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

but declared to be the Son of God with power, according to his holy spiritual nature, by his resurrection from the dead,

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that, without ceasing, I make mention of you,

(for, since the creation of the world, his attributes, which are invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,) that they may be without excuse;

What then? Do we, Jews, excel? Not at all: for we have already convicted all, both Jews and Greeks, of being under sin,

Wherefore, by works of law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin.

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

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;

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

For this reason, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by his sin, death; and so death passed through to all men, because all have sinned:

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.

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

that as sin has reigned, ending in death, so might grace reign by justification, ending in life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

knowing this, that our former man has been crucified with him, in order that the sinful body may be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer serve sin:

for he that is dead is freed from sin.

for, as it regards his dying, he, once for all, died to sin; but as it regards his living, he lives to God.

So also do you count yourselves as dead indeed to sin, but as living to God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;

and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

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

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.

Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?

But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed;

and being made free from sin, you have be come the servants of righteousness.

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.

But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal "life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.

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:

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

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 we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin.

Now, then, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

Now, if I do that which I wish not to do, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.

I thank God that I shall be delivered through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I my self, with the mind, serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin, and of death.

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,

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead, on account of sin, but the Spirit is life, on ac count of righteousness.

For we are saved by this hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for, what any one sees, why does he also hope for it?

For those whom he foreknew, he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren:

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not with him also freely give us all things?

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

as it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense: and whoever believes on him, shall not be ashamed.

And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.

The God of peace will soon bruise Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you