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1 Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle having been set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son, having come of the seed of David according to flesh, 4 having been declared the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship unto obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of His name, 6 among whom are you also, called of Jesus Christ. 7 To all those being in Rome beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 8 First indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in all the world. 9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make mention of you, 10 always upon my prayers imploring, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I will make a prosperous journey to come to you. 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, to your strengthening, 12 and, that is, to be encouraged together among you through the faith among one another, both of you and of me. 13 Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that many times I purposed to come to you, and was hindered until the present, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentiles. 14 I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and the foolish. 15 Thus as to me there is readiness to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone believing--both to Jewish first, and to Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it has been written: "And the righteous will live by faith." 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, suppressing the truth by unrighteousness, 19 because the known of God is manifest among them, for God has revealed it to them. 20 For from the creation of the world His invisible qualities, both His eternal power and divinity, are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, for them to be without excuse. 21 For having known God, they glorified Him not as God, or were thankful; but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and they changed the glory of the immortal God into a likeness of an image of mortal man and birds and quadrupeds and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the desires of their hearts to impurity to dishonor their bodies between themselves, 25 who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and reverenced and served the created thing beyond the One having created it, who is blessed to the ages! Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave up them to passions of dishonor. For even their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature. 27 And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their desire toward one another, males with males, working out shame and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting of their error. 28 And as they did not see fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do things not being proper; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; gossips, 30 slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful; inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents; 31 foolish, untrustworthy, heartless, unmerciful; 32 who having known the righteous judgment of God, that those doing such things are worthy of death, not only are practicing them, but are also approving of those practicing them. 2 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, each one who is judging. For in that which you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, for you, the one judging, do the same things. 2 But we know that the judgment of God upon those practicing such things is according to truth. 3 Now do you suppose this, O man, the one judging those practicing such things and doing them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up to yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God, 6 who "will give to each according to his works," 7 to those who indeed with endurance in good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; 8 but to those of self-interest and disobeying the truth, but being persuaded about unrighteousness, wrath and anger; 9 tribulation and distress upon every soul of man working evil, both of Jewish first, and also of Greek; 10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone doing good, both to Jewish first, and to Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God. 12 For as many as have sinned without the Law also will perish without the Law; and as many as have sinned in the Law will be judged by the Law, 13 for not the hearers of the Law are righteous with God; but the doers of the Law will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, not having the Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these not having the Law are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the Law, written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and the thoughts between one another accusing or also defending them 16 on that day when God will judge the secrets of men according to my gospel, by Christ Jesus. 17 But if you are called a Jew and rely on the Law and boast in God, 18 and you know His will and approve the things being superior, being instructed out of the Law, 19 and you are persuaded that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth-- 21 then you teaching another, do you do not teach yourself? You preaching not to steal, do you steal? 22 You saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You abhorring idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law? 24 As it has been written: "For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you." 25 For circumcision profits if you do the Law; but if you are a transgressor of Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? 27 And the uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the Law, will judge you who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of Law. 28 For the one on the outside a Jew is not, neither that on the outside in flesh is circumcision. 29 But he who is a Jew is one on the inside; and circumcision is of heart, in spirit, not in letter, of whom the praise is not of men, but of God. 3 What then is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of the circumcision? 2 Much in every way. For chiefly indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God. 3 What if indeed some disbelieved? Will their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God? 4 Never may it be! But let God be true, and every man a liar, as it has been written: "That You may be justified in Your words, and will prevail in Your being judged." 5 But if our unrighteousness shows God's righteousness, what shall we say? God, inflicting the wrath, is unrighteous? I speak according to man. 6 Never may it be! Otherwise, how will God judge the world? 7 But if in my lie, the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 And is it not, as we are slanderously charged, and as some affirm us to say, "Let us do evil things that good things may come?" Their condemnation is just. 9 What then? Are we better? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks all to be under sin. 10 As it has been written: "There is none righteous, not even one; 11 there is none understanding; there is none seeking after God. 12 All have turned away; together they have become worthless; there is none who is practicing good, there is not so much as one. 13 Their throat is a grave having been opened; they keep practicing deceit with their tongues; the venom of vipers is under their lips, 14 of whom the mouth is full of cursing and of bitterness; 15 their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 ruin and misery are in their paths; 17 and the way of peace they have not known. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes." 19 Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those under the Law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be under judgment to God. 20 Therefore by works of the Law, not any flesh will be justified before Him; for through the Law is knowledge of sin. 21 But now apart from Law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being borne witness to by the Law and the Prophets. 22 And the righteousness of God is through faith from Jesus Christ toward all those believing. For there is no distinction, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a showing forth of His righteousness, because of the forbearance of the sins having taken place beforehand, 26 in the forbearance of God, for the showing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for Him to be just, and justifying the one of the faith of Jesus. 27 Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. Through what principle? That of works? No, but through the principle of faith. 28 Therefore we reckon a man to be justified by faith apart from works of the Law. 29 Or is He the God of Jews only, not also of Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles, 30 since indeed God is the One who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the same faith. 31 Do we, then, nullify the Law through faith? Never may it be! Instead, we uphold Law. 4 What then shall we say Abraham our father discovered according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has ground of boasting, but not toward God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness." 4 Now to the one working, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt. 5 However, to the one not working, but believing on the One justifying the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness, 6 just as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 7 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will never reckon sin." 9 Is this blessing then on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we are saying faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness. 10 How then was it credited? Being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while in the uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those believing while in uncircumcision, for the righteousness to be credited also to them, 12 and the father of circumcision to those not only of circumcision, but also to those walking in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham during uncircumcision. 13 For the promise was to Abraham or his descendants that he should be heir of the world, not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those of the Law are heirs, faith has been made void and the promise made of no effect. 15 For Law brings wrath; and where there is no Law, neither is transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to that of the Law, but also to that of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us of all-- 17 as it has been written: "I have made you a father of many nations."--before God whom he believed, the One giving life to the dead and calling into being the things not even existing, 18 who against hope, in hope believed, for him to become the father of many nations, according to that having been spoken, "So shall your offspring be." 19 And not having become weak in the faith, he considered his body already having become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the lifelessness of Sarah's womb. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God, 21 and having been fully assured that what He had promised, He is also able to do. 22 Therefore also "it was credited to him unto righteousness." 23 Now it was not written on account of him alone that "it was credited to him," 24 but also on account of us, to whom it is about to be credited, to those believing on the One having raised Jesus our Lord out from the dead, 25 who was delivered over for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification. 5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but also we glory in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not make us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, the One having been given to us. 6 Yet indeed Christ, of us still being without strength, according to the right time, died for the ungodly. 7 For rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though on behalf of the good man perhaps someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His love to us, that of us being still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Therefore much more, having been justified now by His blood, we will be saved by Him from wrath! 10 For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved in His life! 11 And not only so, but also we are rejoicing in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. 12 Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, because all sinned. 13 For until the Law, sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed, there being no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those not having sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the coming One. 15 But so also the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one, the many died, how much more did the grace of God and the gift in grace, which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many! 16 And the gift is not as through one having sinned. For truly the judgment from one was unto condemnation; but the gift is out of many trespasses unto justification. 17 For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one, how much more will those receiving the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ! 18 So then, just as through one trespass, it is unto condemnation to all men, so also through one act of righteousness it is unto justification of life to all men. 19 For as indeed through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the One, the many will be made righteous. 20 Now the Law entered so that trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace overabounded, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness, unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 6 What then will we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Never may it be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or are you unaware that as many as have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised up out from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united in the likeness of His death, certainly also we will be of the resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be annulled, that we are no longer enslaved to sin. 7 For the one having died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised up out from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer rules over Him. 10 For that which He died, He died to sin once for all; but that which He lives, He lives to God. 11 So also you, consider yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, in order to obey its desires. 13 Neither yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but yield yourselves to God, as living out from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin will not rule over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Never may it be! 16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that you who were slaves of sin have now become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were committed. 18 And having been set free from sin, you have become slaves to righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you yielded your members in bondage to impurity and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit, therefore, did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, having been set free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 7 Or are you ignorant brothers (for I speak to those knowing the law), that the law rules over the man for as long as the time he is alive? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband should die, she is cleared from the law of the husband. 3 So then, if she is to another man, the husband being alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as for her not to be an adulteress, having been to another man. 4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have been put to death to the Law through the body of Christ, for you to belong to another, to the One having been raised out from the dead, so that we should bear fruit to God. 5 For while we were in the flesh, the passions of sins that were through the Law were at work in our members, to the bringing forth of fruit to death. 6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that which we were bound, in order for us to serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. 7 What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? Never may it be! But I have not known sin, if not by Law. And indeed, I had not been conscious of covetousness if the Law had not said, "You shall not covet." 8 But sin, having taken an occasion by the commandment, produced in me all covetousness; for apart from the Law, sin is dead. 9 And I once was alive apart from Law; but the commandment having come, sin revived, and I died; 10 and this commandment that was unto life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, having taken an occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it put me to death. 12 So indeed, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 13 Has that which is good then become death to me? Never may it be! But in order that sin might be shown to be sin, it is working out death through that which is good to me, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond excess. 14 For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, having been sold under sin. 15 For what I do, I do not understand. For what I want, this I do not do; but what I hate, this I do. 16 Now if that which I do not want, this I do, I consent to the Law, that it is good. 17 And in that case I am no longer doing it, but the sin dwelling in me. 18 For I know that there dwells in me nothing good, that is, in my flesh. For to will is present with me, but not to do good. 19 For the good that I desire, I do not do; but the evil that I do not want, this I practice. 20 Now if what I do not want, I do this, it is no longer I who do it, but sin dwelling in me. 21 So I find the principle in my desiring to do good, that evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man; 23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin being in my members. 24 O wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of this body of death? 25 Thanks be then to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself indeed with my mind serve God's Law; but with the flesh, the Law of sin. 8 Therefore there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus. 2 For the Law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the Law of sin and death. 3 For of the Law being powerless in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent His Son in likeness of sin of flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the righteousness of the Law should be fulfilled in us not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 5 For those being according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; but those according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit, life and peace, 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostility toward God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, for not even can it be. 8 And those being in the flesh are not able to please God. 9 Now you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you; but if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him. 10 But if Christ is in you, the body is indeed dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of the One having raised up Jesus out from the dead dwells in you, the One having raised up Christ Jesus out from the dead also will give life to your mortal bodies, on account of His Spirit dwelling in you. 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh. 13 For if you live according to flesh, you are about to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of divine adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, also heirs: heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs of Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not comparable to the coming glory to be revealed to us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the One having subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay, into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails together until now. 23 And not only so, but we ourselves, even having the firstfruit of the Spirit, also groan ourselves in ourselves, awaiting divine adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. 24 For in this hope we were saved; but hope being seen is no hope; for does anyone hope for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we await in patience. 26 Now likewise also, the Spirit joins to help us in weakness; for we do not know the things which we should pray for as it behooves, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession with inexpressible groanings. 27 And the One searching hearts knows what is the mindset of the Spirit, because He intercedes for the saints according to God. 28 And we know that God works together all things for good to those loving God, to those being called according to His purpose, 29 because those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom He predestined, these also He called; and whom He called, these also He justified; and whom He justified, these also He glorified. 31 What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 For He who spared not the own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, with Him, grant us all things? 33 Who will bring an accusation against the elect of God? God is the One justifying. 34 Who is the one condemning? For it is Christ Jesus, the one having died, now rather having been raised up, who is also at the right hand of God, and who is interceding for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it has been written: "For Your sake we face death all the day; we were regarded as sheep of slaughter." 37 But in all these things, we more than conquer through the One having loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 9 I speak the truth in Christ. I am not lying. My conscience testifies for me in the Holy Spirit 2 that my grief is great, and unceasing sorrow is in my heart. 3 For I could wish myself to be a curse, separated from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, whose is the divine adoption as sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises; 5 whose are the patriarchs; and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, being God over all, blessed to the ages. Amen. 6 And it is not as that the word of God has failed. For not all who are of Israel, are these Israel. 7 Nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children. Rather, "In Isaac your offspring will be named." 8 That is, the children of the flesh, these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are regarded as offspring. 9 For this is the word of the promise: "At this time I will come, and to Sarah there will be a son." 10 And not only so, but also Rebecca, having conception by one, Isaac our father, 11 for they not yet having been born nor having done anything good or evil, so that the purpose of God according to election might stand, 12 not of works, but of the One calling, it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger." 13 As it has been written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." 14 What then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? Never may it be! 15 For He says to Moses: "I will show mercy to whom I may show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I may have compassion." 16 So then, it is not of the willing, nor of the running, but of God showing mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "For this very purpose I have raised you up, so that I might show My power in you, and that My name should be declared in all the earth." 18 So then, He shows mercy to whom He wants, and He hardens whom He wants. 19 Then you will say to me, "Why then does He still find fault? For who is resisting His purpose?" 20 But rather, O man, who are you, answering against God? Shall the thing formed say to the One having formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" 21 Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel unto honor, but one unto dishonor? 22 And what if God, desiring to show the wrath and to make known His power, bore with much patience the vessels of wrath, having been fitted for destruction, 23 that He might also make known the riches of His glory upon the vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us, whom He has called not only out from the Jews, but also out from the Gentiles? 25 As He also says in Hosea: "I will call that which is not My people, My people; and her not having been loved, having been loved," 26 and, "It will happen that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'" 27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved. 28 For the Lord will perform the sentence He is concluding and bringing swiftly upon the earth." 29 And, as Isaiah foretold: "If the Lord of Hosts had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah." 30 What then will we say? That Gentiles, not pursuing righteousness, have attained righteousness, and righteousness that is by faith; 31 but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to that law. 32 Why? Because it was not by faith, but as by works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling, 33 as it has been written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and the one believing on Him will never be put to shame." 10 Brothers, indeed the desire and supplication of my heart to God on behalf of them is for salvation. 2 For I bear witness about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking to establish the own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God. 4 For the end of Law is Christ, unto righteousness to everyone believing. 5 For Moses writes of the righteousness that is of the Law that "The man having done these things will live by them." 6 But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: "You should not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring down Christ) 7 or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring up Christ out from the dead)." 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart." That is, the word of faith which we proclaim, 9 that if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him out from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For in the heart is belief unto righteousness, and in the mouth is confession unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, "Everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich toward all those calling Him, 13 for, "Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord will be saved." 14 How then shall they call on Him whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe on Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear apart from preaching? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it has been written: "How beautiful are the feet of those proclaiming good news of good things!" 16 But not all heeded the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So faith is from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. 18 But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world." 19 But I ask, did Israel not know? First, Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those not a nation; I will anger you by a nation without understanding." 20 And Isaiah is very bold and says: "I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me." 21 But as for Israel he says: "All the day I have stretched out My hands to a disobeying and contradicting people." 11 I ask, then did God reject His people? Never may it be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel: 3 "Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone have been left, and they are seeking my life"? 4 But what was the divine answer spoken to him? "I have left to Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 5 So then also, in the present time, there has been a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise grace no longer would be grace. 7 What then? What Israel is seeking, this it has not obtained, but the elect obtained it. And the rest were hardened, 8 as it has been written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this very day." 9 And David says: "Let their table be for a snare and for a trap, and for a stumbling block and for a retribution to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened not to see, and their backs bent over forever." 11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? Never may it be! But in their trespass is salvation to the Gentiles, so as to provoke them to jealousy. 12 But if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their failure is the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! 13 Now I am speaking to you the Gentiles. Therefore indeed inasmuch as I am apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if at all I shall provoke to jealousy my own flesh, and shall save some of them. 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be if not life out from the dead? 16 Now if the firstfruit is holy, also the lump; and if the root is holy, also the branches. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and have become a fellow-partaker of the fatness of the root of the olive tree, 18 do not boast over the branches. And if you boast against them, you do not support the root, but the root you. 19 You will say, then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." 20 Rightly so: They were broken off by the unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be high minded, but be afraid. 21 For if God did not at all spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. 22 Behold therefore the kindness and severity of God: severity indeed upon those having fallen, but kindness of God toward you, if you continue in the kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And even they, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut off out of the naturally wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural, be grafted into the own olive tree! 25 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you may not be wise in yourselves: A hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles may come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it has been written: "The One Delivering will come out of Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob. 27 And this is the covenant from Me to them, when I shall take away their sins." 28 For as regards the gospel, they are enemies on account of you; but as regards election, beloved on account of the patriarchs. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy by the disobedience of these, 31 so these also now have been disobedient for your mercy, so that they also now may have mercy shown them. 32 For God has bound up all in disobedience, that He may show mercy to all. 33 O, the depth of riches, both of wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways! 34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor?" 35 "Or who has first given to Him, and it will be recompensed to him?" 36 For from Him and through Him and unto Him are all things. To Him be the glory to the ages! Amen. 12 Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy to God, well-pleasing, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, for you to prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God. 3 For through the grace having been given to me, I say to everyone being among you, not to be high-minded above what it behooves you to think, but to think so as to be sober-minded, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. 4 For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, 5 so we, the many, are one body in Christ; and individually members one of another. 6 And we are having different gifts according to the grace having been given to us: if prophecy, according to the proportion of the faith; 7 or service, in the service; or teaching, in the teaching; 8 or exhorting, in the exhortation; giving, in generosity; leading, in diligence; showing mercy, in cheerfulness. 9 Let love be unfeigned: abhorring evil, cleaving to good, 10 devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another in honor, 11 not lagging in diligence, being fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, 12 rejoicing in hope, being patient in tribulation, being constant in prayer, 13 contributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality. 14 Bless those persecuting you. Bless and do not curse; 15 to rejoice with the rejoicing, to weep with the weeping; 16 minding the same thing toward one another, not minding the things haughty, but going along with the lowly. Do not be wise in yourselves, 17 repaying to no one evil for evil, providing right before all men; 18 if possible of you, living at peace with all men; 19 never avenging yourselves, beloved; instead give place to wrath, for it has been written: "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord." 20 On the contrary, "If your enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him to drink; for doing this, you will heap coals of fire upon his head." 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. 13 Let every soul be subject to the authorities being above him. For there is no authority except by God; but those existing are having been instituted by God. 2 Therefore the one rebelling against the authority has resisted the ordinance of God, and those having resisted will bring judgment upon themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Now do you desire not to fear the authority? Do the good, and you will have praise from him. 4 For he is God's servant to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For He is God's servant, an avenger for wrath to the one doing evil. 5 Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of the conscience. 6 For because of this, you also pay taxes; for they are servants of God, attending continually upon this very thing. 7 Render to all their dues: tax to whom tax, revenue to whom revenue, respect to whom respect, honor to whom honor. 8 Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one loving the other has fulfilled the Law. 9 For, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, in, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love does not do evil to its neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law. 11 And do this knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken out of sleep; for our salvation is nearer now than when first we believed. 12 The night is nearly over, and the day has drawn near; therefore we should cast off the works of darkness and should put on the armor of light. 13 We should walk properly, as in daytime; not in reveling and drinking, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh. 14 Now receive the one being weak in the faith, not for passing judgment on reasonings. 2 Indeed, one believes to eat all things; but the one being weak eats vegetables. 3 The one eating, let him not despise the one not eating; and the one not eating, let him not judge the one eating, for God has received him. 4 Who are you, judging another's servant? To the own master he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to uphold him. 5 For indeed one judges a day to be above another day, but one judges every day alike. Let each be fully assured in the own mind. 6 The one regarding the day, regards it to the Lord; the one eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one not eating, does not eat to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For both if we should live, we live to the Lord; and if we should die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we should live and if we should die, we are the Lord's. 9 For unto this, Christ died and lived again that He might rule over both the dead and living. 10 But why do you judge your brother, or why also do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it has been written: "I live, says the Lord, that every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue will confess to God." 12 So then, each of us will give account concerning himself to God. 13 No longer, therefore, should we judge one another; but rather determine this, not to put any stumbling block or snare before your brother. 14 I know and I am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him reckoning anything to be unclean--to that one it is unclean. 15 For if on account of food your brother is grieved, no longer are you walking according to love. Do not destroy with food that one of you for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore let not your good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For the one serving Christ in these things is well-pleasing to God and approved by men. 19 So then, we should pursue the things of peace, and the things for edification among each other. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is wrong to the man eating through a stumbling block. 21 It is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor anything in which your brother stumbles. 22 The faith that you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one not judging himself in what he approves. 23 But the one doubting has been condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith; and anything that is not of faith is sin. 15 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please the neighbor unto the good, for edification. 3 For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it has been written: "The reproaches of those reproaching You have fallen on Me." 4 For whatever was written in the past was all written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope. 5 Now may the God of endurance and encouragement give you to be of the same mind with one another, according to Christ Jesus, 6 so that with one accord, with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Therefore receive one another as Christ also received you, to the glory of God. 8 For I declare Christ to have become a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises given to the fathers, 9 and for the Gentiles to glorify God for mercy, as it has been written: "Because of this I will praise You among the Gentiles, and will I sing to Your name." 10 And again it says: "Rejoice you Gentiles, with His people." 11 And again: "Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and praise Him, all the peoples." 12 And again, Isaiah says: "There will be the root of Jesse, and the One arising to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will hope." 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit. 14 And I myself also am persuaded concerning you my brothers, that you yourselves are also full of goodness, being filled with all knowledge, and being able to admonish one another. 15 But I have written to you more boldly in part, as reminding you, because of the grace having been given to me by God 16 for me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, administering the sacred service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit. 17 Therefore I have the boasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me unto the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so as for me, from Jerusalem and around unto Illyricum, to have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ, 20 and thus being ambitious to preach the gospel where Christ had not been named, so that I might not build upon another's foundation. 21 Rather, as it has been written: "They will see, to whom it was not proclaimed concerning Him; and those who have not heard will understand." 22 Therefore also I have been hindered many times to come to you. 23 But now, no longer having a place in these regions, and having had a great desire for many years to come to you, 24 whenever I may go to Spain, I hope indeed, going through, to see you and to be equipped there by you, if first I should be filled of you in part. 25 But now I am going to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints. 26 For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. 27 For they were pleased, and they are debtors of them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in the material things. 28 Therefore having finished this, and having sealed this fruit to them, I will set off through you into Spain. 29 Now I know that coming to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ. 30 Now I exhort you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me to God, 31 so that I may be delivered from those refusing to be persuaded in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 32 so that having come to you in joy, by the will of God I may be refreshed with you. 33 Now the God of peace be with all of you. Amen. 16 Now I commend to you Phoebe our sister, being also a servant of the church in Cenchrea, 2 that you might receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and you might assist her in whatever matter she may need of you. For she also has been a patroness of many, and of me myself. 3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus-- 4 who have lain down their neck for my life, whom not only I thank, but also all the churches of the Gentiles-- 5 and the church at their house. Greet Epenetus, my beloved, who is a firstfruit of Asia for Christ. 6 Greet Mary, who toiled much for you. 7 Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, and who were in Christ before me. 8 Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord. 9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys. 10 Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those of the household of Aristobulus. 11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those of the household of Narcissus being in the Lord. 12 Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those toiling in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who toiled much in the Lord. 13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them. 15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the saints with them. 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you. 17 Now I exhort you, brothers, to consider those causing divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and turn away from them. 18 For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. 19 For your obedience has reached to all. Therefore I rejoice over you. But I wish you to be wise to good, and innocent to evil. 20 And in a short time the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; also Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen. 22 I Tertius, the one having written down this letter, greet you in the Lord. 23 Gaius, the host of me and of all the church, greets you. Erastus, the steward of the city, greets you, and Quartus, the brother. 25 Now to Him being able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery having been kept secret in times of the ages, 26 but now having been made manifest also through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the Eternal God, having been made known to all the Gentiles unto the obedience of faith-- 27 to the only wise God be the glory to the ages of the ages, which is through Jesus Christ. Amen.