1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

1:2(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

1:3Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

1:4And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

1:5By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

1:6Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

1:7To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

1:10Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

1:11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

1:12That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

1:13Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

1:14I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

1:15So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

1:16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

1:17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

1:18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

1:19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

1:20For 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 Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

1:21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

1:23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

1:24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

1:25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

1:26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

1:27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

1:30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

1:31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

1:32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

2:1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

2:2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

2:3And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

2:6Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

2:8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

2:9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

2:10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

2:11For there is no respect of persons with God.

2:12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

2:14For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

2:15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

2:16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

2:17Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

2:18And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

2:19And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

2:20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

2:21Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

2:22Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

2:23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

2:24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

2:25For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

2:26Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

2:27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

2:28For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

2:29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

3:1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

3:2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

3:3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

3:4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

3:5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

3:7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

3:8And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

3:9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

3:10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

3:11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

3:12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

3:14Whose 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 have they not known:

3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.