being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to perform.

But it was not written for his sake alone, that it was accounted to him,

but also for our sakes, to whom it is about to be accounted if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience,

but God commends his love to us, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us;

but death reigned from Adam till Moses even over those that sinned not after the similitude Adam's transgression, who is a type of him that was to come;

and not as through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance;

For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant,

that as sin reigned in death, so the grace shall reign through righteousness in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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

Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized in Christ were baptized in his death?

We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;

for he that died was justified from sin.

And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him.

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

But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed,

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.

Did then that which is good become death to me? By no means, but sin; that sin might be made manifest, producing death to me through that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment.

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

But if what I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good;

and now I no longer do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;

I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me;

Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?

that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.

The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God.

And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us.

For the creation was subjected to a perishable condition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope

that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now;

For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees?

and he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because it makes intercession with God for the saints.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;

Who will bring a charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies;

who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us?

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart;

for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh,

Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel;

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac??11 for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,??12 it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger;

Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.

Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus?

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory,

as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my people, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved,

What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith;

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

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge;

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.

For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them.

But what does it say? The word is nigh you, in your mouth and in your mind; that is, the word of the faith which we preach.

For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved;

For the Scripture says, No one that believes in him shall be ashamed.

For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all that call upon him.

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

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those that publish good news of peace, that publish good news of good things.

But I say, did not Israel know? First, Moses says, I will provoke you by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish nation will I excite you to anger.

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

What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were hardened,??8 as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear??o this day.

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

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means; but by their fall the nations have salvation to excite them to emulation.

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

See then the goodness and severity of God; towards those that fell, severity, but towards you, the goodness of God, if you continue in goodness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.

For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,

so also they now have disobeyed that they may obtain mercy by your mercy.

For God has concluded all in disobedience that he may have mercy on all.

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

if one exhorts in the exhortation, he that gives, with simplicity, he that rules, with diligence, he that exercises mercy, with cheerfulness.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil, adhere to that which is good,

Bless those that persecute, bless and curse not.

So that he who resists the power resists the ordinance of God; and those who resist shall receive judgment on themselves.

for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil.

Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law.

And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

For one has faith to eat all things, but he that is weak eats vegetables.

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has accepted him.

Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

He that observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he that observes not the day observes it not to the Lord. And he that eats eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not eats not to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

For this end Christ died and lived again, that he might exercise lordship over the dead and living.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is defiled in itself, except to him that thinks any thing to be defiled; to him it is defiled.

for he that in this serves Christ is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

On account of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but evil is to the man that eats with offense;

You have faith; have it for yourself before God, Blessed is he that condemns not himself in what he approves;

but he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and every thing which is not of faith is sin.

Let us each please our neighbor in that which is good for edification;

for Christ also pleased not himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of those that reproached thee fell on me.

For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.

that being of one mind you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mouth.

For I say that Christ was made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers,

and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; as it is written, For this cause will I praise thee among nations, and sing to thy name.