CHAPTER 1
The gospel is the power of God unto salvation through Jesus Christ—Wrath of God rests on those guilty of murder, homosexual practices, fornication, and other sins if the guilty do not repent.
1 PAUL, a aservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an bapostle•, cseparated• unto the gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
3 Concerning his Son aJesus• Christ our Lord, which was made of the bseed of cDavid according to the flesh;
4 And adeclared• to be the bSon• of God with cpower, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection dfrom• the dead:
5 By whom we have received agrace and apostleship, bfor• cobedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be asaints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your afaith• is bspoken• of throughout the whole world.
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;
10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual agift•, to the end ye may be established;
12 That is, that I may be acomforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was alet• hitherto,) that I might have some bfruit• among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the aBarbarians•; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
15 So, as much as in me is, I am aready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
16 For I am not aashamed• of the bgospel of Christ: for it is the cpower• of God unto dsalvation• to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the arighteousness• of God revealed bfrom• faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by cfaith.
18 For the awrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, bwho• chold• the truth in dunrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest ain• them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the ainvisible• things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his beternal cpower and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were athankful; but became bvain• in their imaginations, and their cfoolish• heart was ddarkened.
22 Professing themselves to be awise•, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the auncorruptible• God into an bimage• made like to ccorruptible• man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also agave• them up to buncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God agave• them up unto bvile• caffections•: for even their dwomen did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their alust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to aretain• God in their knowledge, God bgave• them over to a creprobate• mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, awickedness, covetousness, bmaliciousness; full of envy, murder, cdebate•, ddeceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 aBackbiters•, haters of God, bdespiteful•, cproud, dboasters, inventors of evil things, edisobedient to parents,
31 Without aunderstanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of adeath, not only do the same, but bhave• cpleasure• in them that do them.
CHAPTER 2
God shall render to every man according to his deeds—Both Jews and Gentiles judged by gospel laws.
1 THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou ajudgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2 But we aare• sure that the bjudgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that ajudgest• them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the bjudgment• of God?
4 Or despisest thou the ariches of his bgoodness• and cforbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
5 But aafter• thy bhardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will arender• to every man baccording to his cdeeds•:
7 To them who by apatient bcontinuance• in well doing seek for glory and honour and cimmortality, eternal life:
8 But unto them that are acontentious, and do not bobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, cindignation and wrath,
9 aTribulation• and banguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the cGentile•;
10 But glory, honour, and apeace, to every man that bworketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the cGentile•:
11 For there is no arespect• of bpersons• with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without alaw• shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the adoers of the law shall be bjustified•.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 aWhich• shew the work of the blaw• written in their hearts, their cconscience• also bearing dwitness•, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall ajudge• the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my bgospel.
17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the aform• of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 Thou therefore which teachest another, ateachest thou not thyself? thou that bpreachest• a man should not csteal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit aadultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou bcommit• csacrilege?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of God is ablasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For acircumcision• verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and acircumcision• is that of the heart, in the bspirit•, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
CHAPTER 3
Man is not justified by the law of Moses—He is justified through righteousness which is by faith in Christ, made possible through his atoning sacrifice.
1 aWHAT• badvantage• then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of ccircumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the aoracles• of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their aunbelief• make the faith of God without effect?
4 aGod• forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a bliar•; as it is written, That thou mightest be cjustified• in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5 aBut• if our unrighteousness bcommend• the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God cunrighteous• who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 aGod• forbid: for then how shall God bjudge the world?
7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded athrough• my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose adamnation is just.
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;
10 As it is written, There is anone• brighteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the away•, they are together become bunprofitable•; there is none that doeth cgood•, no, not one.
13 Their athroat• is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the bpoison• of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and abitterness•:
15 Their feet are swift to ashed• blood:
16 Destruction and amisery• are in their ways:
17 And the way of apeace• have they not known:
18 There is no afear• of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every amouth• may be stopped, and all the world may become bguilty before God.
20 Therefore by the adeeds• of the blaw there shall no flesh be cjustified• in his sight: for dby• the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the arighteousness of God bwithout• the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have asinned•, and come short of the glory of God;
24 aBeing• bjustified• freely by his cgrace through the dredemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath aset• forth to be a bpropitiation• through faith in his cblood, to declare his righteousness for the dremission of sins that are past, through the eforbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be ajust, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is aboasting• then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is ajustified by bfaith cwithout• the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the aGod• of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the bGentiles also:
30 Seeing it is aone• God, which shall justify the bcircumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? aGod• forbid: byea•, we establish the law.
CHAPTER 4
Abraham’s faith was imputed to him for righteousness—Man is justified by faith, righteous works, and grace.
1 WHAT shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2 aFor• if Abraham were justified by works, he hath bwhereof• to glory; but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham abelieved God, and it was counted unto him for brighteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the areward• not breckoned• of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7 Saying, aBlessed• are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
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.
10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received the asign of bcircumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the cfather• of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also awalk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13 For the promise, that he should be the aheir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his bseed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no alaw• is, there is no btransgression.
16 aTherefore• it is of faith, that it might be by bgrace; 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 cfaith of Abraham; who is the dfather of us all,
17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who aquickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18 Who against hope believed in ahope, that he might become the father of many bnations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy cseed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years aold, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
20 He astaggered• not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had apromised•, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24 But for aus• also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our aoffences•, and was raised again for our bjustification.
CHAPTER 5
Man is justified through the blood of Christ—Adam fell, and Christ atoned that man might be saved.
1 THEREFORE being ajustified by bfaith, we have cpeace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by afaith• into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we glory in atribulations• also: knowing that btribulation worketh cpatience;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 And ahope• maketh not ashamed; because the blove of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6 For when we were yet without astrength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet asinners•, bChrist died for us.
9 Much more then, being now ajustified by his bblood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were areconciled to God by the bdeath of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the aatonement•.
12 Wherefore, as by one man asin• entered into the world, and bdeath• by sin; and so cdeath passed upon all men, for that all have dsinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but asin is not imputed when there is no blaw•.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s atransgression, who is the bfigure• of him that was to come.
15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by aone• man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
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 offences unto justification.
17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of agrace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the arighteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto bjustification of life.
19 For as by one man’s adisobedience many were made sinners, so by the bobedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through arighteousness unto beternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
CHAPTER 6
Baptism is in similitude of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ—The wages of sin is death—Christ brings eternal life.
1 WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that agrace• may abound?
2 aGod• forbid. How shall we, that are dead to bsin•, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were abaptized• into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are aburied with him by bbaptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the cdead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should dwalk in enewness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the alikeness of his bdeath•, we shall be also in the likeness of his cresurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our aold• man is crucified with him, that the bbody• of sin might be cdestroyed•, that henceforth we should not serve dsin•.
7 For he that is adead• is bfreed• from sin.
8 Now if we be adead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being araised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto asin• bonce•: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but aalive• unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your amortal body, that ye should obey it in the blusts thereof.
13 Neither ayield• ye your bmembers• as cinstruments• of unrighteousness unto sin: but dyield• yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of erighteousness unto God.
14 aFor• sin shall not have bdominion• over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under agrace? bGod• forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves aservants• to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye bobey•; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have aobeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made afree• from bsin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
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 unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were afree• from righteousness.
21 What afruit• had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22 But now being made afree• from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your bfruit• unto choliness, and the end everlasting life.
23 For the awages of bsin is cdeath; but the dgift of God is eeternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
CHAPTER 7
Law of Moses is fulfilled in Christ—Paul delights in the law of God after the inward man.
1 KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the alaw• hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the awoman which hath an bhusband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become adead• to the blaw• 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 unto God.
5 aFor• when we were in the flesh, the bmotions• of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto cdeath•.
6 But now we are adelivered• from the law, that being bdead• wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of cspirit•, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? aGod• forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the blaw•: for I had not known clust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not dcovet•.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the alaw• sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto adeath•.
11 For sin, ataking• occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? aGod• forbid. 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.
14 For we know that the alaw• is spiritual: but I am bcarnal, csold• under sin.
15 For athat• which I do I ballow• not: for what I cwould•, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I awould• not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that ado• it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my aflesh,) bdwelleth• no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to cperform• that which is good I find not.
19 For the agood that I bwould• I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do athat• I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is apresent• with me.
22 For I adelight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, awarring• against the law of my mind, and bringing me into bcaptivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O awretched• man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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.
CHAPTER 8
Law of Christ brings life and peace—Those adopted as sons of God become joint-heirs with Christ—God’s elect are foreordained to eternal life—Christ makes intercession for man.
1 THERE is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who awalk not after the bflesh, but after the cSpirit•.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me afree• from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was aweak• through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful bflesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the aSpirit•.
5 For they that are after the flesh do amind• the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be acarnally minded is bdeath; but to be cspiritually minded is life and dpeace.
7 Because the acarnal mind is benmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are ain• the flesh cannot please God.
9 aBut• ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the bSpirit• of God cdwell• in you. Now if any man have not the dSpirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if aChrist• be in you, bthe• body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of crighteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also aquicken• your bmortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye ashall• die: but if ye through the Spirit do bmortify• the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are aled by the bSpirit of God, they are the csons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of abondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of badoption•, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth awitness with our bspirit, that we are the cchildren of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; aheirs• of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we bsuffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the asufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the bglory• which shall be revealed cin• us.
19 For the aearnest• expectation of the bcreature• waiteth for the cmanifestation• of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to avanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the acreature• itself also shall be bdelivered from the bondage of ccorruption• into the glorious dliberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation agroaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, awhich• have the bfirstfruits• of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the cadoption•, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by ahope: but hope that is bseen• is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also ahelpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should bpray• for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh cintercession for us with dgroanings• which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that asearcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh bintercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for agood• to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 aFor• whom he did bforeknow, he also cdid• predestinate dto• be conformed to the eimage• of his Son, that he might be the ffirstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he adid• predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can abe• against us?
32 He that spared not his own aSon, but bdelivered• him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us call• things?
33 Who shall alay• any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh aintercession• for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the alove• of Christ? shall btribulation, or distress, or cpersecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are akilled• all the day long; we are accounted as bsheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are amore• than bconquerors• through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to aseparate• us from the blove• of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
CHAPTER 9
How the law of election (foreordination) operates—Israel chosen (foreordained) to receive the adoption, the covenants, the promises, and the blessings of the gospel; yet they are not all Israel, which are of Israel—They must seek their blessings by faith—The Gentiles also attain to righteousness and salvation by faith.
1 I SAY the truth in Christ, I alie• not, my bconscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 aFor• I could wish that myself were baccursed• from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the aadoption, and the glory, and the bcovenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the aflesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God ahath• taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of bIsrael•:
7 aNeither•, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In bIsaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the achildren of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a ason.
10 And not only this; but when aRebecca• also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to aelection might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The aelder• shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I aloved•, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there aunrighteousness• with God? bGod• forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have acompassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth amercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same apurpose• have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he amercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he bhardeneth•.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that arepliest• against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou bmade• me thus?
21 Hath not the apotter• power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to adestruction•:
23 And that he might make known the ariches of his bglory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in aOsee•, I will call them my people, which were not my bpeople•; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the achildren• of the living God.
27 aEsaias• also crieth concerning Israel, Though the bnumber• of the children of cIsrael be as the sand of the sea, a dremnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in arighteousness•: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of aSabaoth• had left us a bseed•, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the arighteousness which is of faith.
31 But aIsrael, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 aWherefore•? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they bstumbled• at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a astumblingstone and brock of coffence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
CHAPTER 10
Salvation comes through righteousness to those who believe in Christ—Faith comes by hearing the gospel taught by legal administrators sent of God.
1 BRETHREN, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be asaved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a azeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God’s arighteousness, and bgoing• about to establish their own righteousness, have not csubmitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the aend• of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
6 But the arighteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
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;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the aheart man bbelieveth• unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto csalvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no adifference• between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is brich unto all that ccall upon him.
13 For whosoever shall acall upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not abelieved? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a bpreacher•?
15 And how shall they apreach, except they be bsent? as it is written, How beautiful are the cfeet• of them that preach the dgospel of epeace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all aobeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath bbelieved• our report?
17 So then afaith cometh by bhearing•, and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their awords• unto the ends of the bworld•.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to ajealousy• by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But aEsaias• is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that bsought• me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a adisobedient• and bgainsaying• people.
CHAPTER 11
Israel was chosen (foreordained) according to the election of grace—But some hardened their hearts against it—The Gentiles are grafted into the house of Israel—The gospel goes preferentially to the Gentiles until the fulness of the Gentiles comes in.
1 I SAY then, Hath God cast away his people? aGod• forbid. For I also am an bIsraelite•, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his apeople which he bforeknew. cWot• ye not what the scripture saith of dElias•? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have akilled thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am bleft• alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have areserved• to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the aelection of grace.
6 And if by agrace, then is it no more of bworks•: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest awere• blinded
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of aslumber•, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not bhear•;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a asnare•, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a brecompence• unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? aGod• forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to bjealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the adiminishing• of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you aGentiles•, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I bmagnify• mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the areconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the aroot be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive atree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 aBoast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of aunbelief they were bbroken• off, and thou standest by cfaith•. Be not highminded, but dfear:
21 For if God spared not the anatural• branches, take heed lest he also bspare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own aconceits•; that bblindness• in part is happened to Israel, until the cfulness of the dGentiles be come in.
26 And so all aIsrael shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of bSion the cDeliverer•, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my acovenant• unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past ahave• not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their bunbelief•:
31 Even so have these also now not abelieved•, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath aconcluded• them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the ariches both of the bwisdom and cknowledge of God! how dunsearchable• are his judgments, and his ways past efinding• out!
34 For who hath known the amind• of the Lord? or who hath been his bcounsellor•?
35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and athrough• him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
CHAPTER 12
Paul counsels the saints to present their bodies as a living sacrifice; to use their own grace-given gifts; to live as becometh saints.
1 I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your abodies a living bsacrifice•, holy, cacceptable• unto God, which is your reasonable dservice.
2 And be not conformed to this aworld: but be ye btransformed• by the crenewing of your dmind, that ye may eprove• what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, fwill of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to athink of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think bsoberly•, according as cGod• hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same aoffice•:
5 So we, being many, are aone bbody in Christ, and every one members one of another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the agrace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of bfaith;
7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with acheerfulness.
9 Let love be awithout• dissimulation. Abhor that which is bevil•; cleave to that which is good.
10 Be kindly aaffectioned• one to another with bbrotherly clove; in honour preferring one another;
11 Not slothful in abusiness•; bfervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
12 Rejoicing in hope; apatient• in btribulation; ccontinuing• instant in prayer;
13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to ahospitality.
14 Bless them which apersecute you: bless, and bcurse not.
15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and aweep with them that weep.
16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but acondescend• to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own bconceits•.
17 aRecompense to no man bevil for evil. Provide things chonest in the dsight• of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live apeaceably• with all men.
19 Dearly beloved, aavenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20 Therefore if thine aenemy• hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but aovercome• evil with good.
CHAPTER 13
Paul counsels: Be subject unto God’s ministers; keep the commandments; love one another; righteousness leads to salvation.
1 LET every soul abe• subject unto the higher bpowers•. For there is no cpower• dbut• of God: the epowers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that aresist shall receive to themselves bdamnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the apower•? do that which is bgood, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is athe• minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for aconscience sake.
6 aFor• for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; ahonour• to whom honour.
8 aOwe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that bloveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit aadultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not bsteal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not ccovet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy dneighbour as thyself.
10 aLove• worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the blaw•.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high atime to awake out of bsleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the aday• is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of bdarkness•, and let us put on the carmour• of dlight.
13 Let us walk ahonestly•, as in the day; not in brioting and cdrunkenness, not in dchambering• and wantonness, not in strife and eenvying.
14 But aput• ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the blusts thereof.
CHAPTER 14
Avoid doubtful disputations and unrighteous judgment of each other—Every knee shall bow to Christ—Kingdom of God embraces righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
1 HIM that is aweak• in the faith receive ye, but not to bdoubtful cdisputations.
2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth aherbs•.
3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not ajudge• him that eateth: for God hath received him.
4 Who art thou that ajudgest• another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
5 One man esteemeth one aday• above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto 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.
7 For none of us aliveth• to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we adie• unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be aLord both of the bdead• and living.
10 But why dost thou ajudge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the bjudgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every aknee• shall bow to me, and every tongue shall bconfess• to God.
12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a astumblingblock• or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing aunclean• of itself: but to him that besteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, anow• walkest thou not bcharitably•. Destroy not him cwith• thy meat, for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
17 For the kingdom of God is not ameat• and drink; but brighteousness, and cpeace, and djoy in the Holy Ghost.
18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for apeace, and things wherewith one may bedify another.
20 aFor• meat destroy not the bwork of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is aoffended•, or is made weak.
22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself ain• that thing which he alloweth.
23 And he that adoubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of bfaith is csin.
CHAPTER 15
True saints fellowship one another—Paul recounts his diligence in preaching the gospel—Gifts of the Spirit poured out upon the Gentiles.
1 WE then that are strong ought to abear• the infirmities of the bweak•, and not to please ourselves.
2 Let every one of us please his aneighbour for his good to bedification.
3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The areproaches• of them that reproached thee fell on me.
4 For whatsoever things were awritten• aforetime were bwritten• for our clearning, that we through dpatience and comfort of the escriptures might have fhope.
5 Now the God of patience and aconsolation• grant you to be blikeminded• one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the aFather of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the acircumcision for the truth of God, to bconfirm• the cpromises• made unto the fathers:
9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his amercy; as it is written, For this cause I will bconfess• to thee among the cGentiles•, and sing unto thy name.
10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye aGentiles•, with his people.
11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.
12 And again, aEsaias• saith, There shall be a root of bJesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and apeace in believing, that ye may abound in bhope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all aknowledge, able also to badmonish one another.
15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in asome• sort, as putting you in mind, because of the bgrace that is given to me of God,
16 That I should be the aminister• of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the boffering• up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being csanctified by the Holy Ghost.
17 I have therefore whereof I may aglory• through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
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,
19 Through mighty asigns• and wonders, by the power of the bSpirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s afoundation•:
21 But as it is written, To whom he was not aspoken• of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.
22 For which cause also I have been much ahindered• from coming to you.
23 But now having no more aplace• in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
24 Whensoever 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 be somewhat filled with your company.
25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain acontribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their aspiritual• things, their bduty is also to minister unto them in ccarnal• things.
28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this afruit•, I will come by you into Spain.
29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the afulness• of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
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;
31 That I may be delivered from them that ado• not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be arefreshed•.
33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
CHAPTER 16
Paul salutes divers saints—He counsels the saints to avoid those who cause divisions—They should be wise concerning good, and simple concerning evil.
1 I COMMEND unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus’ ahousehold•.
11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the ahousehold• of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.
15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.
16 Salute one another with an holy akiss•. The bchurches of Christ salute you.
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, amark• them which cause bdivisions• and coffences• contrary to the ddoctrine• which ye have learned; and eavoid• them.
18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and afair• speeches deceive the hearts of the bsimple•.
19 For your aobedience• is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you bwise unto that which is good, and csimple• concerning evil.
20 And the God of apeace• shall bbruise• cSatan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
21 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
24 The agrace• of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
25 Now to him that is of power to astablish• you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the bmystery•, which was kept secret since the world began,
26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the aeverlasting• God, made known to all nations for the bobedience of faith:
27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.