saying, 'Go your way to this people, and say, With hearing ye shall hear, but in no wise understand; and, looking, ye shall look, and in no wise see;

for the heart of this people was made gross; and with their ears they heard heavily; and their eyes they closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I should heal them.'

through Whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations for His name's sake;

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that ye may be established;

so, as much as in me is, I am ready to proclaim the Gospel to you also who are in Rome.

for in it is revealed God's righteousness, from faith to faith; as it has been written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

For God's wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;

You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

But, if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, Who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of a man).

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

they have all turned aside, they together became unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one;

What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness."

Does this happiness, therefore, come upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness."

who, past hope, believed against hope, to the end that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So shall your seed be."

And, being not weakened in faith, he attentively considered his own body already dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb;

And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations; knowing that tribulation works out patience;

and not only so, but we are rejoicing in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we now received the reconciliation.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned;

but yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who sinned not after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of Him Who was to come.

But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift; for, if by the trespass of the one, the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the One Man, Christ Jesus, abound to the many.

And not as through one that sinned, so is the gift; for, indeed, the judgment came of one trespass unto condemnation; but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification.

So, then, as through one trespass, the judgment came to all men unto condemnation; so also, through one righteous act, the free gift came to all men unto justification of life.

For as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners; so also through the obedience of the One, shall the many be constituted righteous.

that, as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What, then, shall we say? Shall we persist in sin, that grace may abound?

We were buried, therefore, with Him through the immersion into death; that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Even so reckon ye also yourselves dead, indeed, to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

I speak after human fashion because of the weakness of your flesh; for, as ye presented your members subservient to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now present your members subservient to righteousness unto holiness.

So, then, if, while the husband is living, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but, if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

But now we have been fully discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

So that the law is holy, and the command is holy and righteous and good.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

and, not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves are groaning within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

But, if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

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

Who will bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God Who justifieth;

neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called."

And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac

What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? It could not be!

So, then, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God Who hath mercy.

So, then, He hath mercy on whom He willeth, and whom He willeth He hardeneth.

You will say to me, then, "Why doth He still find fault? for who has withstood His will?"

Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, "Why didst Thou make me thus?"

And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved;"

What, then, shall we say? that gentiles who were not following after righteous obtained righteousness, but a righteousness which is of faith;

for, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God;

but the righteousness which is of faith speaks thus: "Say not in your heart, who shall ascend up into Heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down);

But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart; that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

But I say, did they not hear? Yes, verily, "Their sound went out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited earth."

But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to rivalry by that which is no nation; by a nation void of understanding will I provoke you to anger."

I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Even so, then, at this present time also, a remnant, according to an election of grace, has been reserved.

as it has been written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day."

let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always."

I Say, then, did they stumble, that they might fall? It could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry.

And, if the first-fruit is holy, so also is the lump; and, if the root is holy, so also are the branches.

You will say, then, "The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

Behold, then, God's kindness and severity; toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise, you also shall be cut off.

and so all Israel shall be saved; even as it has been written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

As touching the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sake;

even so did these now disobey, that by the mercy shown to you they also may obtain mercy.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one among you, not to think of himself more highly than he night to think, but so to think as to think soberly, according as God divided to each one a measure of faith.

so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men;

So that he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those having resisted shall receive to themselves condemnation;

for he is God's minister to you for good. But, if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

For, on this account, ye pay tribute also; for they are God's ministers, attending continually to this very thing.

Love works no ill to one's neighbor: therefore, love is a fulfillment of the law.

Who are you that judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. But he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

For, if we live, we live to the Lord; and, if we die, we die to the Lord: whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

So, then, each one of us shall give account concerning himself to God.

Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion of falling, in a brother's way.

So, then, let us follow after the things productive of peace, and the things that tend to mutual edification.

For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers;

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, I have fully dispensed the Gospel of Christ;

and, making it my aim so to proclaim the Gospel??ot where Christ was already named??hat I might not build upon another's foundation;

but, as it has been written, "Those shall see, to whom nothing was announced concerning Him; and those who have not heard shall understand."

whensoever I go to Spain (for I am hoping, in passing through, to see you, and to be sent on my way thither by you, if first I have been satisfied, in a measure, with your company);

so that ye fall short in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

lest some one should say that ye were immersed into my name.

but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery??he hidden wisdom??hich God predestined before the ages for our glory;

but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

For who of men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? even so the things of God no one has known, except the Spirit of God.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual, but as to carnal??s to babes in Christ.

So that neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters; but God Who causeth it to grow.

For we are God's fellow-workers; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

the work of each one shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will prove each one's work, of what sort it is.

If any one's work which he built thereon shall remain, he shall receive a reward.

If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

But, with me, it is a very small thing, that I should be judged by you, or by man's day; yea, I do not even judge myself.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are highly esteemed; but we are without honor.

Actually there is reported among you fornication, and such fornication as exists not even among the gentiles, that one of you should have his father's wife!

For I, verily, being absent in the body, but present in the Spirit, have already, as if present, judged him who so wrought this;

I speak to your shame! Is it so, that there is not among you even one wise man, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

But this I say by way of permission, not of command.

Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them, if they remain even as I am.