by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

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

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to establish you;

so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who are in Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:

for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.

For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.

Because what is known of God is manifest among them, for God has manifested it to them,

for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, so as to render them inexcusable.

who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

for there is no acceptance of persons with God.

For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,

(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For when those of the nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

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

For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;

For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.

Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.

righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all,and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

for the shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of the faith of Jesus.

for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: no, but we establish law.

For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

Does this blessedness then rest on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

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

For if they which are of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

For law works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression.

who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.

For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;

but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.

For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.

For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.

For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;

For he that has died is justified from sin.

For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.

What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.

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

For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.

And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:

for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.

For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:

for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed to us.

For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:

for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope

that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.

For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered.

But he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God.

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

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

He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?

who is he that condemns? It is Christ who has died, but rather has been also raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.

According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

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