PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,??2 which he promised by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,??3 concerning his Son born of the posterity of David as to the flesh,

declared to be the Son of God in power as to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,??esus Christ our Lord,??5 through whom we have received grace and an apostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of his name,

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

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

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.

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and the Barbarians, both to the wise and the ignorant;

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 God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith in the faith [the gospel]; as it is written; The righteous shall live by faith.

FOR the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth in wickedness,

because what can be known of God is manifest among them; for God has manifested [himself] to them.

because having known God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their ignorant mind was darkened.

Saying that they were wise they became foolish,

who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever, amen.

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

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 not proper,

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who do such things.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,??13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations as it is written.

For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

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.

What then is the preeminence of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

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.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak as a man;??6 by no means;??ince [if he was] how shall God judge the world?

For if the truth of God abounded by my falsehood to his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

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.

as it is written, There is none righteous not one,

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;

their throat is an opened tomb, with their tongues they practise deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips.

Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.

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.

Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.

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

Is God [a God] of the Jews alone? and not also of the gentiles? Yes, also of the gentiles,

since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the [same] faith.

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.

As David describes the blessedness of the man to whom the Lord accounts righteousness without works,

Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered;

blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not account sin.

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.

For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated.

For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

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.

And being not weak in faith, he did not regard himself as dead, being now about a hundred years old, nor Sarah's incapacity for child-bearing,

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 the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us.

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

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,??13 for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law

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;

but not as the fall so also is the gift; for if by the fall of one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many;

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 if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;??18 therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life;

for as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous.

that as sin reigned in death, so the grace shall reign through righteousness in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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.

neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

I speak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members servants to impurity and to wickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to righteousness in sanctification.

What fruit had you therefore then in things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of them is death.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord.

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?

For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.

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.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.

The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

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;

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;

for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul],

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

THERE is no condemnation therefore to those in Christ Jesus;

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

for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace.

Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.

But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God.

The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God.

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 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 in like manner also the Spirit helps our weakness. For we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings unutterable;

and he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because it makes intercession with God for the saints.

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

He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

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?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.