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,

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

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,

What defense then have we? None at all; for we before asserted that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

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.

blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not account sin.

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.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law

For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant,

that as sin reigned in death, so the grace shall reign through righteousness in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that the grace may abound?

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

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;

for he that died was justified from sin.

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.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires,

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.

For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.

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

Know you not that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin in death or of obedience in righteousness?

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,

and having become free from sin you served righteousness.

For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

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.

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.

But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead.

And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died,

For sin having taken occasion through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.

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.

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

and now I no longer do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

But if what I wish not this I do, I no longer do it, but sin which dwells in me.

but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

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 the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death.

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,

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness.

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;

He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

For this was the word of promise; According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.

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.

and so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, A deliverer shall come from Zion, he shall turn away impiety from Jacob.

but he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and every thing which is not of faith is sin.