Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

What then? do we screen ourselves? Not at all! For we have before accused both Jews and Greeks of being, all under sin;

All, have turned aside, together, have become useless, There is none that doeth kindness, not so much as one:

A sepulchre opened, is their throat, with their tongues, have they used deceit, the poison of asps, is under their lips,

And, the way of peace, have they not known:

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets,

A righteousness of God, through faith in JesusChrist, unto all that have faith; for there is no distinction, -

For, all, have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

but anybody may have right standing with God as a free gift of His undeserved favor, through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus.

whom God set forth an expiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for proof of his justice, because of the passing over of the sins that have formerly occurred

[In doing this] God [also] demonstrated His justice [to people] of this present time, that He Himself is just and the One who makes the people right with Him who have faith in Jesus.

If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

For if Abraham had been made right with God by doing good deeds he would have had something to boast about, but not in God's presence.

Happy, they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered,

Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:

and he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the justification by that faith, which the uncircumcised have: that he might be the father of all those who believe, tho' they are uncircumcised, that it might be accounted to them also for righteousness:

for if they only who are of the law have right of possession, faith is made useless, and the promise becomes of no effect.

because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.

therefore the inheritance is of faith, that it might be meerly of favour, to the end the promise might be assured to all his posterity, not to that part only who have the law, but to that also who have the faith of Abraham, the father of us all, as it is written,

Even as it is written - Father of many nations, have I appointed thee: before him whom he believed - God, who causeth the dead to live, and calleth the things that are not as things that are: -

Hoping in spite of hopeless circumstances, he believed that he would become "the father of many nations," just as he had been told: "This is how many descendants you will have."

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

And these words counted to him have not been written for him alone

But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

Having, therefore, been declared righteous by faith, let us have, peace, towards God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, -

Through whom also we have had, our introduction, by our faithinto this favour wherein we stand; and let us boast in hope of the glory of God.

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

now for a wicked man no one would willingly die; but for a benefactor some have readily offer'd to die.

Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath.

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

And, not only, so, but are even boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, - through whom, now, the reconciliation we have received.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over those who have not sinned after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of him that was to come.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift overflowed to the many by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.

As then through one trespass all men have come under condemnation, so through one act of righteousness all obtain the gift of righteousness unto life.

For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What shall we say, then? Should we continue sinning so that more of God's unearned favor will [have to] be shown?

Far be it! we who have died unto sin, how, any longer, shall we live therein?

Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

For, if we have come to be grown together in the likeness of his death, certainly, in that of his resurrection also, shall we be.

Now, if we have died together with Christ, we believe that we shall also live together with him;

We know that Christ was raised from the dead, never to die again, because death does not have control over Him any longer.

Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

For, sin, over you, shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under favour.

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.

Whereas, now, having been freed from sin, and made servants unto God, ye have your fruit for sanctification and, the end, life age-abiding.

Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

For, the married woman, unto her living husband is bound by law; but, if her husband have died, she hath received a full release from the law of her husband.

Hence then, her husband being alive, an adulteress, shall she be called - if she become another man's, but, if the husband have died, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

But, now, we have received full release from the law, by dying in that wherein we used to be held fast, so that we should be doing service - in newness of spirit and not in obsoleteness of letter.

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

and so, in my case, the command which should have meant life turned out to mean death.

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

what I do I allow not: for what my mind leads me to, that do I not; but what I have an aversion to, that I do.

But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.

for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

I find then a settled custom, that evil is objected in my way whenever I have a mind to act well:

I have, in fact, a sympathetic pleasure in the law of God; according to the inner man.

For, they who according to flesh have their being, the things of the flesh do prefer, but, they according to the spirit, the things of the spirit;

They, moreover, who in flesh have their being, cannot please, God.

But, ye, have not your being in flesh, but in spirit, - if at least, God's Spirit, dwelleth in you; and, if anyone hath not Christ's Spirit, the same, is not his; -

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

For ye have not received a spirit of servitude, leading back into fear, but ye have received a spirit of sonship, whereby we are exclaiming - Abba! Oh Father!

And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

And, not only so, but, we ourselves, also, who have the first-fruit of the Spirit - weeven ourselves, within our own selves do sigh, - sonship ardently awaiting - the redeeming of our body; -

For, by our hope, have we been saved, - but, hope beheld, is not hope, for, what one beholdeth, why doth he hope for?

But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth us, we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

According as it is written - For thy sake, are we being put to death all the day long, we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter. -

No, [suffering any one of these things is not proof that Christ does not love us], for in spite of all these things we have a decisive victory [over life's difficulties] through [the care shown us by] Christ who loved us.

For I have full assurance that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor the present nor the future

height or depth, or any other created thing
will have the power to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

I am speaking the truth in Christ, it is no lie. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have deep sorrow

That I have great grief and incessant travail in my heart;

For I could have wished to be accursed, even I myself, from the Christ, in behalf of my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh; -

Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

However, the divine promise cannot but have its effect. for they are not the whole of Israel, who are descended from Israel:

Neither are all [Jewish] people children [of God], [simply] because they are Abraham's descendants. But [Gen. 21:12 says], "It is through Isaac that you [i.e., Abraham] will have descendants."

For, of promise, is this word - According to this season, will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--

As it is written, I have loved Jacob,