which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

through whom we received grace and the office of apostle, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Therefore God also abandoned them in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

For this reason, God abandoned them to their degrading passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

For there is no partiality with God.

in that they show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and their conflicting thoughts accusing or else excusing them)

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, there is not even one."

"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

Destruction and misery are in their ways.

"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because in God's forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be. No, we establish the law.

For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

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

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

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be.

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on him.

But I say, did they not hear? Yes, truly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be. But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;

They also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist are appointed by God.

For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

whenever I journey to Spain. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

Greet the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Asia to Christ.

For those who are such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

25 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the proclaiming of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.