this gospel is concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of David's posterity in respect of his bodily nature,

among whom you also are called to be Jesus Christ's.

God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers,

So much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

FOR I AM PROUD OF THE GOSPEL. IT IS GOD'S SAVING POWER FOR EVERY ONE WHO BELIEVES. FOR THE JEW FIRST, AND ALSO FOR THE GENTILE.

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

because they exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen.

Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.

"We know that God's judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment of God?

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.

For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth??ell then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself?

You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft?

You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples?

You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised, but who keep the Law, condemn you who are a breaker of the Law, although you have a written law and circumcision?

For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh;

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile,

I say, at this present time; that he himself might be just, and yet the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised.

but a man who does not "work," but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith imputed to him for righteousness.

Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

and he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the faith-righteousness which he had while he was in uncircumcision; in order that he might be the father of all who believe, even though they are uncircumcised; so that righteousness might be imputed to them.

He is the father of circumcision to those who are not merely circumcised, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he held while he was as yet uncircumcised.

For if those who are righteous through law are heirs, faith is empty and the promise becomes void.

This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

For it will be "reckoned for righteousness." to us also, who believe on him that raised from the dead our Lord Jesus;

who was betrayed to death for our transgressions, and raised again to life for our justification.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

And not only that, but we exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now obtained our reconciliation.

Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned as king, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Now Adam is a type of Him who was to come.

For if through the transgression of the one, death reigned as king through the one, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in life through One, through Jesus Christ.

No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?

For do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death?

For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.

Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness?

But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

Surely, brothers, you know (for I am speaking to those who know what law means) that law governs a person only during his lifetime?

For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

And now it is longer I myself who do the deed, but it is sin which has its home in me.

But if I do the very thing I do not intend to do, it is no more I who practise it, but sin which has its home in me.

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

Thus there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

in order that the Law might be fulfilled in us who order our lives not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

For they who live after the flesh, give their attention to the things of the flesh; But they who live after the spirit, give their attention to spiritual things.

And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

For only those are sons of God who are led by God's Spirit.

For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject??21 yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thralldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

Now we know that all things continually work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;

and whom he foreordained, those he also called; and whom he called, those he also justified; and whom he justified, those he also glorified.

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

Who shall accuse God's elect? God acquits them;

Who is there to condemn them? Will Christ who died? Yes, and who rose from the dead, The Christ who is also at the right hand of God, And is interceding for us?

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors Through Him who loved us.

theirs are the patriarchs, and of them, as concerning the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God, blessed forever, Amen.

It is not, however, as though God's word had failed! For they are not all Israel who have sprung from Israel;

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as his posterity.

and even though they were still unborn, and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that the purpose of God might stand according to election, not of works, but of Him who called,

His words to Moses are. I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy; I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion.

So then it is not a question of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

So then he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will, he hardens.

Then you will say to me. "Why does he still go on finding fault? Who can withstand his will?"

"Nay, but who are you, O man, that replies to God? Shall the thing formed say unto him who formed it, "Why did you do me like this?"

Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.

As he also said in Hosea. Those who were not my people I will call "my people," And her "beloved" who was not beloved;

And in regard to Israel, Isaiah exclaims. Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sands of the sea, it is but a remnant of those who shall be saved;

What then shall we say? That Gentiles who never pursed righteousness have overtaken it, even the righteousness of faith?

But that the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law?

But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way. Say not in thine heart, "Who shall ascend to heaven?"??hat is, to bring Christ down;

For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, because the same Lord Jesus is all over, and is rich unto all who call upon Him;

How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring a glad gospel.

And yet they did not all hearken to the good news; for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our message?

But Isaiah speaks very boldly, I was found of those who were not seeking me, I was made manifest to those who were not asking for me.

God did not cast off his people whom he foreknew. For do you not know what is said in the Scripture about Elijah? how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

But what was the answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

For to you who are Gentiles I say that since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

or if you are glorying, remember that it is not you who uphold the root, but the root which upholds you.

Fix your gaze, therefore, on the goodness and the severity of God; towards those who fell, severity, but towards you, God's goodness, if you continue stedfast in his goodness; otherwise you, too, will be cut off.

Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?

Who has first given to Him, So as to receive payment in return?

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and we are severally members of one another.

Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

Therefore the man who rebels against authority is opposing the divine ordinances; and those who withstand will bring judgment on themselves.

Render to all their dues; taxes to whom taxes, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, and homage to whom homage is due.

Never owe any one anything save the debt of brotherly love; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.

He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.