Murdock - Romans

Chapter 1

1:1  PAUL, a servant of Jesus the Messiah, called and sent ; and separated unto the gospel of God,

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

1:3  concerning his Son, (who was born in the flesh, of seed of the house of David,

1:4  and was made known as the Son of God, by power, and by the Holy Spirit,) who arose from the dead, Jesus Messiah, our Lord,

1:5  by whom we have received grace, and a mission among all the Gentiles, to the end that they may obey the faith in his name;

1:6  among whom, ye also are called by Jesus Messiah;)

1:7  to all those who are at Rome, beloved of God, called and sanctified: Peace and grace be with you, from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Messiah.

1:8  In the first place, I give thanks to God by Jesus Messiah, on account of you all; because your faith is heard of in all the world.

1:9  And God, whom in spirit I serve in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, that I unceasingly make mention of you, at all times, in my prayers.

1:10  And I likewise supplicate, that hereafter a door may be opened to me, by the good pleasure of God, to come unto you.

1:11  For I long much to see you; and to impart to you the gift of the Spirit, whereby ye may be established;

1:12  and that we may have comfort together, in the faith of both yourselves and me.

1:13  And I wish you to know, my brethren, that I have many times desired to come to you, (though prevented hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also; even as among other Gentiles,

1:14  Greeks and barbarians, the wise and the unwise: for to every man am I a debtor, to preach to him.

1:15  And so I am eager to preach to you also who are at Rome.

1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is the power of God unto life, to all who believe in it; whether first they are of the Jews, or whether they are of the Gentiles.

1:17  For in it is revealed the righteousness of God, from faith to faith; as it is written, The righteous by faith, shall live.

1:18  For the wrath of God from heaven is revealed against all the iniquity and wickedness of men, who hold the truth in iniquity.

1:19  Because a knowledge of God is manifest in them; for God hath manifested it in them.

1:20  For, from the foundations of the world, the occult things of God are seen, by the intellect, in the things he created, even his eternal power and divinity; so that they might be without excuse;

1:21  because they knew God, and did not glorify him and give thanks to him as God, but became vain in their imaginings, and their unwise heart was darkened.

1:22  And, while they thought within themselves that they were wise, they became fools.

1:23  And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into a likeness to the image of a corruptible man, and into the likeness of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles on the earth.

1:24  For this cause, God gave them up to the filthy lusts of their heart, to dishonor their bodies with them.

1:25  And they changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the created things, much more than the Creator of them, to whom belong glory and blessing, for ever and ever: Amen.

1:26  For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions: for their females changed the use of their natures, and employed that which is unnatural.

1:27  And so also their males forsook the use of females, which is natural, and burned with lust toward one another; and, male with male, they did what is shameful, and received in themselves the just recompense of their error.

1:28  And as they did not determine with themselves to know God, God gave them over to a vain mind; that they might do what they ought not,

1:29  being full of all iniquity, and lewdness, and bitterness, and malice, and covetousness, and envy, and slaughter, and strife, and guile, and evil machinations,

1:30  and backbiting, and slander; and being haters of God, scoffers, proud, vain-glorious, devisers of evil things, destitute of reason, disregardful of parents,

1:31  and to whom a covenant is nothing, neither affection, nor peace, and in whom is no compassion.

1:32  These, while they know the judgment of God, that he condemneth those to death who perpetrate such things, are not only doers of them, but the companions of such as do them.

Chapter 2

2:1  There is therefore no excuse for thee, O man, that judgest thy neighbor; for by judging thy neighbor, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest, dost practise the same things.

2:2  And we know that the judgment of God is in accordance with truth, in regard to those who practise these things.

2:3  And what thinkest thou, O man, that judgest those who practise these things, while practising them thyself, that thou wilt escape the judgment of God?

2:4  Or wilt thou abuse the riches of his benevolence, and his long suffering, and the opportunity which he giveth thee? And dost thou not know, that the benevolence of God should bring thee to repentance?

2:5  But, because of the hardness of thy unrepenting heart, thou art treasuring up a store of wrath against the day of wrath, and against the revelation of the righteous judgment of God:

2:6  who will recompense to every man, according to his deeds;

2:7  to them who, by perseverance in good works, seek for glory and honor and immortality, to them he will give life eternal;

2:8  but to them who are obstinate and obey not the truth, but obey iniquity, to them he will retribute wrath and ire.

2:9  And tribulation and anguish will be to every man that doeth evil; to the Jews first, and also to the Gentiles:

2:10  but glory and honor and peace to every one that doeth good; to the Jews first, and also to the Gentiles.

2:11  For there is no respect of persons with God:

2:12  for those without law, who sin, will also perish without law; and those under the law, who sin, will be judged by the law,

2:13  (for not the hearers of the law, are righteous before God; but the doers of the law are justified;

2:14  for if Gentiles who have not the law, shall, by their nature, do the things of the law; they, while without the law, become a law to themselves:

2:15  and they show the work of the law, as it is inscribed on their heart; and their conscience beareth testimony to them, their own reflections rebuking or vindicating one another,)

2:16  in the day in which God will judge the secret actions of men, as my gospel teacheth, by Jesus the Messiah.

2:17  But if thou, who art called a Jew, and reposest thyself on the law, and gloriest in God,

2:18  that thou knowest his good pleasure, and discernest obligations, because thou art instructed in the law;

2:19  and hast confidence in thyself, that thou art a guide to the blind, and a light to them who are in darkness,

2:20  and an instructor of those lacking knowledge, and a preceptor to the young; and thou hast the appearance of knowledge and of verity in the law :

2:21  Thou therefore, who teachest others, teachest thou not thyself? And thou who teachest that men must not steal, dost thou steal?

2:22  And thou who sayest, Men must not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? And thou who contemnest idols, dost thou plunder the sanctuary?

2:23  And thou who gloriest in the law, dost thou, by acting contrary to the law, insult God himself?

2:24  For, the name of God, as it is written, is reviled among the Gentiles on your account.

2:25  For circumcision profiteth, indeed, if thou fulfillest the law: but if thou departest from the law, thy circumcision becometh uncircumcision.

2:26  And if uncircumcision should keep the precepts of the law, would not that uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

2:27  And the uncircumcision, which from its nature fulfilleth the law, will judge thee; who, with the scripture, and with circumcision, transgressest against the law.

2:28  For he is not a Jew, who is so in what is external: nor is that circumcision, which is visible in the flesh.

2:29  But he is a Jew, who is so in what is hidden: and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Chapter 3

3:1  What then is the superiority of the Jew? Or what is the advantage of circumcision?

3:2  Much, every way. And first, because to them were intrusted the oracles of God.

3:3  For if some of them have not believed, have they, by their not believing, made the faith of God inefficient?

3:4  Far be it: for God is veracious, and every man false: as it is written: That thou mightest be upright, in thy declarations; and be found pure, when they judge thee.

3:5  But if our iniquity establish the rectitude of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, when he inflicteth wrath? (I speak as a man.)

3:6  Far from it. Otherwise how will God judge the world?

3:7  But if the truth of God hath been furthered by my falsehood, to his glory; why am I then condemned as a sinner?

3:8  Or shall we say as some have slanderously reported us to say: We will do evil things, that good results may come? The condemnation of such is reserved for justice.

3:9  What then, have WE the superiority, when we have before decided as to both Jews and Gentiles, that all of them are under sin?

3:10  As it is written: There is none righteous; no, no one:

3:11  and none that understandeth; nor that seeketh after God.

3:12  They have all turned aside, together; and become reprobates. There is none that doeth good; no, not one.

3:13  Their throats are open sepulchres, and their tongues treacherous; and the venom of the asp is under their lips.

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

3:15  and their feet are swift to shed blood.

3:16  Destruction and anguish are in their paths:

3:17  and the path of peacefulness they have not known:

3:18  and the fear of God is not before their eyes.

3:19  Now we know, that whatever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be guilty before God.

3:20  Wherefore, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is justified before him: for, by the law, sin is known.

3:21  But now, the righteousness of God without the law, is manifested; and the law and the prophets testify of it:

3:22  even the righteousness of God, which is by faith in Jesus Messiah, for every one, and on every one, that believeth in him: for there is no distinction;

3:23  for they have all sinned, and failed of the glory of God.

3:24  And they are justified gratuitously, by grace, and by the redemption which is in Jesus Messiah;

3:25  whom God hath preconstituted a propitiation, by faith in his blood, because of our sins, which we before committed,

3:26  in the space which God in his long suffering gave to us, for the manifestation of his righteousness at the present time; that he might be righteous, and might with righteousness justify him who is in the faith of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

3:27  Where then is glorying? It is annihilated. By what law? by that of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

3:28  We therefore conclude, that it is by faith a man is justified, and not by the works of the law.

3:29  For, is he the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? Nay: of the Gentiles also.

3:30  Because there is, one God, who justifieth the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision by the same faith.

3:31  Do, we then nullify the law by faith? Far be it. On the contrary, we establish the law.

Chapter 4

4:1  What then shall we say concerning Abraham the patriarch, that by the flesh he obtained?

4:2  But if Abraham was justified by works, he had ground of glorying; yet not before God.

4:3  For what saith the scripture? That Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

4:4  But to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as a debt to him.

4:5  Whereas, to him that worketh not, but only believeth in him that justifieth sinners, his faith is accounted to him for righteousness.

4:6  As David also speaketh of the blessedness of the man, to whom God reckoneth righteousness without works,

4:7  saying: Blessed are they, whose iniquity is forgiven, and whose sins are covered up:

4:8  and, Blessed is the man, to whom God will not reckon his sin.

4:9  This blessedness, therefore, is it on the circumcision? or on the uncircumcision? For we say, that Abraham's faith was reckoned to him for righteousness.

4:10  How then was it reckoned to him? In circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

4:11  For he received circumcision, as the sign and the seal of the righteousness of his faith while in uncircumcision: that he might become the father of all them of the uncircumcision who believe; and that it might be reckoned to them also for righteousness:

4:12  and the father of the circumcision; not to them only who are of the circumcision, but to them also who fulfill the steps of the faith of our father Abraham in his uncircumcision.

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

4:14  For if they who are of the law were heirs, faith would be made void, and the promise of no force.

4:15  For the law is a worker of wrath; because where no law is, there is no transgression of law.

4:16  Wherefore, it is by the faith which is by grace, that we are justified: so that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only 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: " I have constituted thee a father to a multitude of nations ;" namely before God, in whom thou hast believed; who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which are not, as if they were.

4:18  And without hope, he confided in the hope of becoming the father of a multitude of nations; (as it is written: So will thy seed be.)

4:19  And he was not sickly in his faith, while contemplating his inert body, (for he was a hundred years old,) and the inert womb of Sarah.

4:20  And he did not hesitate at the promise of God, as one lacking faith; but he was strong in faith, and gave glory to God;

4:21  and felt assured, that what God had promised to him, he was able to fulfill.

4:22  And therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness.

4:23  And not for his sake alone, was it written, that his faith was accounted for righteousness;

4:24  but for our sakes also; because it is to be accounted so to us, who believe in him that raised our Lord Jesus Messiah from the dead;

4:25  who was delivered up, on account of our sins; and arose, that he might justify us.

Chapter 5

5:1  Therefore, because we are justified by faith, we shall have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Messiah.

5:2  By whom we are brought by faith into this grace, in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

5:3  And not only so, but we also rejoice in afflictions; because we know that affliction perfecteth in us patience;

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

5:5  and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is diffused in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit who is given to us.

5:6  And if at this time, on account of our weakness, Messiah died for the ungodly:

5:7  (for rarely doth one die for the ungodly; though for the good, some one perhaps might venture to die :)

5:8  God hath here manifested his love towards us. Because, if when we were sinners, Messiah died for us;

5:9  how much more, shall we now be justified by his blood and be rescued from wrath by him?

5:10  For if when we were enemies, God was reconciled with us by the death of his Son; how much more shall we, in his reconciliation, lived by his life?

5:11  And not only so, but we also rejoice in God, by means of our Lord Jesus Messiah, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

5:12  As by means of one man, sin entered into the world, and, by means of sin, death; and so death passed upon all the sons of men, inasmuch as they all have sinned:

5:13  For until the law, sin, although it was in the world, was not accounted sin, because there was no law.

5:14  Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression of the command by Adam, who was the type of him that was to come.

5:15  But not, as the fault, so also the free gift. For if, on account of the fault of one, many died; how much more, will the grace of God and his free gift, on account of one man, Jesus Messiah, abound unto many?

5:16  And not, as the offence of one, so also the free gift. For the judgment, which was of one offence, was unto condemnation; but the free gift was, of many sins, unto righteousness.

5:17  For if, on account of the offence of one, death reigned; still more, they who receive the abundance of the grace, and the free gift, and the righteousness, will reign in life, by means of one, Jesus Messiah.

5:18  Therefore, as on account of the offence of one, condemnation was to all men; so on account of the righteousness of one, will the victory unto life be to all men.

5:19  For as; on account of the disobedience of one man, many became sinners; so also, on account of the obedience of one, many become righteous.

5:20  And the entrance given to the law, was that sin might increase: and where sin increased, there grace abounded.

5:21  So that, as sin had reigned in death, so grace might reign in righteousness unto life eternal, by means of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

Chapter 6

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

6:2  Far be it: for if we are persons that have died to sin, how can we again live in it?

6:3  Or do ye not know, that we who are baptized into Jesus Messiah, are baptized into his death?

6:4  For we are buried with him in baptism unto death; that as Jesus Messiah arose from the dead into the glory of his Father, so also we, to walk in a new life.

6:5  For if we have been planted together with him into the likeness of his death, so shall we be also into his resurrection.

6:6  For we know, that our old man is crucified with him; that the body of sin might be abolished, and we be no more servants to sin:

6:7  for he that is dead to it, is emancipated from sin.

6:8  If then we are dead with Messiah, let us believe that we shall live with the same Messiah.

6:9  For we know that Messiah rose from the dead, and no more dieth; death hath no dominion over him.

6:10  For in dying, he died for sin, once; and in living, he liveth unto God.

6:11  So also do ye account yourselves as being dead to sin, and alive to God, through our Lord Jesus Messiah.

6:12  Therefore let not sin reign in your dead body, so that ye obey its lusts.

6:13  And also give not up your members as instruments of evil unto sin, but give up yourselves to God, as those who have been resuscitated from the dead; and let your members be instruments for the righteousness of God.

6:14  And sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

6:15  What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Far be it.

6:16  Know ye not, that to whomsoever ye give up yourselves to serve in bondage, his servants ye are, whom ye serve; whether it be to sin, or whether it be to righteousness, that ye give ear?

6:17  But thanks be to God, that ye were once the servants of sin but have now from the heart obeyed that form of doctrine to which ye are devoted.

6:18  And when ye were emancipated from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.

6:19  -(I speak as among men, because of the infirmity of your flesh.)-As ye once gave up your members to the servitude of pollution and iniquity, so also now give ye up your members to the servitude of righteousness and sanctity.

6:20  For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were emancipated from righteousness.

6:21  And what harvest had ye then, in that of which ye are now ashamed? For the result thereof is death.

6:22  And now, as ye have been emancipated from sin, and have become servants to God, your fruits are holy; and the result thereof is life everlasting.

6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is life eternal, through our Lord Jesus Messiah.

Chapter 7

7:1  Or do ye not know, my Brethren.-(for I am speaking to them that know the law,)- that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as he is alive?

7:2  Just as a woman, by the law, is bound to her husband, as long as he is alive: but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law of her husband.

7:3  And if, while her husband is alive, she should adhere to another man, she would become an adulteress: but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law; and would not be an adulteress though joined to another man.

7:4  And now, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law, by the body of Messiah; that ye might be joined to another, even to him who arose from the dead; and might yield fruits unto God.

7:5  For while we were in the flesh, the emotions of sin which are by the law, were active in our members, that we should bear fruits unto death.

7:6  But now we are absolved from the law, and are dead to that which held us in its grasp: that we might henceforth serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7:7  What shall we say then? Is the law sin?, Far be it. For I had not learned sin, except by means of the law: for I had not known concupiscence, had not the law said, Thou shalt not covet:

7:8  and by this commandment, sin found occasion, and perfected in me all concupiscence: for without the law, sin was dead.

7:9  And I, without the law, was alive formerly; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died;

7:10  and the commandment of life was found by me to be unto death.

7:11  For sin, by the occasion which it found by means of the commandment, seduced me; and thereby slew me.

7:12  Wherefore, the law is holy; and the commandment is holy, and righteous, and good.

7:13  Did that which is good, therefore, become death to me? Far be it. But sin, that it might be seen to be sin, perfected death in me by means of that good law; that sin might the more be condemned, by means of the commandment.

7:14  For we know, that the law is spiritual ; but I am carnal, and sold to sin.

7:15  For what I am doing, I know not: and what I would, I do not perform; but what I hate, that I do.

7:16  And if I do what I would not, I testify of the law, that it is right.

7:17  And then, it is no more I who do that thing; but sin, which dwelleth in me.

7:18  For I know, that in me, (that is, in my flesh,) good dwelleth not: because, to approve the good, is easy for me; but to do it, I am unable.

7:19  For I do not perform the good, which I would perform; but the bad, which I would not perform, that I do perform.

7:20  And if I do what I would not, it is not I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

7:21  I find therefore a law coinciding with my conscience, which assenteth to my doing good, whereas evil is near to me.

7:22  For I rejoice in the law of God, in the interior man.

7:23  But I see another law in my members, which warreth against the law of my conscience, and maketh me a captive to the law of sin which existeth in my members

7:24  O, a miserable man, am I! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

7:25  I thank God; by means of our Lord Jesus Messiah I shall be rescued. [ (Romans 7:26) Now, therefore, in my conscience, I am a servant of the law of God; but in my flesh, I am a servant of the law of sin. ]

Chapter 8

8:1  There is therefore no condemnation, to them who, in Jesus Messiah, walk not after the flesh.

8:2  For the law of the spirit of life, which is in Jesus Messiah, hath emancipated thee from the law of sin and death.

8:3  Inasmuch as the law was impotent, by means of the weakness of the flesh, God sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin; that He might, in his flesh, condemn sin;

8:4  so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us; since it is not in the flesh that we walk, but in the Spirit.

8:5  For they who are in the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh: and they who are of the Spirit, do mind the things of the Spirit.

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

8:7  Because minding the things of the flesh, is enmity towards God: for it doth not subject itself to the law of God, because it is not possible.

8:8  And they who are in the flesh cannot Please God.

8:9  Ye, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit; if the Spirit of God truly dwelleth in you. And if in any one there is not the Spirit of Messiah he is none of his.

8:10  But if Messiah is in you, the body is dead, in regard to sin; and the Spirit is alive in regard to righteousness.

8:11  And if the Spirit of him, who raised our Lord Jesus Messiah from the dead, dwelleth in you; he who raised our Lord Jesus Messiah from the dead, will also vivify your dead bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

8:12  Now we are debtors, my Brethren, not to the flesh, that we should walk according to the flesh:

8:13  - (For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are to die. But if, by the Spirit, ye mortify the practices of the body, ye will live.

8:14  For they who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God :)

8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage, again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Father, our Father.

8:16  And this Spirit testifieth to our spirit, that we are the sons of God.

8:17  And if sons, then heirs; heirs of God, and participators of the inheritance of Jesus Messiah: so that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.

8:18  For I reckon, that the sufferings of the present time, are not comparable with the glory which is to be developed in us.

8:19  For the whole creation is hoping and waiting for the development of the sons of God.

8:20  For the creation was subjected to vanity, not by its own choice, but because of him who subjected it,

8:21  in the hope, that also the creation itself would be emancipated from the bondage of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God.

8:22  For we know, that all the creatures are groaning and travailing in pain unto this day.

8:23  And not only they, but we also in whom are the first fruits of the Spirit, we groan within ourselves, and look anxiously for the adoption of sons, the redemption of our bodies.

8:24  Because we live in hope. But hope that is seen, is not hope: for if we saw it, how should we hope for it?

8:25  But if we hope for that which is not seen, we are in patient waiting.

8:26  So also the Spirit aideth our weakness. For we know not what to pray for, in a proper manner; but the Spirit prayeth for us, with groans not expressible:

8:27  and the explorer of hearts, he knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit; because he prayeth for the saints, agreeably to the good pleasure of God.

8:28  And we know that he aideth him in all things, for good, who love God; them whom he predestined to be called.

8:29  And he knew them, previously; and he sealed them with the likeness of the image of his Son; that He might be the first-born of many brothers.

8:30  And those whom he previously sealed, them he called: and those whom he called, them he justified: and those whom he justified, them he glorified.

8:31  What then shall we say of these things? If God is for us; who is against us?

8:32  And, if he spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not give us all things, with him?

8:33  Who will set himself against the chosen of God? It is God who justifieth.

8:34  Who is it that condemneth? Messiah died, and arose, and is on the right hand of God, and maketh intercession for us.

8:35  What will sever me from the love of Messiah? Will affliction? or distress? or persecution? or famine? or nakedness? or peril? or the sword?

8:36  As it is written: For thy sake, we die daily: and, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

8:37  But in all these things we are victorious, by means of him who loved us.

8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

8:39  nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to sever me from the love of God, which is in our Lord Jesus Messiah.

Chapter 9

9:1  I say the truth in Messiah, and do not misrepresent; and my conscience beareth me witness in the Holy Spirit;

9:2  that I have great sorrow, and the sadness of my heart is unceasing.

9:3  For I have prayed, that I myself might be accursed from Messiah, for my brethren and my kinsmen in the flesh:

9:4  who are sons of Israel, to whom belonged the adoption of sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law, and the ministration, and the promises, and the fathers;

9:5  and from among whom, Messiah appeared in the flesh, who is God over all; to whom be praises and benediction, for ever and ever; Amen.

9:6  Not, however, that the word of God hath actually failed. For all are not Israel, who are of Israel.

9:7  Neither are they all sons, because they are of the seed of Abraham: for it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

9:8  That is, it is not the children of the flesh, who are the children of God; but the children of the promise, are accounted for the seed.

9:9  For the word of promise was this: At that time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

9:10  Nor this only; but Rebecca also, when she had cohabited with one man, our father Isaac,

9:11  before her children were born, or: had done good or evil, the choice of God was predeclared; that it might stand, not of works, but of him who called.

9:12  For it was said: The elder shall be servant to the younger.

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

9:14  What shall we say then? Is there iniquity with God? Far be it.

9:15  Behold, to Moses also he said: I will have pity, on whom I will have pity; and I will be merciful, to whom I will be merciful.

9:16  Therefore, it is not of him who is willing, nor of him who runneth, but of the merciful God.

9:17  For in the scripture, he said to Pharaoh: For this very thing, have I raised thee up; that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

9:18  Wherefore, he hath pity upon whom he pleaseth; and whom he pleaseth, he hardeneth.

9:19  But, perhaps thou wilt say: Of what then doth he complain? For, who hath resisted his pleasure?

9:20  Thou, thus! Who art thou? O man; that thou repliest against God! Shall the potter's vessel say to the former of it, Why hast thou formed me so?

9:21  Hath not the potter dominion over his clay out of the same mass to make vessels, one for honor, and another for dishonor?

9:22  And if God, being disposed to exhibit his wrath and to make known his power, in abundance of long-suffering, brought wrath upon the vessels of wrath which were complete for destruction;

9:23  and made his mercy flow forth upon the vessels of mercy, which were prepared by God for glory;

9:24  namely, upon us who are called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles:

9:25  As also he said in Hosea: I will call them my people, who were not my people; and will pity, whom I have not pitied:

9:26  For it shall be, that in the place where they were called: Not my people, there shall they be called: The children of the living God.

9:27  And Isaiah proclaimed concerning the children of Israel: Though the number of the children of Israel should be as the sand on the sea, a remnant of them will live.

9:28  He hath finished and cut short the matter: and the Lord will do it on the earth.

9:29  And according to what Isaiah had before said: If the Lord of hosts had not favored us with a residue, we had been as Sodom, and had been like Gomorrha.

9:30  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who ran not after righteousness, have found righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith:

9:31  But Israel, who ran after the law of righteousness, hath not found the law of righteousness.

9:32  And why? Because they sought it, not by faith, but by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone:

9:33  As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling-stone, and a stone of offence: and he who believeth in him, shall not be ashamed.

Chapter 10

10:1  My Brethren, The desire of my heart, and my intercession with God for them, is, that they might have life.

10:2  For I bear them witness, that there is in them a zeal for God; but it is not according to knowledge.

10:3  For they know not the righteousness of God, but seek to establish their own righteousness: and therefore they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

10:4  For Messiah is the aim of the law, for righteousness, unto every one that believeth in him.

10:5  For Moses describeth the righteousness, which is by the law, thus: Whoever shall do these things, shall live by them.

10:6  But the righteousness which is by faith, saith thus: Thou shalt not say in thy heart, Who ascendeth to heaven, and bringeth Messiah down?

10:7  Or, Who descendeth to the abyss of the grave, and bringeth up Messiah from the place of the dead?

10:8  But what saith it? The thing is near to thy mouth, and to thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we proclaim.

10:9  And if thou shalt confess with thy mouth our Lord Jesus, and shalt believe with thy heart, that God hath raised him from the dead; thou shalt live.

10:10  For the heart that believeth in him, is justified; and the mouth that confesseth him, is restored to life.

10:11  For the scripture saith: Every one that believeth in him, shall not be ashamed.

10:12  And in this, it discriminateth neither Jews nor Gentiles. For there is one Lord over them all, who is rich, towards every one that calleth on him.

10:13  For every one that shall call on the name of the Lord, will have life.

10:14  How then shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? Or, how shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard? Or, how shall they hear, without a preacher?

10:15  Or, how shall they preach, if they are not sent forth? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of the heralds of peace, and of the heralds of good things?

10:16  But all of them have not obeyed the proclamation of the gospel. (For, Isaiah said: My Lord, who hath believed our proclamation?)

10:17  Therefore, faith is from the hearing of the ear; and the hearing of the ear, is from the word of God.

10:18  But I say: Have they not heard? And, lo, their proclamation hath gone out into all the earth; and their words to the ends of the world.

10:19  But I say: Did not Israel know? First, Moses said, thus: I will awaken your emulation, by a people which is not a people; and by a disobedient people, I will provoke you.

10:20  And Isaiah was bold, and said: I was seen by those who sought me not; and I was found by those who inquired not for me.

10:21  But to Israel, he said: All the day, have I stretched out my hands to a contentious and disobedient people.

Chapter 11

11:1  But I say: Hath God cast off his people? Far be it. For I also am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

11:2  God hath not cast off those his people whom he before knew. Do ye not know, what, in the scripture of God, he said to Elijah? When he had complained to God against Israel, and said:

11:3  My Lord, they have slain thy prophets, and have thrown down thy altars; and I am left alone; and they seek my life.

11:4  And it was said to him, by revelation: Behold, I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed their knees, and have not worshipped Baal.

11:5  So also at the present time, a remnant is preserved, by the election of grace.

11:6  But if by grace, it is not by works: otherwise, grace is not grace. And if by works, it is not by grace: Otherwise, work is not work.

11:7  What then? Israel did not obtain that which it sought: but the election obtained it; and the rest of them were blinded in their heart,

11:8  - (as it is written: God gave them a stupid spirit, and eyes to see not, and ears to hear not,) unto this very day.

11:9  And again, David said: Let their table become a snare before them; and let their recompense be a stumbling block.

11:10  Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and let their back, at all times, be bowed down.

11:11  But I say: Have they so stumbled as to fall entirely? Far be it. Rather, by their stumbling, life hath come to the Gentiles, for awakening their jealousy.

11:12  And if their stumbling was riches to the world, and their condemnation riches to the Gentiles; how much more their completeness?

11:13  But it is to you Gentiles, I am speaking: as I am a legate to the Gentiles, I honor my ministry;

11:14  if, perhaps, I may provoke emulation in the children of my flesh, and may vivify some of them.

11:15  For if the rejection of them, was a reconciliation of the world; what will their conversion be, but life from the dead?

11:16  For, if the first-fruits are holy, then the mass is also: and if the root is holy, then also the branches.

11:17  And if some of the branches were plucked off; and thou, an olive from the desert, wast in-grafted in their place, and hast become a participator of the root and fatness of the olive-tree;

11:18  do not glory over the branches. For if thou gloriest, thou sustainest not the root, but the root sustaineth thee.

11:19  And shouldst thou say, The branches were plucked off, that I might be grafted into their place.

11:20  Very true. They were plucked off, because they believed not; and thou standest by faith. Be not exalted in thy mind, but fear.

11:21  For if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

11:22  Behold now the benignity and the severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but on thee, benignity, if thou continuest in that benignity; and if not, thou also wilt be plucked off.

11:23  And they, if they do not continue in their destitution of faith, even they will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.

11:24  For if thou wast plucked from the wild olive-tree, which was natural to thee, and wast grafted, contrary to thy nature, into a good olive-tree; how much more may they be grafted into their natural olive-tree?

11:25  And that ye, my brethren, may not be wise in your own apprehension, I wish you to know this mystery, that blindness of heart hath in some measure befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles shall come in:

11:26  and then, will all Israel live. As it is written: A deliverer will come from Zion, and will turn away iniquity from Jacob.

11:27  And then will they have the covenant that proceedeth from me, when I shall have forgiven their sins.

11:28  Now, in the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but in the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

11:29  For God is not changeable in his free gift and in his calling.

11:30  For as ye too were formerly disobedient to God, and have now obtained mercy, because of their disobedience;

11:31  so also are they now disobedient to the mercy, which is upon you, that there may be mercy on them likewise.

11:32  For God hath shut up all men in disobedience, that upon all men he might have mercy.

11:33  O the depth of the riches, and the wisdom, and the knowledge of God! For man hath not searched out his judgments; and his ways are inscrutable.

11:34  For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been a counsellor to him?

11:35  Or who hath first given to him, and then received from him?

11:36  Because, all is from him, and all by him, and all through him: to whom be praises and benedictions, for ever and ever: Amen.

Chapter 12

12:1  I beseech you, therefore, my brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, by a rational service of him.

12:2  And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed, by the renovation of your minds: and discern ye what is the good and acceptable and perfect pleasure of God.

12:3  And, by the grace given to me, I say to you all: Do not carry thoughts, beyond what ye ought to think; but think with modesty, as God hath distributed to each one his measure of faith.

12:4  For as we severally have many members in one body, and all those members have not the same functions;

12:5  so also we, who are collectively many persons, are one body in Messiah, and are naturally members of each other.

12:6  But we have different gifts, according to the grace given to us. There is that of prophecy, according to the measure of his faith.

12:7  And there is that of ministration, possessed by one in his ministry. And there is that of a teacher, in his teaching.

12:8  And there is that of a consoler, in his consoling: And that of a giver, with simplicity: And that of a presider, with dexterity: And of a sympathizer, with cheerfulness.

12:9  Let not your love be guileful: but be haters of evil things, and adherers to good things.

12:10  Be affectionate to your brethren: and love one another. Be foremost in honoring one another.

12:11  Be active; and not slothful. Be fervent in spirit. Be laborers for our Lord.

12:12  Be joyful in your hope. Be patient under your afflictions. Be persevering in prayer.

12:13  Be communicators to the wants of the saints. Be kind to strangers.

12:14  Bless your persecutors: bless, and curse not.

12:15  Rejoice with them who rejoice: and weep with them who weep.

12:16  What estimation ye make of yourselves, make also of your brethren. And indulge not high thoughts; but unite yourselves with the lowly minded. And be not wise in your own estimation.

12:17  And repay to no man evil for evil: but let it be your study to do good before all men.

12:18  And if possible, so far as it dependeth on you, live in peace with every man.

12:19  And be ye not avengers of yourselves, my beloved: but give place to wrath. For it is written: If thou dost not execute judgment for thyself, I will execute judgment for thee, saith God.

12:20  And if thy adversary be hungry, feed him: and if he be thirsty, give him drink. For if thou doest these things to him, thou wilt heap coals of fire on his head.

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

Chapter 13

13:1  Let every soul be subject to the authorities of magistracy. For there is no authority which is not from God: and the authorities which exist, are established by God.

13:2  He therefore who opposeth the authority, opposeth the establishment of God; and they who oppose them, shall receive judgment.

13:3  For judges are not a terror to good deeds, but to evil deeds. Wouldst thou then not be afraid of the authority? Do good, and thou shalt have praise from it.

13:4  For he is the minister of God; but it is to thee for good. But if thou doest evil, be afraid; for he is not girded with the sword in vain; for he is a minister of God, and an avenger of wrath to them that do evil things.

13:5  And therefore, it is necessary for us to be obedient, not only on account of wrath, but likewise on account of our consciences.

13:6  For this cause also ye pay tribute money; for they are the ministers of God, established for these same objects.

13:7  Render therefore to every one, as is due to him; tribute-money, to whom tribute-money; and excise, to whom excise; and fear, to whom fear; and honor, to whom honor.

13:8  And owe nothing to any one; but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbor, hath fulfilled the law.

13:9  For this likewise, which it saith: Thou shalt not kill; nor commit adultery; nor steal; nor covet; and if there is any other commandment, it is completed in this sentence: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

13:10  Love doeth no evil to one's neighbor; because love is the fulfillment of the law.

13:11  And this also know ye, that it is the time and the hour, that we should henceforth be awake from our sleep. For now our life hath come nearer to us, than when we believed.

13:12  The night now passeth away, and the day draweth near. Let us therefore cast from us the works of darkness; and let us put on the armor of light.

13:13  And let us walk decorously, as in daylight; not in merriment, nor in drunkenness, nor in impurity of the bed, nor in envy and strife.

13:14  But clothe yourselves with our Lord Jesus Messiah: and be not thoughtful about your flesh, for the indulgence of appetites.

Chapter 14

14:1  To him who is feeble in the faith, reach forth the hand. And be not divided in your thoughts.

14:2  For one man believeth, that he may eat every thing: and he that is feeble, eateth herbs.

14:3  And he that eateth, should not despise him that eateth not; and he that eateth not, should not judge him that eateth, for God hath received him.

14:4  Who art thou, that thou judgest a servant not thine; and who, if he standeth, he standeth to his Lord; and if he falleth, he falleth to his Lord? But he will assuredly stand; for his Lord hath power to establish him.

14:5  One man discriminateth between days; and another judgeth all days alike. But let every one be sure, in regard to his knowledge.

14:6  He that esteemeth a day, esteemeth it for his Lord: and he that esteemeth not a day, for his Lord, he doth not esteem it. And he that eateth, eateth to his Lord, and giveth thanks to God: and he that eateth not, to his Lord he eateth not, and giveth thanks to God.

14:7  For there is not one of us, who liveth for himself: and there is not one, who dieth for himself.

14:8  Because, if we live, to our Lord it is we live; or if we die, to our Lord it is we die. Whether we live, therefore, or whether we die, we are our Lord's.

14:9  Moreover, for this cause Messiah died, and revived, and arose; that he might be Lord of the dead and of the living.

14:10  But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we must all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah,

14:11  as it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow; and to me every tongue shall give praise.

14:12  So then, every one of us must give account of himself to God.

14:13  Henceforth, judge ye not one another; but rather, judge ye this, that thou erect not a stumbling-block for thy brother.

14:14  I know indeed, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing which is unclean in itself; but to him who thinketh any thing to be unclean, to him only it is defiled.

14:15  But if thou grievest thy brother, because of food, thou walkest not in love. On account of food, destroy not him for whom Messiah died.

14:16  And let not our good thing be matter of reproach.

14:17  For the kingdom of God, is not food and drink; but is righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

14:18  For he who is in these things a servant of Messiah, is pleasing to God, and approved before men.

14:19  Now let us strive after peace, and after the edification of one another.

14:20  And let us not, on account of food, destroy the work of God. For every thing is, indeed, pure; yet it is evil, to the man who eateth with stumbling.

14:21  It is proper, that we neither eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor do any thing, whereby our brother is stumbled.

14:22  Thou art one in whom there is faith; keep it to thyself, before God. Blessed is he, who doth not condemn himself, in that thing which he alloweth.

14:23  For he who eateth and doubteth, is condemned; because he eateth not in faith. For every thing which is not of faith, is sin.

Chapter 15

15:1  We then who are strong, ought to bear the infirmity of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

15:2  But each of us should please his neighbor, in good things, as conducive to edification.

15:3  Because Messiah also did not please himself; but, as it is written: The reviling of thy revilers fell upon me.

15:4  For every thing written of old, was written for our instruction; that we, by patience and by the consolation of the scriptures, might possess hope.

15:5  And may the God of patience and of consolation, grant to you, to think in harmony one with another, in Jesus Messiah;

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

15:7  Wherefore, receive ye and bear up one another, as also Messiah received you, to the glory of God.

15:8  Now I say, that Jesus Messiah ministered to the circumcision, in behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promise made to the fathers;

15:9  and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercies upon them, as it is written: I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing psalms.

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

15:11  And again he said: Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye nations.

15:12  And again Isaiah said: There will be a root of Jesse; and he that shall arise, will be a prince for the Gentiles; and in him will the Gentiles hope.

15:13  Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, by faith; that ye may abound in his hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

15:14  Now I am persuaded, my Brethren, even I, concerning you; that ye too are full of goodness, and are replenished with all knowledge, and are able also to instruct others.

15:15  Yet I have written rather boldly to you, my Brethren, that I might put you in remembrance; because of the grace which is given to me by God,

15:16  that I should be a minister of Jesus Messiah among the Gentiles, and should subserve the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles might be acceptable, and be sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

15:17  I have therefore a glorying in Jesus Messiah, before God.

15:18  Yet I presume not to speak of any thing done for the obedience of the Gentiles, which Messiah hath not wrought by me, in word and in deeds,

15:19  by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem I have made a circuit quite to Illyricum, and have fulfilled the announcement of the Messiah;

15:20  while I was careful not to preach where the name of Messiah had been invoked, lest I should build upon another man's foundation;

15:21  but, it is written: They, to whom mention of him had not been made, will see him; and they, who had not heard, will be obedient.

15:22  And on this account, I have been many times prevented from coming to you.

15:23  But now, since I have no place in these regions, and as I have been desirous for many years past to come to you,

15:24  when I go to Spain, I hope to come and see you; and that ye will accompany me thither, when I shall have been satisfied, in some measure, with visiting you.

15:25  But I am now going to Jerusalem, to minister to the saints.

15:26  For they of Macedonia and Achaia, have been willing to make up a contribution for the needy saints who are at Jerusalem.

15:27  They were willing, because they were also debtors to them: for if the Gentiles have been participators with them in the Spirit, they are debtors to serve them also in things of the flesh.

15:28  When therefore, I shall have accomplished this, and shall have sealed to them this fruit, I will pass by you into Spain.

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

15:30  And I beseech you, my Brethren, by our Lord Jesus Messiah, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye labor with me in prayer to God for me;

15:31  that I may be delivered from them in Judaea, who believe not and that the ministration, which I carry to the saints in Jerusalem, may be well received;

15:32  and that, by the good pleasure of God, I may come to you with joy, and may take comfort with you.

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

Chapter 16

16:1  And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea:

16:2  that ye may receive her in our Lord, as is just for saints; and that ye may assist her, in whatever thing she may ask of you: for she also hath been assistant to many, and to me also.

16:3  Salute ye Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-laborers in Jesus Messiah;

16:4  who, for my life, surrendered their own necks; and to whom, not only I am grateful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

16:5  And give a salutation to the church which is in their house. Salute my beloved Epenetus, who was the first-fruits of Achaia in Messiah.

16:6  Salute Mary, who hath toiled much with you.

16:7  Salute Andronicus and Junia, my relatives, who were in captivity with me, and are of note among the legates, and were in Messiah before me.

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

16:9  Salute Urbanus, a laborer with us in Messiah; and my beloved Stachys.

16:10  Salute Apelles, chosen in our Lord. Salute the members of the house of Aristobulus.

16:11  Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute the members of the house of Narcissus, who are in our Lord.

16:12  Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who toil in our Lord. Salute my beloved Persis, who toiled much in our Lord.

16:13  Salute Rufus, chosen in our Lord; and his and my mother.

16:14  Salute Asyncritus, and Phlegon, and Hermas, and Patrobas, and 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 Messiah salute you.

16:17  And I beseech you, my Brethren, that ye beware of them who cause divisions and stumblings among you, aside from the doctrine which ye have learned: and that ye stand aloof from them.

16:18  For they who are such, do not serve our Lord Jesus Messiah, but their own belly: and by bland speeches and good wishes, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

16:19  But your obedience is known to every one. I therefore rejoice in you: and I would have you be wise in what is good, and blameless in what is evil.

16:20  And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Messiah, be with you.

16:21  Timothy, my fellow-laborer, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

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

16:23  Gaius, hospitable to me and to all the church, saluteth you. Erastus, the steward of the city, and Quartus a brother, salute you.

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

16:25  Now unto God, who is able to establish you,- (according to my gospel, which is proclaimed concerning Jesus Messiah; and according to the revelation of the mystery, which was hidden from the times that are past,

16:26  but is at this time revealed, by means of the scriptures of the prophets; and by the command of the eternal God, is made known to all the Gentiles, for the obedience of faith;)

16:27  to him who only is wise, be glory, through Jesus Messiah, for ever and ever: Amen.