Paul’s Letter to the Romans
1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called
to be an apostle, set apart for the Gospel
of God, 1:2which he promised before through his prophets
in the holy Scriptures, 1:3concerning his Son,
who was born of the seed of David according
to the flesh, 1:4who was declared to be the Son of God
with power, according to the Spirit of holiness,
by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus
Christ our Lord, 1:5through whom we
received grace and apostleship, for obedience
of faith among all the nations, for his
name's sake; 1:6among whom you are also called to belong
to Jesus Christ; 1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of God,
called to be saints: Grace to you and peace
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ
for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed
throughout the whole world. 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in
my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, how
unceasingly I make mention of you always
in my prayers, 1:10requesting, if
by any means now at last I may be prospered
by the will of God to come to you. 1:11For I long to see you, that I may impart
to you some spiritual gift, to the end that
you may be established; 1:12that is, that I with you may be encouraged
in you, each of us by the other's faith,
both yours and mine.
1:13Now I don't desire to have you unaware,
brothers, that I often planned to come to
you, and was hindered so far, that I might
have some fruit among you also, even as
among the rest of the Gentiles. 1:14I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners,
both to the wise and to the foolish. 1:15So, as much as
is in me, I am eager to preach the Gospel
to you also who are in Rome. 1:16For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of
Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation
for everyone who believes; for the Jew first,
and also for the Greek. 1:17For in it is revealed God's righteousness
from faith to faith. As it is written, "But
the righteous shall live by faith."
1:18For the wrath of
God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
1:19because that which is known of God is
revealed in them, for God revealed it to
them. 1:20For the invisible things of him since
the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being perceived through the things that
are made, even his everlasting power and
divinity; that they may be without excuse.
1:21Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify
him as God, neither gave thanks, but became
vain in their reasoning, and their senseless
heart was darkened.
1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools, 1:23and traded the glory of the incorruptible
God for the likeness of an image of corruptible
man, and of birds, and four-footed animals,
and creeping things. 1:24Therefore God also
gave them up in the lusts of their hearts
to uncleanness, that their bodies should
be dishonored among themselves, 1:25who exchanged the
truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and
served the creature rather than the Creator,
who is blessed forever. Amen.
1:26For this reason, God gave them up to
vile passions. For their women changed the
natural function into that which is against
nature. 1:27Likewise also the men, leaving the natural
function of the woman, burned in their lust
toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate
with men, and receiving in themselves the
due penalty of their error. 1:28Even as they refused
to have God in their knowledge, God gave
them up to a reprobate mind, to do those
things which are not fitting; 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness,
sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
1:30backbiters, hateful to God, insolent,
haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, 1:31without understanding, covenant-breakers,
without natural affection, unforgiving,
unmerciful; 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that
those who practice such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but also
approve of those who practice them.
2:1Therefore you are without excuse, O man,
whoever you are who judge. For in that which
you judge another, you condemn yourself.
For you who judge practice the same things.
2:2We know that the judgment of God is according
to truth against those who practice such
things. 2:3Do you think this, O man who judges those
who practice such things, and do the same,
that you will escape the judgment of God?
2:4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness,
forbearance, and patience, not knowing that
the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant
heart you are treasuring up for yourself
wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and
of the righteous judgment of God; 2:6who "will pay back to everyone according
to their works:" 2:7to those who by
patience in well-doing seek for glory and
honor and incorruptibility, eternal life;
2:8but to those who are self-seeking, and
don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
will be wrath and indignation, 2:9oppression and anguish, on every soul
of man who works evil, on the Jew first,
and also on the Greek.
2:10But glory and honor and peace to every
man who works good, to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek. 2:11For there is no partiality with God.
2:12For as many as have sinned without law
will also perish without the law. As many
as have sinned under the law will be judged
by the law. 2:13For it isn't the
hearers of the law who are righteous before
God, but the doers of the law will be justified
2:14(for when Gentiles who don't have the
law do by nature the things of the law,
these, not having the law, are a law to
themselves, 2:15in that they show the work of the law
written in their hearts, their conscience
testifying with them, and their thoughts
among themselves accusing or else excusing
them) 2:16in the day when God will judge the secrets
of men, according to my Gospel, by Jesus
Christ.
2:17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and
rest on the law, and glory in God, 2:18and know his will,
and approve the things that are excellent,
being instructed out of the law, 2:19and are confident that you yourself are
a guide of the blind, a light to those who
are in darkness, 2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher
of babies, having in the law the form of
knowledge and of the truth. 2:21You therefore who teach another, don't
you teach yourself? You who preach that
a man shouldn't steal, do you steal? 2:22You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery,
do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols,
do you rob temples? 2:23You who glory in the law, through your
disobedience of the law do you dishonor
God? 2:24For "the name
of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles
because of you," just as it is written.
2:25For circumcision
indeed profits, if you are a doer of the
law, but if you are a transgressor of the
law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
2:26If therefore the uncircumcised keep the
ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision
be accounted as circumcision? 2:27Won't the uncircumcision which is by
nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you,
who with the letter and circumcision are
a transgressor of the law? 2:28For he is not a
Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that
circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
2:29but 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.
3:1Then what advantage does the Jew have?
Or what is the profit of circumcision? 3:2Much in every way!
Because first of all, they were entrusted
with the oracles of God. 3:3For what if some were without faith? Will
their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness
of God? 3:4May it never be! Yes, let God be found
true, but every man a liar. As it is written,
"That you might be justified
in your words,
And
might prevail when you come into judgment."
3:5But if our unrighteousness commends the
righteousness of God, what will we say?
Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I
speak like men do. 3:6May it never be!
For then how will God judge the world? 3:7For if the truth
of God through my lie abounded to his glory,
why am I also still judged as a sinner?
3:8Why not (as we are slanderously reported,
and as some affirm that we say), "Let
us do evil, that good may come?" Those
who say so are justly condemned. 3:9What then? Are we better than they? No,
in no way. For we previously charged both
Jews and Greeks, that they are all under
sin. 3:10As it is written,
"There is no one righteous.
No,
not one.
3:11There is no one who understands.
There
is no one who seeks after God.
3:12They have all turned aside.
They
have together become unprofitable.
There is no one who does good,
No,
not, so much as one."
3:13"Their throat is an open tomb.
With
their tongues they have used deceit."
"The poison of vipers is under
their lips;"
3:14"Whose mouth
is full of cursing and bitterness."
3:15"Their feet are swift to shed blood.
3:16Destruction and
misery are in their ways.
3:17The way of peace,
they haven't known."
3:18"There is no fear of God before
their eyes."
3:19Now we know that whatever things the
law says, it speaks to those who are under
the law, that every mouth may be closed,
and all the world may be brought under the
judgment of God. 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh
will be justified in his sight. For through
the law comes the knowledge of sin. 3:21But now apart from the law, a righteousness
of God has been revealed, being testified
by the law and the prophets; 3:22even the righteousness of God through
faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all
those who believe. For there is no distinction,
3:23for all have sinned, and fall short of
the glory of God; 3:24being justified freely by his grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
3:25whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration
of his righteousness through the passing
over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;
3:26to demonstrate his righteousness at this
present time; that he might himself be just,
and the justifier of him who has faith in
Jesus.
3:27Where then is the boasting? It is excluded.
By what manner of law? Of works? No, but
by a law of faith. 3:28We maintain therefore that a man is justified
by faith apart from the works of the law.
3:29Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't
he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles
also, 3:30since indeed there is one God who will
justify the circumcised by faith, and the
uncircumcised through faith. 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith?
May it never be! No, we establish the law.
4:1What then will we say that Abraham, our
forefather, has found according to the flesh?
4:2For if Abraham was justified by works,
he has something to boast about, but not
toward God. 4:3For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham
believed God, and it was accounted to him
for righteousness." 4:4Now to him who works, the reward is not
counted as grace, but as debt. 4:5But to him who doesn't
work, but believes in him who justifies
the ungodly, his faith is accounted for
righteousness. 4:6Even as David also pronounces blessing
on the man to whom God counts righteousness
apart from works,
4:7"Blessed are they whose iniquities
are forgiven,
Whose
sins are covered.
4:8Blessed is the man whom the Lord will
by no means charge with sin."
4:9Is this blessing then pronounced on the
circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also?
For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham
for righteousness. 4:10How then was it
counted? When he was in circumcision, or
in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision,
but in uncircumcision. 4:11He received the
sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness
of the faith which he had while he was in
uncircumcision, that he might be the father
of all those who believe, though they be
in uncircumcision, that righteousness might
also be accounted to them. 4:12The father of circumcision
to those who not only are of the circumcision,
but who also walk in the steps of that faith
of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
4:13For the promise to Abraham and to his
seed that he should be heir of the world
wasn't through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith. 4:14For if those who
are of the law are heirs, faith is made
void, and the promise is made of no effect.
4:15For the law works wrath, for where there
is no law, neither is there disobedience.
4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it
may be according to grace, to the end that
the promise may 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. 4:17As it is written, "I have made you
a father of many nations." This is
in the presence of him whom he believed:
God, who gives life to the dead, and calls
the things that are not, as though they
were. 4:18Who in hope believed
against hope, to the end that he might become
a father of many nations, according to that
which had been spoken, "So will your
seed be." 4:19Without being weakened in faith, he didn't
consider his own body, already having been
worn out, (he being about a hundred years
old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
4:20Yet, looking to the promise of God, he
didn't waver through unbelief, but grew
strong through faith, giving glory to God,
4:21and being fully assured that what he
had promised, he was able also to perform.
4:22Therefore it also
was "reckoned to him for righteousness."
4:23Now it was not written that it was accounted
to him for his sake alone, 4:24but for our sake
also, to whom it will be accounted, who
believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord,
from the dead, 4:25who was delivered
up for our trespasses, and was raised for
our justification.
5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ; 5:2through whom we also have our access by
faith into this grace in which we stand.
We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
5:3Not only this, but we also rejoice in
our sufferings, knowing that suffering works
perseverance; 5:4and perseverance, proven character; and
proven character, hope: 5:5and hope doesn't
disappoint us, because God's love has been
poured out into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit who was given to us. 5:6For while we were
yet weak, at the right time Christ died
for the ungodly. 5:7For one will hardly die for a righteous
man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person
someone would even dare to die. 5:8But God commends his own love toward us,
in that while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us.
5:9Much more then, being now justified by
his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath
through him. 5:10For if, while we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God through the death of his
Son, much more, being reconciled, we will
be saved by his life.
5:11Not only so, but we also rejoice in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom
we have now received the reconciliation.
5:12Therefore, as sin entered into the world
through one man, and death through sin;
and so death passed to all men, because
all sinned. 5:13For until the law, sin was in the world;
but sin is not charged when there is no
law. 5:14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam
until Moses, even over those whose sins
weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is
a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
5:15But the free gift isn't like the trespass.
For if by the trespass of the one the many
died, much more did the grace of God, and
the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus
Christ, abound to the many. 5:16The gift is not as through one who sinned:
for the judgment came by one to condemnation,
but the free gift came of many trespasses
to justification. 5:17For if by the trespass
of the one, death reigned through the one;
so much more will those who receive the
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
5:18So then as through
one trespass, all men were condemned; even
so through one act of righteousness, all
men were justified to life. 5:19For as through
the one man's disobedience many were made
sinners, even so through the obedience of
the one will many be made righteous. 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass
might abound; but where sin abounded, grace
did abound more exceedingly; 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so
might grace reign through righteousness
to eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
6:1What shall we say then? Shall we continue
in sin, that grace may abound? 6:2May it never be!
We who died to sin, how could we live in
it any longer? 6:3Or don't you know that all we who were
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized
into his death? 6:4We were buried therefore with him through
baptism to death, that just like Christ
was raised from the dead through the glory
of the Father, so we also might walk in
newness of life. 6:5For if we have become united with him
in the likeness of his death, we will also
be part of his resurrection; 6:6knowing this, that our old man was crucified
with him, that the body of sin might be
done away with, so that we would no longer
be in bondage to sin. 6:7For he who has died
has been freed from sin. 6:8But if we died with
Christ, we believe that we will also live
with him; 6:9knowing that Christ, being raised from
the dead, dies no more. Death no more has
dominion over him! 6:10For the death that he died, he died to
sin one time; but the life that he lives,
he lives to God. 6:11Thus also consider yourselves also to
be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
6:12Therefore don't let sin reign in your
mortal body, that you should obey it in
its lusts. 6:13Neither present your members to sin as
instruments of unrighteousness, but present
yourselves to God, as alive from the dead,
and your members as instruments of righteousness
to God. 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you.
For you are not under law, but under grace.
6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are
not under law, but under grace? May it never
be! 6:16Don't you know that to whom you present
yourselves as servants to obedience, his
servants you are whom you obey; whether
of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
6:17But thanks be to God, that, whereas you
were bondservants of sin, you became obedient
from the heart to that form of teaching
whereunto you were delivered. 6:18Being made free from sin, you became
bondservants of righteousness.
6:19I speak in human terms because of the
weakness of your flesh, for as you presented
your members as servants to uncleanness
and to wickedness upon wickedness, even
so now present your members as servants
to righteousness for sanctification. 6:20For when you were servants of sin, you
were free in regard to righteousness. 6:21What fruit then
did you have at that time in the things
of which you are now ashamed? For the end
of those things is death. 6:22But now, being
made free from sin, and having become servants
of God, you have your fruit of sanctification,
and the result of eternal life. 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the
free gift of God is eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
7:1Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has
dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
7:2For the woman that
has a husband is bound by law to the husband
while he lives, but if the husband dies,
she is discharged from the law of the husband.
7:3So then if, while the husband lives, she
is joined to another man, she would be called
an adulteress. But if the husband dies,
she is free from the law, so that she is
no adulteress, though she is joined to another
man. 7:4Therefore, my brothers,
you also were made dead to the law through
the body of Christ, that you would be joined
to another, to him who was raised from the
dead, that we might bring forth fruit to
God. 7:5For when we were
in the flesh, the sinful passions which
were through the law, worked in our members
to bring forth fruit to death. 7:6But now we have
been discharged from the law, having died
to that in which we were held; so that we
serve in newness of the spirit, and not
in oldness of the letter.
7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin?
May it never be! However, I wouldn't have
known sin, except through the law. For I
wouldn't have known coveting, unless the
law had said, "You shall not covet."
7:8But sin, finding
occasion through the commandment, produced
in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from
the law, sin is dead. 7:9I was alive apart
from the law once, but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died. 7:10The commandment, which was for life,
this I found to be for death; 7:11for sin, finding
occasion through the commandment, deceived
me, and through it killed me. 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and
the commandment holy, and righteous, and
good.
7:13Did then that which is good become death
to me? May it never be! But sin, that it
might be shown to be sin, by working death
to me through that which is good; that through
the commandment sin might become exceeding
sinful. 7:14For we know that
the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly,
sold under sin. 7:15For I don't know what I am doing. For
I don't practice what I desire to do; but
what I hate, that I do. 7:16But if what I don't desire, that I do,
I consent to the law that it is good. 7:17So now it is no
more I that do it, but sin which dwells
in me. 7:18For I know that
in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good
thing. For desire is present with me, but
I don't find it doing that which is good.
7:19For the good which I desire, I don't
do; but the evil which I don't desire, that
I practice. 7:20But if what I don't desire, that I do,
it is no more I that do it, but sin which
dwells in me. 7:21I find then the law, that, to me, while
I desire to do good, evil is present. 7:22For I delight in
God's law after the inward man, 7:23but I see a different
law in my members, warring against the law
of my mind, and bringing me into captivity
under the law of sin which is in my members.
7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver
me out of the body of this death? 7:25I thank God through
Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the
mind, I myself serve God's law, but with
the flesh, the sin's law.
8:1There is therefore now no condemnation
to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't
walk according to the flesh, but according
to the Spirit. 8:2For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free
from the law of sin and of death. 8:3For what the law couldn't do, in that
it was weak through the flesh, God did,
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the
flesh; 8:4that the ordinance of the law might be
fulfilled in us, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit. 8:5For those who live according to the flesh
set their minds on the things of the flesh,
but those who live according to the Spirit,
the things of the Spirit. 8:6For the mind of
the flesh is death, but the mind of the
Spirit is life and peace; 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile
towards God; for it is not subject to God's
law, neither indeed can it be. 8:8Those who are in the flesh can't please
God. 8:9But you are not in the flesh but in the
Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God
dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have
the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. 8:10If Christ is in you, the body is dead
because of sin, but the spirit is alive
because of righteousness. 8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised up
Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who
raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will
also give life to your mortal bodies through
his Spirit who dwells in you. 8:12So then, brothers, we are debtors, not
to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 8:13For if you live
after the flesh, you must die; but if by
the Spirit you put to death the deeds of
the body, you will live. 8:14For as many as
are led by the Spirit of God, these are
children of God. 8:15For you didn't receive the spirit of
bondage again to fear, but you received
the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,
"Abba! Father!"
8:16The Spirit himself testifies with our
spirit that we are children of God; 8:17and if children,
then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs
with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him,
that we may also be glorified with him.
8:18For I consider that the sufferings of
this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which will be revealed toward
us. 8:19For the creation
waits with eager expectation for the children
of God to be revealed. 8:20For the creation was subjected to vanity,
not of its own will, but because of him
who subjected it, in hope 8:21that the creation itself also will be
delivered from the bondage of decay into
the liberty of the glory of the children
of God. 8:22For we know that the whole creation groans
and travails in pain together until now.
8:23Not only so, but ourselves also, who
have the first fruits of the Spirit, even
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
for adoption, the redemption of our body.
8:24For we were saved in hope, but hope that
is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that
which he sees? 8:25But if we hope for that which we don't
see, we wait for it with patience. 8:26In the same way,
the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for
we don't know how to pray as we ought. But
the Spirit himself makes intercession for
us with groanings which can't be uttered.
8:27He who searches
the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's
mind, because he makes intercession for
the saints according to God.
8:28We know that all things work together
for good for those who love God, to those
who are called according to his purpose.
8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined
to be conformed to the image of his Son,
that he might be the firstborn among many
brothers. 8:30Whom he predestined,
those he also called. Whom he called, those
he also justified. Whom he justified, those
he also glorified.
8:31What then shall we say about these things?
If God is for us, who can be against us?
8:32He who didn't spare his own Son, but
delivered him up for us all, how would he
not also with him freely give us all things?
8:33Who could bring a charge against God's
chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 8:34Who is he who condemns?
It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was
raised from the dead, who is at the right
hand of God, who also makes intercession
for us.
8:35Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? 8:36Even as it is written,
"For your sake we are killed all day
long. We were accounted as sheep for the
slaughter." 8:37No, in all these
things, we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us. 8:38For I am persuaded, that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers, 8:39nor height, nor depth, nor any other
created thing, will be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
9:1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying,
my conscience testifying with me in the
Holy Spirit, 9:2that I have great sorrow and unceasing
pain in my heart. 9:3For I could wish that I myself were accursed
from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives
according to the flesh, 9:4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption,
the glory, the covenants, the giving of
the law, the service, and the promises;
9:5of whom are the fathers, and from whom
is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is
over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
9:6But it is not as though the word of God
has come to nothing. For they are not all
Israel, that are of Israel. 9:7Neither, because they are Abraham's seed,
are they all children. But, "In Isaac
will your seed be called." 9:8That is, it is not the children of the
flesh who are children of God, but the children
of the promise are counted as a seed. 9:9For this is a word of promise, "At
the appointed time I will come, and Sarah
will have a son." 9:10Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived
by one, by our father Isaac. 9:11For being not yet
born, neither having done anything good
or bad, that the purpose of God according
to election might stand, not of works, but
of him who calls, 9:12it was said to her, "The elder will
serve the younger." 9:13Even as it is written,
"Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
9:14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness
with God? May it never be! 9:15For he said to
Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I
have mercy, and I will have compassion on
whom I have compassion." 9:16So then it is not
of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but
of God who has mercy. 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For
this very purpose I caused you to be raised
up, that I might show in you my power, and
that my name might be published abroad in
all the earth." 9:18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires,
and he hardens whom he desires. 9:19You will say then
to me, "Why does he still find fault?
For who withstands his will?" 9:20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply
against God? Will the thing formed ask him
who formed it, "Why did you make me
like this?" 9:21Or hasn't the potter
a right over the clay, from the same lump
to make one part a vessel for honor, and
another for dishonor? 9:22What if God, willing
to show his wrath, and to make his power
known, endured with much patience vessels
of wrath made for destruction, 9:23and that he might
make known the riches of his glory on vessels
of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for
glory, 9:24us, whom he also called, not from the
Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? 9:25As he says also
in Hosea,
"I will call them 'my people,'
which were not my people;
And
her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
9:26"It will be that in the place where
it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
There
they will be called 'children of the living
God.'"
9:27Isaiah cries concerning Israel,
"If the number of the children
of Israel are as the sand of the sea,
It is
the remnant who will be saved;
9:28For He will finish the work and cut it
short in righteousness,
Because
the LORD will make a short work upon the
earth."
9:29As Isaiah has said before,
"Unless the Lord of Hosts
had left us a seed,
We would
have become like Sodom,
And
would have been made like Gomorrah."
9:30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles,
who didn't follow after righteousness, attained
to righteousness, even the righteousness
which is of faith; 9:31but Israel, following after a law of
righteousness, didn't arrive at the law
of righteousness. 9:32Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith,
but as it were by works of the law. They
stumbled over the stumbling stone; 9:33even as it is written,
"Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling
stone and a rock of offense;
And
no one who believes in him will be disappointed."
10:1Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer
to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
10:2For I testify about them that they have
a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
10:3For being ignorant of God's righteousness,
and seeking to establish their own righteousness,
they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness
of God. 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
10:5For Moses writes about the righteousness
of the law, "The one who does them
will live by them." 10:6But the righteousness which is of faith
says this, "Don't say in your heart,
'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is,
to bring Christ down); 10:7or, 'Who will descend
into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ
up from the dead.)" 10:8But what does it say? "The word
is near you, in your mouth, and in your
heart;" that is, the word of faith,
which we preach: 10:9that if you will
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus,
and believe in your heart that God raised
him from the dead, you will be saved. 10:10For with the heart, one believes unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation. 10:11For the Scripture says, "Whoever
believes in him will not be disappointed."
10:12For there is no distinction between
Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord
of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
10:13For, "Whoever will call on the
name of the Lord will be saved." 10:14How then will
they call on him in whom they have not believed?
How will they believe in him whom they have
not heard? How will they hear without a
preacher? 10:15And how will they preach unless they
are sent? As it is written:
"How beautiful are the feet
of those who preach the Gospel of peace,
Who
bring glad tidings of good things!"
10:16But they didn't all listen to the glad
news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has
believed our report?" 10:17So faith comes by hearing, and hearing
by the word of God. 10:18But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most
assuredly,
"Their sound went out into
all the earth,
Their
words to the ends of the world."
10:19But I ask, didn't Israel know? First
Moses says,
"I will provoke you to jealousy
with that which is no nation,
With
a nation void of understanding I will make
you angry."
10:20Isaiah is very bold, and says,
"I was found by those who didn't
seek me.
I was
revealed to those who didn't ask for me."
10:21But as to Israel he says, "All
day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient
and contrary people."
11:1I ask then, Did God reject his people?
May it never be! For I also am an Israelite,
a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin. 11:2God didn't reject
his people, which he foreknew. Or don't
you know what the Scripture says about Elijah?
How he pleads with God against Israel: 11:3"Lord, they have killed your prophets,
they have broken down your altars; and I
am left alone, and they seek my life."
11:4But how does God answer him? "I
have reserved for myself seven thousand
men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
11:5Even so then at this present time also
there is a remnant according to the election
of grace. 11:6And if by grace, then it is no longer
of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.
But if it is of works, it is no longer grace;
otherwise work is no longer work.
11:7What then? That which Israel seeks for,
that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones
obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
11:8According 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."
11:9David says,
"Let their table be made a
snare, and a trap,
A stumbling
block, and a retribution to them.
11:10Let their eyes be darkened, that they
may not see.
Bow
down their back always."
11:11I ask then, did they stumble that they
might fall? May it never be! But by their
fall salvation has come to the Gentiles,
to provoke them to jealousy. 11:12Now if their fall
is the riches of the world, and their loss
the riches of the Gentiles; how much more
their fullness? 11:13For I speak to
you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am
an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
11:14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy
those who are my flesh, and may save some
of them. 11:15For if the rejection of them is the
reconciling of the world, what would their
acceptance be, but life from the dead? 11:16If the first fruit is holy, so is the
lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:17But if some of the branches were broken
off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted
in among them, and became partaker with
them of the root and of the richness of
the olive tree; 11:18don't boast over the branches. But if
you boast, it is not you who support the
root, but the root supports you. 11:19You will say then, "Branches were
broken off, that I might be grafted in."
11:20True; by their unbelief they were broken
off, and you stand by your faith. Don't
be conceited, but fear; 11:21for if God didn't spare the natural
branches, neither will he spare you. 11:22See then the goodness
and severity of God. Toward those who fell,
severity; but toward you, goodness, if you
continue in his goodness; otherwise you
also will be cut off. 11:23They also, if they don't continue in
their unbelief, will be grafted in, for
God is able to graft them in again. 11:24For if you were cut out of that which
is by nature a wild olive tree, and were
grafted contrary to nature into a good olive
tree, how much more will these, which are
the natural branches, be grafted into their
own olive tree? 11:25For I don't desire,
brothers, to have you
ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't
be wise in your own conceits, that a partial
hardening has happened to Israel, until
the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
11:26and so all Israel will be saved. Even
as it is written,
"There will come out of Zion
the Deliverer,
And
he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
11:27This is my covenant to them,
When
I will take away their sins."
11:28Concerning the Gospel, they are enemies
for your sake. But concerning the election,
they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
11:29For the gifts and the calling of God
are irrevocable. 11:30For as you in time past were disobedient
to God, but now have obtained mercy by their
disobedience, 11:31even so these also have now been disobedient,
that by the mercy shown to you they may
also obtain mercy. 11:32For God has shut up all to disobedience,
that he might have mercy on all.
11:33Oh the depth of
the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge
of God! How unsearchable are his judgments,
and his ways past tracing 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 will be repaid to him again?"
11:36For of him, and through him, and to
him, are all things. To him be the glory
for ever! Amen.
12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the
mercies of God, to present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
which is your spiritual service. 12:2Don't be conformed
to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, so that you may prove
what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect
will of God. 12:3For I say, through the grace that was
given me, to every man who is among you,
not to think of himself more highly than
he ought to think; but to think reasonably,
as God has apportioned to each person a
measure of faith. 12:4For even as we
have many members in one body, and all the
members don't have the same function, 12:5so we, who are many, are one body in
Christ, and individually members one of
another. 12:6Having gifts differing
according to the grace that was given to
us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according
to the proportion of our faith; 12:7or service, let us give ourselves to
service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
12:8or he who exhorts,
to his exhorting: he who gives, let him
do it with liberality; he who rules, with
diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor
that which is evil. Cling to that which
is good. 12:10In love of the brothers be tenderly
affectionate one to another; in honor preferring
one another; 12:11not lagging in diligence; fervent in
spirit; serving the Lord; 12:12rejoicing in hope;
enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly
in prayer; 12:13contributing to the needs of the saints;
given to hospitality. 12:14Bless those who persecute you; bless,
and don't curse. 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep
with those who weep. 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another.
Don't set your mind on high things, but
associate with the humble. Don't be wise
in your own conceits. 12:17Repay no one evil
for evil. Respect what is honorable in the
sight of all men. 12:18If it is possible, as much as it is
up to you, be at peace with all men. 12:19Don't seek revenge
yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's
wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance
belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."
12:20Therefore
"If your enemy is hungry, feed
him.
If he
is thirsty, give him a drink.
For
in doing so, you will heap coals of fire
on his head."
12:21Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome
evil with good.
13:1Let every soul be in subjection to the
higher authorities, for there is no authority
except from God, and those who exist are
ordained by God. 13:2Therefore he who
resists the authority, withstands the ordinance
of God; and those who withstand will receive
to themselves judgment. 13:3For rulers are
not a terror to the good work, but to the
evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the
authority? Do that which is good, and you
will have praise from the same, 13:4for he is a servant of God to you for
good. But if you do that which is evil,
be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword
in vain; for he is a minister of God, an
avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
13:5Therefore you need to be in subjection,
not only because of the wrath, but also
for conscience' sake. 13:6For this reason you also pay taxes, for
they are ministers of God's service, attending
continually on this very thing. 13:7Give therefore to everyone what you owe:
taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to
whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor
to whom honor. 13:8Owe no one anything,
except to love one another; for he who loves
his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
13:9For the commandments, "You shall
not commit adultery," "You shall
not murder," "You shall not steal,"
"You shall not give false testimony,"
"You shall not covet,"* and
whatever other commandments there are, are
all summed up in this saying, namely, "You
shall love your neighbor as yourself."
13:10Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore
is the fulfillment of the law. 13:11Do this, knowing
the time, that it is already time for you
to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is
now nearer to us than when we first believed.
13:12The night is far gone, and the day is
near. Let's therefore throw off the works
of darkness, and let's put on the armor
of light. 13:13Let us walk properly, as in the day;
not in reveling and drunkenness, not in
sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and
not in strife and jealousy. 13:14But put on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision
for the flesh, for its lusts.
14:1Now receive one who is weak in faith,
but not for disputes over opinions. 14:2One man has faith
to eat all things, but he who is weak eats
only vegetables. 14:3Don't let him who eats despise him who
doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat
judge him who eats, for God has received
him. 14:4Who are you who judge another's servant?
To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes,
he will be made to stand, for God has power
to make him stand.
14:5One man esteems one day as more important.
Another esteems every day alike. Let each
man be fully assured in his own mind. 14:6He who observes the day, observes it
to the Lord; and he who does not observe
the day, to the Lord he does not observe
it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he
gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to
the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
14:7For none of us lives to himself, and
none dies to himself. 14:8For if we live, we live to the Lord.
Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore
we live or die, we are the Lord's. 14:9For to this end Christ died, rose, and
lived again, that he might be Lord of both
the dead and the living.
14:10But you, why do you judge your brother?
Or you again, why do you despise your brother?
For we will all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ. 14:11For it is written,
"'As I live,' says the Lord,
'to me every knee will bow.
Every
tongue will confess to God.'"
14:12So then each one of us will give account
of himself to God. 14:13Therefore let's not judge one another
any more, but judge this rather, that no
man put a stumbling block in his brother's
way, or an occasion for falling. 14:14I know, and am
persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing
is unclean of itself; except that to him
who considers anything to be unclean, to
him it is unclean. 14:15Yet if because of food your brother
is grieved, you walk no longer in love.
Don't destroy with your food him for whom
Christ died. 14:16Then don't let
your good be slandered, 14:17for the Kingdom of God is not eating
and drinking, but righteousness, peace,
and joy in the Holy Spirit. 14:18For he who serves Christ in these things
is acceptable to God and approved by men.
14:19So then, let us follow after things
which make for peace, and things by which
we may build one another up. 14:20Don't overthrow God's work for food's
sake. All things indeed are clean, however
it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling
block by eating. 14:21It is good to
not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything
by which your brother stumbles, is offended,
or is made weak.
14:22Do you have faith? Have it to yourself
before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge
himself in that which he approves. 14:23But he who doubts is condemned if he
eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever
is not of faith is sin.
14:24Now to him who is able to establish
you according to my Gospel and the preaching
of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation
of the mystery which has been kept secret
through long ages, 14:25but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures
of the prophets, according to the commandment
of the eternal God, is made known for obedience
of faith to all the nations; 14:26to the only wise God, through Jesus
Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.
15:1Now we who are strong ought to bear the
weaknesses of the weak, and not to please
ourselves. 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor
for that which is good, to be building him
up. 15:3For even Christ didn't please himself.
But, as it is written, "The reproaches
of those who reproached you fell on me."
15:4For whatever things
were written before were written for our
learning, that through patience and through
encouragement of the Scriptures we might
have hope. 15:5Now the God of patience and of encouragement
grant you to be of the same mind one with
another according to Christ Jesus, 15:6that with one accord you may with one
mouth glorify the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
15:7Therefore receive one another, even as
Christ also received you,
to the glory of God. 15:8Now I say that Christ has been made a
minister of the circumcision for the truth
of God, that he might confirm the promises
given to the fathers, 15:9and that the Gentiles
might glorify God for his mercy. As it is
written,
"Therefore will I give praise
to you among the Gentiles,
And
sing to your name."
15:10Again he says,
"Rejoice, you Gentiles, with
his people."
15:11Again,
"Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles!
Let
all the peoples praise him."
15:12Again, Isaiah says,
"There will be the root of
Jesse,
He who
arises to rule over the Gentiles;
On him
will the Gentiles hope."
15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace in believing, that you
may abound in hope, in the power of the
Holy Spirit. 15:14I myself am also persuaded about you,
my brothers, that you
yourselves are full of goodness, filled
with all knowledge, able also to admonish
others. 15:15But I write the more boldly to you in
part, as reminding you, because of the grace
that was given to me by God, 15:16that I should be a servant of Christ
Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a
priest the Gospel of God, that the offering
up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable,
sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 15:17I have therefore my boasting in Christ
Jesus in things pertaining to God. 15:18For I will not
dare to speak of any things except those
which Christ worked through me, for the
obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in
the power of God's Spirit; so that from
Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum,
I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ;
15:20yes, making it my aim to preach the
Gospel, not where Christ was already named,
that I might not build on another's foundation.
15:21But, as it is written,
"They will see, to whom no
news of him came.
They
who haven't heard will understand."
15:22Therefore also I was hindered these
many times from coming to you, 15:23but now, no longer
having any place in these regions, and having
these many years a longing to come to you,
15:24whenever I journey to Spain, I will
come to you. For I hope to see you on my
journey, and to be helped on my way there
by you, if first I may enjoy your company
for a while. 15:25But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem,
serving the saints. 15:26For it has been
the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia
to make a certain contribution for the poor
among the saints who are at Jerusalem. 15:27Yes, it has been their good pleasure,
and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles
have been made partakers of their spiritual
things, they owe it to them also to serve
them in fleshly things. 15:28When therefore I have accomplished this,
and have sealed to them this fruit, I will
go on by way of you to Spain. 15:29I know that, when I come to you, I will
come in the fullness of the blessing of
the Gospel of Christ.
15:30Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord
Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit,
that you strive together with me in your
prayers to God for me, 15:31that I may be
delivered from those who are disobedient
in Judea, and that my service which I have
for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;
15:32that I may come to you in joy through
the will of God, and together with you,
find rest. 15:33Now the God of peace be with you all.
Amen.
16:1I commend to you Phoebe, our sister,
who is a servant of the
assembly that is at Cenchreae, 16:2that you receive her in the Lord, in
a way worthy of the saints, and that you
assist her in whatever matter she may need
from you, for she herself also has been
a helper of many, and of my own self.
16:3Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers
in Christ Jesus, 16:4who for my life,
laid down their own necks; to whom not only
I give thanks, but also all the assemblies
of the Gentiles. 16:5Greet the assembly
that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus,
my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia
to Christ. 16:6Greet Mary, who
labored much for us. 16:7Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives
and my fellow prisoners, who are notable
among the apostles, who also were in Christ
before me. 16:8Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.
16:9Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ,
and Stachys, my beloved. 16:10Greet Apelles,
the approved in Christ. Greet those who
are of the household of Aristobulus. 16:11Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them
of the household of Narcissus, who are in
the Lord. 16:12Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor
in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved,
who labored much in the Lord. 16:13Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord,
and his mother and mine. 16:14Greet Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the
brothers who are with them. 16:15Greet Philologus
and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas,
and all the saints who are with them. 16:16Greet one another with a holy kiss.
The assemblies of Christ greet you.
16:17Now I beg you, brothers, look out for
those who are causing the divisions and
occasions of stumbling, contrary to the
doctrine which you learned, and turn away
from them. 16:18For those who are such don't serve our
Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly;
and by their smooth and flattering speech,
they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
16:19For your obedience has become known
to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But
I desire to have you wise in that which
is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
16:20And the God of peace will quickly crush
Satan under your feet. The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
16:21Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you,
as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
16:22I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet
you in the Lord. 16:23Gaius, my host
and host of the whole assembly, greets you.
Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets
you, as does Quartus, the brother. 16:24The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen.16:25*
Notes:
[1] back
to 3:25 or, a propitiation
[2] back
to 7:1 The word for "brothers"
here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and
sisters" or "siblings."
[3] back
to 8:15 Abba is a Chaldee word for father
or daddy, often used affectionately and
respectfully in prayer to our Father in
heaven.
[4] back to 8:29 The word for "brothers"
here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and
sisters" or "siblings."
[5] back to 9:29 Greek: Sabaoth
[6] back to 10:4 or, completion, or end
[7] back
to 11:25 The word for "brothers"
here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and
sisters" or "siblings."
[8] back
to 13:9 TR adds "You shall not
give false testimony,"
[9] back to 14:26 TR places verses 24-26 after
Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27.
[10] back to 15:7 TR reads "us" instead of "you"
[11] back
to 15:14 The word for "brothers"
here and where context allows may also be
correctly translated "brothers and
sisters" or "siblings."
[12] back
to 16:1 literally, deacon
[13] back to 16:14 The word for "brothers" here and where
context allows may also be correctly translated
"brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
[14] back to 16:25 TR places Romans 14:24-26 at the end of Romans
instead of at the end of chapter 14, and
numbers these verses 16:25-27.
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