God forbid: yea, let God be acknowledged true, though every man be a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome, when thou judgest.

"But if our unrighteousness confirm the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unrighteous, who inflicteth his wrath?" (I speak as a man) God forbid:

for then how shall God judge the world?

"But, say you, if the truth of God hath abounded unto his glory through my falshood, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

and why may we not do evil that good may come?"---as we are injuriously charged, and as some affirm that we say; whose condemnation is just.

there is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.

and the way of peace they have not known; and the fear of God is not before their eyes."

it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of God.

But now, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets;

and this righteousness of God is by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all believers; for there is no difference;

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

whom God hath appointed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, in the remission of past sins, according to the forbearance of God;

or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles?

surely of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision also through faith.

Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.

for if Abraham were justified by works, he hath something to boast of; but this he hath not before God:

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

As David also describeth the blessedness of the man to whom: God imputeth righteousness without works, saying,

(as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations,") in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not as if they were:

He hesitated 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:

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

and experience hope, and this hope maketh us not ashamed; because the love of God is diffused in our hearts by the holy Spirit that is given to us.

Whereas one would hardly die for a just man, though perhaps for a good man one might dare even to die.

But God recommendeth 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 shall we be saved by his life.

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

But not as the offence, so also is the free gift: for if through the offence of one many died, much more hath the grace of God, and the gift bestowed by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

God forbid! how shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

but as He liveth, He liveth unto God.

So also do ye reckon yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Neither yield your bodies as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

God forbid! Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey? either of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

But thanks be to God, that ye who were servants of sin, have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you:

But now being set free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto 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.

And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were bound, that we might serve God in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust to be sinful, if the law had not 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 unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin might be shewn by the commandment to be exceeding sinful.

And if 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: for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not.

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

I find then a kind of law, that when I would do good, evil besets me.

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

The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

For that which was impossible for the law to do, and in which it was weak through the corruption of the flesh, God by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sacrifice for sin, hath done; that is, hath condemned sin in the flesh:

because the carnal mind is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be:

and they who are carnal, cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

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

So that the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ: if so be we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified with Him.

For the earnest expectation of the world is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God:

in hope that they 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; for he intercedeth for the saints according to the will of God.

And we know that all things co-operate 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 accusation against the elect of God? will God, who justifieth us?

Who is he that condemneth? Is it Christ, that died for us? yea rather, that is risen again, who is also at the right hand of God, and who maketh intercession for us?

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.

whose are the fathers, and of whom, as to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever. Amen.

Not that the word of God hath failed. For they are not all Israel, who are descended from Israel.

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

(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger:

What shall we say then? Is there injustice in God?

God forbid! For He saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

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

Nay but, O man, who art thou, that disputest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

And what if God, though resolved to shew his displeasure at last, and to make known his power, yet bore with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction?

And 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.

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

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

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

and believe in thine heart, that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

and how shall they preach unless they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good tidings of peace, who bring the good tidings of good things?

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

I say then, Hath God cast off his people? God forbid! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God hath not cast off his people, whom He foreknew. Do ye not know what the scripture saith of Elias? how he complains to God against Israel,

But what saith the oracle 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, that their eyes could not see and their ears could not hear,) even unto this day.

Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.

For if God spared not the natural branches, neither would He spare thee.

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

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

For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive, which was natural to thee, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive; how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

For as ye were heretofore disobedient to God, but have now obtained mercy in their disobedience:

For God hath included them all in the charge of disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways not to be traced out!

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, and well-pleasing to God, as your rational service.

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

For by the grace conferred on me I charge every one among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think: but to think with sobriety, according as God hath divided to every man the measure of faith.

Let love be unfeigned. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good;

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

Let every soul be subject to the powers that are over them: for there is no such power but from God: the powers that are over men, are appointed by God.

So that he who resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive condemnation.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wouldest thou then not be afraid of the civil power? do what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it:

for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou dost evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is also the minister of God, as an avenger to execute his wrath upon the malefactor.