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