Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

For you have not again received the spirit of bondage, that you may fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

and, if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.

For I consider the sufferings of the present time not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed for us.

For the creature was subject to frailty, (not by its own will, but for his sake who subjected it,)

in hope, that even the creature itself shall be made free from the bondage of corruption, and introduced into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

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:

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

nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. SECTION THIRD. God's Dealings with Israel as a People,

for I could wish my self to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;

Nor, because they are the posterity of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall your posterity be called.

Not only so, but when Rebecca had conceived by one, even our father Isaac,

What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with. God? It can not be.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose have I raised you up, that I may show in you my power, and that my name may be published in all the earth.

And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

But Isaiah cries concerning Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

What, then, shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not seek after justification, have obtained justification, even the justification which is by faith:

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as if by works of law: for they stumbled against that stone of stumbling,

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.

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.

For Moses describes the justification which is by the law: That the man who does these things shall live by them.

But the justification by faith speaks thus: Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? that is, to bring Christ down;

that if you will confess with your mouth, that Jesus is Lord, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

For the scripture says: He that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

For every one that calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

And how shall they preach, unless they be sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring joyous news of good things!

So, then, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

But I say: Did not Israel know? First, Moses says: I will excite you to jealousy by that which is no nation; and by a foolish nation I will provoke you to wrath.

But Isaiah is very bold, and says: I was found by them that sought me not: I was made manifest to them that asked not after me.

I say, then, Has God rejected his people? It can not be. For I am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

And if the election is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.

let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and let them bow down their back always.

I say, then, Have they stumbled, in order that they may fall? It can not be. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to excite them to jealousy.

Now, if their fall be the riches of the world, and their loss be the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their full acceptance be the riches of the world?

if, by any means, I may excite to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.

For, if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the reception of them be, but life from the dead?

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

Well; on ac count of unbelief they were broken off; but you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear.

Behold, then, the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell,. severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise, you also shall be cut off.

And they, also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

For if you were cut out from an olive-tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, against nature, into a good olive, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive?

For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery lest you be wise in your own conceit that blindness has happened to Israel in part, till the full number of the Gen tiles shall have come in.

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.

For from him, and by him, and for him, are all things. To him be glory through the ages! Amen.

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, that he must not think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but that he be disposed to think modestly, as God has distributed to each a measure of faith.

or, if we have a ministry, let us be active in our ministry; if any one teaches, let him attend to his teaching;

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good;

in love to the brotherhood, be kindly affectionate one to another; in showing honor, be examples one to another;

in what requires diligence, be not slothful; in spirit, be fervent; in service, be devoted to the Lord;

in hope, be joyful; in affliction, be patient; in prayer, be per severing;

administer to the necessities of the saints; be careful to entertain strangers;

cultivate the same disposition, one to ward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;

If possible, as far as may be in your power, be at peace with all men.

If, therefore, your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by doing this, you will heap coals of fire on his head.

Be not overcome by evil; but overcome evil with good.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but from God: the authorities that are, have been appointed by God.

For rulers are not a terror to works that are good, but to those which are evil. Will you, then, not be afraid of the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall receive praise from the same.

For he is the minister of God to you for that which is good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of God to inflict punishment on him that does evil.

Wherefore, it is necessary to be subject, not only because of punishment, but also for conscience sake.

On this very account, too, pay tribute also: for they are the public servants of God, attending continually to this very thing.

One man thinks that one day is better than another; another thinks that every day is alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind.

For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Therefore, let not that which is your good be evil spoken of.

For he who serves the Christ in these things is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

Destroy not the work of God on account of food. All meats, indeed, are clean; but meat is an evil to that man who, by eating, causes another to stumble.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak.

And again, Isaiah says: There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to rule the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in the hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit. PAET IV. Conclusion.

Yet I have written to you more boldly in part, my brethren, as if I would put you in remembrance, on account of the grace which is given to me by God,

that I may be the public servant of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating as a priest with respect to the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, by word and deed, in order to make the Gentiles obedient,

by the power of signs and wonders by the power of the Holy Spirit. So that from Jerusalem, and round about as far as Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of the Christ;

when I make my journey into Spain, I hope, in passing through, to see you, and to be conducted by you on my journey thither, after I am first partly satisfied with your company.

When, therefore, I shall have performed this, and have delivered to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me, in your prayers to God for me,

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that this service of mine, which is for Jerusalem, may be acceptable to the saints;

that I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed among you.

The God of peace be with you all. Amen.

For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own appetites; and, by good words and fair speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple.

For your obedience has gone abroad to all men: I rejoice, therefore, on your account. But I desire you to be wise in respect to that which is good, and guileless in respect to that which is evil.

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

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory throughout the ages. Amen.

PAUL, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sostlienes my brother,

grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

that you are enriched by him in every thing, in all speech, and in all knowledge,

God is faithful, by whom you have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you, but that you be perfectly united in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

For it has been made known to me concerning you, my brethren, by the family of Cloe, that there are contentions among you.

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of the Christ should be deprived of its power.

For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe.

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God:

which things also we speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

But the spiritual man discerns all things; yet he himself is discerned by no one.

Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.