But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

Blessed they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:

Does this blessedness then rest on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.

For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?

We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.

knowing that Christ having been raised up from among the dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.

So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope

For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

who is he that condemns? It is Christ who has died, but rather has been also raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.

According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

And according as Esaias said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life.

Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.

What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and thou, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.

Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

For if thou hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

For as indeed ye also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of these;

For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counsellor?

For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether it be prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;

Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you.

whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)

for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.

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

that ye may receive her in the Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for she also has been a helper of many, and of myself.

Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,

but which has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations --