1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated for the gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised beforehand by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was made to be of the descendents of David according to the flesh;
4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
6 Among whom you are also the called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
10 Making request, if by any means now after so much time I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren in Christ, that I often intended to come to you, (but have been prevented thus far,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
15 So, as far as I am able, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God for salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known about God is apparent to them; for God has shown it to them.
20 For those things of him which are invisible, since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was fitting.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a corrupt mind, to do those things which are not suitable;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them.
1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge: for in judging another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.
2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.
3 And do you think, O man, who judge those who do such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?
4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
5 But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you store up for yourself wrath for the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will repay to everyone according to his deeds:
7 To those who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
8 But to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10 But glory, honor, and peace to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Who show the working of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,
18 And know his will, and approve of the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?
22 You who say that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
23 You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keeps the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfils the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
1 What advantage then has the Jew? Or what profit is there from circumcision?
2 Much in every way: chiefly, because to them were committed the oracles of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why am I still also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way: for we have before shown concerning both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They have all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith in Jesus Christ to all and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God has set forth to satisfy justice through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as concerning the flesh, has found?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he has a reason to glory; but not before God.
3 For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
4 Now to one who works is the reward not considered of grace, but of debt.
5 But to one who does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works,
7 Saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
9 Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcision only, or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How was it then accounted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed to them also:
12 And the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his descendents through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is made of no effect:
15 Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end that the promise might be sure to all the descendents; not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
17 (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things that are not as though they were,
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your descendents be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he did not consider his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
20 He did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe in him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 And hope does not make us ashamed; because the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commends his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 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 by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
12 Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, because all have sinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not counted when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the representative of him who was to come.
15 But not like the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many are dead, much more have the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one offense to condemnation, but the free gift is after many offenses to justification.
17 For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men for justification and life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin has reigned leading to death, even so might grace reign through righteousness for eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he who is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he lives, he lives to God.
11 Likewise consider yourselves also to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of instruction which was delivered to you.
18 Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak according to the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity leading to iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness leading to holiness.
20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now being made free from sin, and having become servants to God, you have your fruit in holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Do you not know, brethren, (for I speak to those who know the law,) how the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is freed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit for God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the emotions of sins, which were aroused by the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit leading to death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead in which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I would not have known sin, except by the law: for I would not have known lust, unless the law had said, You shall not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of evil desires. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was established for life, I found to bring death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I do not approve of: for what I would like to do, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do.
16 If then I do that which I do not want to do, I consent to the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I do not find out.
19 For the good that I desire I do not do: but the evil which I do not desire, that I do.
20 Now if I do what I do not desire, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find it then to be a law that when I desire to do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God in the inward man:
23 But I see another 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.
24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who are under the influence of the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but those who are under the influence of the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is at enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not one of his.
10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry out, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who has subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for it?
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, then do we wait for it with patience.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses: for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies.
34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 But it is not as though the word of God has had no effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the descendents of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your descendents be called.
8 That is, Those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the offspring.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to selection might stand, not because of works, but because of him that calls;)
12 It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not from him that wills, nor from him that runs, but from God who shows mercy.
17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore he has mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 You will say then to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20 No, but O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared beforehand for glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
25 As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my people; and her beloved, who was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us descendents, we would have been like Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as if by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whoever believes in him shall not be ashamed.
1 Fellow believers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the purpose of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
5 For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the man who does those things shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaks in this way, Do not say in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what does it say? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.
10 For with the heart man believes leading to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made leading to salvation.
11 For the scripture says, Whoever believes in him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich to all that call upon him.
13 For whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Isaiah is very bold, and says, I was found by those who did not seek me; I was revealed to those who did not ask for me.
21 But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.
1 I say then, has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the descendents of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not cast away his people whom he knew beforehand. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? How he makes intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have killed your prophets, and broken down your altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life.
4 But what does the answer of God say to him? I have kept for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the selection of grace.
6 And if by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it is of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks; but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes so that they would not see, and ears so that they would not hear;) until this day.
9 And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense to them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bend their backs always.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled so that they would fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them is the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, considering that as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation those who are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches are broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, be careful lest he also not spare you.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion; that blindness in part has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 Concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but concerning the selection, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God will not be withdrawn.
30 For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has included them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?
35 Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?
36 For from him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to everyone that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function:
5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members of one another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
7 Or ministry, let us serve in our ministering: or he that teaches, in teaching;
8 Or he that exhorts, in exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with sincerity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cling to that which is good.
10 Be kindly affectioned to one another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer;
13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you: bless, and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be concerned with high things, but associate with men of humble circumstances. Do not be wise in your own conceits.
17 Repay no one evil for evil. Plan things honest in the sight of all men.
18 If it is possible, as much as it depends on you, live peacefully with all men.
19 Dearly beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.
20 Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
1 Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but from God: the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
2 Whoever therefore resists the authority, resists the appointment of God: and those who resist shall receive to themselves condemnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Do you desire then not to fear the authority? Do what is good, and you shall have praise from the same:
4 For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain: for he is the servant of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him who does evil.
5 Therefore you must be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
6 Because for this reason you pay taxes also: for they are God's servants, attending continually to this very thing.
7 Pay therefore to all their dues: taxes to whom taxes are due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
8 Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.
9 For the commandments, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there is any other commandment, it is briefly summed up in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
10 Love does no harm to its neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awaken out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in impurity and licentiousness, not in disputing and envying.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
1 Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not for doubtful controversies.
2 For one believes that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eats vegetables.
3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat; and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats: for God has received him.
4 Who are you who judge another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand.
5 One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let everyone be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regards the day, regards it for the Lord; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
7 For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.
8 For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any longer: but determine this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteems anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if your brother is grieved with your food, now you are not walking in love. Do not destroy him with your food, for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 For he who in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved by men.
19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may build another up.
20 Do not destroy the work of God over food. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats and brings stumbling.
21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.
22 Do you have faith? Have it within yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in that thing which he allows.
23 And he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat in faith: for whatever is not of faith is sin.
1 We then who are strong ought to bear with the concerns of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2 Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good and edification.
3 For even Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.
4 For whatever things were written in former times were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
5 Now may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded towards one another according to Christ Jesus:
6 That you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 Therefore receive one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers:
9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this reason I will confess you among the Gentiles, and sing unto your name.
10 And again he says, Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.
11 And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; and extol him, all you people.
12 And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 And I myself also am persuaded about you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another.
15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly to you in part, as calling you to remembrance, because of the grace that is given to me by God,
16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17 I have therefore something of which I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not done through me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
20 Yea, so have I earnestly desired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
21 But as it is written, Those to whom he was not spoken of, shall see: and those who have not heard shall understand.
22 For which reason also I have been greatly hindered from coming to you.
23 But now having no more room to labor in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come to you;
24 Whenever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way there by you, if first I am somewhat filled with your company.
25 But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.
26 For it has pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
27 It has pleased them truly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in fleshly things.
28 When therefore I have performed this, and have secured to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
29 And I am sure that, when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
30 Now I plead with you, fellow believers, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
31 That I may be delivered from those who do not believe in Judea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted by the saints;
32 That I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.
33 Now may the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
2 That you receive her in the Lord, as it is proper for saints, and that you assist her in whatever business she needs you: for she has been a helper of many, and of myself also.
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Greet my well beloved Epaenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia for Christ.
6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labor on us.
7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
9 Greet Urbanus, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
10 Greet Apelles approved in Christ. Greet those who are of Aristobulus' household.
11 Greet Herodion my kinsman. Greet those who are of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
12 Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord.
13 Greet Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them.
15 Greet Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ greet you.
17 Now I plead with you, brethren, take note of those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.
18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
19 For your obedience has become known to everyone. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise in that which is good, and simple in evil.
20 And the God of peace shall soon bruise Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
21 Timothy my fellow worker, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, greet you.
22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord.
23 Gaius my host, and host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus the treasurer of the city greets you, and Quartus a brother.
24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
25 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
26 But now is clearly revealed, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.