concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the posterity of David according to the flesh,

because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became perverse in their reasonings, and their wicked heart was darkened;

For if Abraham was. justified by works, he has cause for boasting, but not before God.

For what says the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

Comes this blessedness then on those who are circumcised only, or on those who are uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness.

Under what circumstances, then, was it counted? After he was circumcised? Or, while he was uncircumcised? Not after he was circumcised, but while he was uncircumcised.

And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while he was uncircumcised, in order that he might be the father of all that believe, even in a state of uncircumcision, so that righteousness might be counted to them also;

and the father of circumcision to those who are not only circumcised, but who, also, walk in the steps of that faith which our father Abraham had while he was yet uncircumcised.

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, nor to his posterity, through law, but through the righteousness of faith.

He, against hope, confidently believed that he would become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken: So shall your posterity be.

And not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body, which was already dead, (for he was about a hundred years old,) nor the deadness of Sarah's womb;

and he doubted not, through unbelief, with respect to the promise of God, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

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

For this reason, it was counted to him for righteousness.

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

who was delivered up for our offenses, and raised again for our justification.

for till the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged where there is no law.

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of him that was to come.

And the gift is not like the sentence that came through one who sinned: for the sentence to condemnation was because of one offense; but the favor bestowed in order to justification, is because of many offenses.

But, besides the first offense, law was introduced, in order that offenses might abound: but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

Therefore, we are buried with him, by immersion, into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in a new life.

So then, my brethren, you, also, have died to the law, by the body of the Christ, in order that you may be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit to God.

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, rendered active within me every evil desire. For without the law, sin was dead.

Indeed, I was alive with out the law, once; but when the commandment came, sin be came alive, and I died:

and the commandment, which was given for life, I found to be for death.

Has, then, that which is good become death to me? It can not be. But sin, that it, might appear sin, was causing death to me through that which is good, in order that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God has done, who, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for a sin-offering, condemned sin in the flesh,

For the creature was subject to frailty, (not by its own will, but for his sake who subjected it,)

it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger;

As he says also in Hosea: I will call that my people which is not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

But Isaiah is very bold, and says: I was found by them that sought me not: I was made manifest to them that asked not after me.

Now, I say, that Jesus Christ, as a minister, was of the circumcision for the sake of the truth of God, in order to con firm the promises made to the fathers,

but, as it is written: They to whom he was not preached, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel, even the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was concealed during the times of the ages,