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

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened,

that is, that I may be comforted in you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.

so that as far as depends upon me I am ready also to preach the gospel to those at Rome.

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 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,

Saying that they were wise they became foolish,

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

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.

Wherefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge, for in that in which you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

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?

Affliction and distress [shall be] on every soul of man that does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek;

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

you that teach another, do you not teach yourself? You that preach not to steal, do you steal?

You that command not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

For not that which is external is the Jew, nor is that which is external in the flesh circumcision.

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.

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.

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.

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

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;

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

to show his righteousness at the present time, that he may be righteous and justify him that is of faith.

We conclude then that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.

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

But to one that works the reward is not accounted by grace but by debt.

But to one that works not, but believes on him that justifies the wicked, his faith is [accounted] for righteousness.

Is this blessedness then on the circumcision? or also on the uncircumcision? [Also on the uncircumcision.] For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

And he received the symbol of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in uncircumcision, so that he became the father of all that believe in uncircumcision, that righteousness may also be accounted to them,

For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all,

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.

being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to perform.

But it was not written for his sake alone, that it was accounted to him,

but also for our sakes, to whom it is about to be accounted if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience,

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

but death reigned from Adam till Moses even over those that sinned not after the similitude Adam's transgression, who is a type of him that was to come;

and not as through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance;

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?

Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized in Christ were baptized in his death?

We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

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.

And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him.

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,

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

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.

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.

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

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

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;

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

Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?

that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.

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 I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us.

For the creation was subjected to a perishable condition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope

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

For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now;

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?

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.

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;

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?

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart;

for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh,

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;

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

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.

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?

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory,

as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my people, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved,

What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith;

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.

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

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.

For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them.

But what does it say? The word is nigh you, in your mouth and in your mind; that is, the word of the faith which we preach.

For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved;