So David also describeth the happiness of the man, to whom God imputeth righteousness without works:

I have made thee a father of many nations) before God in whom he believed, as quickning the dead, and calling the things that are not, as though they were:

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened 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 been introduced through faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

And hope shameth us not, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Now one will scarce die for a just man: yet perhaps for the good man one would even dare to die.

But God recommendeth his love toward 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 through his life.

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

Yet not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if by the offence of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, that of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

God forbid. How shall we who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

For in that he died, he died to sin once for all; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

So reckon ye also yourselves to be dead to sin, and alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Neither present your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were the servants of sin, ye have now obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine into which ye have been delivered.

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

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

Thus ye also, my brethren, are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might be married to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we may bring forth fruit to God.

What shall we say then? That the law is sin? God forbid. Yea, I should not have known sin, but for the law. I had not known lust, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid: But sin: so that it appeared sin, working death in me by that which is good: so that sin might by the commandment become exceeding sinful.

If then I do what 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 what 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.

Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with my mind serve the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God hath done: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to be a sacrifice for sin, he hath 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 who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

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

The same Spirit beareth witness with our spirits, 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 also be glorified with him.

For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

In hope that the creation itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

But he who searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit: for he maketh intercession for the saints, according to God.

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

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

Who shall 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, yea rather, that is risen again, who is also at the right-hand of God, who likewise maketh intercession for us.

nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the worship 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.

Not as if the word of God had fallen to the ground; for all are not Israel, who are of Israel.

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

our father Isaac, 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 called,) It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid.

It is not therefore of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

For who hath resisted his will? Nay, but who art thou, O man, that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

What if God, being willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, yet endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction?

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

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

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

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

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

But how shall they preach, unless they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them who bring the good tidings of peace, who bring the glad tidings of good things!

Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

I say then, Hath God rejected his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God hath not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel,

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 a spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day.

I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? God forbid. But by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou being a wild olive wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the good olive,

Be not high-minded, but fear. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed left he also spare not thee.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God! Toward them that fell severity; but toward thee goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: else shalt thou also be cut off.

And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.

For if thou wert cut off from the naturally wild olive-tree, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

As then ye were once disobedient to God, but have now obtained mercy through their disobedience:

For God hath shut up all together in disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

O the depth of the riches, and wisdom, and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

And I say, through the grace which is given to me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think, but to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God hath distributed to every one.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good.

Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.

Let every soul be subject to the supreme powers, for there is no power but from God; the powers that be, are appointed by God.

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the appointment of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves condemnation.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Wouldest thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from it; for he is the servant of God to thee for good.

But if thou dost that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the servant of God, an avenger for wrath against him that doth evil.

For this cause ye pay tribute also: for they are the ministers of God, attending continually on this very thing.

Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and let not him that eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath received him.

Who art thou that judgest another's servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be upheld; for God is able to establish him.

He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord; for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

Therefore let not your good be evil spoken of.

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

And he that in these serveth Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure: but it is evil to that man who eateth with offence.

It is good, not to eat flesh, neither to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weak.

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

Let every one of us please his neighbour, for his good, to edification.

Now the God of patience and consolation give you to think the same thing, according to Christ Jesus,

That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also hath received you, to the glory of God.

Now I say, Christ Jesus was a servant of the circumcision, for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers: