11:1PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,—1:2which he promised by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,—1:3concerning his Son born of the posterity of David as to the flesh,1:4declared to be the Son of God in power as to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,—Jesus Christ our Lord,—1:5through whom we have received grace and an apostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of his name,1:6among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ,—1:7to all who are at Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
21:8First, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in all the world.1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers1:10asking if by any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.1:11For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened,1:12that is, that I may be comforted in you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
31:13But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.1:14I am a debtor both to the Greeks and the Barbarians, both to the wise and the ignorant;1:15so that as far as depends upon me I am ready also to preach the gospel to those at Rome.1:16For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believes, the Jew first and also the Greek.1:17For God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith in the faith [the gospel]; as it is written; The righteous shall live by faith.
11:18FOR the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth in wickedness,1:19because what can be known of God is manifest among them; for God has manifested [himself] to them.1:20For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,1:21because having known God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their ignorant mind was darkened.1:22Saying that they were wise they became foolish,1:23and changed the glory of the imperishable God into the likeness of the image of perishable man, and of birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles.
21:24Wherefore God also gave them up with the desires of their hearts to impurity, to disgrace their bodies among themselves,1:25who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever, amen.
31:26Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,1:27and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit.
41:28And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not proper,1:29being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,1:30evil speakers, haters of God, injurious, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,1:31unintelligent, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful,1:32who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who do such things deserve death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them.
52:1Wherefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge, for in that in which you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.2:2But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who do such things.2:3But do you think this, O man, who judge those doing such things and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?2:4or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to a change of mind?2:5But according to your hardness and unchanged heart you treasure up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and of a revelation of the righteous judgment of God,2:6who will render to each according to his works;2:7to those who by patience in good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;2:8but to those who are contentions and disobey the truth, and obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.2:9Affliction and distress [shall be] on every soul of man that does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek;2:10and glory and honor and peace to every one that does good, both the Jew first and the Greek.
62:11For there is no respect of persons with God.2:12For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,—2:13for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;2:14for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves,2:15and they show the work of the law written in their minds, their consciences testifying with them, and their judgments mutually accusing or defending one another;—2:16in the day when God shall judge the secret [doings] of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.
72:17But [what] if you are called a Jew and rest on the law, and boast of God,2:18and know his will, and approve of things which are excellent, being instructed by the law,2:19and believe yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness,2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law;2:21you that teach another, do you not teach yourself? You that preach not to steal, do you steal?2:22You that command not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?2:23You who boast of the law, by the transgression of the law do you dishonor God?2:24For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations as it is written.
82:25For circumcision indeed is profitable if you perform the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.2:26If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, shall not its uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision?2:27And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.2:28For not that which is external is the Jew, nor is that which is external in the flesh circumcision.2:29But that which is in secret is the Jew, and circumcision of the heart is in the spirit not in the writing, the commendation of which is not of men but of God.
93:1What then is the preeminence of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?3:2Much in every way. For first, indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.3:3For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief destroy the faith of God?3:4By no means; but let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings and overcome when thou art judged.
103:5But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak as a man;—3:6by no means;—since [if he was] how shall God judge the world?3:7For if the truth of God abounded by my falsehood to his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?3:8And as we are falsely accused and as some declare that we say, [do we say] Let us do evil that good may come? Whose judgment is just.
113:9What defense then have we? None at all; for we before asserted that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,3:10as it is written, There is none righteous not one,3:11there is none that understands, there is none that seeks God;3:12all have turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, there is not even one;3:13their throat is an opened tomb, with their tongues they practise deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips.3:14Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood,3:16destruction and misery are in their ways,3:17and the way of peace they have not known.3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes.3:19But we know that whatever the law says, it says to those having the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God.3:20Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.
13:21BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,3:22but God's righteousness is through the faith of Jesus Christ, in all and upon all that believe. For there is no difference;3:23for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,3:24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,3:25whom God set forth [to be] a propitiator through faith in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing by of the errors committed previously in the forbearance of God,3:26to show his righteousness at the present time, that he may be righteous and justify him that is of faith.
23:27Where then is the boasting [of the Jew]? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.3:28We conclude then that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.3:29Is God [a God] of the Jews alone? and not also of the gentiles? Yes, also of the gentiles,3:30since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the [same] faith.3:31Do we then abrogate the law by the faith? By no means; but we establish the law.
34:1What shall we say then that Abraham our father found according to the flesh?4:2For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God.4:3For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.4:4But to one that works the reward is not accounted by grace but by debt.4:5But to one that works not, but believes on him that justifies the wicked, his faith is [accounted] for righteousness.4:6As David describes the blessedness of the man to whom the Lord accounts righteousness without works,4:7Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered;4:8blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not account sin.
44:9Is this blessedness then on the circumcision? or also on the uncircumcision? [Also on the uncircumcision.] For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.4:10How then was it accounted? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.4:11And he received the symbol of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in uncircumcision, so that he became the father of all that believe in uncircumcision, that righteousness may also be accounted to them,4:12and a father of circumcision not to those of the circumcision only, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which was in uncircumcision.
54:13For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.4:14For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated.4:15For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.4:16Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all,4:17as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.—4:18who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.4:19And being not weak in faith, he did not regard himself as dead, being now about a hundred years old, nor Sarah's incapacity for child-bearing,4:20and he did not doubt the promise of God by unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,4:21being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to perform.4:22Wherefore also it was accounted to him for righteousness.4:23But it was not written for his sake alone, that it was accounted to him,4:24but also for our sakes, to whom it is about to be accounted if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,4:25who was delivered up for our sins and raised for our justification.
65:1Having been justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,5:2through whom also we have been introduced into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.5:3And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience,5:4and patience, experience, and experience, hope;5:5and the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us.5:6For when we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked;5:7for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare to die;5:8but God commends his love to us, that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us;5:9much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved through him from wrath.5:10For if when enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having become reconciled we shall be saved in his life.5:11And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we received the present reconciliation.
75:12Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,—5:13for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law5:14but death reigned from Adam till Moses even over those that sinned not after the similitude Adam's transgression, who is a type of him that was to come;5:15but not as the fall so also is the gift; for if by the fall of one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many;5:16and not as through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance;5:17for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;—5:18therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life;5:19for as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous.5:20For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant,5:21that as sin reigned in death, so the grace shall reign through righteousness in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.
16:1WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that the grace may abound?6:2By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?6:3Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized in Christ were baptized in his death?6:4We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.6:5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall much more be of his resurrection;6:6knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;6:7for he that died was justified from sin.6:8And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;6:9knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him.6:10For [the death] which he died, he died to sin once; but [the life] which he lives, he lives to God.6:11So also account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
26:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires,6:13neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.6:14For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.
36:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under the grace? By no means.6:16Know you not that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin in death or of obedience in righteousness?6:17But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed,6:18and having become free from sin you served righteousness.6:19I speak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members servants to impurity and to wickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to righteousness in sanctification.6:20For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.6:21What fruit had you therefore then in things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of them is death.6:22But now having been made free from sin and made servants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end eternal life.6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord.
17:1ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?7:2For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.7:3Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.7:4So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;7:6but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.
27:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.7:8But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead.
37:9And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died,7:10and the commandment which was for life was found to be for death.7:11For sin having taken occasion through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.7:12The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.7:13Did then that which is good become death to me? By no means, but sin; that sin might be made manifest, producing death to me through that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment.7:14For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.7:15For what I do this I approve not; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do.7:16But if what I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good;7:17and now I no longer do it, but the sin that dwells in me.7:18For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;7:19for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do.
47:20But if what I wish not this I do, I no longer do it, but sin which dwells in me.7:21I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me;7:22for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul],7:23but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.7:24Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?7:25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord; therefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin.
18:1THERE is no condemnation therefore to those in Christ Jesus;8:2for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death.8:3For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,8:4that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.8:5For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit;8:6for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace.8:7Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.8:8And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.8:9But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.8:10But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness.8:11And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.
28:12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God.8:15For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father.8:16The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God.8:17And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.
38:18For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us.8:19For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God.8:20For the creation was subjected to a perishable condition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope8:21that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.8:22For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now;8:23and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies.8:24For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees?8:25but if we hope for what we see not, we wait for it with patience.
48:26And in like manner also the Spirit helps our weakness. For we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings unutterable;8:27and he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because it makes intercession with God for the saints.8:28And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose.8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;8:30and whom he predestinated them he also called; and whom he called them he also justified; and whom he justified them he also glorified.
58:31What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?8:32He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?8:33Who will bring a charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies;8:34who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us?8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?8:36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.8:37But in all these things we more than conquer, through him who loved us.8:38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,8:39nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
19:1I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness with the Holy Spirit,9:2that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart;9:3for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh,9:4who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises,9:5whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen.9:6Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel;9:7neither, because they are a posterity of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac shall your posterity be called;9:8that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity.9:9For this was the word of promise; According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.9:10And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac—9:11for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,—9:12it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger;9:13as it is written; Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
29:14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.9:15For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to him to whom I may be merciful, and I will compassionate him whom I may compassionate.9:16Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy.9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.9:18He therefore has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.9:19You will say to me then, Why then does he yet find fault? for who has resisted his will?9:20Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus?9:21or has not the potter a right, in respect to the clay, to make of the same mass one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?9:22But if God wishing to show his wrath and to make known his power endured with much long suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory,9:24whom he also called, us not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles,9:25as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my people, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved,9:26and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God.9:27But Isaiah cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved;9:28for he executes and performs his word in righteousness, for a finished work will the Lord perform on the earth.9:29As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.
39:30What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith;9:31but Israel who pursued the law of righteousness did not attain to the law of righteousness.9:32For what reason? Because they are not of faith, but as it were of works of the law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,9:33as it is written; Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.
410:1Brothers, the earnest desire and prayer of my heart for Israel is for their salvation.10:2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge;10:3for not knowing God's righteousness, and seeking to set up their righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God's righteousness.10:4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.10:5For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them.10:6But the righteousness by faith speaks thus; Say not in your mind, who shall ascend into heaven?—that is, to bring Christ down,—10:7or who shall descend into the abyss?—that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.10:8But what does it say? The word is nigh you, in your mouth and in your mind; that is, the word of the faith which we preach.10:9For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved;10:10for with the mind we believe to righteousness, and with the mouth we confess to salvation.10:11For the Scripture says, No one that believes in him shall be ashamed.10:12For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all that call upon him.10:13For every one that calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.10:14How 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 one preaching?10:15and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those that publish good news of peace, that publish good news of good things.
510:16But all did not obey the gospel; for Isaiah says, Lord, who believed our report?10:17Faith therefore comes by the report, and the report by the word of God.10:18But I say, Did they not hear? Yes indeed; their voice went into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.10:19But I say, did not Israel know? First, Moses says, I will provoke you by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish nation will I excite you to anger.10:20But Isaiah is more bold and says, I was found by them that sought me not, I was made manifest to them that inquired not after me.10:21But in respect to Israel he says, All the day I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.
111:1I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.11:2God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he intercedes with God against Israel?11:3Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.11:4But what says the response to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.11:5So then also at the present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace;11:6but if by grace, no longer by works; for otherwise grace is no longer grace; but if by works, it is no longer grace; for otherwise a work is no longer a work.11:7What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were hardened,—11:8as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear—to this day.11:9And David says, Let their table become a trap and a snare and an offense and a stumbling block to them;11:10let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
211:11I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means; but by their fall the nations have salvation to excite them to emulation.11:12But if their fall is the riches of the world, and their diminution the riches of nations, how much more will their fullness be.11:13For I speak to you, gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry,11:14if perhaps I may excite my flesh [race] to emulation and save some of them.11:15For if their falling away is the reconciling of the world, what will their recovery be but life from the dead?11:16And if the first fruit is holy, the mass is also; and if the root is holy, the branches also are.
311:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root and excellence of the olive,11:18boast not against the branches; but if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.11:19You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.11:20Well; they were broken off by unbelief, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear;11:21for if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.11:22See then the goodness and severity of God; towards those that fell, severity, but towards you, the goodness of God, if you continue in goodness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.11:23And they, if they continue not in unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.11:24For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive.
411:25For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,11:26and so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, A deliverer shall come from Zion, he shall turn away impiety from Jacob.11:27And this is the promise to them from me, when I take away their sins.11:28As to the gospel, they are enemies on your account, but as to the election, they are beloved on account of the fathers;11:29for the gifts and calling of God are without a change of mind.11:30For as you once disobeyed God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,11:31so also they now have disobeyed that they may obtain mercy by your mercy.11:32For God has concluded all in disobedience that he may have mercy on all.11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how inscrutable are his judgments, and his ways can not be explored!11:34For who knew the mind of the Lord? or who was his counsellor?11:35or who first gave to him, and it shall be repaid him?11:36For of him and through him, and in him are all things; to him be glory forever; amen.
112:1I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;12:2and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.12:3For I say through the grace given me, to every one among you, not to be higher-minded than he ought to be, but to think soberly, as God has distributed to each the measure of faith.12:4For as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office,12:5so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of another;12:6but having different gifts according to the grace given us, if prophecy [let us prophesy] according to the analogy of the faith,12:7if a service [let us labor] in the service, if one teaches, in teaching,12:8if one exhorts in the exhortation, he that gives, with simplicity, he that rules, with diligence, he that exercises mercy, with cheerfulness.
212:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil, adhere to that which is good,12:10be kindly disposed one to another with brotherly love, in honor prefer one another,12:11be not slothful in business, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord,12:12rejoice in the hope, be patient in affliction, be persevering in prayer,12:13contribute to the necessity of saints, practise hospitality.12:14Bless those that persecute, bless and curse not.12:15Rejoice with the rejoicing, weep with the weeping.12:16Desire the same thing one for another; desire not the high, but be satisfied with the humble. Be not wise in your own conceit.12:17Render evil for evil to no one, provide things honorable in the sight of all men;12:18if possible, as much as may be in your power, live peaceably with all men,12:19not vindicating yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Judgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.12:20If therefore your enemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for doing this you shall heap coals of fire on his head.12:21Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
313:1Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God.13:2So that he who resists the power resists the ordinance of God; and those who resist shall receive judgment on themselves.13:3For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it;13:4for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil.13:5Wherefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only on account of punishment, but also on account of conscience.
413:6For on this account also you pay taxes; for [magistrates] are servants of God attending constantly to this same thing.13:7Pay to all their dues; a tax to whom a tax is due, a toll to whom a toll is due, fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor.13:8Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law.13:9For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately, and if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in this word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.13:10Love does no evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law.13:11And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.13:12The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.13:13Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy;13:14but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.
114:1RECEIVE the weak in faith, not to doubtful reasonings.14:2For one has faith to eat all things, but he that is weak eats vegetables.14:3Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has accepted him.14:4Who are you that judge another man's servant? To his master he stands or falls; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
214:5One judges one day to be better than another, but another judges every day [to be alike]. Let each one be fully persuaded in his mind.14:6He that observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he that observes not the day observes it not to the Lord. And he that eats eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not eats not to the Lord, and gives God thanks.14:7For no one of us lives for himself; and no one dies for himself;14:8for if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether therefore we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord's.14:9For this end Christ died and lived again, that he might exercise lordship over the dead and living.14:10But why do you judge your brother? why do you set at nought your brother? for we must all stand at the tribunal of God.14:11For it is written, [As] I live, says the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess to God.14:12Each of us therefore shall give account of himself to God.
314:13Let us not therefore judge one another, but judge this rather, not to place a stumbling-block or an offense before a brother.14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is defiled in itself, except to him that thinks any thing to be defiled; to him it is defiled.14:15For if your brother is grieved by your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died.14:16Let not your good therefore be injuriously spoken of.14:17For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;14:18for he that in this serves Christ is well pleasing to God and approved by men.14:19Let us therefore pursue the things of peace and those which edify one another.14:20On account of food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure, but evil is to the man that eats with offense;14:21it is good not to eat meat nor drink wine, nor [do] any thing by which your brother stumbles.14:22You have faith; have it for yourself before God, Blessed is he that condemns not himself in what he approves;14:23but he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and every thing which is not of faith is sin.
415:1And we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.15:2Let us each please our neighbor in that which is good for edification;15:3for Christ also pleased not himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of those that reproached thee fell on me.15:4For those things which were written before were written for our instruction, that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope.15:5And the God of patience and consolation grant you to have the same mind one to another, according to Christ Jesus,15:6that being of one mind you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mouth.
515:7Wherefore receive one another, as Christ also received you to the glory of God.15:8For I say that Christ was made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers,15:9and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; as it is written, For this cause will I praise thee among nations, and sing to thy name.15:10And again he says, Rejoice nations with his people.15:11And again, Praise the Lord, all nations, and let all peoples praise him.15:12And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse and he shall stand up to rule nations, in him shall nations hope.15:13And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
615:14And I am persuaded, my brothers, even I myself, concerning you, that you are full of kindness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another;15:15but I have written more boldly to you in part, to refresh your minds on account of the grace given me by God15:16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the nations, administering as a priest the gospel of God, that the offering of the nations may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.15:17I have therefore cause of boasting in Christ Jesus in respect to things relating to God;15:18for I dare not to speak of what Christ has not performed by me for the obedience of the nations, by word and work,15:19by the power of miracles and prodigies, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.15:20And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation;15:21but as it is written, They shall see to whom nothing was told concerning him, and they who have not heard shall understand.
715:22Wherefore I was also much hindered from coming to you;15:23but now having no longer a place in these regions, and having a desire to come to you for many years,15:24should I go to Spain I will come to you; for I hope, going by, to see you, and to be sent forward by you there, when first I am in part filled with you.15:25But now I am going to Jerusalem to serve the saints.15:26For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints at Jerusalem.15:27They have been pleased indeed, and their debtors they are; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.15:28Having therefore performed this, and sealed to them this service, I will go by you to Spain;15:29and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.15:30But I exhort you by the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God for me,15:31that I may be delivered from those that obey not in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,15:32that I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and be refreshed together with you.15:33And may the God of peace be with you all; amen.
116:1AND I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a minister of the church in Cenchrea,16:2that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.
216:3Salute Prisca [Priscilla] and Aquila my co-laborers in Christ Jesus,16:4who exposed their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the nations;16:5and [salute] the assembly at their house. Salute Epenetus my beloved, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ.16:6Salute Mary, who labored much for us.16:7Salute Andronicus and Junius, my relatives and my fellow-captives, who are distinguished among the apostles, and who were before me in Christ.16:8Salute Amplias my beloved in the Lord.16:9Salute Urbanus our co-laborer in Christ, and Stachus my beloved.16:10Salute Apelles, the approved in Christ. Salute those of the [family] of Aristobulus.16:11Salute Herodion, my relative. Salute those of the [family] of Narcissus who are in the Lord.16:12Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labored in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.16:13Salute Rufus the elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine.16:14Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them.16:15Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them.16:16Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.
316:17I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and avoid them;16:18for such serve not our anointed Lord, but themselves, And by kind and complimentary words deceive the minds of the simple.16:19For your obedience has come to all; I rejoice in you therefore, but I wish you to be wise for that which is good, and simple for evil.16:20And the God of peace shall crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
416:21Timothy my co-laborer salutes you, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relatives.16:22I, Tertius, who wrote the epistle, salute you in the Lord.16:23Gaius my entertainer, and the entertainer of all the church, salutes you. Erastus the treasurer of the city and Quartus the brother salute you.16:24The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all; amen.
516:25And to him that is able to confirm you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery not revealed in ancient times,16:26but made manifest now by the scriptures of the prophets, by the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of the faith among all nations,16:27to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him be the glory forever; amen.