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BOOK 45

BOOK OF ROMANS

CHAPTER 1
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus
Christ, called to be an apostle,
separated unto the gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised afore
by his prophets in the holy
scriptures,)
3 Concerning his Son Jesus
Christ our Lord, which was made of
the seed of David according to the
flesh;
4 And declared to be the Son of
God with power, according to the
spirit of holiness, by the
resurrection from the dead:
5 By whom we have received grace
and apostleship, for obedience to the
faith among all nations, for his
name:
6 Among whom are ye also the
called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all that be in Rome,
beloved of God, called to be saints:
Grace to you and peace from God our
Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through
Jesus Christ for you all, that your
faith is spoken of throughout the
whole world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I
serve with my spirit in the gospel of
his Son, that without ceasing I make
mention of you always in my prayers;
10 Making request, if by any
means now at length I might have a
prosperous journey by the will of God
to come unto you.
11 For I long to see you, that I
may impart unto you some spiritual
gift, to the end ye may be
established;
12 That is, that I may be
comforted together with you by the
mutual faith both of you and me.
13 Now I would not have you
ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I
purposed to come unto you, (but was
let hitherto,) that I might have some
fruit among you also, even as among
other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to the
Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both
to the wise, and to the unwise.
15 So, as much as in me is, I am
ready to preach the gospel to you
that are at Rome also.
16 For I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ: for it is the power
of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth; to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from
faith to faith: as it is written, The
just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be
known of God is manifest in them; for
God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of
him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being understood by
the things that are made, even his
eternal power and Godhead; so that
they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew
God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became
vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be
wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, and to
birds, and fourfooted beasts, and
creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them
up to uncleanness through the lusts
of their own hearts, to dishonour
their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God
into a lie, and worshipped and served
the creature more than the Creator,
who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them
up unto vile affections: for even
their women did change the natural
use into that which is against
nature:
27 And likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward
another; men with men working that
which is unseemly, and receiving in
themselves that recompence of their
error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like
to retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to a reprobate mind,
to do those things which are not
convenient;
29 Being filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
debate, deceit, malignity;
whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things, disobedient
to parents,
31 Without understanding,
covenant breakers, without natural
affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of
God, that they which commit such
things are worthy of death, not only
do the same, but have pleasure in
them that do them.

CHAPTER 2
1 Therefore thou art
inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou
art that judgest: for wherein thou
judgest another, thou condemnest
thyself; for thou that judgest doest
the same things.
2 But we are sure that the
judgment of God is according to truth
against them which commit such
things.
3 And thinkest thou this, O man,
that judgest them which do such
things, and doest the same, that thou
shalt escape the judgment of God?
4 Or despisest thou the riches
of his goodness and forbearance and
longsuffering; not knowing that the
goodness of God leadeth thee to
repentance?
5 But after thy hardness and
impenitent heart treasurest up unto
thyself wrath against the day of
wrath and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God;
6 Who will render to every man
according to his deeds:
7 To them who by patient
continuance in well doing seek for
glory and honour and immortality,
eternal life:
8 But unto them that are
contentious, and do not obey the
truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon
every soul of man that doeth evil, of
the Jew first, and also of the
Gentile;
10 But glory, honour, and peace,
to every man that worketh good, to
the Jew first, and also to the
Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of
persons with God.
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;
13 (For not the hearers of the
law are just before God, but the
doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, which
have not the law, do by nature the
things contained in the law, these,
having not the law, are a law unto
themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the
law written in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness, and
their thoughts the mean while
accusing or else excusing one
another;)
16 In the day when God shall
judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christ according to my gospel.
17 Behold, thou art called a
Jew, and restest in the law, and
makest thy boast of God,
18 And knowest his will, and
approvest the things that are more
excellent, being instructed out of
the law;
19 And art confident that thou
thyself art a guide of the blind, a
light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish,
a teacher of babes, which hast the
form of knowledge and of the truth in
the law.
21 Thou therefore which teachest
another, teachest thou not thyself?
thou that preachest a man should not
steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest a man should
not commit adultery, dost thou commit
adultery? thou that abhorrest idols,
dost thou commit sacrilege?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of
the law, through breaking the law
dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of God is
blasphemed among the Gentiles through
you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision verily
profiteth, if thou keep the law: but
if thou be a breaker of the law, thy
circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the
uncircumcision keep the righteousness
of the law, shall not his
uncircumcision be counted for
circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision
which is by nature, if it fulfil the
law, judge thee, who by the letter
and circumcision dost transgress the
law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is
one outwardly; neither is that
circumcision, which is outward in the
flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one
inwardly; and 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
1 What advantage then hath the
Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly,
because that unto them were committed
the oracles of God.
3 For what if some did not
believe? shall their unbelief make
the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be
true, but every man a liar; as it is
written, That thou mightest be
justified in thy sayings, and
mightest overcome when thou art
judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness
commend the righteousness of God,
what shall we say? Is God unrighteous
who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a
man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall
God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God hath
more abounded through my lie unto his
glory; why yet am I also judged as a
sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be
slanderously reported, and as some
affirm that we say,) Let us do evil,
that good may come? whose damnation
is just.
9 What then? are we better than
they? No, in no wise: for we have
before proved both Jews and Gentiles,
that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is
none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that
understandeth, there is none that
seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the
way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open
sepulchre; with their tongues they
have used deceit; the poison of asps
is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of
cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed
blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in
their ways:
17 And the way of peace have
they not known:
18 There is no fear of God
before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things
soever the law saith, it saith to
them who are under the law: that
every mouth may be stopped, and all
the world may become guilty before
God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the
law there shall no flesh be justified
in his sight: for by the law is the
knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of
God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the
prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ
unto all and upon all them that
believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be
a propitiation through faith in his
blood, to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins that are
past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this
time his righteousness: that he might
be just, and the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is
excluded. By what law? of works? Nay:
but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a
man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews
only? is he not also of the Gentiles?
Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which
shall justify the circumcision by
faith, and uncircumcision through
faith.
31 Do we then make void the law
through faith? God forbid; yea, we
establish the law.

CHAPTER 4
1 What shall we say then that
Abraham our father, as pertaining to
the flesh, hath found?
2 For if Abraham were justified
by works, he hath whereof to glory;
but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture?
Abraham believed God, and it was
counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the
reward not reckoned of grace, but of
debt.
5 But to him that worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly, his faith is counted for
righteousness.
6 Even as David also describeth
the blessedness of the man, unto whom
God imputeth righteouness without
works,
7 Saying, Blessed are they whose
iniquities are forgiven, and whose
sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin.
9 Cometh this blessedness then
upon the circumcision only, or upon
the uncircumcision also? for we say
that faith was reckoned to Abraham
for righteousness.
10 How was it then reckoned?
when he was in circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision,
but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received the sign of
circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he
had yet being uncircumcised: that he
might be the father of all them that
believe, though they be not
circumcised; that righteousness might
be imputed unto them also:
12 And the father of
circumcision to them who are not of
the circumcision only, but who also
walk in the steps of that faith of
our father Abraham, which he had
being yet uncircumcised.
13 For the promise, that he
should be the heir of the world, was
not to Abraham, or to his seed,
through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the
law be heirs, faith is made void, and
the promise made of none effect:
15 Because the law worketh
wrath: for where no law is, there is
no transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith,
that it might be by grace; to the end
the promise might be sure to all the
seed; not to that only which is of
the law, but to that also which is of
the faith of Abraham; who is the
father of us all,
17 (As it is written, I have
made thee a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, even
God, who quickeneth the dead, and
calleth those things which be not as
though they were.
18 Who against hope believed in
hope, that he might become the father
of many nations, according to that
which was spoken, So shall thy seed
be.
19 And being not weak in faith,
he considered not his own body now
dead, when he was about an hundred
years old, neither yet the deadness
of Sarah's womb:
20 He staggered not at the
promise of God through unbelief; but
was strong in faith, giving glory to
God;
21 And being fully persuaded
that, what he had promised, he was
able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed
to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for
his sake alone, that it was imputed
to him;
24 But for us also, to whom it
shall be imputed, if we believe on
him that raised up Jesus our Lord
from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our
offences, and was raised again for
our justification.

CHAPTER 5
1 Therefore being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by
faith into this grace wherein we
stand, and rejoice in hope of the
glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we glory
in tribulations also: knowing that
tribulation worketh patience;
4 And patience, experience; and
experience, hope:
5 And hope maketh not ashamed;
because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost which is given unto us.
6 For when we were yet without
strength, in due time Christ died for
the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous
man will one die: yet peradventure
for a good man some would even dare
to die.
8 But God commendeth his love
toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God by the
death of his Son, much more, being
reconciled, we shall be saved by his
life.
11 And not only so, but we also
joy in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we have now received
the atonement.
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by
sin; and so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in
the world: but sin is not imputed
when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned
from Adam to Moses, even over them
that had not sinned after the
similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to
come.
15 But not as the offence, so
also is the free gift. For if through
the offence of one many be dead, much
more the grace of God, and the gift
by grace, which is by one man, Jesus
Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that
sinned, so is the gift: for the
judgment was by one to condemnation,
but the free gift is of many offences
unto justification.
17 For if by one man's offence
death reigned by one; much more they
which receive abundance of grace and
of the gift of righteousness shall
reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence
of one judgment came upon all men to
condemnation; even so by the
righteousness of one the free gift
came upon all men unto justification
of life.
19 For as by one man's
disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered,
that the offence might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much
more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto
death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal
life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

CHAPTER 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall
we continue in sin, that grace may
abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that
are dead to sin, live any longer
therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of
us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with
him by baptism into death: that like
as Christ was raised up from the dead
by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of
life.
5 For if we have been planted
together in the likeness of his
death, we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man
is crucified with him, that the body
of sin might be destroyed, that
henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed
from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live
with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being
raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died
unto sin once: but in that he liveth,
he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also
yourselves to be dead indeed unto
sin, but alive unto God through Jesus
Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign
in your mortal body, that ye should
obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members
as instruments of unrighteousness
unto sin: but yield yourselves unto
God, as those that are alive from the
dead, and your members as instruments
of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have
dominion over you: for ye are not
under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin,
because we are not under the law, but
under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye
yield yourselves servants to obey,
his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye
were the servants of sin, but ye have
obeyed from the heart that form of
doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from
sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of
men because of the infirmity of your
flesh: for as ye have yielded your
members servants to uncleanness and
to iniquity unto iniquity; even so
now yield your members servants to
righteousness unto holiness.
20 For when ye were the servants
of sin, ye were free from
righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in
those things whereof ye are now
ashamed? for the end of those things
is death.
22 But now being made free from
sin, and become servants to God, ye
have your fruit unto holiness, and
the end everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is
death; but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

CHAPTER 7
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I
speak to them that know the law,) how
that the law hath dominion over a man
as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an
husband is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he liveth; but if
the husband be dead, she is loosed
from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband
liveth, she be married to another
man, she shall be called an
adulteress: but if her husband be
dead, she is free from that law; so
that she is no adulteress, though she
be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye
also are become dead to the law by
the body of Christ; that ye should be
married to another, even to him who
is raised from the dead, that we
should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh,
the motions of sins, which were by
the law, did work in our members to
bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from
the law, that being dead wherein we
were held; that we should serve in
newness of spirit, and not in the
oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the
law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not
known sin, but by the law: for I had
not known lust, except the law had
said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by
the commandment, wrought in me all
manner of concupiscence. For without
the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the
law once: but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which
was ordained to life, I found to be
unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by
the commandment, deceived me, and by
it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy,
and the commandment holy, and just,
and good.
13 Was then that which is good
made death unto me? God forbid. But
sin, that it might appear sin,
working death in me by that which is
good; that sin by the commandment
might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is
spiritual: but I am carnal, sold
under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow
not: for what I would, that do I not;
but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I
would not, I consent unto the law
that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that
do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that
is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good
thing: for to will is present with
me; but how to perform that which is
good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I
do not: but the evil which I would
not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not,
it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when
I would do good, evil is present with
me.
22 For I delight in the law of
God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my
members, warring against the law of
my mind, and bringing me into
captivity to the law of sin which is
in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who
shall deliver me from the body of
this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. So then with the
mind I myself serve the law of God;
but with the flesh the law of sin.

CHAPTER 8
1 There is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are in
Christ Jesus, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of
life in Christ Jesus hath made me
free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do,
in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and for
sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the
law might be fulfilled in us, who
walk not after the flesh, but after
the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the
flesh do mind the things of the
flesh; but they that are after the
Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is
enmity against God: for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the
flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh,
but in the Spirit, if so be that the
Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if
any man have not the Spirit of
Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the
body is dead because of sin; but the
Spirit is life because of
righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, he that raised up Christ from
the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that
dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are
debtors, not to the flesh, to live
after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the
flesh, ye shall die: but if ye
through the Spirit do mortify the
deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of
God.
15 For ye have not received the
spirit of bondage again to fear; but
ye have received the Spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are
the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with
Christ; if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified
together.
18 For I reckon that the
sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation
of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made
subject to vanity, not willingly, but
by reason of him who hath subjected
the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself
also shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the children of
God.
22 For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but
ourselves also, which have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but
hope that is seen is not hope: for
what a man seeth, why doth he yet
hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we
see not, then do we with patience
wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also
helpeth our infirmities: for we know
not what we should pray for as we
ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings
which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the
hearts knoweth what is the mind of
the Spirit, because he maketh
intercession for the saints according
to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things
work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he
also did predestinate to be conformed
to the image of his Son, that he
might be the firstborn among many
brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did
predestinate, them he also called:
and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified,
them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to
these things? If God be for us, who
can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own
Son, but delivered him up for us all,
how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to
the charge of God's elect? It is God
that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea rather, that
is risen again, who is even at the
right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? shall
tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy
sake we are killed all the day long;
we are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we
are more than conquerors through him
that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor
any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

CHAPTER 9
1 I say the truth in Christ, I
lie not, my conscience also bearing
me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness
and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself
were accursed from Christ for my
brethren, my kinsmen according to the
flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom
pertaineth the adoption, and the
glory, and the covenants, and the
giving of the law, and the service of
God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of
whom as concerning the flesh Christ
came, who is over all, God blessed
for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God
hath taken none effect. For they are
not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the
seed of Abraham, are they all
children: but, In Isaac shall thy
seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the
children of the flesh, these are not
the children of God: but the children
of the promise are counted for the
seed.
9 For this is the word of
promise, At this time will I come,
and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when
Rebecca also had conceived by one,
even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not
yet born, neither having done any
good or evil, that the purpose of God
according to election might stand,
not of works, but of him that
calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The
elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have
I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is
there unrighteousness with God? God
forbid.
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.
16 So then it is not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth, but
of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto
Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose
have I raised thee up, that I might
shew my power in thee, and that my
name might be declared throughout all
the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on
whom he will have mercy, and whom he
will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me,
Why doth he yet find fault? For who
hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou
that repliest against God? Shall the
thing formed say to him that formed
it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power
over the clay, of the same lump to
make one vessel unto honour, and
another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew
his wrath, and to make his power
known, endured with much
longsuffering the vessels of wrath
fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known
the riches of his glory on the
vessels of mercy, which he had afore
prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called,
not of the Jews only, but also of the
Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Osee, I
will call them my people, which were
not my people; and her beloved, which
was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass,
that in the place where it was said
unto them, Ye are not my people;
there shall they be called the
children of the living God.
27 Esaias also crieth concerning
Israel, Though the number of the
children of Israel be as the sand of
the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work,
and cut it short in righteousness:
because a short work will the Lord
make upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias said before,
Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left
us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and
been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That
the Gentiles, which followed not
after righteousness, have attained to
righteousness, even the righteousness
which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed
after the law of righteousness, hath
not attained to the law of
righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they
sought it not by faith, but as it
were by the works of the law. For
they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I
lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock
of offence: and whosoever believeth
on him shall not be ashamed.

CHAPTER 10
1 Brethren, my heart's desire
and prayer to God for Israel is, that
they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that
they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge.
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.
4 For Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to every one
that believeth.
5 For Moses describeth the
righteousness which is of the law,
That the man which doeth those things
shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is
of faith speaketh on this wise, Say
not in thine heart, Who shall ascend
into heaven? (that is, to bring
Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the
deep? (that is, to bring up Christ
again from the dead.)
8 But what saith it? The word is
nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in
thy heart: that is, the word of
faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness; and
with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith,
Whosoever believeth on him shall not
be ashamed.
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.
13 For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on
him in whom they have not believed?
and how shall they believe in him of
whom they have not heard? and how
shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach,
except they be sent? as it is
written, How beautiful are the feet
of them that preach the gospel of
peace, and bring glad tidings of good
things!
16 But they have not all obeyed
the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord,
who hath believed our report?
17 So then faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the word of
God.
18 But I say, Have they not
heard? Yes verily, their sound went
into all the earth, and their words
unto the ends of the world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel
know? First Moses saith, I will
provoke you to jealousy by them that
are no people, and by a foolish
nation I will anger you.
20 But Esaias is very bold, and
saith, I was found of them that
sought me not; I was made manifest
unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he saith, All
day long I have stretched forth my
hands unto a disobedient and
gainsaying people.

CHAPTER 11
1 I say then, Hath God cast away
his people? God forbid. For I also am
an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham,
of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his
people which he foreknew. Wot ye not
what the scripture saith of Elias?
how he maketh intercession to God
against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy
prophets, and digged down thine
altars; and I am left alone, and they
seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of
God unto him? I have reserved to
myself seven thousand men, who have
not bowed the knee to the image of
Baal.
5 Even so then at this present
time also there is a remnant
according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no
more of works: otherwise grace is no
more grace. But if it be of works,
then is it no more grace: otherwise
work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel hath not
obtained that which he seeketh for;
but the election hath obtained it,
and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it is written,
God hath given them the spirit of
slumber, eyes that they should not
see, and ears that they should not
hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their
table be made a snare, and a trap,
and a stumblingblock, and a
recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened,
that they may not see, and bow down
their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they
stumbled that they should fall? God
forbid: but rather through their fall
salvation is come unto the Gentiles,
for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be
the riches of the world, and the
diminishing of them the riches of the
Gentiles; how much more their
fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles,
inasmuch as I am the apostle of the
Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke
to emulation them which are my flesh,
and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of
them be the reconciling of the world,
what shall the receiving of them be,
but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be
holy, the lump is also holy: and if
the root be holy, so are the
branches.
17 And if some of the branches
be broken off, and thou, being a wild
olive tree, wert graffed in among
them, and with them partakest of the
root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the
branches. But if thou boast, thou
bearest not the root, but the root
thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The
branches were broken off, that I
might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief
they were broken off, and thou
standest by faith. Be not highminded,
but fear:
21 For if God spared not the
natural branches, take heed lest he
also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness
and severity of God: on them which
fell, severity; but toward thee,
goodness, if thou continue in his
goodness: otherwise thou also shalt
be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide
not still in unbelief, shall be
graffed in: for God is able to graff
them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of
the olive tree which is wild by
nature, and wert graffed contrary to
nature into a good olive tree: how
much more shall these, which be the
natural branches, be graffed into
their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren,
that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in
your own conceits; that blindness in
part is happened to Israel, until the
fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be
saved: as it is written, There shall
come out of Sion the Deliverer, and
shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto
them, when I shall take away their
sins.
28 As concerning the gospel,
they are enemies for your sakes: but
as touching the election, they are
beloved for the fathers'sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of
God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have
not believed God, yet have now
obtained mercy through their
unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now
not believed, that through your mercy
they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath concluded them
all in unbelief, that he might have
mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and knowledge of
God! how unsearchable are his
judgments, and his ways past finding
out!
34 For who hath known the mind
of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to
him, and it shall be recompensed unto
him again?
36 For of him, and through him,
and to him, are all things: to whom
be glory for ever. Amen.

CHAPTER 12
1 I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that
ye present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace
given unto me, to every man that is
among you, not to think of himself
more highly than he ought to think;
but to think soberly, according as
God hath dealt to every man the
measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in
one body, and all members have not
the same office:
5 So we, being many, are one
body in Christ, and every one members
one of another.
6 Having then gifts differing
according to the grace that is given
to us, whether prophecy, let us
prophesy according to the proportion
of faith;
7 Or ministry, let us wait on
our ministering: or he that teacheth,
on teaching;
8 Or he that exhorteth, on
exhortation: he that giveth, let him
do it with simplicity; he that
ruleth, with diligence; he that
sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
9 Let love be without
dissimulation. Abhor that which is
evil; cleave to that which is good.
10 Be kindly affectioned one to
another with brotherly love; in
honour preferring one another;
11 Not slothful in business;
fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in
tribulation; continuing instant in
prayer;
13 Distributing to the necessity
of saints; given to hospitality.
14 Bless them which persecute
you: bless, and curse not.
15 Rejoice with them that do
rejoice, and weep with them that
weep.
16 Be of the same mind one
toward another. Mind not high things,
but condescend to men of low estate.
Be not wise in your own conceits.
17 Recompense to no man evil for
evil. Provide things honest in the
sight of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as
lieth in you, live peaceably with all
men.
19 Dearly beloved, avenge not
yourselves, but rather give place
unto wrath: for it is written,
Vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the Lord.
20 Therefore if thine enemy
hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give
him drink: for in so doing thou shalt
heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but
overcome evil with good.

CHAPTER 13
1 Let every soul be subject unto
the higher powers. For there is no
power but of God: the powers that be
are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth
the power, resisteth the ordinance of
God: and they that resist shall
receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to
good works, but to the evil. Wilt
thou then not be afraid of the power?
do that which is good, and thou shalt
have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God
to thee for good. But if thou do that
which is evil, be afraid; for he
beareth not the sword in vain: for he
is the minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that doeth
evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be
subject, not only for wrath, but also
for conscience sake.
6 For for this cause pay ye
tribute also: for they are God's
ministers, attending continually upon
this very thing.
7 Render therefore to all their
dues: tribute to whom tribute is due;
custom to whom custom; fear to whom
fear; honour to whom honour.
8 Owe no man any thing, but to
love one another: for he that loveth
another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not
commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill,
Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
bear false witness, Thou shalt not
covet; and if there be any other
commandment, it is briefly
comprehended in this saying, namely,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his
neighbour: therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time,
that now it is high time to awake out
of sleep: for now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the
day is at hand: let us therefore cast
off the works of darkness, and let us
put on the armour of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in
the day; not in rioting and
drunkenness, not in chambering and
wantonness, not in strife and
envying.
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make not provision for
the flesh, to fulfil the lusts
thereof.

CHAPTER 14
1 Him that is weak in the faith
receive ye, but not to doubtful
disputations.
2 For one believeth that he may
eat all things: another, who is weak,
eateth herbs.
3 Let not him that eateth
despise him that eateth not; and let
not him which eateth not judge him
that eateth: for God hath received
him.
4 Who art thou that judgest
another man's servant? to his own
master he standeth or falleth. Yea,
he shall be holden up: for God is
able to make him stand.
5 One man esteemeth one day
above another: another esteemeth
every day alike. Let every man be
fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regardeth the day,
regardeth it unto the Lord; and he
that regardeth not the day, to the
Lord he doth not regard it. He that
eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he
giveth God thanks; and he that eateth
not, to the Lord he eateth not, and
giveth God thanks.
7 For none of us liveth to
himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live
unto the Lord; and whether we die, we
die unto the Lord: whether we live
therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ both
died, and rose, and revived, that he
might be Lord both of the dead and
living.
10 But why dost thou judge thy
brother? or why dost thou set at
nought thy brother? for we shall all
stand before the judgment seat of
Christ.
11 For it is written, As I live,
saith the Lord, every knee shall bow
to me, and every tongue shall confess
to God.
12 So then every one of us shall
give account of himself to God.
13 Let us not therefore judge
one another any more: but judge this
rather, that no man put a
stumblingblock or an occasion to fall
in his brother's way.
14 I know, and am persuaded by
the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing
unclean of itself: but to him that
esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to
him it is unclean.
15 But if thy brother be grieved
with thy meat, now walkest thou not
charitably. Destroy not him with thy
meat, for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then your good be
evil spoken of:
17 For the kingdom of God is not
meat and drink; but righteousness,
and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
18 For he that in these things
serveth Christ is acceptable to God,
and approved of men.
19 Let us therefore follow after
the things which make for peace, and
things wherewith one may edify
another.
20 For meat destroy not the work
of God. All things indeed are pure;
but it is evil for that man who
eateth with offence.
21 It is good neither to eat
flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any
thing whereby thy brother stumbleth,
or is offended, or is made weak.
22 Hast thou faith? have it to
thyself before God. Happy is he that
condemneth not himself in that thing
which he alloweth.
23 And he that doubteth is
damned if he eat, because he eateth
not of faith: for whatsoever is not
of faith is sin.

CHAPTER 15
1 We then that are strong ought
to bear the infirmities of the weak,
and not to please ourselves.
2 Let every one of us please his
neighbour for his good to
edification.
3 For even Christ pleased not
himself: but, as it is written, The
reproaches of them that reproached
thee fell on me.
4 For whatsoever things were
written aforetime were written for
our learning, that we through
patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope.
5 Now the God of patience and
consolation grant you to be
likeminded one toward another
according to Christ Jesus:
6 That ye may with one mind and
one mouth glorify God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 Wherefore receive ye one
another, as Christ also received us
to the glory of God.
8 Now I say that Jesus Christ
was a minister of the circumcision
for the truth of God, to confirm the
promises made unto the fathers:
9 And that the Gentiles might
glorify God for his mercy; as it is
written, For this cause I will
confess to thee among the Gentiles,
and sing unto thy name.
10 And again he saith, Rejoice,
ye Gentiles, with his people.
11 And again, Praise the Lord,
all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye
people.
12 And again, Esaias saith,
There shall be a root of Jesse, and
he that shall rise to reign over the
Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles
trust.
13 Now the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace in believing,
that ye may abound in hope, through
the power of the Holy Ghost.
14 And I myself also am
persuaded of you, my brethren, that
ye also are full of goodness, filled
with all knowledge, able also to
admonish one another.
15 Nevertheless, brethren, I
have written the more boldly unto you
in some sort, as putting you in mind,
because of the grace that is given to
me of God,
16 That I should be the minister
of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,
ministering the gospel of God, that
the offering up of the Gentiles might
be acceptable, be ing sanctified by
the Holy Ghost.
17 I have therefore whereof I
may glory through Jesus Christ in
those things which pertain to God.
18 For I will not dare to speak
of any of those things which Christ
hath not wrought by me, to make the
Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
19 Through mighty signs and
wonders, by the power of the Spirit
of God; so that from Jerusalem, and
round about unto Illyricum, I have
fully preached the gospel of Christ.
20 Yea, so have I strived to
preach the gospel, not where Christ
was named, lest I should build upon
another man's foundation:
21 But as it is written, To whom
he was not spoken of, they shall see:
and they that have not heard shall
understand.
22 For which cause also I have
been much hindered from coming to
you.
23 But now having no more place
in these parts, and having a great
desire these many years to come unto
you;
24 Whensoever I take my journey
into Spain, I will come to you: for I
trust to see you in my journey, and
to be brought on my way thitherward
by you, if first I be somewhat filled
with your company.
25 But now I go unto Jerusalem
to minister unto the saints.
26 For it hath pleased them of
Macedonia and Achaia to make a
certain contribution for the poor
saints which are at Jerusalem.
27 It hath pleased them verily;
and their debtors they are. For if
the Gentiles have been made partakers
of their spiritual things, their duty
is also to minister unto them in
carnal things.
28 When therefore I have
performed this, and have sealed to
them this fruit, I will come by you
into Spain.
29 And I am sure that, when I
come unto you, I shall come in the
fulness of the blessing of the gospel
of Christ.
30 Now I beseech you, brethren,
for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and
for the love of the Spirit, that ye
strive together with me in your
prayers to God for me;
31 That I may be delivered from
them that do not believe in Judaea;
and that my service which I have for
Jerusalem may be accepted of the
saints;
32 That I may come unto you with
joy by the will of God, and may with
you be refreshed.
33 Now the God of peace be with
you all. Amen.

CHAPTER 16
1 I commend unto you Phebe our
sister, which is a servant of the
church which is at Cenchrea:
2 That ye receive her in the
Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye
assist her in whatsoever business she
hath need of you: for she hath been a
succourer of many, and of myself
also.
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my
helpers in Christ Jesus:
4 Who have for my life laid down
their own necks: unto whom not only I
give thanks, but also all the
churches of the Gentiles.
5 Likewise greet the church that
is in their house. Salute my well
beloved Epaenetus, who is the
firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much
labour on us.
7 Salute Andronicus and Junia,
my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners,
who are of note among the apostles,
who also were in Christ before me.
8 Greet Amplias my beloved in
the Lord.
9 Salute Urbane, our helper in
Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
10 Salute Apelles approved in
Christ. Salute them which are of
Aristobulus'household.
11 Salute Herodion my kinsman.
Greet them that be of the household
of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa,
who labour in the Lord. Salute the
beloved Persis, which laboured much
in the Lord.
13 Salute Rufus chosen in the
Lord, and his mother and mine.
14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon,
Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the
brethren which are with them.
15 Salute Philologus, and Julia,
Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas,
and all the saints which are with
them.
16 Salute one another with an
holy kiss. The churches of Christ
salute you.
17 Now I beseech you, brethren,
mark them which cause divisions and
offences contrary to the doctrine
which ye have learned; and avoid
them.
18 For they that are such serve
not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their
own belly; and by good words and fair
speeches deceive the hearts of the
simple.
19 For your obedience is come
abroad unto all men. I am glad
therefore on your behalf: but yet I
would have you wise unto that which
is good, and simple concerning evil.
20 And the God of peace shall
bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
with you. Amen.
21 Timotheus my workfellow, and
Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my
kinsmen, salute you.
22 I Tertius, who wrote this
epistle, salute you in the Lord.
23 Gaius mine host, and of the
whole church, saluteth you. Erastus
the chamberlain of the city saluteth
you, and Quartus a brother.
24 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all. Amen.
25 Now to him that is of power
to stablish you according to my
gospel, and the preaching of Jesus
Christ, according to the revelation
of the mystery, which was kept secret
since the world began,
26 But now is made manifest, and
by the scriptures of the prophets,
according to the commandment of the
everlasting God, made known to all
nations for the obedience of faith:
27 To God only wise, be glory
through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.