ROMANS 1 1 Paul, a servant of Ihsou Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh, 4 declared the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead, Ihsou Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring obedience to faith among all the Gentiles for his name's sake, 6 in which you also are the called of Ihsou Christ. 7 To all who are in Rome, beloved. To God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Ihsou Christ. 8 First, I thank my God through Ihsou Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, 10 asking, if by any means at any time I may prosper in the will of God to come to you. 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to establish you, 12 that is, to be encouraged in you by each other's faith, both yours and mine. 13 Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and I was hindered until the evening, so that I might have some fruit among you also, just as I have among the other Gentiles. 14 To Greeks and Barbarians, to wise and foolish I am a debtor. 15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, The righteous will live by faith. 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. 19 For what is known about God is plain to them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world have been clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and divinity, so that they are inexcusable. 21 Because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up to impurity in the desires of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 25 Who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. For both their females changed the natural use into that which is against nature. 27 In the same way, the males, leaving the natural use of the female, were consumed with passion for one another, males with males, committing shameless acts.and the reward which he shows for their error in themselves, enjoying it. 28 And even as they did not approve of God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, evil covetousness; being full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; whisperers, 30 backbiters, slanderers, insolent, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 unreasonable, without self-control, without love, without soul, without mercy; 32 knowing the judgment of God, that they which do such things are worthy of death; and not only They do this, but they also approve of those who do it. ROMANS 2 1 You are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you judge; for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge do the same things. 2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practice such things. 3 And do you think this, O man, who judges such things and does them, that you will escape the judgment of God? 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? 5 But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who will render to each one according to his works. 7 To those who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life. 8 But to those who through impatience and disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek. 10 Glory and honor and peace to everyone who works the good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek; 11 for there is no partiality with God. 12 for as many as have sinned in the law shall also perish in the law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law: 13 for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these, who do not have the law, are a law to themselves. 15 They show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing one another, 16 on the day when God will judge the secrets of men according to my gospel through Ihsou Christ. 17 Behold, you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, and boast in God, 18 and know the will, and approve the things that are contrary, being instructed out of the law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? He who preaches that one should not steal, do you steal? 22 He who says one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? He who abhors idols, do you profane? 23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. 25 For circumcision profits me if you keep the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 If then uncircumcision keeps the righteousness of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And will uncircumcision by nature, which keeps the law, judge him who by the letter and circumcision is a transgressor of the law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. ROMANS 3 1 What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Moreover in every way: for first of all, because the words of God were believed. 3 For what if some believed? Shall not their unbelief make the faith of God void? 4 God forbid: but let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and overcome when thou art judged. 5 But if our unrighteousness be justified of God, what shall we say? Is not God unjust that suffereth wrath? I speak after the manner of men: 6 It is not so: but how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God in me hath abounded through the lie unto his glory, why am I yet judged as a sinner? 8 And not as we are slanderously slandered, and as some say unto us, Let us do evil, that good may come; for the judgment is just. 9 What then? Shall we go forward? No, not at all. For we have convicted both Jews and Greeks of all being under sin. 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one. 11 There is none who understands, there is none who seeks after God. 12 All have turned aside, they have become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not even one. 13 Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have deceived; the poison of asps is under their lips. 14 Whose mouth is full of bitterness and bitterness; 15 Their feet are sharp, they shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 17 And the way of peace they have not known; 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Ihsou Christ to all and upon all them that believe. For there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Ihsou; 25 Whom God set forth to be a propitiation in his blood, through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, for the passing over of the sins that are past, in the forbearance of God; 26 To demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, that he might be just. and justifying him by faith in Ihsou. 27 Where then is boasting? It is finished. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 We therefore think that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? And not of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also. 30 For there is one God, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then abolish the law through faith? Never mind; but we establish a law. ROMANS 4 1 What then shall we say that Abraham our father was found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. 4 Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness. 6 Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: 7 Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 9 Is this blessing then on circumcision, or on uncircumcision? For we say that faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How then was it imputed, on circumcision or on uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision: 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all them that believe through uncircumcision, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: 12 And the father of circumcision to them not of the circumcision only, but also to them which have the walk of the faith of our father Abraham in uncircumcision. 13 For the promise was not to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, through the law; but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if they are heirs of the law, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect. 15 For the law worketh wrath: for where there is no law, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that the promise might be sure by grace to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of faith, to Abraham, who is the father of us all. 17 As it is written, The father of many nations, to him that believed God, that quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18 Who in hope believed in hope, that he should become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: 20 But he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 And being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was also able to perform. 22 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness. 23 And it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 but for our sake also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised Ihsou our Lord from the dead; 25 who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised for our justification. ROMANS 5 1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Ihsou Christ, 2 through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we also glory in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, 4 and patience, character, and character, hope. 5 And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Sacred Spirit which is given unto us. 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For he dieth not for the just; but for the good man he dareth to die. 8 But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 11 And not only so, but also glorying in God through our Lord Ihsou Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation. 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death spread to all men, for all have sinned. 13 For sin was in the world until the law, and sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned, in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the one to come. 15 But not as the transgression was, so also the gift. For if by the offense of the one many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace of the one man, Ihsou Christ, abounded to the many. 16 And not as by one who sinned, so the gift is, for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the gift came by many offenses to justification. 17 For if by the offense of the one death reigned by the offense of the one, much more they who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life by the one, Ihsou Christ. 18 Therefore, as through one offense came condemnation to all men, so also through one act of righteousness came justification of life to all men. 19 For as through one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also through one act of obedience many will be made righteous. 20 But the law came in that the transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. 21 So that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Ihsou Christ our Lord. ROMANS 6 1 What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 Not so. How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Or do you not know that so many of us as were baptized into Christ Ihsou were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death: that, like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united in his death, we shall also be in his resurrection. 6 Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. 7 For he who has died has been justified from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. 9 Seeing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For he who has died has died to sin once; but he who lives lives to God. 11 So also you, consider yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Ihsou our Lord. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you obey it in its desires. 13 Do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that ye were servants of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered unto you: 18 But being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves to sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit then do you have of those things of which you are now ashamed? The end of that is death. 22 But now, having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Ihsou our Lord. ROMANS 7 1 For I say to you, brethren, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives. 2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law. 3 So then, if, while her husband is alive, she commits adultery, she becomes another man's wife; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man's wife. 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may be born again, raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sins that were committed through the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held to, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter. 7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known lust except through the law, saying, "You shall not lust." 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all lust. For apart from the law sin is dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was to life, was found to be to death. 11 For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 So that the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. 13 So then, what is good for me, death, was made good; may it not be so? But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me through that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, living under sin. 15 For what I do I do not understand: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 But if I do what I would not, that do I agree with the law, because it is good. 17 But now it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For to will is present with me, but to carry out what is good I do not find. 19 For I do not do the good that I would, but the evil that I would not, that I do. 20 But if I do what I would not, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 So I find a law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Ihsou Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. ROMANS 8 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Ihsou, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Ihsou has set me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 And those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised Ihsou from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 12 So then, brothers, I am not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh. 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. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry out, “Ahvva, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs with God and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits in hope for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation labors in pain and groans together until now. 23 And not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the redemption of our bodies. 24 For we were saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For what he sees is what he hopes for. 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait patiently for it. 26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. For what we pray for as we see, we do not know, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be uttered. 27 And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the saints according to God. 28 And we know that in all things God works for good to those who love him, to those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son,that he might be the firstborn among many brothers; 30 and whom he predestined, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who will be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who has called against God's elect? God is the justifier; 34 who is he that judges? Christ who died, yes, rather, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Ihsou our Lord. ROMANS 9 1 I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed of Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 6 But it is not as if the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel. 7 Nor are you all children because you are Abraham's seed, but in Isaac your seed will be called. 8 So then, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as seed. 9 For this is the word of promise, At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son. 10 And not only so, but Rebekah also, by one bed, by our father Isaac, 11 for when they were yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, 12 it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger, 13 as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. 14 What shall we say then? Is there no unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared in all the earth. 18 Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will harden. 19 Tell me then, What more findeth he fault? For who hath withstood his will? 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Shall not the thing made say to him that made it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter of the clay power over the same lump to make of it one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 But if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make known his power, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had prepared beforehand unto glory, 24 Even us he called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles: 25 As also he saith in Hosea, I will call them which were not my people, my people; and her which was not beloved, beloved. 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God. 27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved; 28 for the word of him that cutteth off and cutteth off in righteousness: for the Lord will cutteth off a word upon the earth. 29 And as Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we should have been as Sodom, and should have been made like Gomorrah.” 30 What then shall we say? For the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have obtained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith: 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Why? because it is not of faith, but as of the works of the law: for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. ROMANS 10 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my supplication to God for Israel is for their salvation. 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law, that the person who does those things will live by them. 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says this, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' This is to bring Christ down; 7 or, Who shall descend into the abyss? This is to bring Christ up from the dead. 8 But what does he say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart; that is, the word of faith which we preach: 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Ihsou and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. 11 For the scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, rich to all who call on him. 13 For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone to preach? 15 And how will they preach unless they send? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who preach peace, and of those who bring good news of good things. 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So then faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, Did they not hear? Surely their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. 19 But I say, Did I not know Israel? First Moses says, "I will be jealous for you among the nations, and among the foolish people I will be angry with you." 20 But Isaiah is bold and says, “I was found by those who did not seek me, I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.” 21 But concerning Israel he says, “All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who refuse and contradict.” ROMANS 11 1 I say then, God hath not cast away his people: God forbid. For I am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people whom I foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah, how he speaketh to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars: and I only am left, and they seek my life. 4 But what saith the bribe unto him? I have left unto me seven thousand men, which have not bowed the knee unto Baal. 5 So then, at the present time also, the word of election has come about by grace. 6 But if by grace, it is no longer of works; for grace is no longer grace. But if by works, it is no longer grace; for work is no longer work. 7 What then? Israel did not obtain what it sought, but election did, and the rest were cursed. 8 As it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day. 9 And David says, Let their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a stumblingblock unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not, and bow down their backs for ever. 11 I say therefore, They have not sinned, that they should fall: far be it from them: but their transgression is salvation unto the Gentiles, to their envy. 12 And if their transgression be the riches of the world, and their destruction the riches of the nations: how much more their fulness? 13 For I speak unto you, the Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry: 14 If by any means I may spare my flesh, and save some of them. 15 For if the casting away of them be the redemption of the world, what shall the receiving be, but life from the dead? 16 For if the beginning is holy, so is the beginning; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a partaker of the root and the fatness of the olive tree, 18 I do not boast about the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. 20 You are right; they were broken off through unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be conceited, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you either. 22 Behold then the goodness and the cutting off of God: on them that fell, cutting off; but on thee, goodness, if thou continue in thy goodness; on whom thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall be cut off: for God is able to cut them off again. 24 For if thou, being cut off from the natural olive tree, art cut off contrary to nature, and art cut off into good oil: how much more shall these, which are by nature, be cut off into the same oil? 25 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be wise in your own eyes, that a partial turning away of Israel has happened until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved. As it is written, “There will come out of Zion the deliverer, and ungodliness will turn away from Jacob.” 27 And this is my covenant with them, when I forgive their sins. 28 As regards the gospel, enemies for your sake; but as regards the election,Beloved for the fathers 29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 30 For as you once obeyed God, but have now obtained mercy because of their disobedience, 31 so also they now have obeyed, to you he has mercy, that they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. 33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments are, and past tracing out his ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has become his counselor? 35 Or to whom has he given, and it will be repaid to him? 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. ROMANS 12 1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one the measure of faith. 4 For just as in one body we have many members, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts according to the grace given to us, different gifts are given to us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of faith; 7 or ministry, in ministry; or he who teaches, in teaching; 8 or he who supplicates, in supplication; he who teaches, in simplicity; he who leads, in diligence; he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness. 9 Love is unfeigned. Abhorring evil, clinging to good. 10 Be kind to one another in brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; 11 Not slothful in study; lively in the Spirit; serving the Lord; 12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; constant in prayer; 13 Contributing to the needs of the saints; giving hospitality. 14 Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not. 15 Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep. 16 Be like-minded one toward another. Not thinking of themselves as high-minded, but as humble. Do not be wise in your own eyes. 17 Do not repay evil for evil. Provide for what is good in the sight of all men. 18 If possible, live peaceably with all men. 19 Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on his head. 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. ROMANS 13 1 Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the existing authorities have been established by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authority resists what God has ordained. And those who resist will receive judgment to themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do not be afraid of the authority. Do good, and you will have praise from it. 4 For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him that does evil. 5 For it is necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience' sake. 6 For this reason also pay taxes; for you are God's ministers, serving this very thing. 7 Render therefore to all dues: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. 8 Owe nothing, except to love one another; for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other, are summed up in this word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 10 Love worketh no evil to a neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. 11 Knowing the time, that it is already high time for us to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in rioting and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14 But put on the Lord Ihsou Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil its lusts. ROMANS 14 1 But him that is weak in the faith receive ye, not for diversities of opinions. 2 He that believeth on me may eat all things; but he that is sick eateth herbs. 3 Let him that eateth not be ashamed of him that eateth not; and let him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's house? to the same Lord it standeth or falleth: and it shall stand; for God is able to make it stand. 5 He that judgeth me daily, not he that judgeth all the day: let every man be judged in his own mind. 6 He who regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he who does not regard the day, does not regard it to the Lord. He who eats to the Lord, eats to God, for he gives thanks to God; and he who does not eat to the Lord, does not eat and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For whether we live, we live to the Lord; or whether we die, we die to the Lord. Whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you also weaken your brother? For we must all appear at the footstool of Christ. 11 For it is written, ‘As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.’ 12 So then each of us will give account of himself to God. 13 Let us not judge one another any longer; but judge this rather, not to put a stumbling block or an occasion for stumbling in our brother’s way. 14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Ihsou that nothing is common to itself; if it is not common to the one who thinks it is common, it is common to that one. 15 But if your brother is grieved by your filth, you are no longer walking in love. Do not defile him with your filth for whom Christ died. 16 So do not let your good things be blasphemed. 17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For whoever serves Christ in these things is pleasing to God and approved by men. 19 Therefore let us pursue the things that make for peace, and the things that build one another up. 20 Do not destroy the work of God by means of an odor. All things are clean to me, but it is evil for the man who eats them with an offense. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is sick. 22 You have faith in yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself in what he examines. 23 But he who judges, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin. ROMANS 15 1 We then who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 For let each of us please his neighbor for his good, for edification. 3 For even Christ did not please himself, but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. 4 For whatsoever things were written before, he wrote before for our learning, that through patience and the prayer of the scriptures we might have hope. 5 Now the God of patience and of supplication grant you to be of the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Ihsou: 6 That with one mind and one mouth ye may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Ihsou Christ. 7 Therefore receive one another, even as Christ also received us, to the glory of God. 8 Now I say, Ihsou Christ a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: 9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause will I confess unto thee among the Gentiles, and sing praises unto thy name. 10 And again he says, Rejoice, O ye Gentiles, with his people. 11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and extol him, all ye people. 12 And again Isaiah saith, There shall be the root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to be the head of the Gentiles: in him shall the Gentiles hope. 13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, by the power of the Sacred Spirit. 14 And I myself am confident of you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able to admonish one another. 15 But I have written to you the more boldly, brothers, on some points, as a reminder of you, because of the grace that was given to me by God, 16 in that I am a minister of Ihsou Christ to the Gentiles, preaching the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 17 Therefore I have joy in Christ Ihsou before God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and around to Illyricum I have fully fulfilled the gospel of Christ. 20 But so that I may be preached, not where Christ is named, lest I build on another's foundation. 21 But as it is written, They to whom he was not preached, they saw; and they who did not hear, 22 For I have often desired to come to you; 23 but now I have no place in these parts, and I have longed for many years to come to you. 24 When I go to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you in passing and to be helped there by you, if I have been first satisfied by you. 25 But now I am going to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints. 26 For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem. 27 For they have been pleased, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they also owe it to them in their physical things. 28 This you have done, and have sealed to them this fruit,I am going to Spain for your sake. 29 But I know that when I come to you in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ, I will come. 30 Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Ihsou Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, 31 that I may be delivered from those who disobey in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 32 so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be refreshed with you. 33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. ROMANS 16 1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a deacon of the church at Cenchreae. 2 That you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you may assist her in whatever she may be of use to you. For she has been a helper to many, and to me also. 3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Ihsou, 4 who have risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles, 5 and the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruits of Achaia in Christ. 6 Greet Mary, who has labored much for us. 7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who were in Christ before me. 8 Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. 9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved. 10 Greet Apelles, the probationer in Christ. Greet those of Aristobulus. 11 Greet Herodion my kinsman. Greet those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord. 12 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who have labored in the Lord. Greet Persis the beloved, who has labored much in the Lord. 13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 14 Greet Asylum, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brothers with them. 15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them. 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ greet you. 17 Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them. 18 For those who are like that do not serve our Lord Ihsou Christ, but their own appetites, and by their flattery and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. 19 For your obedience is evident to all. I rejoice therefore over you: but I will have you wise unto that which is good, and innocent unto that which is evil. 20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Ihsou Christ be with you. Amen. 21 Timothy my fellow-worker saluteth you; and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater my kinsmen salute you. 22 I Tertius, who wrote the epistle, salute you in the Lord. 23 Gaius my stranger saluteth you, and of the whole church. Erastus, the city steward, and Quartus, the brother, greet you. 24 The grace of our Lord Ihsou Christ be with you all. Amen. 25 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Ihsou Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret for ages past, 26 but now manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, to make known to all nations the obedience of faith, 27 to the only wise God, through Ihsou Christ, be glory forever. Amen.