They, after examination, would have released me, for they found no cause of death in me.

But because the Jews spoke against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar: not that I have any accusation to bring against my own nation.

And they said to him: We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor has any one of the brethren come, and reported or spoken any evil of you.

For the heart of this people has become fat, and with their ears they hear heavily, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I should restore them to health.

through whom we have received grace and apostleship, in order to the obedience of faith among all nations, for the honor of his name,

always in my prayers making request, that, if possible, I may at length have a prosperous journey, by the will of God to come to you.

But, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant that I often purposed to come to you, though I have been hindered to the present time, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned under law, shall be judged by law,

For when the Gentiles, who have not a law, do, by nature, the things of the law, these who have not a law, are a law to themselves,

an instructor of the simple, a teacher of the unlearned, because you have the form of true knowledge in the law;

What, indeed, if some have been unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness overthrow the faithfulness of God?

What then? Do we, Jews, excel? Not at all: for we have already convicted all, both Jews and Greeks, of being under sin,

they have all turned out of the way; they have alike become unprofitable; there is none that does good, not even one;

their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

and the way of peace they have not known;

for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,

(as it is written: I have made you a father of many nations,) in the sight of him in whom he believed, even God, who makes the dead alive, and calls those things which are not, as though they were.

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

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

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

For this reason, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by his sin, death; and so death passed through to all men, because all have sinned:

But the favor bestowed is not, in all respects, like the offense: for if, by the offense of one, the many have died, much more have the grace of God and the gift which is by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ, been made abundant for the many.

For as by the disobedience of the one man the many have been made sinners, so, also, by the obedience of the one, the many shall be made righteous.

For if we have become united to him by the likeness of his death, we shall certainly be united to him by the likeness of his resurrection;

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

For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.

But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed;

and being made free from sin, you have be come the servants of righteousness.

I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness.

But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life.

So then, my brethren, you, also, have died to the law, by the body of the Christ, in order that you may be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit to God.

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.

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 not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

That I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart;

For the word of the promise is this: At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

as it is written: Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

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.

Therefore, he has mercy on whom he wills to have mercy: and whom he wills to harden, he hardens.

No, but rather, O man, who are you that dispute with God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed, it, Why have you made me thus?

And as Isaiah said before: Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.

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

For I testify for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For being ignorant of God's plan of justification, and seeking to establish their own plan of justification, they have not submitted to God's plan of justification.

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?

But they have not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says: Lord, who has believed our report?

But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily; their voice has gone forth into all the earth: and -their words to the ends of the world.

But with respect to Israel, he says: All day long have I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek: my life.

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

What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened to this day,

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.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and partake with them of the root and fatness of the 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.

For as you formerly did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy through their unbelief;

so, also, these have not now believed, that through the mercy shown to you, they also may obtain mercy.

For God has delivered them all over to unbelief, that he may have mercy on them all.

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

Since, then, we have gifts which differ according to the grace that is given to us, whether we have the gift of prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our 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 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 this very purpose, Christ both died and rose, and lived again, that he might have dominion over the dead and the living.

Have you faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who condemns not himself in that which he approves.

For the things which were formerly written, were written for our instruction, that we, through the patience and the comfort which the scriptures give, might have hope.

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,

I have, therefore, cause to glory in Christ Jesus in things that pertain to God.

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;

so earnestly desirous have I been to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;

but, as it is written: They to whom he was not preached, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.

For which reason, also, I have been often hindered from coming to you.

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints who are in Jerusalem:

they have been pleased to do so, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have become partakers of their spiritual things, they ought to minister to them in things pertaining to the flesh.

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

that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of saints, and that you aid her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she has aided many, and myself also.

Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who make divisions and cause offenses in opposition to the teaching which you have learned, and avoid them.

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

which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

But, as it is written: Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered the things which God has prepared for them that love him.

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:

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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

According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on this. But let every one take heed how he builds on this.

So, then, judge nothing be fore the time, till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secret works of darkness, and will also make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall each have his praise from God.

And these things, brethren, I have, in figure, applied to my self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think more of teachers than what has been written; and that no one of you be vain of one to the injury of another.

For who gave you distinction, as a teacher? And what have you as a teacher, that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast, as if you had not received it?

You, Corinthians, are already full; you are already rich; you have reigned as kings independently of us. And that you did indeed reign, that we also might reign with you!

For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

when defamed, we entreat; we have become like the outcasts of the world, the offscouring of all things to this day.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you have not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

For. this reason have I sent to you Timothy, who is my son, beloved and faithful in the Lord, that he may remind you of my ways that are in Christ, as I teach everywhere, in every church.

Now, some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you;

but I will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the speech of those who have become arrogant, but the power.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

For I, in deed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him that has so done this thing;

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you and my spirit have come together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;

For what right have I to judge those who are without? Do you not judge those who are within?

If, then, you have controversies pertaining to things of this life, set them to judge who are the least esteemed in the church.

Now, certainly, you are altogether in fault, that you have law-suits with one another. Why do you not rather suffer injustice? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?