For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift,

For those things of him which are invisible, both his eternal power and Godhead, are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things which are made, so that they are without excuse:

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unjust, who taketh vengeance?

And why may we not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) do evil, that good may come? Whose damnation is just.

I say, of his righteousness in this present time, that he might be just, and yet the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.

What shall we say then? That our father Abraham hath found according to the flesh?

So David also describeth the happiness of the man, to whom God imputeth righteousness without works:

Cometh this happiness then on the circumcision only, or on the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousness.

Who against hope believed in hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

And not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, being about an hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,

And not only so, but we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Therefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, even so death passed upon all men, in that all had sinned.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Yet not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if by the offence of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, that of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

And not as the loss by one that sinned, so is the gift; for the sentence was by one offence to condemnation; but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

For if through one man's offence death reigned by one, they who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall much more reign in life, by one, even Jesus Christ.

As therefore by one offence the sentence of death came upon all men to condemnation, so also by one righteousness the free gift came upon all men to justification of life.

For as by the disobedience of one man, many were constituted sinners, so by the obedience of one, many shall be constituted righteous.

That as sin had reigned through death, so grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

What shall we say then? We will continue in sin that grace may abound?

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

So reckon ye also yourselves to be dead to sin, and alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. As ye have presented your members servants to uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity, so now present your members servants of righteousness, unto holiness.

Therefore if she marry another man while her husband liveth, she will be called an adultress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law, so as to be no adultress, though she marry another man.

For when we were in the flesh, sinful passions, which were by the law, wrought in our members, so as to bring forth fruit unto death.

But now we are freed from the law, that whereby we were held being dead, so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? That the law is sin? God forbid. Yea, I should not have known sin, but for the law. I had not known lust, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid: But sin: so that it appeared sin, working death in me by that which is good: so that sin might by the commandment become exceeding sinful.

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

Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with my mind serve the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.

So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But if we hope for what we see not, we patiently wait for it.

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

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not; my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost?

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid.

So then he hath mercy on whom he willeth, and whom he willeth, he hardneth.

But thou wilt say to me, Why doth he still find fault?

For who hath resisted his will? Nay, but who art thou, O man, that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Isaiah likewise crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant only shall be saved.

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles who followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith:

But the righteousness which is by faith speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven, (that is, to bring Christ down:)

But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily; their voice is gone into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

But I say, Hath not Israel known? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are not a nation; by a foolish nation I will anger you.

I say then, Hath God rejected his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

And so likewise at the present time, there is a remnant, according to the election of grace.

According as it is written, God hath given them a spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day.

Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? God forbid. But by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

For if the first-fruits be holy, so is the lump: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Sion, and shall turn away iniquity from Jacob.

So these also have now been disobedient, that through your mercy they may likewise find mercy.

And I say, through the grace which is given to me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think, but to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God hath distributed to every one.

So we being many are one body in Christ, and every one members of each other.

Therefore if thy enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Who art thou that judgest another's servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be upheld; for God is able to establish him.

Whether therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

Now I say, Christ Jesus was a servant of the circumcision, for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers:

by the power of the Spirit, so that I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ, from Jerusalem round about, as far as Illyricum.

But I have striven, so to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation.

But as it is written, They to whom he was not spoken of shall see; and they that have not heard, shall understand.

for I hope to see you as I pass by, and to be brought forward by you in my way thither, if first I may be somewhat satisfied with your company.