concerning his Son who was made from the seed of David according to flesh.

He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead--Jesus Christ our Lord--

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting

For if Abraham was made righteous from works, he has a boast, but not before God.

For what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

Is this blessedness therefore upon men of circumcision, or also upon men of uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

How then was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

For the promise to Abraham or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, was not through law, but through a righteousness of faith.

Who, against hope, believed in hope, in order for him to become father of many nations according to that which was spoken, So thy seed will be.

And not being weak in faith he did not regard his body, which was now deadened (being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

and being fully assured that what he promised, he was able also to perform.

And therefore it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

Now it was not written because of him alone that it was imputed to him,

who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised up for our justification.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that was given to us.

For until law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

And the gift is not as through one man who sinned, for indeed the judgment from one man was for condemnation, but the gift from many offenses is for righteousness.

So then, as through an offense of one man was for condemnation for all men, so also through a righteousness of one man was for justification of life for all men.

And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,

We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.

Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be inactivated, no longer to enslave us to sin.

Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.

Who is he who will condemn? It is Christ who died, but more, who also was raised up, who also is at the right hand of God, who also appeals for us.

it was said to her, The older will serve the younger.

As also he says in Hosea, I will call those not my people, my people, and her who was not beloved, beloved.

And it will be in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there they will be called, sons of the living God.

Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

And Isaiah is very bold and says, I was found by those not seeking me. I became manifest to those not asking for me.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

And having different gifts according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;

But I wrote more boldly to you, brothers, in part, as reminding you because of the grace that was given to me by God,

And thus having aspired to proclaim the good-news not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build upon a foundation belonging to another man,

but, as it is written, They will see to whom it was not reported about him, and they will understand who have not heard.

Therefore also, I was delayed these many times coming to you.

but that was now revealed, and by prophetic scriptures, according to a commandment of the eternal God that was made known to all the nations for obedience of faith,