such things deserve death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them.

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who do such things.

But do you think this, O man, who judge those doing such things and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to a change of mind?

But according to your hardness and unchanged heart you treasure up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and of a revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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

and glory and honor and peace to every one that does good, both the Jew first and the Greek.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

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;

and they show the work of the law written in their minds, their consciences testifying with them, and their judgments mutually acusing or defending one another;??16 in the day when God shall judge the secret [doings] of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

But [what] if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and boast of God,

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

For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations as it is written.

But that which is in secret is the Jew, and circumcision of the heart is in the spirit not in the writing, the commendation of which is not of men but of God.

Much in every way. For first, indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief destroy the faith of God?

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?

And as we are falsely accused and as some declare that we say, [do we say] Let us do evil that good may come? Whose judgment is just.

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks God;

all have turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, there is not even one;

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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.

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

but God's righteousness is through the faith of Jesus Christ, in all and upon all that believe. For there is no difference;

for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

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,

Is God [a God] of the Jews alone? and not also of the gentiles? Yes, also of the gentiles,

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

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

For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

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,

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

through whom also we have been introduced into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

and the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us.

for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare to die;

but God commends his love to us, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us;

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.

And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we received the present reconciliation.

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;

For [the death] which he died, he died to sin once; but [the life] which he lives, he lives to God.

So also account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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,

But now having been made free from sin and made servants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end eternal life.

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

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.

The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

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.

But if what I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good;

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;

for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do.

I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me;

for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul],

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.

For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,

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.

And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.

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

The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God.

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 the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

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

and he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because it makes intercession with God for the saints.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose.

What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Who will bring a charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies;

who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us?

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

whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen.

Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel;

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

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.

Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy.

Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus?

But if God wishing to show his wrath and to make known his power endured with much long suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

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.

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge;