And from there, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as the Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.

For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:

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 always in my prayers;

I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes righteousness without works,

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

(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were.

But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

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

Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? how he makes intercession to God against Israel, saying,

Lord, they have killed your prophets, and dug down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

For I speak to you Gentiles, since I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteems anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not him with your food, for whom Christ died.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

Whenever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way there by you, if first I am somewhat refreshed with your company.

And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

For your obedience is well known unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and innocent concerning evil.

God is faithful, by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now this I say, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not thereby justified: but he that judges me is the Lord.

What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not you my work in the Lord?

If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of my apostleship are you in the Lord.

For though I am free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

Be followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

For now we see in a mirror dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

After that, he was seen of over five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.

Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

To whom you forgive anything, I forgive also: for if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ;

In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my boasting of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.

For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found to be truth.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am humble among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, though I think to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.

I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. But in whatsoever way any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the descendants of Abraham? so am I.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes beyond measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

To whom we yielded in subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the descendant should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at all.

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

But it is good to be zealous always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.