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1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle,
 separated to the gospel of God,
1:2 (Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy
 scriptures)
1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of
 the seed of David according to the flesh.
1:4 And declared [to be] the Son of God, with power, according
 to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience
 to the faith among all nations for his name:
1:6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
1:7 To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be]
 saints: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the
 Lord Jesus Christ.
1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that
 your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the
 gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you
 always in my prayers,
1:10 Making request (if by any means now at length I may have a
 prosperous journey by the will of God) to come to you.
1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some
 spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
1:12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you, by the
 mutual faith both of you and me.
1:13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have
 often purposed to come to you (but have been hitherto hindered)
 that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among
 other Gentiles.
1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians, both
 to the wise, and to the unwise.
1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to
 you that are at Rome also.
1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the
 power of God to salvation to every one that believeth; to the
 Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1:17 For in this is the righteousness of God revealed from faith
 to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
 ungodliness, and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
 unrighteousness.
1:19 Because that which may be known of God, is manifest in
 them; for God hath shown [it] to them.
1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the
 world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
 made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are
 without excuse:
1:21 Because that when they knew God, they glorified [him] not
 as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their
 imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools:
1:23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an
 image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and
 four-footed beasts, and creeping animals.
1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the
 lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between
 themselves:
1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and
 served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for
 ever. Amen.
1:26 For this cause God gave them up to vile affections. For
 even their women did change the natural use into that which is
 against nature:
1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
 woman, burned in their lust one towards another; men with men
 working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
 that recompense of their error which was meet.
1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their]
 knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those
 things which are not convenient;
1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
 wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
 debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters,
 inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31 Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural
 affection, implacable, unmerciful:
1:32 Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such
 things are worthy of death; not only do the same, but have
 pleasure in them that do them.
2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art,
 that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
 thyself; for thou that judgest, doest the same things.
2:2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to
 truth, against them who commit such things.
2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such
 things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment
 of God?
2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and
 forbearance, and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness
 of God leadeth thee to repentance?
2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up
 to thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of
 the righteous judgment of God;
2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for
 glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life:
2:8 But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth,
 but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath:
2:9 Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth
 evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
2:10 But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh
 good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile;
2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
2:12 For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish
 without law: and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be
 judged by the law,
2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but
 the doers of the law shall be justified.
2:14 For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature
 the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are
 a law to themselves.
2:15 Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their
 conscience also bearing testimony, and [their] thoughts the
 mean while accusing, or else excusing one another)
2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
 Christ, according to my gospel.
2:17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and
 makest thy boast of God,
2:18 And knowest [his] will, and approvest the things that are
 more excellent, being instructed out of the law,
2:19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the
 blind, a light of them who are in darkness,
2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who hast
 the form of knowledge, and of the truth in the law:
2:21 Thou therefore who teachest another, teachest thou not
 thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou
 steal?
2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost
 thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou
 commit sacrilege?
2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the
 law dishonorest thou God?
2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles,
 through you, as it is written.
2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the law;
 but if thou art a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made
 uncircumcision.
2:26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision keepeth the righteousness
 of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for
 circumcision?
2:27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it
 fulfilleth the law, judge thee, who by the letter and
 circumcision dost transgress the law?
2:28 For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither [is
 that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
2:29 But he [is] a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision [is
 that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter;
 whose praise [is] not from men, but from God.
3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there]
 of circumcision?
3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed
 the oracles of God.
3:3 For what if some did not believe? will their unbelief make
 the faith of God without effect?
3:4 By no means: verily let God be true, but every man a liar;
 as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings,
 and mayest overcome when thou art judged.
3:5 But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of
 God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh
 vengeance? (I speak as a man.)
3:6 By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?
3:7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to
 his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
3:8 And not [rather] (as we are slanderously reported, and as
 some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come?
 whose damnation is just.
3:9 What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we
 have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all
 under sin;
3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that
 seeketh God.
3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
 unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
3:13 Their throat [is] an open sepulcher; with their tongues
 they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their
 lips:
3:14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness.
3:15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood.
3:16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:
3:17 And the way of peace have they not known.
3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it saith to
 them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,
 and all the world may become guilty before God.
3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be
 justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of
 sin.
3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is
 manifested, being testified by the law and the prophets;
3:22 Even the righteousness of God, [which is] by faith of Jesus
 Christ to all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no
 difference:
3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
3:24 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption
 that is in Jesus Christ:
3:25 Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation, through
 faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
 remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of
 God;
3:26 To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that
 he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in
 Jesus.
3:27 Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of
 works? No; but by the law of faith.
3:28 Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith
 without the deeds of the law.
3:29 [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the
 Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
3:30 Seeing [it is] one God who will justify the circumcision by
 faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means:
 but we establish the law.
4:1 What shall we then say that Abraham our father, as
 pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to
 glory, but not before God.
4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it
 was counted to him for righteousness.
4:4 Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of
 grace, but of debt.
4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that
 justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man to
 whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
4:7 [Saying], Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven,
 and whose sins are covered.
4:8 Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
4:9 [Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only],
 or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was
 reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
4:10 How then was it reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or
 in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
 righteousness of the faith, which [he had yet] being
 uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that
 believe, though they are not circumcised, that righteousness
 might be imputed to them also;
4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the
 circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith
 of our father Abraham which [he had] being [yet] uncircumcised.
4:13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world
 [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but
 through the righteousness of faith.
4:14 For if they who are of the law [are] heirs, faith is made
 void, and the promise made of no effect.
4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there
 is] no transgression.
4:16 Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to
 the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that
 only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the
 faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;
4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many
 nations) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who reviveth
 the dead, and calleth those things which are not, as though
 they were.
4:18 Who against hope believed with hope, that he should become
 the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken,
 So shall thy seed be.
4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body
 now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet
 the deadness of Sarah's womb.
4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief;
 but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
4:21 And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he
 was able also to perform.
4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was
 imputed to him;
4:24 But for us also, to whom it will be imputed, if we believe
 on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
4:25 Who was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for
 our justification.
5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God,
 through our Lord Jesus Christ:
5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace in
 which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
5:3 And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also;
 knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed
 abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ
 died for the ungodly.
5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps
 for a good man some would even dare to die.
5:8 But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we
 were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall
 be saved from wrath through him.
5:10 For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by
 the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be
 saved by his life.
5:11 And not only [so], but we also joy in God, through our Lord
 Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
5:12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and
 death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all
 have sinned.
5:13 For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not
 imputed when there is no law.
5:14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over
 them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's
 transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
5:15 But not as the offense, so also [is] the free gift. For if
 through the offense of one many are dead, much more the grace
 of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man, Jesus
 Christ, hath abounded to many.
5:16 And not as [it was] by one that sinned, [so is] the gift.
 For the judgment [was] by one to condemnation, but the free
 gift [is] of many offenses to justification.
5:17 For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more
 they who receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of
 righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
5:18 Therefore, as by the offense of one, [judgment came] upon
 all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one
 [the free gift came] upon all men to justification of life.
5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so
 by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound.
 But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
5:21 That as sin hath reigned to death, even so might grace
 reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ
 our Lord.
6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace
 may abound?
6:2 By no means: how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any
 longer therein?
6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus
 Christ, were baptized into his death?
6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that
 as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,
 even so we also should walk in newness of life.
6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his
 death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his]
 resurrection:
6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that
 the body of sin may be destroyed, that henceforth we should not
 serve sin.
6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
6:8 Now if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall
 also live with him:
6:9 Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no
 more; death hath no more dominion over him.
6:10 For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he
 liveth, he liveth to God.
6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to
 sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye
 should obey it in the lusts of it.
6:13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of
 unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those
 that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments
 of righteousness to God:
6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not
 under the law, but under grace.
6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law,
 but under grace? By no means.
6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in
 obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to
 death, or of obedience to righteousness?
6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin; but
 ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was
 delivered you.
6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
 righteousness.
6:19 I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity
 of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to
 uncleanness and to iniquity, to ([work]) iniquity; even so now
 yield your members servants to righteousness, to ([work])
 holiness.
6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from
 righteousness.
6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now
 ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.
6:22 But now being made free from sin, and having become
 servants to God, ye have your fruit to holiness, and the end
 everlasting life.
6:23 For the wages of sin [is] death: but the gift of God [is]
 eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the
 law) that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he
 liveth?
7:2 For the woman who hath a husband, is bound by the law to
 [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband is dead,
 she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
7:3 So then, if while [her] husband liveth, she is married to
 another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her
 husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no
 adulteress, though she be married to another man.
7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law
 by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another,
 [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring
 forth fruit to God.
7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which
 were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit
 to death:
7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by
 which we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit,
 and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
7:7 What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? By no means. No, I
 had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust,
 except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me
 all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was]
 dead.
7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the
 commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
7:10 And the commandment which [was ordained] to life, I found
 [to be] to death.
7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me,
 and by it slew [me].
7:12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and
 just, and good.
7:13 Was then that which is good made death to me? By no means.
 But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that
 which is good; that sin by the commandment might become
 exceeding sinful.
7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal,
 sold under sin.
7:15 For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that I
 do not; but what I hate, that I do.
7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law
 that [it is] good.
7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth
 in me.
7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no
 good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to
 perform that which is good, I find not.
7:19 For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I
 would not, that I do.
7:20 Now if I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do
 it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
7:21 I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is
 present with me.
7:22 For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man:
7:23 But I see another law in my members warring against the law
 of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
 which is in my members.
7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the
 body of this death?
7:25 I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with
 the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the
 law of sin.
8:1 [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them who are in
 Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but
 according to the Spirit.
8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath
 made me free from the law of sin and death.
8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through
 the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
 flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
8:4 That the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us,
 who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the
 Spirit.
8:5 For they that are according to the flesh, do mind the things
 of the flesh: but they that are according to the Spirit, the
 things of the Spirit.
8:6 For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually
 minded [is] life and peace:
8:7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is
 not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the
 Spirit of God dwelleth in you. Now if any man hath not the
 Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
8:10 And if Christ [is] in you, the body [is] dead because of
 sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.
8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead
 dwelleth in you, he that raised Christ from the dead will also
 revive your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to
 live according to the flesh.
8:13 For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: but if
 ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall
 live.
8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the
 sons of God.
8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to
 fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we
 cry, Abba, Father.
8:16 The Spirit itself testifieth with our spirit, that we are
 the children of God:
8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs
 with Christ; if we suffer with [him], that we may be glorified
 together.
8:18 For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time
 [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be
 revealed in us.
8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
 manifestation of the sons of God.
8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly,
 but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope:
8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from
 the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the
 children of God.
8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth, and
 travaileth in pain together until now:
8:23 And not only [they], but ourselves also, who have the
 first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
 ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption
 of our body.
8:24 For we are saved by hope: But hope that is seen, is not
 hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
8:25 But if we hope for what we see not, [then] with patience we
 wait for [it].
8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we
 know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit
 itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot
 be uttered.
8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind
 of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints,
 according to [the will of] God.
8:28 And we know that all things work together for good, to them
 that love God, to them who are the called according to [his]
 purpose.
8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be]
 conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
 first-born among many brethren.
8:30 Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called:
 and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
 justified, them he also glorified.
8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God [is] for us,
 who [can be] against us?
8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
 all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
8:33 Who will lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It
 is] God that justifieth:
8:34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, or
 rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of
 God, who also maketh intercession for us.
8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall]
 tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
 nakedness, or peril, or sword?
8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day
 long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
8:37 But in all these things we are more than conquerors,
 through him that loved us.
8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
 angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
 things to come,
8:39 Nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able
 to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus
 our Lord.
9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also
 bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my
 heart.
9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for
 my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom [pertain] the adoption, and the
 glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the
 service [of God], and the promises;
9:5 Whose [are] the fathers, and from whom according to the
 flesh, Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever.
 Amen.
9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they
 [are] not all Israel, who are [descendants] from Israel?
9:7 Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all
 children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
9:8 That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these [are]
 not the children of God; but the children of the promise are
 counted for the seed.
9:9 For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come,
 and Sarah shall have a son.
9:10 And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by
 one, [even] by our father Isaac,
9:11 (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done
 any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to
 election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth)
9:12 It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
 hated.
9:14 What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with
 God? By no means.
9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will
 have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have
 compassion.
9:16 So then, [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that
 runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
9:17 For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, Even for this same
 purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in
 thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the
 earth.
9:18 Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will [have mercy], and
 whom he will he hardeneth.
9:19 Thou wilt say then to me, Why doth he yet find fault? for
 who hath resisted his will?
9:20 No, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
 shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast
 thou made me thus?
9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to
 make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?
9:22 [What] if God, willing to show [his] wrath, and to make his
 power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of
 wrath fitted to destruction:
9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
 vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,
9:24 Even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also
 of the Gentiles.
9:25 As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who
 were not my people; and her Beloved, who was not beloved.
9:26 And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was
 said to them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be
 called, The children of the living God.
9:27 Isaiah also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of
 the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant
 shall be saved:
9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in
 righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the
 earth.
9:29 And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had
 left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like
 Gomorrah.
9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles who followed not
 after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the
 righteousness which is by faith:
9:31 But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness,
 hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
9:32 Why? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were
 by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that
 stumbling-stone;
9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone,
 and rock of offense: and whoever believeth on him shall not be
 ashamed.
10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
 is, that they may be saved.
10:2 For I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but
 not according to knowledge.
10:3 For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and
 seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not
 submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
10:4 For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to
 every one that believeth.
10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is by the law,
 That the man who doeth these things shall live by them.
10:6 But the righteousness which is by faith speaketh on this
 wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that
 is, to bring Christ down.)
10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring
 Christ again from the dead.)
10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy
 mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we
 preach:
10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
 and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from
 the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10:10 For with the heart man believeth to righteousness; and
 with the mouth confession is made to salvation.
10:11 For the scripture saith, whoever believeth on him shall
 not be ashamed.
10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
 for the same Lord over all, is rich to all that call upon him,
10:13 For whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
 saved.
10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not
 believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have
 not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is
 written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
 gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things?
10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith,
 Lord, who hath believed our report?
10:17 So then, faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the
 word of God.
10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound
 went into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the
 world.
10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First, Moses saith, I will
 provoke you to jealousy by [them that are] no people, [and] by
 a foolish nation I will anger you.
10:20 But Isaiah is very bold, and saith, I was found by them
 that sought me not; I was made manifest to them that asked not
 for me.
10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched
 forth my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people.
11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? By no means. For
 I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe
 of Benjamin.
11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know
 ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he maketh
 intercession to God against Israel, saying,
11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thy
 altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
11:4 But what saith the answer of God to him? I have reserved to
 myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant
 according to the election of grace.
11:6 And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise
 grace is no more grace. But if of works, then is it no more
 grace: otherwise work is no more work.
11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh
 for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were
 blinded.
11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit
 of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they
 should not hear;) to this day.
11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a
 trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them:
11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow
 down their back always.
11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By
 no means: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come]
 to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
11:12 Now if the fall of them [be] the riches of the world, and
 the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much
 more their fullness?
11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle
 of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
11:14 If by any means I may incite to emulation [them who are]
 my flesh, and may save some of them.
11:15 For if the rejection of them [be] the reconciling of the
 world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from
 the dead?
11:16 For if the first fruit [is] holy, the lump [is] also
 [holy]: and if the root [is] holy, so [are] the branches.
11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being
 a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted among them, and with them
 partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;
11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boastest, thou
 bearest not the root, but the root thee.
11:19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I
 might be ingrafted.
11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou
 standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed]
 lest he also spare not thee.
11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them
 who fell, severity; but towards thee, goodness, if thou shalt
 continue in [his] goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut
 off.
11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall
 be ingrafted: for God is able to ingraft them again.
11:24 For if thou wast cut out of the olive-tree which is wild
 by nature, and wast ingrafted contrary to nature into a good
 olive-tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural
 [branches], be grafted into their own olive-tree?
11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of
 this mystery, (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits)
 that blindness in part hath happened to Israel, until the
 fullness of the Gentiles shall be come in.
11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There
 shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away
 ungodliness from Jacob:
11:27 For this [is] my covenant to them, when I shall take away
 their sins.
11:28 As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your
 sakes: but as concerning the election, [they are] beloved for
 the father's sakes.
11:29 For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance.
11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have
 now obtained mercy through their unbelief;
11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through
 your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might
 have mercy upon all.
11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge
 of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past
 finding out!
11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been
 his counselor?
11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be
 recompensed to him again?
11:36 For from him, and by him, and to him [are] all things: to
 whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.
12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
 that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
 acceptable to God, [which is] your reasonable service.
12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed
 by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that
 good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
12:3 For through the grace given to me, I say, to every man that
 is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he
 ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath
 dealt to every man the measure of faith.
12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members
 have not the same office:
12:5 So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one
 members one of another.
12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is
 given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to
 the proportion of faith;
12:7 Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that
 teacheth, on teaching:
12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let
 him do it] with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he
 that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.
12:9 [Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is
 evil; cleave to that which is good.
12:10 [Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly
 love; in honor preferring one another;
12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the
 Lord;
12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing
 earnest in prayer;
12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to
 hospitality.
12:14 Bless them who persecute you; bless, and curse not.
12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that
 weep.
12:16 [Be] of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high
 things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in
 your own conceits.
12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest
 in the sight of all men.
12:18 If [it is] possible, as much as lieth in you, live
 peaceably with all men.
12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give
 place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will
 repay, saith the Lord.
12:20 Therefore if thy enemy hungereth, feed him; if he
 thirsteth, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap
 coals of fire on his head.
12:21 Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
13:1 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there
 is no power but from God: the powers that are, are ordained by
 God.
13:2 Whoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the
 ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to
 themselves damnation.
13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
 Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power; do that which is
 good, and thou shalt have praise from the same:
13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou
 doest that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the
 sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, an avenger to
 [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.
13:5 Wherefore [ye] must needs be subject, not only for wrath,
 but also for conscience sake.
13:6 For, for this cause ye pay tribute also: for they are God's
 ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute
 [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to
 whom honor.
13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that
 loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not
 kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
 Thou shalt not covet; and if [there is] any other commandment,
 it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt
 love thy neighbor as thyself.
13:10 Love worketh no ill to one's neighbor: therefore love [is]
 the fulfilling of the law.
13:11 And this, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to
 awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when
 we believed.
13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us
 therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the
 armor of light.
13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and
 drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife
 and envying.
13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not
 provision for the lusts of flesh.
14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to
 doubtful disputations.
14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who
 is weak, eateth herbs.
14:3 Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not; and
 let not him who eateth not, judge him that eateth: for God hath
 received him.
14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own
 master he standeth or falleth: and he shall be held up: for God
 is able to make him stand.
14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth
 every day [alike]. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own
 mind.
14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] to the Lord: and
 he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard
 [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God
 thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and
 giveth God thanks.
14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to
 himself.
14:8 For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we
 die, we die to the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we
 are the Lord's.
14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived,
 that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.
14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set
 at naught thy brother? for we shall all stand before the
 judgment-seat of Christ.
14:11 For it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee
 shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to
 God.
14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge
 this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion
 to fall in [his] brother's way.
14:14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there
 is] nothing unclean by itself: but to him that esteemeth
 any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.
14:15 But if thy brother is grieved with [thy] food, now walkest
 thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy food, for whom
 Christ died.
14:16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
14:17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but
 righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
14:18 For he that in these things serveth Christ, [is]
 acceptable to God, and approved by men.
14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for
 peace, and things with which one may edify another.
14:20 For the sake of food, destroy not the work of God. All
 things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who
 eateth with offense.
14:21 [It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor
 [any thing] by which thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or
 is made weak.
14:22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy [is]
 he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eateth, because [he
 eateth] not from faith: for whatever [is] not from faith is
 sin.
15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of
 the weak, and not to please ourselves.
15:2 Let every one of us please [his] neighbor for [his] good
 to edification.
15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written,
 The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
15:4 For whatever things were written formerly, were written for
 our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the
 scriptures might have hope.
15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be
 like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus:
15:6 That ye may with one mind [and] one mouth glorify God, even
 the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received
 us to the glory of God.
15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the
 circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises
 [made] to the fathers:
15:9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for [his] mercy; as
 it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the
 Gentiles, and sing to thy name.
15:10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him,
 all ye people.
15:12 And again Isaiah saith, There shall be a root of Jesse,
 and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall
 the Gentiles trust.
15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
 believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the
 Holy Spirit.
15:14 And I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my
 brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all
 knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15:15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly to
 you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace
 that is given to me from God.
15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the
 Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up
 of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the
 Holy Spirit.
15:17 I have therefore cause for glorying through Jesus Christ,
 in those things which pertain to God.
15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which
 Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient,
 by word and deed,
15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the
 Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and around to Illyricum,
 I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
15:20 And so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where
 Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's
 foundation:
15:21 But as it is written, They shall see to whom he was not
 spoken of: and they that have not heard shall understand.
15:22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming
 to you.
15:23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a
 great desire these many years to come to you;
15:24 Whenever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you:
 for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my
 way thitherward by you, if first I shall be somewhat filled
 with your [company].
15:25 But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.
15:26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a
 certain contribution for the poor of the saints who are at
 Jerusalem.
15:27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are.
 For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual
 things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal
 things.
15:28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to
 them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.
15:29 And I am sure that when I come to you, I shall come in the
 fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's
 sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together
 with me in [your] prayers to God for me;
15:31 That I may be delivered from them in Judea who do not
 believe; and that my service which [I have] for Jerusalem, may
 be acceptable to the saints;
15:32 That I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and
 may with you be refreshed.
15:33 Now the God of peace [be] with you all. Amen.
16:1 I commend to you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the
 church which is at Cenchrea:
16:2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as it becometh saints, and
 that ye assist her in whatever business she hath need of you:
 for she hath been a succorer of many, and of myself also.
16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
16:4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not
 only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
16:5 Likewise [greet] the church that is in their house. Salute
 my well-beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia to
 Christ.
16:6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labor on us.
16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia my kinsmen, and my
 fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also
 were in Christ before me.
16:8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
16:9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my
 beloved.
16:10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them who are of
 Aristobulus' [household].
16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that are of the
 [household] of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
16:12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord.
 Salute the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord.
16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
16:14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and
 the brethren who are with them.
16:15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and
 Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
16:16 Salute one another with a holy kiss. The churches of
 Christ salute you.
16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them who cause divisions
 and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned;
 and avoid them.
16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,
 but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches
 deceive the hearts of the simple.
16:19 For your obedience is come abroad to all [men]. I am glad
 therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise to that
 which is good, and simple concerning evil.
16:20 And the God of peace will soon bruise Satan under your
 feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.
16:21 Timothy my work-fellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and
 Sosipater my kinsmen, salute you.
16:22 I Tertius, who wrote [this] epistle, salute you in the
 Lord.
16:23 Gaius my host, and of the whole church, saluteth you.
 Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a
 brother.
16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all.
 Amen.
16:25 Now to him that is able to establish you according to my
 gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the
 revelation of the mystery, which hath been kept secret since
 the world began,
16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the
 prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God,
 made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
16:27 To God the only wise, [be] glory through Jesus Christ for
 ever. Amen.