Translation from the original Greek text
1:1 Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ, summoned as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
1:2 A gospel foretold by his prophets in the sacred writings,
1:3 About his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born from the lineage of David according to the flesh;
1:4 And pronounced the Son of God with might, in line with the spirit of sanctity, by his resurrection from the dead:
1:5 Through whom we received grace and apostleship, to foster obedience to the faith among all nations for his name:
1:6 Among whom are you also, the called of Jesus Christ:
1:7 To all in Rome, beloved of God, designated to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:8 First, I offer thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is celebrated throughout the entire world.
1:9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, that without pause I mention you always in my prayers;
1:10 Making a plea, if somehow now at last I might have a fortunate journey by the will of God to visit you.
1:11 For I yearn to see you, so that I may bestow upon you some spiritual endowment, to the end you may be fortified;
1:12 That is, that I may find solace together with you through our mutual faith, both yours and mine.
1:13 I do not wish you to be unaware, brethren, that often I intended to come to you (but have been prevented thus far), that I might bear some fruit among you too, just as among other Gentiles.
1:14 I am indebted both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the learned and to the unlearned.
1:15 Hence, as much as lies within me, I am prepared to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.
1:16 For I am not embarrassed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the might of God for salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is unveiled from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
1:18 For the ire of God is disclosed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness;
1:19 Because what may be known of God is evident within them; for God has shown it to them.
1:20 For the unseen aspects of him from the creation of the world are clearly perceived, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal might and divinity; so that they are without excuse:
1:21 Because when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became futile in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
1:22 Professing to be wise, they turned into fools,
1:23 And exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image resembling corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
1:24 Therefore, God also abandoned them to uncleanness in the desires of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves:
1:25 Who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
1:26 For this reason God handed them over to dishonourable passions: for their females exchanged natural relations for that which is against nature:
1:27 And likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their desire towards one another; men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the fitting recompense of their error.
1:28 And as they did not see fit to retain God in their knowledge, God delivered them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not proper;
1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence; whisperers,
1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
1:32 Who, knowing the judgment of God, that those who commit such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also take pleasure in those who practice them.
2:1 Therefore, you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge: for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
2:2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.
2:3 And do you think this, O man, who judge those who do such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
2:4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and patience; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in 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 those who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory, honour, and immortality, eternal life:
2:8 But to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
2:11 For there is no partiality with God.
2:12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law;
2:13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
2:14 For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves:
2:15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts meanwhile 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, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,
2:18 And know His will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
2:19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
2:21 You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?
2:22 You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
2:23 You who make your boast in the law, through breaking the law, do you dishonour God?
2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
2:25 For indeed circumcision benefits, if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
2:26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision keeps the righteousness of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
2:27 And will not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law?
2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:
2:29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
3:1 What advantage then has the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
3:2 Much in every way! Chiefly, because to them were committed the oracles of God.
3:3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
3:4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar; as it is written, “That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.”
3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)
3:6 Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?
3:7 For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
3:8 And why not say, as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say, “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.
3:9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
3:10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;
3:11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God.
3:12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”
3:13 “Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”;
3:14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
3:17 And the way of peace they have not known.”
3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those 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 no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the law and the prophets,
3:22 Even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
3:23 For all have sinned, and fall 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 presented as a sacrifice of atonement through faith in His blood, to proclaim His righteousness in forgiving past sins, in God’s forbearance;
3:26 To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
3:27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
3:28 Hence, we infer that a person is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
3:29 Is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also of the Gentiles? Indeed, of the Gentiles also:
3:30 Seeing there is one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
3:31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
4:1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered?
4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he has something to boast about; but not before God.
4:3 For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
4:4 Now to the one who works, the wages are not counted as a gift but as something due.
4:5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
4:6 Just as David also describes the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
4:7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
4:8 Blessed is the person against whom the Lord will not count sin.”
4:9 Is this blessedness then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
4:10 How then was it counted? 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 he had while still uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them as well;
4:12 And also the father of circumcision to those not only of the circumcision but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised.
4:13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
4:14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is nullified:
4:15 Because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.
4:16 Therefore, it is of faith, so that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
4:17 (As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) before Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;
4:18 Who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
4:19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;
4:20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
4:21 And being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
4:22 And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him,
4:24 But also for us, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
4:25 Who was delivered up because of our offenses, 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 Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
5:3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;
5:4 And perseverance, character; and character, hope.
5:5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
5:9 Much more then, having now been 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, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
5:11 And not only so, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the atonement.
5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all 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 those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a figure of Him who was to come.
5:15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.
5:16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.
5:17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
5:18 Therefore, as through one offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
5:19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
5:20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,
5:21 So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
6:2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
6:3 Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised 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 united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6:6 Recognise this: our former self was crucified with Him, so the body of sin might be nullified, allowing us to cease serving sin.
6:7 One who has died is liberated from sin.
6:8 If we died with Christ, we trust we shall also live with Him,
6:9 Knowing Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer rules over Him.
6:10 His death was a one-time act against sin; His life, a perpetual dedication to God.
6:11 Consider yourselves likewise dead to sin but alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
6:12 Don’t let sin control your mortal body, obeying its desires.
6:13 Do not offer your members to sin as tools of wickedness, but offer yourselves to God as those brought back from death, and your members to God as tools of righteousness.
6:14 Sin won’t dominate you, for you’re not under law but under grace.
6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we’re not under law but grace? Absolutely not.
6:16 Don’t you know, if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you’re slaves to whom you obey, whether sin leading to death, or obedience leading to righteousness?
6:17 But thanks be to God, though you were slaves of sin, you followed the teaching to which you were entrusted.
6:18 Freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
6:19 I speak in human terms due to your flesh’s frailty: As you once offered your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, now offer them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
6:20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
6:21 What benefit did you reap then from things you now are ashamed of? Those things result in death.
6:22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have holiness as your fruit, leading to eternal life.
6:23 For sin’s wages are death, but God’s gift is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
7:1 Do you not know, brethren (I speak to those familiar with the law), that the law governs a person only as long as they live?
7:2 For a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she’s released from the law concerning her husband.
7:3 So, if she lives with another man while her husband is alive, she’s called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she’s free from that law, and marrying another man does not make her an adulteress.
7:4 Likewise, my brethren, you too died to the law through Christ’s body, so you could belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order to produce fruit for God.
7:5 For when we were controlled by the flesh, sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death.
7:6 But now we are discharged from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so we serve in the new way of the Spirit, not in the old way of the written code.
7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Yet I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
7:8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law, sin lies dead.
7:9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
7:10 The commandment meant for life proved to be death for me.
7:11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me
and through it killed me.
7:12 Thus, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
7:13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
7:15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
7:16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
7:17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
7:18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
7:19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
7:21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
7:22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
7:23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus 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 did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
8:4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
8:6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
8:7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
8:8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
8:9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.
8:10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
8:11 If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
8:12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
8:17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him.
8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.
8:19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
8:21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
8:22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
8:23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
8:24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
8:27 And He who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.
8:29 For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.
8:30 And those whom He predestined He also called, and those whom He called He also justified, and those whom He justified He also glorified.
8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
8:32 He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?
8:33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
8:34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
8:36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
8:37 Indeed, in all these adversities we are more than victors through Him who loved us dearly.
8:38 For I am utterly convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things currently happening, nor things to come,
8:39 Nor any height, nor any depth, nor any other creature, shall have the power to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
9:1 I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie; my conscience also bears witness to me in the Holy Ghost,
9:2 That I have a great burden and unceasing sorrow in my heart.
9:3 For I could desire that I myself were separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
9:4 Who are the Israelites; to whom belongs the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;
9:5 Whose ancestors are the patriarchs, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is above all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
9:6 It is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
9:7 Neither, because they are the descendants of Abraham, are they all children: but, “In Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
9:8 That is to say, It is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the offspring.
9:9 For this is the word of promise, “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”
9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
9:11 For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, so that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calls;
9:12 It was said to 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? Certainly not.
9:15 For He says 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 who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
9:17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed throughout all the earth.”
9:18 Therefore, He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills, He hardens.
9:19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
9:20 But indeed, O man, who are you to argue against God? Can the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
9:21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honour, and another for dishonour?
9:22 What if God, desiring to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction:
9:23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had beforehand prepared for glory,
9:24 Even us, whom He has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
9:25 As He says also in Hosea, “I will call them My people, who were not My people; and her beloved, who was not beloved.”
9:26 And it shall happen, that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called the children of the living God.
9:27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the 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 Isaiah said previously, “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.”
9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith.
9:31 But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
9:32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as though it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;
9:33 As it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offence: and whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”
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 witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.
10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does these things shall live by them.”
10:6 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down from above)
10:7 Or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”
10:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
10:9 That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.
10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
10:11 For the scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame.”
10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
10:13 For whoever 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 those who preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”
10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes indeed: “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 says, “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.”
10:20 But Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”
10:21 But to Israel He says: “All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
11:1 I say then, Has God cast away His people? Certainly not. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2 God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
11:3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”
11:4 But what is the divine response to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
11:5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, then it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
11:7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
11:8 (Just as it is written: “God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear,”) to this very day.
11:9 And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them.
11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, and bow down their back always.”
11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
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 fullness?
11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my 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 their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
11:16 If the first portion is sacred, so is the whole; and if the root is sacred, so are the branches.
11:17 If some branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a sharer in the rich root of the olive tree,
11:18 do not boast over the branches. Remember, it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
11:19 You might say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
11:20 True, but they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid;
11:21 for if God did not spare the original branches, he may not spare you either.
11:22 Consider, therefore, the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you too will be cut off.
11:23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
11:24 If you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree!
11:25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
11:26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
11:27 For this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
11:28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are beloved on account of the patriarchs.
11:29 For God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.
11:30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,
11:31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.
11:32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
11:34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?”
11:35 “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?”
11:36 For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
12:4 Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,
12:5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
12:6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith;
12:7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach;
12:8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
12:9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
12:10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honour one another above yourselves.
12:11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervour, serving the Lord.
12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
12:13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
12:16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
12:17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.
12:18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
12:19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written: “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
12:20 On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
13:2 Therefore, whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
13:3 For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behaviour, but for bad. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is good, and you will be commended.
13:4 For the authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword for no reason. It is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
13:5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.
13:6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.
13:7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honour, then honour.
13:8 Owe nothing to anyone, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
13:9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”
13:10 Love does no harm to a neighbour; therefore, love is the fulfilment of the law.
13:11 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
13:12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armour of light.
13:13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
13:14 But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
14:1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarrelling over disputable matters.
14:2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.
14:3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.
14:4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
14:5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.
14:6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat, does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.
14:7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone.
14:8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
14:9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
14:10 Why do you judge your fellow believer, or regard your brother with contempt? For we all shall stand before Christ’s tribunal.
14:11 As it is declared, “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall acknowledge God.”
14:12 Thus, each of us shall account for ourselves to God.
14:13 Therefore, let’s cease judging one another; instead, resolve not to put obstacles or hindrances in a brother’s path.
14:14 I am convinced, through the Lord Jesus, that nothing is impure in itself. Yet, to one who considers something as impure, for that person it is impure.
14:15 If your food causes your brother distress, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
14:16 Then do not let your good be spoken of as evil.
14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
14:18 Anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
14:19 Therefore, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
14:20 Do not destroy God’s work for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.
14:21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.
14:22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.
14:23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
15:1 We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
15:2 Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.
15:3 For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”
15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.
15:5 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had,
15:6 so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:7 Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
15:8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises made to the patriarchs might be confirmed
15:9 and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing the praises of your name.”
15:10 Again, it says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”
15:11 And again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; let all the peoples extol him.”
15:12 And again, Isaiah says, “The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
15:14 I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another.
15:15 Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me
15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
15:17 Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God.
15:18 I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done—
15:19 by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
15:20 It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
15:21 Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”
15:22 This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
15:23 But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you,
15:24 I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.
15:25 Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s people there.
15:26 For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem.
15:27 They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings.
15:28 So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way.
15:29 I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ.
15:30 I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.
15:31 Pray that I may be kept safe from the unbelievers in Judea and that the contribution I take to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the Lord’s people there,
15:32 so that I may come to you with joy, by God’s will, and in your company be refreshed.
15:33 The God of peace be with you all. Amen.
16:1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae.
16:2 Welcome her in the Lord as is fitting for the saints and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.
16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus.
16:4 They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
16:5 Greet also the church that meets at their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.
16:6 Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you.
16:7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.
16:8 Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.
16:9 Greet Urbanus, our co-worker in Christ, and my dear friend Stachys.
16:10 Greet Apelles, whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.
16:11 Greet Herodion, my relative. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the household of Narcissus.
16:12 Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord.
16:13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.
16:14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the brothers and sisters with them.
16:15 Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Lord’s people who are with them.
16:16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send greetings.
16:17 I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
16:18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.
16:19 Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.
16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
16:21 Timothy, my co-worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my relatives.
16:22 I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.
16:23 Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, sends you his greetings. Erastus, who is the city’s director of public works, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings.
16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
16:25 Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past,
16:26 but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from faith—
16:27 to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.
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