1 Scroll 35 Epistle to the Romans.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated to the Gospel of God,
2 (which He promised before by His prophets in the Holy Scriptures).
3 Concerning His Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh.
4 Who has been declared to be the Son of God, with power, according to the Spirit of Holiness,
by the resurrection from the dead: (of Jesus Christ our Lord).
5 By whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all nations for His Name:
6 among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ.
7 To all that being in Rome, beloved of God, called Saints:
Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is preached in the whole World.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of His Son,
that I make constantly mention of you,
10 always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall be prospered, 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 ye 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 to be ignorant, brethren,
that I have often purposed to come to you,
(but have been until now hindered) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to the Greeks[Gentiles], and to the barbarians, both to the wise, and to the fools.
15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you; also that are at Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God to Salvation to every one who believing; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek[Gentile].
17 For in this the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith: as it has been written,
The just shall live by faith. Hab 2:4
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness,
and unrighteousness of men, who holding the truth in unrighteousness;
19 because that which may be known of God, is manifest in them; for God has shown it to them.
20 For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the World are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and divinity; for them to be without excuse:
21 because that when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful,
but became vain in their imaginations, and darkened was their foolish heart.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools:
23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God in an image made like to corruptible man,
and to birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping animals.
24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, by the lusts of their own hearts,
to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 who exchanged the truth of God in the lie, and worshiped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen!
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Therefore God gave them up to vile affections.
For even their females exchanged the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 and likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their lust one towards another;
males with males working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was needful.
28 And even as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 backbiters, God-haters, insolent, proud, boasters, inventers of evil things, to parents disobedient,
31 without understanding, Covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who doing such things are worthy of death; not only do the same, but consent in them that do them.
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Therefore Thou are inexcusable, O man, whoever Thou are, that judging: for in which Thou judge another,
Thou condemn thyself; for Thou that judging, do the same things.
2 But we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, against them who do such things.
3 And think Thou this, O man, that judge them who doing such things, and doing the same, that Thou shall escape the judgment of God?
4 Or despise Thou the riches of His kindness, and forbearance, and endurance; not knowing that the goodness of God leads Thee to repentance?
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But after Thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasure up to thyself wrath against a day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 who will render to every man according to his works. Psa 62:12
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To them who by patient continuance in good work, seek for glory, and honour, and incorruption; everlasting life:
8 but to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath:
9 tribulation and distress upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek[Gentile];
10 but glory, honour, and peace, to all that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek[Gentile].
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For there is no respect of persons[favouritism] with GOD;
12 for as many as have lawlessly sinned, shall also lawlessly perish: and as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be judged by 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, should do by nature the things contained in the Law, these having not the Law, are a Law to themselves.
15 Who show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing testimony,
and between one another the thoughts accusing or even defending).
16 In the day when GOD shall judge the secrets of men, according to my Gospel by Jesus Christ.
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Behold, Thou are called a Jew, and rest in the Law, and make Thy boast of God,
18 and know his will, and approve the things excelling, being instructed out of the Law,
19 and have confidence that Thou thyself be a guide of the blind, a light of them 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 Thou therefore who teach another, teach Thou not thyself?
Thou that preach a man should not steal, do Thou steal?
22 Thou that saying a man should not commit adultery, do Thou commit adultery?
Thou that abhor idols, do Thou commit sacrilege?
23 Thou that make Thy boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonour Thou God?
24 For the Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it has been written. Isa 52:5
25 For circumcision truly profits, if Thou may keep the Law;
but if Thou are a breaker of the Law, Thy circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision keeps the righteousness of the Law,
shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall it judge Thee? Uncircumcision which is by nature, fulfilling the Law,
who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the Law?
28 For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of heart, in spirit, not in letter;
whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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What advantage then has the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 Much every manner: first, because that to them were entrusted the Words of God.
3 For what if some disbelieved? Will their unbelief nullify the faith of God?
4 Let it not be: truly let God be true, but every man a liar; as it has been written,
That Thou may be justified in Thy sayings, and may overcome when Thee are judged. Psa 51:4
5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, What shall we say?
Is God unrighteous who inflicting wrath? (I speak as a man).
6 Let it not be: for then how shall God judge the World?
7 For if the truth of God has more abounded by my lie to His glory; why yet am I as a sinner also judged?
8 And not rather (as we are blasphemed, and as some affirm that we say);
Let us do evil, that good may come? Whose judgment is just.
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What then? Are we better? Not at all:
for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks[Gentiles], that they be all under sin.
10 As it has been written,
There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 there is none who is understanding, there is none that is seeking after God. Psa 14:2 Psa 53:2
12 They all turned aside, they are together became unprofitable:
there is none that doing good, no, not one. Psa 14:3 Psa 53:3
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues they have used deceit; Psa 5:9
the poison of asps is under their lips. Psa 140:3
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Psa 10:7
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood. Isa 59:7
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. Isa 59:7
17 And the way of peace have they not known. Isa 59:8
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. Psa 36:1
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Now we have known that whatever things the Law says, it said to them who are in the Law:
that every mouth may be stopped, and all the World may become guilty before God.
20 Because by works of Law, there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the Law is knowledge of sin.
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But now the righteousness of God apart from the Law is manifested, being testified by the Law and the Prophets;
22 even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all them that believing; 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 be a propitiation, through the faith in His blood,
to declare His righteousness for the passing over of sins that are past, in the forbearance of God.
26 To declare, at present time His righteousness: for Him to be just, and justifying him that is of the faith of Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It was 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 works of Law.
29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also of the Greeks[Gentiles]?
Yes, also of the Greeks[Gentiles]:
30 seeing it is One GOD who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the Law through the faith?
Let it not be: but we establish the Law.
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What shall we then say that Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has whereof to glory, but not before God.
3 For what says the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. Gen 15:6
4 Now to him that works, is the reward not counted of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that works not, but believing in Him that justifying the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
7 saying,
Blessed are they whose iniquities were forgiven,
and whose sins were covered! Psa 32:1
8 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD will not reckon sin! Psa 32:2
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Comes this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?
For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness. Gen 15:6
10 How then was it counted? Being 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 being uncircumcised:
that he be the father of all them that believing,
though they are not circumcised, that righteousness might be counted to them also;
12 and the father of circumcision to them 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 uncircumcised.
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For the promise that He be the heir of the World was not to Abraham, or to his seed,
through the Law, but through righteousness of faith.
14 For if they who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void, and has been nullified the promise;
15 for the Law works wrath: for where no Law is, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore of faith, that according to grace; to the end the promise: to be sure to all the seed,
not to that only which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
17 As it has been written, I have made Thee a father of many nations; before Him whom he believed, Gen 17:5
God, who vivifying the dead, and calling those things which being not as those that being.
18 Who against hope believed with hope, that he should become the father of many nations; Gen 17:5 Gen 15:5
according to that which has been spoken, So shall be Thy seed.
19 And not having been weak in the faith, he considered not his own body now dead,
being about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.
20 Yet he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God;
21 and being fully persuaded, that what he has promised, he is able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was counted to him for righteousness. Gen 15:6
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was counted to him;
24 but for us also, to whom it should be counted, to those that believing in Him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 by whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we rejoice also in tribulations; knowing that tribulation works patience;
4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 and hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which was given to us.
6 For yet we being weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commends His love towards us, in that while we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, now having been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
10 For if when we being 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 now received the reconciliation[atonement].
12 Therefore as by one man the sin entered into the World, and death by sin;
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
13 For until the Law, sin was in the World: but sin being not imputed when there is no Law.
14 But death reigned from Adam to Moses,
even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of the transgression of Adam,
who is the figure of Him that was to come.
15 But not as the offence, so also is the gift.
For if through the offence of one many are dead,
much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace,
which is by one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift.
For the judgment was by one to condemnation,
but the gift is of many offences to justification.
17 For since by the offence of one, death reigned by one;
much more they who receive abundance of grace,
and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
18 Therefore, as by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation,
even so by the righteousness of One, the gift came upon all men to justification of 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 offence might abound.
But where the sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 that as the sin has reigned to death,
even so might grace reign through righteousness to everlasting life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in the sin, that grace may abound?
2 Let it not be: we who died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
3 Or are ye ignorant, that so many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead,
by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become planted together in the likeness of His death, but we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection:
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him,
that the body of the sin may be destroyed, that we no longer to serve the sin.
7 For he having died was justified from the sin.
8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him:
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death has no more lordship over Him.
10 For in that He died, He died to the sin once: but in that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin,
but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Let not the sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts of it;
13 neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness to the 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 lordship over you: for ye are not under Law, but under grace;
15 what then? Shall we sin, because we are not under Law, but under grace?
Let it not be;
16 have ye not known that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience,
His servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the slaves of the sin;
but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from the sin, ye were the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh:
for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to lawlessness, to (work) lawlessness;
even so now yield your members servants to righteousness, to (work) sanctification.
20 For when ye were the slaves of the sin, ye were free to righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now having been made free from the sin, and having become servants to God,
ye have your fruit to sanctification, and the end everlasting life.
23 For the wages of the sin is death: but the gift of GOD is everlasting life, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Or are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the Law);
that the Law has lordship over a man as long as he may live?
2 For the married woman has been bound by the law to the living husband;
but if the husband may die, she has been loosed from the Law of the husband.
3 So then, while the husband living, but she is married to another man, she shall be divinely called an adulteress:
but if the husband is dead, she is free from that Law; so that she be no adulteress,
though she is be married to another man.
4 Therefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the Law by the body of Christ;
that ye should be married to another,
even to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, which were by the Law,
did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death:
6 but now we are delivered from the Law, having died by which we were held;
that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin?
Let it not be. But I did not know sin except through Law:
for I had not known coveting, except the Law said, Thou shall not covet. Exo 20:17
8 But the sin, taking occasion by the Commandment,
wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the Law sin was dead.
9 But I was alive without the Law once: but when the Commandment came, the sin revived, and I died.
10 And the Commandment which was ordained to life, I was found to be to death.
11 For the 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 Then has the good become death to me?
Let it not be.
But the sin, that it might appear sin,
working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the Commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we have known that the Law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, having been sold under the sin.
15 For that which I work, I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that I do.
16 But if then I do that which I would not, I consent to the Law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that work it, but the sin that dwelling in me.
18 For I have known 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 find not.
19 For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 But if I do that which I would not, it is no more I that work it, but the sin that dwelling in me.
21 I find then a Law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the Law of GOD, after 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 the sin which being in my members.
24 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.
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There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus,
who walking not 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 the sin and death.
3 For what was impossible by the Law, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God, having sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh:
4 that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us,
who walking not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
5 For they that being according to the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh:
but they that being according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 For the mind-set of the flesh is death; but for the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace:
7 because the mind-set of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the Law of GOD, for neither can it be.
8 So then they that being in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in flesh, but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.
But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
10 But 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 having raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
He who having raised the Christ[Messiah] from the dead will also vivify your mortal bodies by His Spirit who dwelling in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13 For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die:
but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of GOD.
15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father!
16 The same Spirit testifies with our spirit, that we are the Children of GOD:
17 but if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;
if indeed we suffer with Him, that also we may be glorified together.
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For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which to be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of GOD.
20 For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who has subjected the same in hope:
21 that the creation itself also shall be make free from the bondage of corruption, into the glory of liberty of the Children of GOD.
22 For we have known that the whole creation groans, and travails in pain together until now:
23 and not only they, but ourselves also, who having the first-fruit of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
24 For we were saved in hope: But hope that being seen, is not hope:
for what a man sees, why does he also hope?
25 But if we hope for what we see not, then with patience we wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we have not known what we should pray for as we ought:
but the same Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And He who searching the hearts has known what is the mind-set of the Spirit,
because He makes intercession for the Saints, according to the will of God.
28 But we have known that to them that loving God all things work together for good,
to them who being called according to His purpose.
29 For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son,
for Him to be the First-born 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.
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What shall we then say to these things?
Since God is for us, who can be against us?
32 Who yet spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,
how shall He not with Him also grant us all things?
33 Who will accuse against God's elects? It is God that justifies.
34 Who is he who condemning? It is Christ that died, or rather that having 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 has been written,
For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we were reckoned as sheep for the slaughter. Psa 44:22
37 But in all these things we are victorious, 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 creature,
will 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 lie not, my conscience also bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
2 that my grief is great, and a continual pain is in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself to be anathema[accursed] from Christ, for my brethren,
the relatives of me according to the flesh:
4 who are Israelites; to whom pertain the adoption, and the glory, and the Covenants,
and the giving of the Law, and the service, and the promises;
5 whose are the fathers, and from whom the Christ[Messiah] according to the flesh,
who being over all GOD, blessed forever. Amen!
6 But it is not as that the Word of GOD has failed. For all those from Israel, these are not Israel?
7 Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children:
but, in Isaac The seed of Thee shall be called. Gen 21:12
8 That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these are not the Children of GOD;
but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. Gen 18:10
10 And not only this; but Rebekah also having 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 election might stand, not by works, but of Him that calling).
12 It was said to her, The greater shall serve the lesser. Gen 25:23
13 As it has been written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Mal 1:2-3
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?
Let it not be.
15 For He says to Moses,
I will have mercy on whom I may have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I may have compassion. Exo 33:19
16 So then, it is not of him that is willing, nor of him that is running, but of God that is showing mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh,
Even for this same purpose have I raised Thee up, that I might show My power in Thee,
and that My Name might be declared throughout all the Earth. Exo 9:16
18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardens.
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Thou will say then to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will?
20 But rather, O man, who are Thou that replying against God?
Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, Why have Thou made me thus?
21 Or has not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?
22 But if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known,
endured with much endurance the vessels of wrath having been fitted to destruction:
23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy,
which He had before prepared for glory,
24 even us whom He has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Greeks[Gentiles].
25 As He says also in Hoshea,
I will call them My people, who were not My people; and her Beloved, who was not beloved[variant]. Hos 2:23
26 And it shall come to pass, that 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. Hos 1:10
27 Isaiah also cries concerning Israel,
Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. Isa 10:22
28 For He finishing and cutting short the matter in righteousness:
because a short matter will the LORD make upon the Earth. Isa 10:23
29 And as Isaiah has said before,
Except the LORD of Sabaoth had left us seed,
we had been as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah. Isa 1:9
30
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles who followed not after righteousness,
have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by 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 it were by works of Law.
For they stumbled at that stone of stumbling.
33 As it has been written,
Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence, Isa 8:14
and whoever believing in Him shall not be ashamed. Isa 28:16
1
Brethren, the good pleasure of my heart and prayer to God for Israel is for Salvation.
2 For I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to every who believing.
5
For Moses writes about the righteousness which is by the Law,
That the man who doing these things shall live by them. Lev 18:5
6 But the righteousness which is by faith says this: Thou should not say in Thy heart,
Who shall ascend into Heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down).
7 Or, Who shall go down into the Abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
8 But what says it? The word is near Thee, even in Thy mouth, and in Thy heart:
that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
9 that if Thou may confess with Thy mouth: Lord Jesus, and may believe in Thy heart,
that God has raised Him from the dead, Thou shall be saved.
10 For with the heart man has believed to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to Salvation.
11
For the Scripture says,
whoever believing in Him shall not be ashamed. Isa 28:16
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek[Gentile]:
for the same Lord over all, is rich to all that call upon Him,
13 for whoever may call on the Name of the LORD shall be saved. Joe 2:32
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, except they be sent? As it has been written,
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of Peace,
and bring glad tidings of good things? Isa 52:7
16 But they have not all obeyed the Gospel. For Isaiah says,
LORD, who has believed our report? Isa 53:1
17 So then, faith comes by report, and the report by the word of GOD.
18 But I say, Have they not heard?
But rather, their sound went into all the Earth,
and their words to the ends of the World. Psa 19:4
19
But I say, Did not Israel know? First, Moses says,
I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no nation, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. Deu 32:21
20 But Isaiah is very bold, and says,
I was found by them that not seeking for Me;
I became manifest to them that not asking for Me. Isa 65:1
21 But to Israel He says,
All day long I have stretched forth My hands to a disobedient and contradicting people. Isa 65:2
1 I say then, Has God cast away His people?
Let it not be. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not cast away His people which He foreknew. Psa 94:14
Or have ye not known what the Scripture says of Elijah?
How He makes intercession to God against Israel, saying, 1Ki 19:9
3 LORD, they have killed Thy prophets, and dig down Thy Altars; and I was left alone, and they seek my life. 1Ki 19:10
4 But what says the answer of God to him?
I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 1Ki 19:18
5
Even so then at this present time also there has been a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 But if by grace, then is it no more by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
But if by works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel seeks,
this it did not obtain, but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 According as it has been written,
God gave them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see,
and ears that they should not hear; to this day. Isa 29:10 Deu 29:4
9 And David says,
Let their table be made for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them. Psa 69:22
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always. Psa 69:23
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they might fall?
Let it not be: but rather through their fall Salvation is come to the Gentiles,
to provoke them to jealousy.
12 But if the fall of them be 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, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles,
I glorify my ministry:
14 if somehow I may provoke to jealousy them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
15 For if the rejection of them be the reconciling of the World, what shall the receiving of them be, except life from the dead?
16 But if the first-fruit is Holy, the lump is also Holy: and if the root is Holy, so are the branches.
17 But if some of the branches be broken off, and Thou, being a wild olive-tree,
were grafted among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;
18 boast not against the branches. But if Thou boasts, Thou bears not the root, but the root Thee.
19 Thou will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and Thou have stood by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
21 for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not Thee.
22 Behold therefore the kindness and severity of God: on them who fell, severity;
but towards Thee, kindness, if Thou may continue in His kindness: otherwise Thou also shall be cut off.
23 And they also, if they may abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted: for God is again able to grafted in them.
24 For if Thou was cut out of the olive-tree which is wild by nature, and was 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 would not, brethren, have ye to be ignorant of this mystery, (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits);
that hardness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles may come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it has been written,
There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer,
and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: Isa 59:20
27 For this is My Covenant to them; Isa 59:21
when I may take away their sins. Isa 27:9
28 As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes:
but as concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God,
now you have 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 concluded 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 counsellor? Isa 40:13
35 Or who has first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed to Him? Job 41:11
36 For from Him, and by Him, and to Him are all things: to Him be the glory forever. Amen!
1 Therefore I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, Holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this Age[World]: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
3 For through the grace given to me,
I say, to every one that being 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 have not the same function:
5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and members each one of one another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us,
whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
7 or ministry, on ministering:
or he who teaching, on doctrine:
8 or he who exhorting, on exhortation:
he who giving, let him do it with simplicity;
he who ruling, with diligence;
he who showing mercy, with cheerfulness.
9 Let love be unfeigned.
Abhor that which is the evil! Cleaving to that which is the good!
10 Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in the honour preferring one another;
11 in diligence (not slothful); fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
12 rejoicing in hope; enduring in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer;
13 distributing to the necessity of Saints; pursuing hospitality.
14 Bless them who persecute you; bless, and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
16 Be of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high things,
but with the humbles going along. Be not wise in your own conceits.
17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18 If it is possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.
19 Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it has been written,
Vengeance is Mine, I will recompense, says the LORD. Deu 32:35
20 Therefore if Thy enemy may hunger, feed him; if he may thirst, give him drink: Pro 25:21
for in so doing Thou shall heap coals of fire on his head. Pro 25:22
21 Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome the evil with good.
1 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers.
For there is no power except from God: those powers that being ordained by God.
2 Whoever therefore resists the power, has resisted the ordinance of God:
and they that resist shall receive to themselves judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil things.
Will Thou then not be afraid of the power; do that which is good,
and Thou shall have praise from it:
4 for he is the minister of God to Thee for good.
But if Thou should do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain:
for he is the minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doing evil.
5 Therefore ye must necessarily be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
6 For, therefore ye pay tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; the honour to whom honour.
8
No, ye owe nothing, except to love one another: for he who loving another has fulfilled the Law.
9 For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not bear false witness, Thou shall not covet; Exo 20:3-17 Deu 5:7-21
and if there is any other Commandment, it is recapitulated in this saying, namely,
Thou shall love Thy neighbour as thyself. Lev 19:18
10 Love works no ill to one's neighbour: therefore the fulfilling of the Law is love.
11 And this, knowing the time, that now it is the hour to awake out of sleep: for now is our Salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night has advanced, the day has drawn-near: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and envying.
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the lusts of flesh.
1 Him that being weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
2 For one believes that he may eat all things: another, who being weak, eats herbs.
3 Let not him that eating, despise him that eating not; and let not him who eating not, judge him that eating: for God has received him.
4 Who are Thou that judge another's household servant?
To his own Lord he stands or falls: but he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand.
5
One esteems one day above another: another esteems every day.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He who regarding the day, regards it to the Lord:
and he who regarding not the day, to the Lord he does not regard it:
he who eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks;
and he who eating not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.
7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord:
whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived,
that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living.
10 But why do Thou judge Thy brother?
Or why do Thou despise Thy brother?
For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of Christ.
11
For it has been written,
As I live, says the LORD, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to GOD. Isa 45:23
12 Then therefore every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but rather judge this,
not to put a stumbling-block or an offence towards a brother.
14 I have known, and am persuaded by Lord Jesus, that there is nothing by itself common:
except to him that esteems anything to be common, to him it is common.
15 But if Thy brother is grieved with Thy food, now walk Thou no longer according to love.
Destroy not him with Thy food, for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then be evil spoken of your good.
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 serving the Christ[Messiah],
is acceptable to God, and approved by men.
19 So then we should pursue the things which make for peace,
and things with which one may edify another.
20 For the sake of food, destroy not the work of God.
All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who with offence eating.
21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine,
nor anything by which Thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.
22
Have Thou faith? Have it to thyself before God.
Blessed is he who condemning not himself in that thing which he approves!
23 And he who doubting has been condemned if he eats, because he eats not from faith:
for whatever is not from faith is sin.
1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the disables, and not to please ourselves.
2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
3 For even the Christ[Messiah] pleased not Himself; but, as it has been written,
the reproaches of them that reproached Thee fell on Me. Psa 69:9
4 For whatever things were written formerly, were written for our doctrine,
that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
5 But may the God of patience and consolation grant you to think the same thing with one towards another according to Christ Jesus:
6 that ye may with one accord and one mouth may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 Therefore receive ye one another, as the Christ[Messiah] also received us to the glory of God.
8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of 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 has been written,
Therefore I will confess to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing-psalms to Thy Name. 2Sa 22:50 Psa 18:49
10 And again He says, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with His people. Deu 32:43
11 And again, Praise the LORD, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples. Psa 117:1
12 And again Isaiah says,
There shall be a Root of Jesse,
and He rising up to reign over the Gentiles;
in Him shall the Gentiles trust. Isa 11:10
13 But the God of hope may fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that ye may abound in hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 And I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my brethren,
that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15 But brethren, I wrote more boldly to you in some part, as putting you in mind,
because of the grace that was given to me from God.
16 For me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God,
that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17 I have therefore cause for glorying in Christ Jesus, in those things which pertain to God.
18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me,
to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
19 by mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God;
so that from Jerusalem, and around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ.
20 But so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I might build upon another's foundation:
21 but as it has been written, They shall see to whom He was not spoken of: and they that have not heard shall understand. Isa 52:15
22 Therefore also I have been much hindered to come to you;
23 but now having no more place in these parts,
and having a great desire for 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 shall be somewhat filled with your company.
25 But now I go to Jerusalem: serving the Saints.
26 For it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia,
to make a certain contribution for the poor of the Saints who are at Jerusalem.
27 For they were pleased; 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 the fleshly things.
28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.
29 And I have known that I coming to you,
I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.
30 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the Lord Jesus Christ,
and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers for me to God;
31 that I may be delivered from them in Judea who do not believing;
and that my service which I have for Jerusalem, may be acceptable to the Saints;
32 that I should come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.
33 But the God of Peace be with you all. Amen!
1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, being a deaconess of the Church which is at Cenchrea:
2 that ye may receive her in the Lord, as worthy Saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she may need of you:
for she has been a patroness of many, and of myself also.
3
Salute Priscilla and Aquila my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus:
4 who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks,
but also all the Churches of the Gentiles.
5 Likewise the Church that is in their house.
Salute my beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.
6 Salute Mary, who laboured much on us.
7 Salute Andronicus and Junia the relatives of me, and my fellow-prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also have been before me in Christ.
8 Salute Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
9 Salute Urbanus, our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ.
Salute them who are of the household of Aristobulus.
11 Salute Herodion the relatives of me.
Salute them that are of the household of Narcissus, who being in the Lord.
12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord.
Salute the beloved Persis, who laboured much in the Lord.
13 Salute Rufus the elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them.
15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saints who are with them.
16 Salute one another with a Holy kiss. The Churches of Christ salute you.
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Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them who cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and shun them.
18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and praising deceive the hearts of the harmless.
19 For your obedience is come abroad to all. I rejoice therefore on your behalf:
but yet I would have you wise to that which be good, and harmless concerning evil.
20 But the God of Peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen!
21
Timothy my fellow-worker and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater the relatives of me, salute you.
22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
23 Gaius my host, and of the whole Church, salutes you.
Erastus the steward of the city salutes you, and Quartus a brother.
24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen!
25
Now to Him that is able to establish you according to my Gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ,
according to the revelation of the mystery, which since Everlasting Times has been kept secret,
26 but now is made manifest, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, by a command of the everlasting God,
for the obedience of faith made to all nations known:
27 to the only wise God, to whom glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen!