among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ,??7 to all who are at Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not proper,

Wherefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge, for in that in which you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

but to those who are contentions and disobey the truth, and obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,??13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves,

But [what] if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and boast of God,

and know his will, and approve of things which are excellent, being instructed by the law,

For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

And as we are falsely accused and as some declare that we say, [do we say] Let us do evil that good may come? Whose judgment is just.

What defense then have we? None at all; for we before asserted that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

Their feet are swift to shed blood,

destruction and misery are in their ways,

Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered;

For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated.

For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under the grace? By no means.

Know you not that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin in death or of obedience in righteousness?

What fruit had you therefore then in things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of them is death.

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.

For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit;

And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.

Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.

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

The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God.

And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.

For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us.

For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees?

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

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.

who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises,

whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen.

Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel;

neither, because they are a posterity of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac shall your posterity be called;

that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.

Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus?

and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God.

For what reason? Because they are not of faith, but as it were of works of the law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those that publish good news of peace, that publish good news of good things.

And if the first fruit is holy, the mass is also; and if the root is holy, the branches also are.

As to the gospel, they are enemies on your account, but as to the election, they are beloved on account of the fathers;

for the gifts and calling of God are without a change of mind.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how inscrutable are his judgments, and his ways can not be explored!

For of him and through him, and in him are all things; to him be glory forever; amen.

so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of another;

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it;

For on this account also you pay taxes; for [magistrates] are servants of God attending constantly to this same thing.

Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

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

On account of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but evil is to the man that eats with offense;

And we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.

And I am persuaded, my brothers, even I myself, concerning you, that you are full of kindness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another;

They have been pleased indeed, and their debtors they are; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.

Salute Andronicus and Junius, my relatives and my fellow-captives, who are distinguished among the apostles, and who were before me in Christ.

Salute Herodion, my relative. Salute those of the [family] of Narcissus who are in the Lord.