For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law -- to themselves are a law;

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;

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

who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- 'A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

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.

For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of the rising again;

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

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?

And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

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

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

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;

that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --

for to Moses He saith, 'I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

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

God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,

For those ruling are not a terror to the good works, but to the evil; and dost thou wish not to be afraid of the authority? that which is good be doing, and thou shalt have praise from it,

I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one it is unclean;

Thou hast faith! to thyself have it before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers,

I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;

but according as it hath been written, 'To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

and I have known that coming unto you -- in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.

that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you -- for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.

salute Andronicus and Junias, my kindred, and my fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.

and I did baptize also Stephanas' household -- further, I have not known if I did baptize any other.

which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on it,

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;

for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:

Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge?

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not!

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? 'for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

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

have we not authority to eat and to drink?

have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority -- not to work?

Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?

And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for it is good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?

and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;

and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

and an eye is not able to say to the hand, 'I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.'

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power --

for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet --

for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, 'The Death was swallowed up -- to victory;

on every first day of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves --

but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

And to whom ye forgive anything -- I also; for I also, if I have forgiven anything, to whom I have forgiven it, because of you -- in the person of Christ -- I forgive it,