through Whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations for His name's sake;

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

making request, if by any means now at length, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

For God's wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;

having become filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

And do you reckon this, O man, who judge those who practice such things, and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Who will render to every man according to his works;

to those who, by patience in well-doing, are seeking for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life;

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Gospel, through Jesus Christ,

and understand His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

What, then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we before charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

they have all turned aside, they together became unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one;

Now we know that whatsoever the law says, it speaks to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may be under the sentence of God;

because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.

even a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe; for there is no distinction;

for all sinned, and are coming short of the glory of God;

if, indeed, God is One Who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

Happy is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin."

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all who believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them;

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

but for ours also, to whom it will be reckoned, if we believe on Him Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead;

For, while we were yet weak, Christ, in due season, died for the ungodly.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; for, peradventure, in behalf of a good man, some one even dares to die.

But God commendeth His own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son; much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life;

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned;

So, then, as through one trespass, the judgment came to all men unto condemnation; so also, through one righteous act, the free gift came to all men unto justification of life.

Or are ye ignorant, that all we who were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into His death?

For the death that He died, He died to Sin once for all; but the life that He liveth He liveth to God.

So, then, if, while the husband is living, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but, if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

but sin, taking occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting; for apart from law sin is dead.

Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

And, if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will make alive your mortal bodies through His Spirit dwelling in you.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now;

And He Who searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

And we know that all things are working together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose;

He Who spared not His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

Who will bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God Who justifieth;

As it has been written, "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

whose are the fathers; and of whom, according to flesh, is the Christ, Who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

But it is not as though the word of God has failed: for they are not all Israel, who are of Israel;

neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called."

For the word of the promise is this: "At this season I will come, and Sarah shall have a son."

For He saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy; and I will have compassion on whomsoever I have compassion."

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise you up, that I might show forth My power in you, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."

You will say to me, then, "Why doth He still find fault? for who has withstood His will?"

As He saith in Hosea, "I will call that My people, which was not My people; and her, 'Beloved,' who was not beloved.

for the Lord will do a work on the earth, finishing it, and cutting it short.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the Same One is Lord of all, being rich toward all who call upon Him;

But they did not all obey the glad tidings. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who believed our report?"

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

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger."

But in respect to Israel He saith, "All the day long did I spread out My hand to a disobedient and gain-saying people."

For, if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

You will say, then, "The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, but you have been standing by faith. Do not cherish lofty thoughts; but fear.

For, if God spared not the natural branches, neither will He spare you.

and so all Israel shall be saved; even as it has been written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

For God shut up all unto disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

Because, of Him, and through Him, and for Him, are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, through the mercies of God, to present, your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service;

and he not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office;

recompensing to no one evil for evil; providing things honorable in the sight of all men;

if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men;

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath of God: for it has been written, "Vengeance is Mine; I will recompense," saith the Lord.

But, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for, in doing this, you will heap coals of fire upon his head.

Render to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

Love works no ill to one's neighbor: therefore, love is a fulfillment of the law.

One believes that he may eat all things; but he that is weak eats herbs.

But you??hy do you judge your brother? or you also??hy do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.

For he that in these things serves Christ, is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.

Do not, for the sake of food, overthrow the work of God. All things, indeed, are clean; but it is evil to him who eats with offense.

And he who doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

and that the gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; as it has been written, "For this cause, I will confess to Thee among the gentiles; and to Thy name will I sing praise."

And again, "Praise the Lord, all ye gentiles, and let all the people extol Him."

And again Isaiah says, "There shall be the Root of Jesse, and He Who riseth up to rule over the gentiles, on Him will the gentiles hope."

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound In hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And I myself also have become persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

For I will venture to speak only of the things which God wrought through me for the obedience of the gentiles, by word and deed,

For Macedonia and Achaia were well pleased to make a certain contribution to the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.

Indeed, they were well pleased, and their debtors they are; for, if the gentiles were partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.

After having completed this, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you into Spain;

and I know that, when coming to you, I will come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

that, coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may with you be refreshed.

And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

who, for my soul, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the gentiles;

Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of Christ salute you.

For your obedience reached unto all. I rejoice, therefore, over you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, but simple as to evil.

Gaius my host, and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, salutes you, and Quartus the brother.

but now made manifest, and through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the eternal God, made known to all nations for obedience to the faith: