The Letter Of Paul The Apostle To The Romans
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 before 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 you 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 you 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,
brothers, that oftentimes I
purposed to come unto you, (but was hindered
until now,) that I might
have some fruit among you also, just
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
believes; to the Jew first,
and also to the Greek.
1:17 For in it 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 has showed 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 incorruptible
God into an image made like
unto corruptible man, and to birds, and
fourfooted beasts, and
creeping things.
1:24 Therefore God also gave them up
to uncleanness through the lusts
of their own hearts, to dishonor 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 forever.
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 recompense of
their error which was suitable.
1:28 And just 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 fitting;
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, covenant
breakers, 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 you are inexcusable, O
man, whosoever you are that
judges: for in that which you judge another,
you condemn yourself; for
you that judge are doing the same things.
2:2 But we are sure that the judgment
of God is according to truth
against those who commit such things.
2:3 And think you this, O man, that judge
those who do such things,
and are doing the same, that you shall
escape the judgment of God?
2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his
goodness and forbearance and
longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness
of God leads you to
repentance?
2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent
heart treasure up unto
yourself 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 honor 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 does evil, of
the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
2:10 But glory, honor, and peace, to
every man that works 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 outside
law shall also perish outside
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 show 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, 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 of them which are in darkness,
2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a
teacher of babes, which have the
form of knowledge and of the truth in
the law.
2:21 You therefore which teach another,
teach you not yourself? you
that preach a man should not steal, do
you steal?
2:22 You that say a man should not commit
adultery, do you commit
adultery? you that abhor idols, do you
commit sacrilege?
2:23 You that make your boast of the
law, through breaking the law do
you dishonor God?
2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed
among the Gentiles through you,
as it is written.
2:25 For circumcision truthfully profits,
if you keep the law: but if
you be a breaker of the law, your 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 fulfill
the law, judge you, who by the letter
and circumcision do 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 has the Jew?
or what profit is there of
circumcision?
3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because
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: yes, let God be true,
but every man a liar; as it is
written, That you might be justified
in your sayings, and might
overcome when you are judged.
3:5 But if our unrighteousness commend
the righteousness of God, what
shall we say? Is God unrighteous who
takes 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 has 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 way: 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 understands, there
is none that seeks after God.
3:12 They are all gone out of the way,
they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that does
good, no, not one.
3:13 Their throat is an open sepulcher;
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 says, it says 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
outside 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 has 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
believes in Jesus.
3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded.
By what law? of works?
No: but by the law of faith.
3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man
is justified by faith outside
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: yes, we
establish the law.
4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham
our father, as pertaining to
the flesh, has found?
4:2 For if Abraham were justified by
works, he has whereof to glory;
but not before God.
4:3 For what says the scripture? Abraham
believed God, and it was
counted unto him for righteousness.
4:4 Now to him that works is the reward
not reckoned of grace, but of
debt.
4:5 But to him that works not, but believes
on him that justifies the
ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
4:6 Just as David also describes the
blessedness of the man, unto whom
God imputes 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 Comes 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 no effect:
4:15 Because the law works 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 you
a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, even God,
who gives life to the dead, and
calls 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
your seed be.
4:19 And being not weak in faith, he
considered not his own body now
dead, when he was about a hundred years
old, neither yet the deadness
of Sarah'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 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 By 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 so, but we glory in
tribulations also: knowing that
tribulation works patience;
5:4 And patience, experience; and experience,
hope:
5:5 And hope makes 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 perhaps for a
good man some would even dare to die.
5:8 But God commends 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 Therefore, 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 offense, so also
is the free gift. For if through
the offense of one many be dead, much
more the grace of God, and the
gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus
Christ, has 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
offenses unto justification.
5:17 For if by one man's offense 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 offense 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
offense might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more
abound:
5:21 That as sin has 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 in
it?
6:3 Do you not know, 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 just
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 dies no more; death
has no more dominion over him.
6:10 For in that he died, he died unto
sin once: but in that he lives,
he lives unto God.
6:11 Likewise reckon you 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 you should
obey it in the lusts of it.
6:13 Neither yield you 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 you 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 Do you not know, that to whom you
yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servants you are to whom you
obey; whether of sin unto
death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
6:17 But God be thanked, that you were
the servants of sin, but you
have obeyed from the heart that form
of doctrine which was delivered
you.
6:18 Being then made free from sin, you
became the servants of
righteousness.
6:19 I speak after the manner of men
because of the infirmity of your
flesh: for as you 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 you were the servants of
sin, you were free from
righteousness.
6:21 What fruit had you then in those
things whereof you 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, you
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 Do you not know, brothers, (for I
speak to them that know the
law,) that the law has dominion over
a man as long as he lives?
7:2 For the woman which has a husband
is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he lives; but if the
husband be dead, she is loosed
from the law of her husband.
7:3 So then if, while her husband lives,
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 Therefore, my brothers, you also
have become dead to the law by
the body of Christ; that you 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 in which 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. No, I had not
known sin, but by the law: for I had
not known lust, except the law
had said, You shall not covet.
7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
wrought in me all
manner of desire. 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 Therefore 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 exceedingly 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 dwells in me.
7:18 For I know that in me (that is,
in my flesh,) dwells 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 dwells 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 those who 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 has 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 you 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 give life to
your mortal bodies by his Spirit that
dwells in you.
8:12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors,
not to the flesh, to live
after the flesh.
8:13 For if you live after the flesh,
you shall die: but if you
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds
of the body, you shall live.
8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit
of God, they are the sons of
God.
8:15 For you have not received the spirit
of bondage again to fear;
but you have received the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba,
Father.
8:16 The Spirit itself bears 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 waits 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 has 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
groans and travails in pain
together until now.
8:23 And not only they, but ourselves
also, which have the first
fruits 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 sees, why does 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 helps our
infirmities: for we know not
what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself makes
intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered.
8:27 And he that searches the hearts
knows what is the mind of the
Spirit, because he makes 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 brothers.
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 justifies.
8:34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ
that died, yes rather, that
is risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also makes
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 your sake
we are killed all the day long;
we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
8:37 No, 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
brothers, my kinsmen according to the
flesh:
9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertains
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 forever.
Amen.
9:6 Not as though the word of God has
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 your 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
Sarah shall have a son.
9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca
also had conceived by one,
even by our father Isaac;
9:11 (For the children being not yet
born, neither having done any
good or evil, that the purpose of God
according to election might
stand, not of works, but of him that
calls;)
9:12 It was said unto her, The elder
shall serve the younger.
9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved,
but Esau have I hated.
9:14 What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with God? God
forbid.
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 that wills,
nor of him that runs, but of
God that shows mercy.
9:17 For the scripture says unto Pharaoh,
Even for this same purpose
have I raised you up, that I might show
my power in you, and that my
name might be declared throughout all
the earth.
9:18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he
will have mercy, and whom he
will he hardens.
9:19 You will say then unto me, Why does
he yet find fault? For who
has resisted his will?
9:20 No but, O man, who are you that
replies against God? Shall the
thing formed say to him that formed it,
Why have you made me thus?
9:21 Has not the potter power over the
clay, of the same lump to make
one vessel unto honor, and another unto
dishonor?
9:22 What if God, willing to show 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 previously
prepared unto glory,
9:24 Even us, whom he has called, not
of the Jews only, but also of
the Gentiles?
9:25 As he says also in Hosea, 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, You are not my people; there
shall they be called the
children of the living God.
9:27 Isaiah also cries 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 Isaiah said before, Unless
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, has
not attained to the law of righteousness.
9:32 Why? 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 offense: and whosoever believes 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 believes.
10:5 For Moses describes the righteousness
which is of the law, That
the man which does those things shall
live by them.
10:6 But the righteousness which is of
faith speaks on this wise, Say
not in your 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 says it? The word is close
you, even in your mouth, and
in your heart: that is, the word of faith,
which we preach;
10:9 That if you shall confess with your
mouth the Lord Jesus, and
shall believe in your heart that God
has raised him from the dead, you
shall be saved.
10:10 For with the heart man believes
unto righteousness; and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.
10:11 For the scripture says, Whosoever
believes on him shall not be
ashamed.
10:12 For there is no difference between
the Jew and the Greek: for
the same Lord over all is rich unto all
that call upon him.
10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be
saved.
10:14 How then shall they call on him
in whom they have not believed?
and how shall they believe in him of
whom they have not heard? and how
shall they hear without a preacher?
10:15 And how shall they preach, unless
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 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 truthfully, 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 them that are no people,
and by a foolish nation I
will anger you.
10:20 But Isaiah is very bold, and says,
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 says, All day
long I have stretched forth my
hands unto a disobedient and opposing
people.
11:1 I say then, Has 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 has not cast away his people
which he foreknew. Don't you
know what the scripture says of Elijah?
how he makes intercession to
God against Israel saying,
11:3 Lord, they have killed your prophets,
and dug down your altars;
and I am left alone, and they seek my
life.
11:4 But what says 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 it is no more grace:
otherwise work is no more work.
11:7 What then? Israel has not obtained
that which he seeks for; but
the election has obtained it, and the
rest were blinded.
11:8 (According as it is written, God
has 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 says, Let their table
be made a snare, and a trap, and
a stumbling block, and a recompense unto
them:
11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that
they may not see, and bow down
their back always.
11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled
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
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 those who 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 first fruit 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 you, being a wild
olive tree, were grafted in among them,
and with them partake of the
root and fatness of the olive tree;
11:18 Boast not against the branches.
But if you boast, you do not
bear the root, but the root bears you.
11:19 You will say then, The branches
were broken off, that I might be
grafted in.
11:20 Well; because of unbelief they
were broken off, and you stand by
faith. Be not high minded, but fear:
11:21 For if God spared not the natural
branches, take heed lest he
also spare not you.
11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and
severity of God: on those who
fell, severity; but toward you, goodness,
if you continue in his
goodness: otherwise you also shall be
cut off.
11:23 And they also, if they abide not
still in unbelief, shall be
grafted in: for God is able to graft
them in again.
11:24 For if you wert cut out of the
olive tree which is wild by
nature, and wert grafted contrary to
nature into a good olive tree:
how much more shall these, which be the
natural branches, be grafted
into their own olive tree?
11:25 For I would not, brothers, that
you should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest you should be wise in your
own conceits; that blindness
in part is happened to Israel, until
the fullness 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 father's sakes.
11:29 For the gifts and calling of God
are without repentance.
11:30 For as you 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 has 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 has known the mind of the
Lord? or who has been his
counselor?
11:35 Or who has 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 forever. Amen.
12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers,
by the mercies of God, that
you present your bodies as living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto
God, which is your reasonable service.
12:2 And be not conformed to this world:
but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you 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
has 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 function:
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 teaches,
on teaching;
12:8 Or he that exhorts, on exhortation:
he that gives, let him do it
with simplicity; he that rules, with
diligence; he that shows 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
honor 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 those who 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 lies
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, says
the Lord.
12:20 Therefore if your enemy hunger,
feed him; if he thirst, give him
drink: for in so doing you shall 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 resists the
power, resists 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
you then not be afraid of the power?
do that which is good, and you
shall have praise of the same:
13:4 For he is the minister of God to
you for good. But if you do that
which is evil, be afraid; for he bears
not the sword in vain: for he
is the minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that does
evil.
13:5 Therefore you must needs be subject,
not only for wrath, but also
for conscience sake.
13:6 For for this cause pay you 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; honor to whom honor.
13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love
one another: for he that loves
another has fulfilled the law.
13:9 For this, You shall not commit adultery,
You shall not kill, You
shall not steal, You shall not bear false
witness, You shall not
covet; and if there be any other commandment,
it is briefly
comprehended in this saying, namely,
You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.
13:10 Love works no ill to his neighbor:
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 lewdness and wantonness,
not in strife and
envying.
13:14 But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make not provision for
the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.
14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive
you, but not to doubtful
disputations.
14:2 For one believes that he may eat
all things: another, who is
weak, eats herbs.
14:3 Let not him that eats despise him
that eats not; and let not him
which eats not judge him that eats: for
God has received him.
14:4 Who are you that judges another
man's servant? to his own master
he stands or falls. Yes, he shall be
held up: for God is able to make
him stand.
14:5 One man esteems one day above another:
another esteems every day
alike. Let every man be fully persuaded
in his own mind.
14:6 He that regards the day, regards
it unto the Lord; and he that
regards not the day, to the Lord he does
not regard it. He that eats,
eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks;
and he that eats not, to
the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.
14:7 For none of us lives to himself,
and no man dies 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 do you judge your brother?
or why do you set at nought
your brother? for we shall all stand
before the judgment seat of
Christ.
14:11 For it is written, As I live, says
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 stumbling block
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 esteems any thing to be
unclean, to him it is unclean.
14:15 But if your brother be grieved
with your food, now you do not
walk charitably. Do not destroy him with
your food, for whom Christ
died.
14:16 Let not then your good be evil
spoken of: 14:17 For the kingdom
of God is not food and drink; but righteousness,
and peace, and joy in
the Holy Ghost.
14:18 For he that in these things serves
Christ is acceptable to God,
and approved of men.
14:19 Let us therefore follow after the
things which make for peace,
and things with which one may edify another.
14:20 For food destroy not the work of
God. All things indeed are
pure; but it is evil for that man who
eats with offense.
14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh,
nor to drink wine, nor any
thing whereby your brother stumbles,
or is offended, or is made weak.
14:22 Have you faith? have it to yourself
before God. Happy is he that
condemns not himself in that thing which
he allows.
14:23 And he that doubts is damned if
he eat, because he eats 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 neighbor
for his good to
edification.
15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself;
but, as it is written, The
reproaches of them that reproached you
fell on me.
15:4 For whatsoever things were written
earlier 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 you may with one mind and one
mouth glorify God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:7 Therefore receive you 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 you among the Gentiles, and
sing unto your name.
15:10 And again he says, Rejoice, you
Gentiles, with his people.
15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all
you Gentiles; and laud him, all
you people.
15:12 And again, Isaiah says, There shall
be a root of Jesse, and he
that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles;
in him shall the Gentiles
trust.
15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace in
believing, that you may abound in hope,
through the power of the Holy
Ghost.
15:14 And I myself also am persuaded
of you, my brothers, that you
also are full of goodness, filled with
all knowledge, able also to
admonish one another.
15:15 Nevertheless, brothers, 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
has 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 Yes, 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 to there
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 has pleased them of Macedonia
and Achaia to make a
certain contribution for the poor saints
which are at Jerusalem.
15:27 It has pleased them truthfully;
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
fullness of the blessing of the gospel
of Christ.
15:30 Now I beseech you, brothers, for
the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,
and for the love of the Spirit, that
you 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 you receive her in the Lord,
as becomes saints, and that you
assist her in whatsoever business she
has need of you: for she has
been a helper 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
well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the first
fruits of Achaia unto Christ.
16:6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labor
on us.
16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my
kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners,
who are of note among the apostles, who
also were in Christ before me.
16:8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the
Lord.
16:9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ,
and Stachys my beloved.
16:10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ.
Salute those who are of
Aristobulus' household.
16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet
them that be of the household
of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
16:12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who
labor in the Lord. Salute the
beloved Persis, which labored 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
brothers 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 a holy
kiss. The churches of Christ
salute you.
16:17 Now I beseech you, brothers, mark
those who cause divisions and
offenses contrary to the doctrine which
you 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 fellow worker, and
Lucius, and Jason, and
Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
16:22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle,
salute you in the Lord.
16:23 Gaius my host, and of the whole
church, salutes you. Erastus the
chamberlain of the city salutes you,
and Quartus a brother.
16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen.
16:25 Now to him that is of power to
establish 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 forever. Amen.