And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death; not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth, against them who commit such things.

And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile;

For there is no respect of persons with God.

(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonorest thou God?

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it is written.

But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.

For what if some did not believe? will their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

By no means: verily let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)

By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?

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

And not rather (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh God.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being testified by the law and the prophets;

Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference:

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

Whom God hath 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;

Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

Seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man to whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

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

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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 hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.

But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

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

But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many are dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to many.

For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God:

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.

But now being made free from sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Was then that which is good made death to me? By no means. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not.

For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.

For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:

I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. Now if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

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

The Spirit itself testifieth with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

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

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints, according to the will of God.

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

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

Who will lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth:

Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, or rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for 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.

Who are Israelites; to whom pertain 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 from whom according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they are not all Israel, who are descendants from Israel?

That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth)

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.

So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.

No, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called, The children of the living God.

For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

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

For I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things?

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

I say then, Hath God cast away his people? By no means. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

But what saith the answer of God to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but towards thee, goodness, if thou shalt continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be ingrafted: for God is able to ingraft them again.

For if thou wast cut out of the olive-tree which is wild by nature, and wast ingrafted contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?