1:1Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to God's glad tidings,

1:2(which he had before promised by his prophets in holy writings,)

1:3concerning his Son (come of David's seed according to flesh,

1:4marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of the dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;

1:5by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

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

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

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

1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

1:10always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered 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 to establish you;

1:12that is, to have mutual comfort among you, each by the faith which is in the other, both yours and mine.

1:13But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

1:14I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise and unintelligent:

1:15so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who are in Rome.

1:16For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:

1:17for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.

1:18For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.

1:19Because what is known of God is manifest among them, for God has manifested it to them,

1:20-- for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, -- so as to render them inexcusable.

1:21Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

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

1:23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.

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

1:25who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

1:26For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;

1:27and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.

1:28And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

1:30back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

1:31void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;

1:32who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them.

2:1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

2:2But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who do such things.

2:3And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and practisest them thyself, that *thou* shalt escape the judgment of God?

2:4or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

2:5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

2:6who shall render to each according to his works:

2:7to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

2:8But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,

2:9tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

2:10but glory and honour and peace to every one that works good, both to Jew first and to Greek:

2:11for there is no acceptance of persons with God.

2:12For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by 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 those of the nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

2:15who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing themselves between themselves;)

2:16in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ.

2:17But if *thou* art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,

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

2:19and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,

2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:

2:21thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?

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

2:23thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

2:24For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written.

2:25For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

2:26If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,

2:27and uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the law, judge thee, who, with letter and circumcision, art a law-transgressor?

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

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

3:1What then is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?

3:2Much every way: and first, indeed, that to them were entrusted the oracles of God.

3:3For what? if some have not believed, shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?

3:4Far be the thought: but let God be true, and every man false; according as it is written, So that thou shouldest be justified in thy words, and shouldest overcome when thou art in judgment.

3:5But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.

3:6Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?

3:7For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?

3:8and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.

3:9What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

3:10according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;

3:11there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.

3:12All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:

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

3:14whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

3:15swift their feet to shed blood;

3:16ruin and misery are in their ways,

3:17and way of peace they have not known:

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

3:19Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.

3:20Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.

3:21But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;

3:22righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who 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 which is in Christ Jesus;

3:25whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

3:26for the shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of the faith of Jesus.

3:27Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

3:28for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

3:29Is God the God of Jews only? is he not of the nations also? Yea, of nations also:

3:30since indeed it is one God who shall justify the circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.

3:31Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: no, but we establish law.

4:1What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?

4:2For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

4:3for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

4:4Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:

4:5but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

4:6Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:

4:7Blessed they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:

4:8blessed the man to whom the Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

4:9Does this blessedness then rest on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

4:10How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

4:11And he received the sign of circumcision as seal of the righteousness of faith which he had being in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;

4:12and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

4:13For it was not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by righteousness of faith.

4:14For if they which are of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

4:15For law works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression.

4:16Therefore it is on the principle of faith, that it might be according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

4:17(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

4:18who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

4:19and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

4:20and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

4:21and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

4:22wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

4:23Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

4:24but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among the dead Jesus our Lord,

4:25who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

5:1Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

5:2by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

5:3And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

5:4and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

5:5and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

5:6for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.

5:7For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;

5:8but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

5:9Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

5:10For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.

5:11And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

5:12* For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

5:13(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

5:14but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him to come.

5:15But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

5:16And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.

5:17For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

5:18so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.

5:19For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

5:20But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,

5:21in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

6:1What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?

6:2Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

6:3Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?

6:4We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also should walk in newness of life.

6:5For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;

6:6knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.

6:7For he that has died is justified from sin.

6:8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

6:9knowing that Christ having been raised up from among the dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.

6:10For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.

6:11So also *ye*, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.

6:13Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

6:14For sin shall not have dominion over *you*, for ye are not under law but under grace.

6:15What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

6:16Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

6:17But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

6:18Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

6:19I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

6:20For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.

6:21What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* is death.

6:22But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.

6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

7:1Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives?

7:2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

7:3so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

7:4So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

7:5For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

7:6but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

7:7What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

7:8but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.

7:9But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.

7:10And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:

7:11for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

7:12So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

7:13Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin.

7:15For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

7:16But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.

7:17Now then it is no longer *I* that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

7:18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.

7:19For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

7:20But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, it is no longer *I* that do it, but the sin that dwells in me.

7:21I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.

7:22For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

7:23but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.

7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

7:25I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then *I* *myself* with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.

8:1There is then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

8:4in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit.

8:5For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

8:6For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

8:7Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

8:8and they that are in flesh cannot please God.

8:9But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him:

8:10but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

8:11But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among the dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

8:12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;

8:13for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:

8:14for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, *these* are sons of God.

8:15For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

8:16The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.

8:17And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

8:18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed to us.

8:19For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:

8:20for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope

8:21that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

8:22For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.

8:23And not only that, but even *we* ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, that is the redemption of our body.

8:24For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

8:25But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.

8:26And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered.

8:27But he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God.

8:28But we *do* know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

8:29Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brethren.

8:30But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified.

8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who against us?

8:32He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?

8:33Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God who justifies:

8:34who is he that condemns? It is Christ who has died, but rather has been also raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.

8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

8:36According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

8:37But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has 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 creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

9:1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

9:2that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

9:3for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

9:4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

9:5whose are the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

9:6Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all are Israel which are of Israel;

9:7nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

9:8That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

9:9For this word is of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

9:10And not only that, but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

9:11the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

9:12it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

9:13according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.

9:14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought.

9:15For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion.

9:16So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

9:17For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst men, that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.

9:18So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

9:19Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?

9:20Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

9:21Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

9:22And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

9:24us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst the Jews, but also from amongst the nations?

9:25As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.

9:26And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, *Ye* are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God.

9:27But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:

9:28for he is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting it short in righteousness; because a cutting short of the matter will the Lord accomplish upon the earth.

9:29And according as Esaias said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

9:30What then shall we say? That they of the nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but the righteousness that is on the principle of faith.

9:31But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.

9:32Wherefore? Because it was not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

9:33according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

10:1Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation.

10:2For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

10:3For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

10:4For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to every one that believes.

10:5For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them.

10:6But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;

10:7or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among the dead.

10:8But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

10:9that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10:10For with the heart is believed to righteousness; and with the mouth confession made to salvation.

10:11For the scripture says, No one believing on him shall be ashamed.

10:12For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich towards all that call upon him.

10:13For every one whosoever, who shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

10:14How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches?

10:15and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things!

10:16But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?

10:17So faith then is by a report, but the report by God's word.

10:18But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world.

10:19But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, *I* will provoke you to jealousy through them that are not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.

10:20But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.

10:21But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.

11:1I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

11:2God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?

11:3Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and *I* have been left alone, and they seek my life.

11:4But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.

11:5Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.

11:6But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace.

11:7What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,

11:8according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.

11:9And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

11:10let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.

11:11I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

11:12But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?

11:13For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;

11:14if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy them which are my flesh, and shall save some from among them.

11:15For if their casting away be the world's reconciliation, what their reception but life from among the dead?

11:16Now if the first-fruit be holy, the lump also; and if the root be holy, the branches also.

11:17Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and *thou*, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

11:18boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not *thou* bearest the root, but the root thee.

11:19Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that *I* might be grafted in.

11:20Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and *thou* standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

11:21if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either.

11:22Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwise *thou* also wilt be cut away.

11:23And *they* too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in.

11:24For if *thou* hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

11:25For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;

11:26and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

11:27And this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall have taken away their sins.

11:28As regards the glad tidings, they are enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.

11:29For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance.

11:30For as indeed *ye* also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*;

11:31so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that *they* also may be objects of mercy.

11:32For God hath shut up together all in unbelief, in order that he might shew mercy to all.

11:33O depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!

11:34For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counsellor?

11:35or who has first given to him, and it shall be rendered to him?

11:36For of him, and through him, and for him are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.

12:2And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

12:3For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

12:4For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;

12:5thus we, being many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of the other.

12:6But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether it be prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

12:7or service, let us occupy ourselves in service; or he that teaches, in teaching;

12:8or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness.

12:9Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

12:10as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

12:11as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.

12:12As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:

12:13distributing to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.

12:14Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

12:15Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.

12:16Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

12:17recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

12:18if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;

12:19not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, *I* will recompense, saith the Lord.

12:20If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

12:21Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

13:1Let every soul be subject to the authorities that are above him. For there is no authority except from God; and those that exist are set up by God.

13:2So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority resists the ordinance of God; and they who thus resist shall bring sentence of guilt on themselves.

13:3For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil one. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority? practise what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it;

13:4for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

13:5Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience.

13:6For on this account ye pay tribute also; for they are God's officers, attending continually on this very thing.

13:7Render to all their dues: to whom tribute is due, tribute; to whom custom, custom; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour.

13:8Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.

13:9For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

13:10Love works no ill to its neighbour; love therefore is the whole law.

13:11This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that *we* should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

13:12The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

13:13As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.

13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.

14:1Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to the determining of questions of reasoning.

14:2One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

14:3Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

14:4Who art *thou* that judgest the servant of another? to his own master he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

14:5One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.

14:6He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, it is to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

14:7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

14:8For both if we should live, it is to the Lord we live; and if we should die, it is to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.

14:9For to this end Christ has died and lived again, that he might rule over both dead and living.

14:10But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.

14:11For it is written, *I* live, saith the Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.

14:12So then each of us shall give an account concerning himself to God.

14:13Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.

14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him who reckons anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean.

14:15For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died.

14:16Let not then your good be evil 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 the Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men.

14:19So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.

14:20For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.

14:21It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

14:22Hast *thou* faith? have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in what he allows.

14:23But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because it is not of faith; but whatever is not of faith is sin.

15:1But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

15:2Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.

15:3For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

15:4For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

15:5Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;

15:6that ye may with one accord, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15:7Wherefore receive ye one another, according as the Christ also has received you to the glory of God.

15:8For I say that Jesus Christ became 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; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the nations, and will sing to thy name.

15:10And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people.

15:11And again, Praise the Lord, all ye nations, and let all the peoples laud him.

15:12And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over the nations: in him shall the nations hope.

15:13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

15:14But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

15:15But I have written to you the more boldly, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God,

15:16for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

15:17I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

15:18For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed,

15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ;

15:20and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;

15:21but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.

15:22Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you.

15:23But now, having no longer place in these regions, and having great desire to come to you these many years,

15:24whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)

15:25but now I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;

15:26for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem.

15:27They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them.

15:28Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.

15:29But I know that, coming to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

15:30But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God;

15:31that I may be saved from those that do not believe in Judaea; and that my ministry which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

15:32in order that I may come to you in joy by God's will, and that I may be refreshed with you.

15:33And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

16:1But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

16:2that ye may receive her in the Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for *she* also has been a helper of many, and of myself.

16:3Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus,

16:4(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not *I* only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)

16:5and the assembly at their house. Salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Asia for Christ.

16:6Salute Maria, who laboured much for you.

16:7Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me.

16:8Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.

16:9Salute Urbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

16:10Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who belong to Aristobulus.

16:11Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those who belong to Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

16:12Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute Persis, the beloved, who has laboured much in the Lord.

16:13Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord; and his mother and mine.

16:14Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren 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 assemblies of Christ salute you.

16:17But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which *ye* have learnt, and turn away from them.

16:18For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

16:19For your obedience has reached to all. I rejoice therefore as it regards you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, and simple as to evil.

16:20But the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

16:21Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

16:22I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in the Lord.

16:23Gaius, my host and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the steward of the city, salutes you, and the brother Quartus.

16:24The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

16:25Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,

16:26but which has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations --

16:27the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever. Amen.