For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, which may be for your confirmation;

So, according to my ability, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also in Rome.

For, ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, even his eternal power and divinity, being perceived from his works, are clearly seen, so that they might be without excuse.

But if our unrighteousness serve to display the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicteth punishment? (I am speaking as men do.)

And why do you not say, as some slanderously charge us with saying, Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of such men is just.

in order to manifest his righteousness at the present time, so that he may be righteous, and accept as righteous him who hath faith.

What advantage then shall we say that Abraham our father had as to the flesh?

How then was it so accounted? After his circumcision, or while he was uncircumcised? Not after he was circumcised, but while he was uncircumcised.

And he received the outward sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all the uncircumcised who have faith, so that righteousness might be put to their account also;

And that it was so accounted was not written for his sake alone,

but for our sakes also, to whom it will be so accounted through our faith in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also, knowing that affliction produceth endurance,

So then as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and thus [death] came through unto all men, because all sinned

As then through one trespass all men have come under condemnation, so through one act of righteousness all obtain the gift of righteousness unto life.

For as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so through the obedience of the one man will the many be made righteous.

that as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign through righteousness to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What shall we say then? Let us continue in sin, that grace may abound still more?

We then by this baptism into his death were buried with him; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.

So then, if while her husband is living she connect herself with another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband die, she is no longer bound by that law, so that she will not be an adulteress, though she connect herself with another man.

So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."

So that the Law is holy, and the commandment holy, and right, and good.

Thanks be to God, [who hath delivered me] through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I, the same person, with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

so that what is required by the Law might be accomplished in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

So then, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage so as to be again in fear; but ye received the spirit of adopted children, whereby we cry, Abba, Father!

and not only so, but even we ourselves also, though having the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption as sons, for the redemption of our body.

But if we hope for that which we do not see, then do we with patience wait for it.

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

And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived by one man, our father Isaac,

What then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Far be it!

So then it dependeth not on him that willeth, nor on him that runneth, but on God who showeth mercy.

So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and hardeneth whom he will.

Hence thou wilt say to me, Why then doth he still find fault? for who resisteth his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that makest answer to God? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman, Why hast thou made me thus?

But Isaiah crieth out concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

What then shall we say? That the gentiles, who did not strive after righteousness, obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;

For Christ is the end of the Law, so that every one that believeth may obtain righteousness.

But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart, "Who shall ascend into heaven?" that is, to bring Christ down.

For with the heart man believeth so as to obtain righteousness, and with the mouth professeth so as to obtain salvation.

But I say, Did they not hear? Yes truly, "Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."

But I say, Hath not Israel had knowledge? First, Moses saith, "I will move you to jealousy by that which is no nation, I will excite you to indignation by a foolish people."

I say then, Hath God cast off his people? Far be it I For I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes that were not to see, and ears that were not to hear, unto this day."

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

I say then, Did they stumble in order to fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the gentiles to excite them to emulation.

And if the first portion of the dough is holy, so also will be the lump; and if the root is holy, so will be the branches.

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

Be it so. It was for their unbelief that they were broken off, and thou standest through thy faith; be not highminded, but fear.

so they too have now become disobedient, that they also may obtain mercy through the mercy shown to you.

so we, though many, form one body in Christ, and each of us is a member of it in common with the rest.

Therefore, "if thy enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink. For in so doing thou wilt heap coals of fire on his head."

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

Do not for the sake of food undo the work of God. All things indeed are clean; but that which is pure is evil for that man who eateth so as to be an occasion of sin.

For I say that Christ became a minister to the circumcised for the sake of Gods truth, in order to make sure the promises given to the fathers;

For I will not be bold to say anything hut of what Christ hath actually wrought by me to bring the gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and in the country around even to Illyricum, I have fully made known the gospel of Christ;

but, as it is written: "They, to whom no tidings concerning him came, shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand."

when I go to Spain, I will come to you; for I hope to see you on my way, and to be helped forward thither by you, after I have in some degree satisfied myself with your company.

so that, through the will of God, I may come to you in joy, and may with you be refreshed.