Jubilee2000 - Romans

Chapter 1

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

1:2  (which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures)

1:3  of his Son (who was born unto him of the seed of David according to the flesh,

1:4  who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection from the dead), of Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.

1:5  By whom we have received the grace and the apostleship, to [cause] the faith to be obeyed among all the Gentiles in his name,

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

1:7  to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints; ye have grace and peace of God our Father and of the Lord Jesus, the Christ.

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

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

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

1:11  For I long to see you that I may impart with you some spiritual gift to confirm you,

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 many times I purposed to come unto you (but up until now I have been unable) 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 announce the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of the Christ; for it is [the] power of God [to give] saving health to every one that believes: to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

1:17  For in him 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 injustice of men, who hold back the truth with injustice;

1:19  because that which is known of God is manifest to them; for God has showed [it] unto them.

1:20  For the invisible things of him, his eternal power and divinity, are clearly understood by the creation of the world and by the things that are made so that there is no excuse;

1:21  because having known God, they did not glorify [him] 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 exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for [the] likeness of [an] image of corruptible man and of birds and of fourfooted beasts and of serpents.

1:24  Therefore God also gave them over to the lusts of their own hearts for uncleanness, to contaminate their own bodies between [themselves],

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

1:26  For this cause God gave them up unto shameful affections, for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;

1:27  and likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lust one toward another, males with males committing nefarious works and receiving in themselves the recompense that proceeded from their error.

1:28  And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a perverse understanding, 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, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

1:31  without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, without mercy.

1:32  Who having understood the righteousness of God, they did not understand that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only those that do the same, but even those who encourage those that do them.:

Chapter 2

2:1  Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for in that which thou dost judge another, thou dost condemn thyself; for thou that judgest [others] doest the same things.

2:2  For we are sure that the judgment of God is according to [the] truth against those who do such things.

2:3  And dost thou think this, O man, that judgest those who do such things and [doest the same], that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

2:4  Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, ignoring that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

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

2:6  who will render to everyone according to his deeds:

2:7  to those who persevered in well doing, glory and honour and incorruption, to those who seek eternal life;

2:8  but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.

2:9  Tribulation and anguish [shall be] upon every human soul that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek;

2:10  but glory, honour, and peace to everyone that works good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

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 do not have the law, do by nature that which is of the law, these, not having the law, are a law unto themselves;

2:15  which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, accusing and also excusing their reasonings one with another)

2:16  in the day when God shall judge that which men have covered up, according to my gospel by Jesus, the Christ.

2:17  Behold, thou doth call thyself a Jew and art supported by the law and doth glory in God

2:18  and dost know [his] will and approve 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 those who [are] in darkness,

2:20  an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of children, 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 dost abhorr idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

2:23  Thou that makest thy boast of the law, with rebellion to the law doth thou dishonour God?

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

2:25  For circumcision verily profits if thou keep the law, but if thou art a rebel to the law, thy circumcision is made [into] a foreskin.

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

2:27  And that which is by nature foreskin, but keeps the law perfectly, shall judge thee who with the letter and with the circumcision art rebellious to the law.

2:28  For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is done outwardly 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 of men, but of God.:

Chapter 3

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

3:2  Much in every way: first, certainly, that the oracles of God have been entrusted unto them.

3:3  For what if some of them did not believe? Shall their unbelief have made the truth of God without effect?

3:4  No, in no wise: for God is true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou might be justified in thy words and might overcome when thou dost judge.

3:5  And if our iniquity commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Shall [for this reason] God be unjust who sends punishment? (I speak as a man.)

3:6  No, in no wise: for then how shall God judge the world?

3:7  For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why even so am I also judged as a sinner?

3:8  And why not say (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of whom 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 no one righteous, no, not one;

3:11  there is no one that understands; there is no one that seeks after God.

3:12  They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.

3:13  Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; 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 they have not known;

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

3:19  Now we know that all that the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may submit themselves unto God.

3:20  For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

3:21  But now, without the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets:

3:22  the righteousness, that is, of God by the faith of Jesus, the Christ, for all and upon all those that believe in him, for there is no difference;

3:23  for all have sinned and are made destitute of the glory of God,

3:24  [being] justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus, the Christ,

3:25  whom God purposed for reconciliation through faith in his blood for the manifestation of his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past, by the patience of God,

3:26  manifesting in this time his righteousness that he [only] be the just [one] and the justifier of him that is of the faith of 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 shall justify the circumcision by faith and [the] uncircumcision by faith.

3:31  Do we then make void the law through faith? No, in no wise; to the contrary, we establish the law.:

Chapter 4

4:1  What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?

4:2  For if Abraham were justified by works, he has [reason] to glory [in himself], but not before God.

4:3  For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

4:4  But unto him that works, the reward is not reckoned as grace, but as debt.

4:5  But to him that does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, the faith is counted as righteousness.

4:6  Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man unto whom God doth attribute righteousness without works,

4:7  [saying], Blessed [are] those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.

4:8  Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord did not impute sin.

4:9  Is this blessedness, therefore, only upon the circumcision or also upon the uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

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

4:11  And he received the circumcision as [a] sign, as [a] seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had, yet] being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all the uncircumcised believers, that it might be counted unto them also as righteousness,

4:12  that [he be] the father of the circumcision: not only to those who are of the circumcision, but also unto those who walk in the steps of the faith that was in our father Abraham before he was circumcised.

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 those who are of the law [are] the heirs, faith is [in] vain, and the promise annulled,

4:15  because the law works wrath; for where there is no law, [there is] no rebellion either.

4:16  Therefore by faith, that [it might be] by grace, to the end the promise might be sure to all [the] seed, not only to that which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

4:17  as it is written, As a father of many Gentiles have I placed thee before God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as those that are.

4:18  Who believed to wait against [all] hope, that he might become the father of many Gentiles, according to that which had been spoken [unto him], So shall thy seed be.

4:19  And he did not weaken in faith: he considered not his own body now dead when he was about one hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb;

4:20  he doubted not the promise of God, with unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

4:21  being fully persuaded that he was also powerful to do all that he had promised;

4:22  therefore, [his faith] was also attributed unto him as righteousness.

4:23  Now it is not written for his sake alone that it was [so] reckoned to him,

4:24  but for us also to whom it shall be [so] reckoned, that is, to those that believe in him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

4:25  who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification.:

Chapter 5

5:1  Justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus, the Christ,

5:2  by whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and glory in hope of the glory [of the sons] of God.

5:3  And not only [this], but we even glory in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation works patience;

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

5:5  and the hope shall not be ashamed, because the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us.

5:6  For the Christ, when we were yet weak, in his time died for the ungodly.

5:7  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

5:8  But God increased the price of his charity toward us in that while we were yet sinners the Christ died for us.

5:9  Then much more now justified in his blood, we shall be saved from wrath by him.

5:10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled with God by the death of his Son, much more, [now] reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

5:11  And not only this, but we even glory in God through our Lord Jesus, the Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

5:12  Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all sinned.

5:13  For until the law, sin was in the world; but the sin was not imputed, [there] being no law.

5:14  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even in those that did not sin after the manner of the rebellion of Adam, who is a figure of him that was to come.

5:15  But not as the offense, so also [is] the gift. For if through the offense of [that] one many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of one man, Jesus the Christ, has abounded unto many.

5:16  Nor was it in the same manner as by one sin, likewise also the gift; for the judgment truly [came] of one [sin] unto condemnation, but grace [came] of many offenses unto justification.

5:17  For if by one offense, death reigned [because] of one [man]; much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of gifts and of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus the Christ.

5:18  Therefore, in the same manner that by the iniquity of one [guilt came] upon all men unto condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, [grace came] upon all men unto 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 offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

5:21  so that in the same manner as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.:

Chapter 6

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

6:2  No, in no wise. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?

6:3  Know ye not that all of us that are baptized into Jesus the Christ are baptized into his death?

6:4  For we are buried with him by baptism into death, that just as the Christ was raised up from the dead to the glory of the Father, likewise we also walk in newness of life.

6:5  For if we have been planted together [in him] 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 might be destroyed that we should not serve sin any longer.

6:7  For he that is dead is justified from sin.

6:8  Now if we die with the Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

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

6:10  For [he] that is dead died unto sin once, and [he] that lives, lives unto God.

6:11  Likewise also reckon yourselves to be truly dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.

6:12  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

6:13  Neither present your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

6:14  So that sin shall have no 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? No, in no wise.

6:16  Or know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of the obedience unto righteousness?

6:17  Thank God that, although ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine unto which ye are delivered;

6:18  and freed from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.

6:19  I speak a human thing because of the weakness of our flesh: that as ye presented your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity, likewise now present your members to serve righteousness unto holiness.

6:20  For being [previously] the servants of sin, [now] ye have been made the servants of 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 freed from sin and made servants to God, ye have as your fruit sanctification and as the end, everlasting life.

6:23  For the wages of sin [is] death, but the grace of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.:

Chapter 7

7:1  Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to those that know the law), that the law has dominion over a man [only] as long as he lives?

7:2  For the woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law of the husband.

7:3  So then if, while [her] husband lives, she belongs to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress if she belongs to another man.

7:4  Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

7:5  For while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

7:6  But now we are free from the law of death in which we were held, that we might serve in newness of Spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.

7:7  What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for [neither] would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.

7:8  Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.

7:9  So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

7:10  And I found that the [same] commandment, which was unto life, was mortal [unto me].

7:11  For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed [me].

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

7:13  Was then that which is good made death unto me? No, in no wise. But sin, to show itself sin by that which is good, worked death in me, making sin exceedingly sinful by the commandment.

7:14  For we [now] know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold unto subjection by sin.

7:15  For that which I do, I do not understand, and not even the [good] that I desire [is what] I do; but what I hate, that [is what] I do.

7:16  If then I do that which I do not desire, I approve that the law [is] good.

7:17  So that it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

7:18  And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.

7:19  For I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not desire, that I do.

7:20  And if I do that which I do not desire, I am not working, but sin that dwells in me.

7:21  So that, desiring to do good, I find [this] law: evil is natural unto me.

7:22  For I delight with the law of God with the inward man,

7:23  but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto 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  The grace of God, by Jesus, the 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

8:1  So that now, [there is] no condemnation to those 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, has made me free from the law of sin and death.

8:3  For that which was impossible to the law, 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 might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

8:5  For those that are according to the flesh know the things that are of the flesh; but those that are according to the Spirit, the things that are of the Spirit.

8:6  For the prudence of the flesh [is] death, but the prudence of the Spirit, life and peace,

8:7  because the prudence of the flesh [is] enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.

8:8  So then, those that are carnal cannot please God.

8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, because the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, that person is not of him.

8:10  But if Christ is in you, the body is truly dead because of sin, but the Spirit [is] alive because of righteousness.

8:11  And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up the Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells 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 through the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

8:14  For all that are led by the Spirit of God, the same are sons of God.

8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage to be in fear [again], but ye have received the Spirit of adoption [of sons], whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

8:16  For the same Spirit bears witness unto our spirit that we are sons of God,

8:17  and if sons, also heirs certainly of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with [him] that we may be also glorified together [with him].

8:18  For I know with certainty that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the coming glory which shall be manifested in us.

8:19  For the [earnest] hope of the creatures waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

8:20  For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them,

8:21  with the hope that the same creatures shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

8:22  For we [now] know that all the creatures groan [together] and travail in pain [together] until now.

8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [that is to say], the redemption of our body.

8:24  For in hope we are saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man sees, he does not wait for.

8:25  But if we wait for that which we do not see, with patience we wait for [it].

8:26  And likewise also the Spirit helps our weakness; for we know not how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit itself makes entreaty for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

8:27  But he that searches the hearts knows what is the desire of the Spirit, that according to [the will of] God, he makes entreaty for the saints.

8:28  And we [now] know that unto those who love God, all things help them unto good, to those who according to the purpose are called [to be saints].

8:29  For [unto] those whom he knew beforehand, he also marked out beforehand [the way] that they might be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

8:30  And unto those whom he did mark out beforehand [the way], to these he also called; and to whom he called, these he also justified; and to whom he justified, these he also glorified.

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

8:32  He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also give us all things with him?

8:33  Who shall accuse the chosen of God's? God [is] he that justifies [them].

8:34  Who [is] he that condemns [them]? Christ, Jesus, is he who died [and], even more, he that also rose again, who furthermore is at the right hand of God, who also makes entreaty for us.

8:35  Who shall separate us from the charity 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  Nevertheless, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

8:38  Therefore I am certain that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come

8:39  nor height nor depth nor any creature shall be able to separate us from the charity of God, which is in Christ, Jesus our Lord.:

Chapter 9

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

9:2  that I have great sorrow and continual pain in my heart.

9:3  For I could wish that myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren, those who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,

9:4  who are Israelites, to whom [pertains] the adoption [as sons] 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 of whom as concerning the flesh is the Christ, who is God over all things, blessed for all the ages. Amen.

9:6  Not as though the word of God has been deficient. For not all the descendants of Israel are Israelites;

9:7  neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are all sons, but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

9:8  That is, Those who [are] sons of the flesh, these [are] not the sons of God; but those who [are] sons of the promise [are] counted in the generation.

9:9  For the word of the promise [is] this, At this time I will come, and Sara 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 calls),

9:12  it was said unto 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] injustice in God? No, in no wise.

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 wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that has mercy.

9:17  For the scripture saith of 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 has mercy on whom he will [have mercy], and he hardens whom he will.

9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why does he become angry? For who shall resist his will?

9:20  Rather, O man, who art thou to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus?

9:21  Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?

9:22  [What] if God, desiring to show [his] wrath and to make his power known, endured with much meekness the vessels of wrath, prepared for death,

9:23  and making known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared unto glory?

9:24  Even us, whom he has 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 unto them, Ye [are] not my people, there shall they be called sons of the living God.

9:27  Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved;

9:28  when the consumption comes to an end, righteousness shall overflow, because a short sentence will the Lord execute upon the earth.

9:29  And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of the hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom and been made like unto Gomorrha.

9:30  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, that is to say, the righteousness which is by faith,

9:31  and Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.

9:32  Why? Because [they followed it] not by faith but, as it were, by the works (of the law); therefore, they stumbled on the stumblingstone;

9:33  as it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock [that will cause some] to fall, and whosoever believes in him shall not be ashamed.:

Chapter 10

10:1  Brethren, certainly the desire of my heart and my prayer to God regarding Israel, is for saving health.

10:2  For I give testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

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

10:4  For Christ [is] the end of the law, to [give] righteousness to every one that believes.

10:5  For Moses describes the righteousness which is by the law, That the man who does those things shall live by them.

10:6  But thus saith the righteousness which is by faith, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven (that is, to bring the Christ down [from above])?

10:7  Or, Who shall descend into the deep (that is, to bring up the Christ again from the dead)?

10:8  But what does it say? The word is near 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 thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10:10  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto saving health.

10:11  For the scripture says, Whosoever believes 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 unto all that call upon him.

10:13  For whosoever 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 him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

10:15  And how shall they preach if they have not been sent? as it is written, How beautiful [are] the feet of those that announce the gospel of peace, of those that announce the gospel of that which is good!

10:16  But not everyone hearkens unto the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report?

10:17  So then faith [comes] by hearing, and [the] ear [to hear] by the word of God.

10:18  But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their fame went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

10:19  But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you unto jealousy with people that are not mine, [and] with ignorant people I will provoke you to anger.

10:20  But Isaiah is very bold and says, I was found by those that did not seek me; I manifested myself unto those that did not ask after me.

10:21  And against Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.:

Chapter 11

11:1  I say then, Has God cast away his people? No, in no wise. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.

11:2  God has not cast away his people whom he knew beforehand. Know ye not what the scripture says of Elijah? how speaking to God against Israel, he said,

11:3  Lord, they have killed thy prophets and ruined thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

11:4  But what did the answer of God say unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee before Baal.

11:5  Even so then at this present time also, there is a remnant by the gracious election [of God].

11:6  And if by grace, then [is it] not by works; otherwise, the grace is no longer grace. But if [it is] of works, then it is no longer grace; otherwise, the work is no longer work.

11:7  What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks after; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded

11:8  (according as it is written, God has given them the spirit of anguish, eyes with which they do not see and ears with which they do not hear) unto this day.

11:9  And David says, Let their table be turned into a snare and a net and a stumblingblock and a recompense unto 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 in such a manner that they should fall completely? No, in no wise; but [rather] through their fall, saving health [is come] unto the Gentiles to provoke them unto jealousy.

11:12  And if the fall of them is the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more [shall] their fullness [be]?

11:13  For (I call you Gentiles) inasmuch as I am truly the apostle of the Gentiles, my honorable ministry,

11:14  if in any manner I may provoke my nation to jealousy and cause some of them to be saved.

11:15  For if the casting away of them is the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?

11:16  For if the firstfruit is holy, so [shall] the rest be; and if the root [is] holy, so [shall be] the branches.

11:17  And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them and hath been made participant of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,

11:18  do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, [know] that thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee.

11:19  Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

11:20  Good; because of [their] unbelief they were broken off, but thou by faith art standing. Do not be highminded, but fear

11:21  that if God did not forgive the natural branches, neither shall he forgive thee.

11:22  Behold, therefore, the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness if thou continue in [his] goodness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

11:23  And even them, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in, for God is powerful [enough] to graft them in again.

11:24  For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree [which is] wild by nature and wert grafted contrary to nature into the 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 ignore this mystery, that ye not be arrogant regarding yourselves: that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles are come in.

11:26  And even if all Israel were saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall take away the ungodliness from Jacob;

11:27  and this shall be my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins.

11:28  So that, as concerning the gospel, [I have them for] enemies for your sakes; but as touching the election [of God], they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

11:29  For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

11:30  For as ye in time past have not obeyed God, yet have now obtained mercy through the occasion of their disobedience,

11:31  likewise these also have not believed now that through the mercy shown unto you they also may obtain mercy.

11:32  For God enclosed everyone in disobedience, that he might have mercy upon everyone.

11:33  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments and his ways past finding out!

11:34  For who has understood the intent of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?

11:35  Or who has first given unto him, that it be recompensed unto him again?

11:36  For of him and by him and in him [are] all things. To him [be] the glory for [the] ages. Amen.:

Chapter 12

12:1  Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, [which is] your rational worship.

12:2  And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul that ye may experience what [is] that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

12:3  Therefore I say through the grace given unto me, to all those that are among you not to obtain more knowledge than is prudent to know, but to obtain knowledge with temperance, each one according to the measure of faith that God has dealt.

12:4  For in the manner that we have many members in one body, nevertheless all the members do not have the same operation;

12:5  likewise many of us are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

12:6  So that having different gifts according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, according to the measure of faith;

12:7  or ministry, in serving; or he that teaches, in doctrine;

12:8  he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, [let him do it] in simplicity; he that presides, in earnest care; he that shows mercy, in cheerfulness.

12:9  [Let] love be without dissimulation, abhorring that which is evil, causing you to come unto that which is good;

12:10  loving one another with brotherly love, with honour preferring one another;

12:11  not slothful in earnest care, [but] fervent in [the] Spirit, serving the Lord,

12:12  rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, constant in prayer,

12:13  sharing for the needs of the saints, [and] given to hospitality.

12:14  Bless those who persecute you: bless, and do not curse.

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

12:16  [Be] unanimous among yourselves, not high minded, but accommodating the humble. Do not be wise in your [own] opinion.

12:17  Not repaying anyone evil for evil; procuring that which is good not only in the sight of God, but even in the sight of all men.

12:18  If it can be done, as much as [is possible] on your part, live in peace with all men.

12:19  Not defending yourselves, dearly beloved; but rather give place unto the wrath [of God], for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

12:20  Therefore, if thine enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

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

Chapter 13

13:1  Let every soul submit itself to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God, and the powers that be are ordained of God.

13:2  Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God, and those that resist shall receive condemnation to themselves.

13:3  For the magistrates are not a terror unto those who do good, but to the [doer of] evil. Is thy desire therefore to not fear the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same;

13:4  for he is [a] minister of God for thy good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain, for he is [a] minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that does evil.

13:5  Therefore it is necessary that [ye] be subject, not only for punishment, but also for conscience sake.

13:6  For for this cause ye also pay [them] tribute, for they are God's ministers, attending continually to 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; honour to whom honour.

13:8  Owe no one anything, but love one unto another; for he that loves [his] neighbour has fulfilled the law.

13:9  For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not murder, 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 neighbour as thyself.

13:10  Charity works no evil to a neighbour; therefore, charity is the fulfillment of the law.

13:11  And this, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awaken ourselves out of sleep, for now [is] our saving health nearer than when we believed.

13:12  The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves [with] the weapons 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 [be] clothed [with] the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not listen to the flesh, to [fulfil] its desires.:

Chapter 14

14:1  Bear [with] the one who is sick in the faith, [but] not unto doubtful discernment.

14:2  For one believes that he may eat all things; another, who is sick, eats vegetables.

14:3  Let not him that eats despise him that does not eat, and let him who eats not judge him that eats; for God has raised him up.

14:4  Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? By his [own] master he stands or falls; and [if he falls], he shall be made to stand, for God is powerful to make him stand.

14:5  Also, some make a difference between one day and another; others esteem every day [alike]. Let each one be fully persuaded in his own soul.

14:6  He that observes the day, let him observe it unto the Lord; and he that does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe [it]. He that eats, eats unto the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, unto the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

14:7  For none of us live for ourselves, and no one dies for himself.

14:8  For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for 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]: to thus exercise lordship over the dead as well as over the living.

14:10  But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou belittle thy brother? for we shall all stand before the tribunal of the 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 each one of us shall give account of himself to God.

14:13  Let us, therefore, not judge one another any more, but judge this rather: that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.

14:14  I know and trust in the Lord Jesus that for his sake there is nothing unclean, but to him that esteems any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.

14:15  But if thy brother is grieved because of [thy] food, now thou dost not walk in charity. Do not destroy 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 serves the Christ [is] well pleasing unto God and approved of men.

14:19  Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace and the edification of each one to the others.

14:20  Because of food, do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed [are] clean, but [it is] evil for that man who eats with offense.

14:21  [It is] good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor [do any thing] by which thy brother stumbles or is offended or is sick.

14:22  Thou hast faith; have [it] to thyself before God. Blessed [is] he that does not condemn himself with that thing which he allows.

14:23  And he that makes a difference is condemned if he eats, because [he] does not [eat] by faith; and whatsoever [is] not out of faith is sin.:

Chapter 15

15:1  We then that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not please ourselves.

15:2  Let each one of us please [his] neighbour in [that which is] good, unto edification.

15:3  For the Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of those that reproached thee fell on me.

15:4  For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient [endurance] and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

15:5  Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be unanimous among yourselves according to Christ Jesus,

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

15:7  Therefore bear one another, as the Christ also bore us, to the glory of God.

15:8  Now I say that Christ Jesus, was [a] minister of the circumcision, by the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers;

15:9  but that the Gentiles glorify God by mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy name.

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

15:11  And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and magnify him, all the peoples.

15:12  And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles shall wait [for salvation].

15:13  And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.

15:14  But I am convinced regarding you, my brethren, that even without my exhortation ye are full of charity, full of all knowledge, so as to be able to admonish one another.

15:15  Nevertheless I have written, brethren, in part boldly, as admonishing you by the grace that is given [to] me of God,

15:16  being the minister of Jesus Christ, to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be well pleasing, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

15:17  Therefore I have something to boast of in Christ Jesus, with regard to God.

15:18  For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, with word and with deed,

15:19  with power of signs and wonders, in virtue of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, I have filled the entire [area] with the gospel of the Christ.

15:20  And in this manner I preached this gospel, not where Christ had been named [previously], not to build upon a foundation belonging to another,

15:21  but, as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see, and those that have not heard shall understand.

15:22  For which reason I have even been hindered many times from coming to you.

15:23  But now having more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come unto you,

15:24  when I leave for Spain, I will come unto you; for I trust to see you on my journey and to be taken there by you, if first I may enjoy your company.

15:25  But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

15:26  For it has pleased those of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints who are in Jerusalem.

15:27  It has pleased them verily, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they should also minister unto them in carnal things.

15:28  So that, when I have concluded this and have delivered unto them this fruit, I will come by you unto Spain.

15:29  For I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of the Christ.

15:30  But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the charity of the Spirit, that ye help me with prayers to God for me,

15:31  that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judaea and that the offering of my service to the saints in Jerusalem may be accepted,

15:32  that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God and may be refreshed together with you.

15:33  Now the God of peace [be] with you all. Amen.:

Chapter 16

16:1  I commend unto 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 a worthy saint, and that ye assist her in whatever thing in which she has need of you, for she has been a helper of many and of myself also.

16:3  Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus

16:4  (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);

16:5  likewise [greet] the church in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia in Christ.

16:6  Greet Mary, who has laboured much with us.

16:7  Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen [and my fellowprisoners], 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 those who are of Aristobulus' [household].

16:11  Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those that are of the [household] of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

16:12  Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, who laboured 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. All the churches of Christ salute you.

16:17  And I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause dissensions and offences outside of the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them.

16:18  For they that are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly and by smooth words and blessings deceive the hearts of the simple.

16:19  For your obedience is come abroad unto all [places]. I am glad therefore on your behalf, but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and innocent concerning evil.

16:20  And let the God of peace bruise Satan under your feet quickly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.

16:21  Timothy my fellow worker 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, salutes you. Erastus, the chamberlain of the city, salutes 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 confirm you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was concealed from times eternal

16:26  but now is made manifest, and by the writings of the prophets, by the commandment [of] God eternal, declared unto all the Gentiles, that they might [hear and] obey by faith,

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