and shown with power to be the Son of God as to his spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;

Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful to him; but became perverse in their reasonings, and their senseless minds were darkened;

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are shameful;

(as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations") in the sight of that God whom he believed, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

and not being weak in faith, he regarded not his own body which had become dead, he being about a hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarahs womb;

nor did he waver in respect to the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

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,

who was delivered up on account of our trespasses, and raised from the dead that we might be accepted as righteous.

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.

since we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath dominion over him no longer.

Thus do ye too consider yourselves as dead to sin, but alive to God, through Jesus Christ.

nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

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.

But sin, seizing the opportunity, wrought in me by means of the commandment all manner of sinful desire; for without the Law sin is dead.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! but sin; that it might become manifest as sin, causing death to me by means of that which is good; that sin by means of the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

And if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

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

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!

For the Scripture saith to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be made known in all the earth."

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

while Israel, which strove after a law of righteousness, did not attain to a law of righteousness.

Why? Because they did not strive for it by faith, but as being by works. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;

Or, "Who shall descend into the abyss?" that is, to bring up Christ from the dead.

for if thou shalt acknowledge with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, "Lord, who hath believed what he hath heard from us?"

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."

What Israel seeketh after, that Israel did not obtain; but the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

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.

For if the rejection of them is the reconciliation of the world, what will the reception of them be, but life from the dead?

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.

For Christ did not seek his own pleasure, but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me."

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,