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1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called as an Apostle, separated for the Gospel of God,

2 which he had promised beforehand, through his Prophets, in the Holy Scriptures,

3 about his Son, who was made for him from the offspring of David according to the flesh,

4 the Son of God, who was predestined in virtue according to the Spirit of sanctification from the resurrection of the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles,

6 from whom you also have been called by Jesus Christ:

7 To all who are at Rome, the beloved of God, called as saints. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

8 Certainly, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, first for all of you, because your faith is being announced throughout the entire world.

9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit by the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I have kept a remembrance of you

10 always in my prayers, pleading that in some way, at some time, I may have a prosperous journey, within the will of God, to come to you.

11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you a certain spiritual grace to strengthen you,

12 specifically, to be consoled together with you through that which is mutual: your faith and mine.

13 But I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you, (though I have been hindered even to the present time) so that I might obtain some fruit among you also, just as also among the other Gentiles.

14 To the Greeks and to the uncivilized, to the wise and to the foolish, I am in debt.

15 So within me there is a prompting to evangelize to you also who are at Rome.

16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation for all believers, the Jew first, and the Greek.

17 For the justice of God is revealed within it, by faith unto faith, just as it was written: “For the just one lives by faith.”

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven over every impiety and injustice among those men who fend off the truth of God with injustice.

19 For what is known about God is manifest in them. For God has manifested it to them.

20 For unseen things about him have been made conspicuous, since the creation of the world, being understood by the things that were made; likewise his everlasting virtue and divinity, so much so that they have no excuse.

21 For although they had known God, they did not glorify God, nor give thanks. Instead, they became weakened in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was obscured.

22 For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish.

23 And they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of four-legged beasts, and of serpents.

24 For this reason, God handed them over to the desires of their own heart for impurity, so that they afflicted their own bodies with indignities among themselves.

25 And they exchanged the truth of God for a lie. And they worshipped and served the creature, rather than the Creator, who is blessed for all eternity. Amen.

26 Because of this, God handed them over to shameful passions. For example, their females have exchanged the natural use of the body for a use which is against nature.

27 And similarly, the males also, abandoning the natural use of females, have burned in their desires for one another: males doing with males what is disgraceful, and receiving within themselves the recompense that necessarily results from their error.

28 And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting:

29 having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping;

30 slanderous, hateful toward God, abusive, arrogant, self-exalting, devisers of evil, disobedient to parents,

31 foolish, disorderly; without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.

32 And these, though they had known the justice of God, did not understand that those who act in such a manner are deserving of death, and not only those who do these things, but also those who consent to what is done.

1 For this reason, O man, each one of you who judges is inexcusable. For by that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things that you judge.

2 For we know that the judgment of God is in accord with truth against those who do such things.

3 But, O man, when you judge those who do such things as you yourself also do, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?

4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and forbearance? Do you not know that the kindness of God is calling you to repentance?

5 But in accord with your hard and impenitent heart, you store up wrath for yourself, unto the day of wrath and of revelation by the just judgment of God.

6 For he will render to each one according to his works:

7 To those who, in accord with patient good works, seek glory and honor and incorruption, certainly, he will render eternal life.

8 But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation.

9 Tribulation and anguish are upon every soul of man that works evil: the Jew first, and also the Greek.

10 But glory and honor and peace are for all who do what is good: the Jew first, and also the Greek.

11 For there is no favoritism with God.

12 For whoever had sinned without the law, will perish without the law. And whoever had sinned in the law, will be judged by the law.

13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.

14 For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature those things which are of the law, such persons, not having the law, are a law unto themselves.

15 For they reveal the work of the law written in their hearts, while their conscience renders testimony about them, and their thoughts within themselves also accuse or even defend them,

16 unto the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men, through Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.

17 But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God,

18 and you have known his will, and you demonstrate the more useful things, having been instructed by the law:

19 you become confident within yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

20 an instructor to the foolish, a teacher to children, because you have a type of knowledge and truth in the law.

21 As a result, you teach others, but you do not teach yourself. You preach that men should not steal, but you yourself steal.

22 You speak against adultery, but you commit adultery. You abominate idols, but you commit sacrilege.

23 You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God.

24 (For because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles, just as it was written.)

25 Certainly, circumcision is beneficial, if you observe the law. But if you are a betrayer of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

26 And so, if the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this lack of circumcision be counted as circumcision?

27 And that which is by nature uncircumcised, if it fulfills the law, should it not judge you, who by the letter and by circumcision are a betrayer of the law?

28 For a Jew is not he who seems so outwardly. Neither is circumcision that which seems so outwardly, in the flesh.

29 But a Jew is he who is so inwardly. And circumcision of the heart is in the spirit, not in the letter. For its praise is not of men, but of God.

1 So then, what more is the Jew, or what is the usefulness of circumcision?

2 Much in every way: First of all, certainly, because the eloquence of God was entrusted to them.

3 But what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief nullify the faith of God? Let it not be so!

4 For God is truthful, but every man is deceitful; just as it was written: “Therefore, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.”

5 But if even our injustice points to the justice of God, what shall we say? Could God be unfair for inflicting wrath?

6 (I am speaking in human terms.) Let it not be so! Otherwise, how would God judge this world?

7 For if the truth of God has abounded, through my falseness, unto his glory, why should I still be judged as such a sinner?

8 And should we not do evil, so that good may result? For so we have been slandered, and so some have claimed we said; their condemnation is just.

9 What is next? Should we try to excel ahead of them? By no means! For we have accused all Jews and Greeks to be under sin,

10 just as it was written: “There is no one who is just.

11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God.

12 All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.

13 Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

14 Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.

15 Their feet are swift to shed blood.

16 Grief and unhappiness 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 But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.

20 For in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.

21 But now, without the law, the justice of God, to which the law and the prophets have testified, has been made manifest.

22 And the justice of God, though the faith of Jesus Christ, is in all those and over all those who believe in him. For there is no distinction.

23 For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.

24 We have been justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

25 whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,

26 and by the forbearance of God, to reveal his justice in this time, so that he himself might be both the Just One and the Justifier of anyone who is of the faith of Jesus Christ.

27 So then, where is your self-exaltation? It is excluded. Through what law? That of works? No, but rather through the law of faith.

28 For we judge a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.

29 Is God of the Jews only and not also of the Gentiles? On the contrary, of the Gentiles also.

30 For One is the God who justifies circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith.

31 Are we then destroying the law through faith? Let it not be so! Instead, we are making the law stand.

1 So then, what shall we say that Abraham had achieved, who is our father according to the flesh?

2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he would have glory, but not with God.

3 For what does Scripture say? “Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.”

4 But for he who works, wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to debt.

5 Yet truly, for he who does not work, but who believes in him who justifies the impious, his faith is reputed unto justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

6 Similarly, David also declares the blessedness of a man, to whom God brings justice without works:

7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered.

8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin.”

9 Does this blessedness, then, remain only in the circumcised, or is it even in the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was reputed to Abraham unto justice.

10 But then how was it reputed? In circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

11 For he received the sign of circumcision as a symbol of the justice of that faith which exists apart from circumcision, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, so that it might also be reputed to them unto justice,

12 and he might be the father of circumcision, not only for those who are of circumcision, but even for those who follow the footsteps of that faith which is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

13 For the Promise to Abraham, and to his posterity, that he would inherit the world, was not through the law, but through the justice of faith.

14 For if those who are of the law are the heirs, then faith becomes empty and the Promise is abolished.

15 For the law works unto wrath. And where there is no law, there is no law-breaking.

16 Because of this, it is from faith according to grace that the Promise is ensured for all posterity, not only for those who are of the law, but also for those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all before God,

17 in whom he believed, who revives the dead and who calls those things that do not exist into existence. For it is written: “I have established you as the father of many nations.”

18 And he believed, with a hope beyond hope, so that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was said to him: “Thus shall your posterity shall be.”

19 And he was not weakened in faith, nor did he consider his own body to be dead (though he was then almost one hundred years old), nor the womb of Sarah to be dead.

20 And then, in the Promise of God, he did not hesitate out of distrust, but instead he was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

21 knowing most fully that whatever God has promised, he is also able to accomplish.

22 And for this reason, it was reputed to him unto justice.

23 Now this has been written, that it was reputed to him unto justice, not only for his sake,

24 but also for our sake. For the same shall be reputed to us, if we believe in him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead,

25 who was handed over because of our offenses, and who rose again for our justification.

1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 For through him we also have access by faith to this grace, in which we stand firm, and to glory, in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

3 And not only that, but we also find glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation exercises patience,

4 and patience leads to proving, yet truly proving leads to hope,

5 but hope is not unfounded, because the love of God is poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

6 Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?

7 Now someone might barely be willing to die for the sake of justice, for example, perhaps someone might dare to die for the sake of a good man.

8 But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

9 Christ died for us. Therefore, having been justified now by his blood, all the more so shall we be saved from wrath through him.

10 For if we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, while we were still enemies, all the more so, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

11 And not only that, but we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into this world, and through sin, death; so also death was transferred to all men, to all who have sinned.

13 For even before the law, sin was in the world, but sin was not imputed while the law did not exist.

14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even in those who have not sinned, in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.

15 But the gift is not entirely like the offense. For though by the offense of one, many died, yet much more so, by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, has the grace and gift of God abounded to many.

16 And the sin through one is not entirely like the gift. For certainly, the judgment of one was unto condemnation, but the grace toward many offenses is unto justification.

17 For though, by the one offense, death reigned through one, yet so much more so shall those who receive an abundance of grace, both of the gift and of justice, reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.

18 Therefore, just as through the offense of one, all men fell under condemnation, so also through the justice of one, all men fall under justification unto life.

19 For, just as through the disobedience of one man, many were established as sinners, so also through the obedience of one man, many shall be established as just.

20 Now the law entered in such a way that offenses would abound. But where offenses were abundant, grace was superabundant.

21 So then, just as sin has reigned unto death, so also may grace reign through justice unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 So what shall we say? Should we remain in sin, so that grace may abound?

2 Let it not be so! For how can we who have died to sin still live in sin?

3 Do you not know that those of us who have been baptized in Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

4 For through baptism we have been buried with him into death, so that, in the manner that Christ rose from the dead, by the glory of the Father, so may we also walk in the newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together, in the likeness of his death, so shall we also be, in the likeness of his resurrection.

6 For we know this: that our former selves have been crucified together with him, so that the body which is of sin may be destroyed, and moreover, so that we may no longer serve 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 together with Christ.

9 For we know that Christ, in rising up from the dead, can no longer die: death no longer has dominion over him.

10 For in as much as he died for sin, he died once. But in as much as he lives, he lives for God.

11 And so, you should consider yourselves to be certainly dead to sin, and to be living for God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.

13 Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God.

14 For sin should not have dominion over you. For you are not under the law, but under grace.

15 What is next? Should we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not be so!

16 Do you not know to whom you are offering yourselves as servants under obedience? You are the servants of whomever you obey: whether of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.

17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be the servants of sin, now you have been obedient from the heart to the very form of the doctrine into which you have been received.

18 And having been freed from sin, we have become servants of justice.

19 I am speaking in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of your body to serve impurity and iniquity, for the sake of iniquity, so also have you now yielded the parts of your body to serve justice, for the sake of sanctification.

20 For though you were once the servants of sin, you have become the children of justice.

21 But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

22 Yet truly, having been freed now from sin, and having been made servants of God, you hold your fruit in sanctification, and truly its end is eternal life.

23 For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Or do you not know, brothers, (now I am speaking to those who know the law) that the law has dominion over a man only so long as he lives?

2 For example, a woman who is subject to a husband is obligated by the law while her husband lives. But when her husband has died, she is released from the law of her husband.

3 Therefore, while her husband lives, if she has been with another man, she should be called an adulteress. But when her husband has died, she is freed from the law of her husband, such that, if she has been with another man, she is not an adulteress.

4 And so, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law, through the body of Christ, so that you may be another one who has risen from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

6 But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by the letter.

7 What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: “You shall not covet.”

8 But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

9 Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,

10 and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me.

11 For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me.

12 And so, the law itself is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

13 Then was what is good made into death for me? Let it not be so! But rather sin, in order that it might be known as sin by what is good, wrought death in me; so that sin, through the commandment, might become sinful beyond measure.

14 For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

15 For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.

16 So, when I do what I do not want to do, I am in agreement with the law, that the law is good.

17 But I am then acting not according to the law, but according to the sin which lives within me.

18 For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach.

19 For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.

20 Now if I do what I am not willing to do, it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin which lives within me.

21 And so, I discover the law, by wanting to do good within myself, though evil lies close beside me.

22 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inner man.

23 But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.

24 Unhappy man that I am, who will free me from this body of death?

25 The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord! Therefore, I serve the law of God with my own mind; but with the flesh, the law of sin.