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

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;

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,

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

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."

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

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

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.

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.

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;

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.

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."

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.

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."

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?

And, if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became a joint-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the Olive tree;

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

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

For, if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

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;

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.

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.

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 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."

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,

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.