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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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11 Paul a servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle

separated unto the gospel of God .

12 Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy

scriptures .

13 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord which was made of

the seed of David according to the flesh .

14 And declared to be the Son of God with power according to

the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead .

15 By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience

to the faith among all nations for his name .

16 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ .

17 To all that be in Rome beloved of God called to be saints

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus

Christ .

18 First I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that

your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world .

19 For God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the

gospel of his Son that without ceasing I make mention of you

always in my prayers .

110 Making request if by any means now at length I might have a

prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you .

111 For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some

spiritual gift to the end ye may be established .

112 That is that I may be comforted together with you by the

mutual faith both of you and me .

113 Now I would not have you ignorant brethren that oftentimes

I purposed to come unto you but was let hitherto that I might

have some fruit among you also even as among other Gentiles .

114 I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians both

to the wise and to the unwise .

115 So as much as in me is I am ready to preach the gospel to

you that are at Rome also .

116 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the

power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth to the

Jew first and also to the Greek .

117 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith

to faith as it is written The just shall live by faith .

118 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all

ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in

unrighteousness .

119 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them

for God hath shewed it unto them .

120 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the

world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are

made even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without

excuse .

121 Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as

God neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations

and their foolish heart was darkened .

122 Professing themselves to be wise they became fools .

123 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an

image made like to corruptible man and to birds and fourfooted

beasts and creeping things .

124 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the

lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies between

themselves .

125 Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and

served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed for

ever Amen .

126 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections for

even their women did change the natural use into that which is

against nature .

127 And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the

woman burned in their lust one toward another men with men

working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that

recompence of their error which was meet .

128 And even as they did not like to retain God in their

knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those

things which are not convenient .

129 Being filled with all unrighteousness fornication

wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate

deceit malignity whisperers .

130 Backbiters haters of God despiteful proud boasters

inventors of evil things disobedient to parents .

131 Without understanding covenantbreakers without natural

affection implacable unmerciful .

132 Who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such

things are worthy of death not only do the same but have

pleasure in them that do them .

* 21 Therefore thou art inexcusable O man whosoever thou art

that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest

thyself for thou that judgest doest the same things .

22 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to

truth against them which commit such things .

23 And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them which do such

things and doest the same that thou shalt escape the judgment of

God .

24 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance

and longsuffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth

thee to repentance .

25 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up

unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of

the righteous judgment of God .

26 Who will render to every man according to his deeds .

27 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for

glory and honour and immortality eternal life .

28 But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth

but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath .

29 Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth

evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile .

210 But glory honour and peace to every man that worketh good

to the Jew first and also to the Gentile .

211 For there is no respect of persons with God .

212 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish

without law and as many as have sinned in the law shall be

judged by the law .

213 For not the hearers of the law are just before God but the

doers of the law shall be justified .

214 For when the Gentiles which have not the law do by nature

the things contained in the law these having not the law are a

law unto themselves .

215 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts

their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts the

mean while accusing or else excusing one another .

216 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus

Christ according to my gospel .

217 Behold thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and

makest thy boast of God .

218 And knowest his will and approvest the things that are more

excellent being instructed out of the law .

219 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the

blind a light of them which are in darkness .

220 An instructor of the foolish a teacher of babes which hast

the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law .

221 Thou therefore which teachest another teachest thou not

thyself thou that preachest a man should not steal dost thou

steal .

222 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou

commit adultery thou that abhorrest idols dost thou commit

sacrilege .

223 Thou that makest thy boast of the law through breaking the

law dishonourest thou God .

224 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles

through you as it is written .

225 For circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the law but

if thou be a breaker of the law thy circumcision is made

uncircumcision .

226 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of

the law shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision

227 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature if it

fulfil the law judge thee who by the letter and circumcision

dost transgress the law .

228 For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that

circumcision which is outward in the flesh .

229 But he is a Jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is

that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose

praise is not of men but of God .

* 31 What advantage then hath the Jew or what profit is there

of circumcision .

32 Much every way chiefly because that unto them were committed

the oracles of God .

33 For what if some did not believe shall their unbelief make

the faith of God without effect .

34 God forbid yea let God be true but every man a liar as it is

written That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and

mightest overcome when thou art judged .

35 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God

what shall we say Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance I

speak as a man .

36 God forbid for then how shall God judge the world .

37 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie

unto his glory why yet am I also judged as a sinner .

38 And not rather as we be slanderously reported and as some

affirm that we say Let us do evil that good may come whose

damnation is just .

39 What then are we better than they No in no wise for we have

before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin

310 As it is written There is none righteous no not one .

311 There is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh

after God .

312 They are all gone out of the way they are together become

unprofitable there is none that doeth good no not one .

313 Their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues they

have used deceit the poison of asps is under their lips .

314 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness .

315 Their feet are swift to shed blood .

316 Destruction and misery are in their ways .

317 And the way of peace have they not known .

318 There is no fear of God before their eyes .

319 Now we know that what things soever the law saith it saith

to them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped

and all the world may become guilty before God .

320 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be

justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin .

321 But now the righteousness of God without the law is

manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets .

322 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus

Christ unto all and upon all them that believe for there is no

difference .

323 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God .

324 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption

that is in Christ Jesus .

325 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith

in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of

sins that are past through the forbearance of God .

326 To declare I say at this time his righteousness that he

might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus .

327 Where is boasting then It is excluded By what law of works

Nay but by the law of faith .

328 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith

without the deeds of the law .

329 Is he the God of the Jews only is he not also of the

Gentiles Yes of the Gentiles also .

330 Seeing it is one God which shall justify the circumcision

by faith and uncircumcision through faith .

331 Do we then make void the law through faith God forbid yea

we establish the law .

* 41 What shall we say then that Abraham our father as

pertaining to the flesh hath found .

42 For if Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to

glory but not before God .

43 For what saith the scripture Abraham believed God and it was

counted unto him for righteousness .

44 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace

but of debt .

45 But to him that worketh not but believeth on him that

justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness .

46 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man

unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works .

47 Saying Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and

whose sins are covered .

48 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin .

49 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only or

upon the uncircumcision also for we say that faith was reckoned

to Abraham for righteousness .

410 How was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision or in

uncircumcision Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision .

411 And he received the sign of circumcision a seal of the

righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised

that he might be the father of all them that believe though they

be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them

also might be imputed unto them also .

412 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the

circumcision only but who also walk in the steps of that faith

of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised .

413 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was

not to Abraham or to his seed through the law but through the

righteousness of faith .

414 For if they which are of the law be heirs faith is made

void and the promise made of none effect .

415 Because the law worketh wrath for where no law is there is

no transgression .

416 Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the

end the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that only

which is of the law but to that also which is of the faith of

Abraham who is the father of us all .

417 As it is written I have made thee a father of many nations

before him whom he believed even God who quickeneth the dead and

calleth those things which be not as though they were .

418 Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the

father of many nations according to that which was spoken So

shall thy seed be .

419 And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body

now dead when he was about an hundred years old neither yet the

deadness of Sarah's womb .

420 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but

was strong in faith giving glory to God .

421 And being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was

able also to perform .

422 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness .

423 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was

imputed to him .

424 But for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe

on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead .

425 Who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for

our justification .

* 51 Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ .

52 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein

we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God .

53 And not only so but we glory in tribulations also knowing

that tribulation worketh patience .

54 And patience experience and experience hope .

55 And hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed

abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us .

56 For when we were yet without strength in due time Christ

died for the ungodly .

57 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet

peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die .

58 But God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were

yet sinners Christ died for us .

59 Much more then being now justified by his blood we shall be

saved from wrath through him .

510 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 .

511 And not only so but we also joy in God through our Lord

Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement .

512 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and

death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have

sinned .

513 For until the law sin was in the world but sin is not

imputed when there is no law .

514 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses even over

them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's

transgression who is the figure of him that was to come .

515 But not as the offence so also is the free gift For if

through the offence of one many be dead much more the grace of

God and the gift by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ hath

abounded unto many .

516 And not as it was by one that sinned so is the gift for the

judgment was by one to condemnation but the free gift is of many

offences unto justification .

517 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one much more

they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of

righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ .

518 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all

men to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one the free

gift came upon all men unto justification of life .

519 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so

by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous .

520 Moreover the law entered that the offence might abound But

where sin abounded grace did much more abound .

521 That as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace

reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ

our Lord .

* 61 What shall we say then Shall we continue in sin that grace

may abound .

62 God forbid How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer

therein .

63 Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus

Christ were baptized into his death .

64 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that

like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the

Father even so we also should walk in newness of life .

65 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his

death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection .

66 Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the

body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not

serve sin .

67 For he that is dead is freed from sin .

68 Now if we be dead with Christ we believe that we shall also

live with him .

69 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more

death hath no more dominion over him .

610 For in that he died he died unto sin once but in that he

liveth he liveth unto God .

611 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto

sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord .

612 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that ye

should obey it in the lusts thereof .

613 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of

unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves unto God as those

that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of

righteousness unto God .

614 For sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not

under the law but under grace .

615 What then shall we sin because we are not under the law but

under grace God forbid .

616 Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to

obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto

death or of obedience unto righteousness .

617 But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin but ye

have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was

delivered you .

618 Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of

righteousness .

619 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of

your flesh for as ye have yielded your members servants to

uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yield your

members servants to righteousness unto holiness .

620 For when ye were the servants of sin ye were free from

righteousness .

621 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now

ashamed for the end of those things is death .

622 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God

ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life .

623 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is

eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord .

* 71 Know ye not brethren for I speak to them that know the law

how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth .

72 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to

her husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be dead she

is loosed from the law of her husband .

73 So then if while her husband liveth she be married to

another man she shall be called an adulteress but if her husband

be dead she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress

though she be married to another man .

74 Wherefore my brethren ye also are become dead to the law by

the body of Christ that ye should be married to another even to

him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit

unto God .

75 For when we were in the flesh the motions of sins which were

by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto

death .

76 But now we are delivered from the law that being dead

wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit

and not in the oldness of the letter .

77 What shall we say then is the law sin God forbid Nay I had

not known sin but by the law for I had not known lust except the

law had said Thou shalt not covet .

78 But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all

manner of concupiscence For without the law sin was dead .

79 For I was alive without the law once but when the

commandment came sin revived and I died .

710 And the commandment which was ordained to life I found to

be unto death .

711 For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and

by it slew me .

712 Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just

and good .

713 Was then that which is good made death unto me God forbid

But sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that

which is good that sin by the commandment might become exceeding

sinful .

714 For we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal sold

under sin .

715 For that which I do I allow not for what I would that do I

not but what I hate that do I .

716 If then I do that which I would not I consent unto the law

that it is good .

717 Now then it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth

in me .

718 For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good

thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that

which is good I find not .

719 For the good that I would I do not but the evil which I

would not that I do .

720 Now if I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but

sin that dwelleth in me .

721 I find then a law that when I would do good evil is present

with me .

722 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man .

723 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 .

724 O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body

of this death .

725 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord So then with the

mind I myself serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of

sin .

* 81 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are

in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the

Spirit .

82 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made

me free from the law of sin and death .

83 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 .

84 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us

who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit .

85 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the

flesh but they that are after the Spirit the things of the

Spirit .

86 For to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually

minded is life and peace .

87 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not

subject to the law of God neither indeed can be .

88 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God .

89 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if so be that

the Spirit of God dwell in you Now if any man have not the

Spirit of Christ he is none of his .

810 And if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but

the Spirit is life because of righteousness .

811 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead

dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also

quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you .

812 Therefore brethren we are debtors not to the flesh to live

after the flesh .

813 For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die but if ye

through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall

live .

814 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the

sons of God .

815 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to

fear but ye have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry

Abba Father .

816 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we

are the children of God .

817 And if children then heirs heirs of God and joint-heirs

with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also

glorified together .

818 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are

not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed

in us .

819 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the

manifestation of the sons of God .

820 For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly

but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope .

821 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from

the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the

children of God .

822 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth

in pain together until now .

823 And not only they but ourselves also which have the

firstfruits of the Spirit even we ourselves groan within

ourselves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our

body .

824 For we are saved by hope but hope that is seen is not hope

for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for .

825 But if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience

wait for it .

826 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we

know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit

itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be

uttered .

827 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind

of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for the saints

according to the will of God .

828 And we know that all things work together for good to them

that love God to them who are the called according to his

purpose .

829 For whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be

conformed to the image of his Son that he might be the firstborn

among many brethren .

830 Moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called and

whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them

he also glorified .

831 What shall we then say to these things If God be for us who

can be against us .

832 He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us

all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things .

833 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect It is

God that justifieth .

834 Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died yea rather

that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who

also maketh intercession for us .

835 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall

tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or

peril or sword .

836 As it is written For thy sake we are killed all the day

long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter .

837 Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through

him that loved us .

838 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels

nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to

come .

839 Nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able

to separate us from the love of God which is n Christ Jesus our

Lord .

* 91 I say the truth in Christ I lie not my conscience also

bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost .

92 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart

93 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for

my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh .

94 Who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption and the

glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the

service of God and the promises .

95 Whose are the fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh

Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Amen .

96 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect For

they are not all Israel which are of Israel .

97 Neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all

children but In Isaac shall thy seed be called .

98 That is They which are the children of the flesh these are

not the children of God but the children of the promise are

counted for the seed .

99 For this is the word of promise At this time will I come and

Sarah shall have a son .

910 And not only this but when Rebecca also had conceived by

one even by our father Isaac .

911 For the children being not yet born neither having done any

good or evil that the purpose of God according to election might

stand not of works but of him that calleth .

912 It was said unto her The elder shall serve the younger .

913 As it is written Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated .

914 What shall we say then Is there unrighteousness with God

God forbid .

915 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 .

916 So then it is not of him that willeth nor of him that

runneth but of God that sheweth mercy .

917 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh Even for this same

purpose have I raised thee up that I might shew my power in thee

and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth .

918 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom

he will he hardeneth .

919 Thou wilt say then unto me Why doth he yet find fault For

who hath resisted his will .

920 Nay but O man who art thou that repliest against God Shall

the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me

thus .

921 Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to

make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour .

922 What if God willing to shew his wrath and to make his power

known endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath

fitted to destruction .

923 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the

vessels of mercy which he had afore prepared unto glory .

924 Even us whom he hath called not of the Jews only but also

of the Gentiles .

925 As he saith also in Osee I will call them my people which

were not my people and her beloved which was not beloved .

926 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 children of the living God .

927 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel Though the number of

the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea a remnant shall

be saved .

928 For he will finish the work and cut it short in

righteousness because a short work will the Lord make upon the

earth .

929 And as Esaias said before Except the Lord of Sabaoth had

left us a seed we had been as Sodoma and been made like unto

Gomorrha .

930 What shall we say then That the Gentiles which followed not

after righteousness have attained to righteousness even the

righteousness which is of faith .

931 But Israel which followed after the law of righteousness

hath not attained to the law of righteousness .

932 Wherefore Because they sought it not by faith but as it

were by the works of the law For they stumbled at that

stumblingstone .

933 As it is written Behold I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and

rock of offence and whosoever believeth on him shall not be

ashamed .

* 101 Brethren my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel

is that they might be saved .

102 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not

according to knowledge .

103 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going

about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted

themselves unto the righteousness of God .

104 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every

one that believeth .

105 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law

That the man which doeth those things shall live by them .

106 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this

wise Say not in thine heart Who shall ascend into heaven that is

to bring Christ down from above .

107 Or Who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up

Christ again from the dead .

108 But what saith it The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth

and in thy heart that is the word of faith which we preach .

109 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus

and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from

the dead thou shalt be saved .

1010 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and

with the mouth confession is made unto salvation .

1011 For the scripture saith Whosoever believeth on him shall

not be ashamed .

1012 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek

for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him .

1013 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall

be saved .

1014 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not

believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not

heard and how shall they hear without a preacher .

1015 And how shall they preach except they be sent as it is

written How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the

gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things .

1016 But they have not all obeyed the gospel For Esaias saith

Lord who hath believed our report .

1017 So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of

God .

1018 But I say Have they not heard Yes verily their sound went

into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world .

1019 But I say Did not Israel know First Moses saith I will

provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people and by a

foolish nation I will anger you .

1020 But Esaias is very bold and saith I was found of them that

sought me not I was made manifest unto them that asked not after

me .

1021 But to Israel he saith All day long I have stretched forth

my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people .

* 111 I say then Hath God cast away his people God forbid For I

also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham of the tribe of

Benjamin .

112 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew Wot ye

not what the scripture saith of Elias how he maketh intercession

to God against Israel saying .

113 Lord they have killed thy prophets and digged down thine

altars and I am left alone and they seek my life .

114 But what saith the answer of God unto him I have reserved

to myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to the

image of Baal .

115 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant

according to the election of grace .

116 And if by grace then is it no more of works otherwise grace

is no more grace But if it be of works then is it no more grace

otherwise work is no more work .

117 What then Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh

for but the election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded .

118 According as it is written God hath given them the spirit

of slumber eyes that they should not see and ears that they

should not hear unto this day .

119 And David saith Let their table be made a snare and a trap

and a stumblingblock and a recompence unto them .

1110 Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see and bow

down their back alway .

1111 I say then Have they stumbled that they should fall God

forbid but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the

Gentiles for to provoke them to jealousy .

1112 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world and the

diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles how much more

their fulness .

1113 For I speak to you Gentiles inasmuch as I am the apostle

of the Gentiles I magnify mine office .

1114 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are

my flesh and might save some of them .

1115 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the

world what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead

1116 For if the firstfruit be holy the lump is also holy and if

the root be holy so are the branches .

1117 And if some of the branches be broken off and thou being a

wild olive tree wert grafted in among them and with them

partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree .

1118 Boast not against the branches But if thou boast thou

bearest not the root but the root thee .

1119 Thou wilt say then The branches were broken off that I

might be grafted in .

1120 Well because of unbelief they were broken off and thou

standest by faith Be not highminded but fear .

1121 For if God spared not the natural branches take heed lest

he also spare not thee .

1122 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God on them

which fell severity but toward thee goodness if thou continue in

his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off .

1123 And they also if they abide not still in unbelief shall be

grafted in for God is able to graft them in again .

1124 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild

by nature and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive

tree how much more shall these which be the natural branches be

grafted into their own olive tree .

1125 For I would not brethren that ye should be ignorant of

this mystery lest ye should be wise in your own conceits that

blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fulness of the

Gentiles be come in .

1126 And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written There

shall come out of Sion the Deliverer and shall turn away

ungodliness from Jacob .

1127 For this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away

their sins .

1128 As concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sakes

but as touching the election they are beloved for the fathers'

sakes .

1129 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance .

1130 For as ye in times past have not believed God yet have now

obtained mercy through their unbelief .

1131 Even so have these also now not believed that through your

mercy they also may obtain mercy .

1132 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief that he might

have mercy upon all .

1133 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge

of God how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past

finding out .

1134 For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been

his counsellor .

1135 Or who hath first given to him and it shall be recompensed

unto him again .

1136 For of him and through him and to him are all things to

whom be glory for ever Amen .

* 121 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God

that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable

unto God which is your reasonable service .

122 And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by

the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good

and acceptable and perfect will of God .

123 For I say through the grace given unto me to every man that

is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought

to think but to think soberly according as God hath dealt to

every man the measure of faith .

124 For as we have many members in one body and all members

have not the same office .

125 So we being many are one body in Christ and every one

members one of another .

126 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is

given to us whether prophecy let us prophesy according to the

proportion of faith .

127 Or ministry let us wait on our ministering or he that

teacheth on teaching .

128 Or he that exhorteth on exhortation he that giveth let him

do it with simplicity he that ruleth with diligence he that

sheweth mercy with cheerfulness .

129 Let love be without dissimulation Abhor that which is evil

cleave to that which is good .

1210 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love

in honour preferring one another .

1211 Not slothful in business fervent in spirit serving the

Lord .

1212 Rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation continuing

instant in prayer .

1213 Distributing to the necessity of saints given to

hospitality .

1214 Bless them which persecute you bless and curse not .

1215 Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that

weep .

1216 Be of the same mind one toward another Mind not high

things but condescend to men of low estate Be not wise in your

own conceits .

1217 Recompense to no man evil for evil Provide things honest

in the sight of all men .

1218 If it be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably

with all men .

1219 Dearly beloved avenge not yourselves but rather give place

unto wrath for it is written Vengeance is mine I will repay

saith the Lord .

1220 Therefore if thine enemy hunger feed him if he thirst give

him drink for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his

head .

1221 Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good .

* 131 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers For

there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of

God .

132 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the

ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to

themselves damnation .

133 For rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evil

Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power do that which is good

and thou shalt have praise of the same .

134 For he is the minister of God to thee for good But if thou

do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the sword in

vain for he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath

upon him that doeth evil .

135 Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but

also for conscience sake .

136 For for this cause pay ye tribute also for they are God's

ministers attending continually upon this very thing .

137 Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute

is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom

honour .

138 Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he that

loveth another hath fulfilled the law .

139 For this 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 commandment it is

briefly comprehended in this saying namely Thou shalt love thy

neighbour as thyself .

1310 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour therefore love is the

fulfilling of the law .

1311 And that knowing the time that now it is high time to

awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer than when we

believed .

1312 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 .

1313 Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and

drunkeness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and

envying .

1314 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision

for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof .

* 141 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye but not to

doubtful disputations .

142 For one believeth that he may eat all things another who is

weak eateth herbs .

143 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not and let

not him which eateth not judge him that eateth for God hath

received him .

144 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant to his own

master he standeth or falleth Yea he shall be holden up for God

is able to make him stand .

145 One man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth

every day alike Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind

146 He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord and he

that regardeth not the day to the Lord he doth not regard it He

that eateth eateth to the Lord for he giveth God thanks and he

that eateth not to the Lord he eateth not and giveth God thanks

and giveth God thanks .

147 For none of us liveth to himself and no man dieth to

himself .

148 For whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we

die we die unto the Lord whether we live therefore or die we are

the Lord's .

149 For to this end Christ both died and rose and revived that

he might be Lord both of the dead and living .

1410 But why dost thou judge thy brother or why dost thou set

at nought thy brother for we shall all stand before the judgment

seat of Christ .

1411 For it is written As I live saith the Lord every knee

shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God .

1412 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to

God .

1413 Let us not therefore judge one another any more but judge

this rather that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to

fall in his brother's way .

1414 I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is

nothing unclean of itself but to him that esteemeth any thing to

be unclean to him it is unclean .

1415 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat now walkest

thou not charitably Destroy not him with thy meat for whom

Christ died .

1416 Let not then your good be evil spoken of .

1417 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink but

righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost .

1418 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable

to God and approved of men .

1419 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for

peace and things wherewith one may edify another .

1420 For meat destroy not the work of God All things indeed are

pure but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence .

1421 It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor any

thing whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made

weak .

1422 Hast thou faith have it to thyself before God Happy is he

that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth .

1423 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat because he eateth

not of faith for whatsoever is not of faith is sin .

* 151 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of

the weak and not to please ourselves .

152 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to

edification .

153 For even Christ pleased not himself but as it is written

The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me .

154 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written

for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the

scriptures might have hope .

155 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be

likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus .

156 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God even

the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ .

157 Wherefore receive ye one another as Christ also received us

to the glory of God .

158 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the

circumcision for the truth of God to confirm the promises made

unto the fathers .

159 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy as it

is written For this cause I will confess to thee among the

Gentiles and sing unto thy name .

1510 And again he saith Rejoice ye Gentiles with his people .

1511 And again Praise the Lord all ye Gentiles and laud him all

ye people .

1512 And again Esaias saith There shall be a root of Jesse and

he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles in him shall the

Gentiles trust .

1513 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in

believing that ye may abound in hope through the power of the

Holy Ghost .

1514 And I myself also am persuaded of you my brethren that ye

also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge able also to

admonish one another .

1515 Nevertheless brethren I have written the more boldly unto

you in some sort as putting you in mind because of the grace

that is given to me of God .

1516 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the

Gentiles ministering the gospel of God that the offering up of

the Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the Holy

Ghost .

1517 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ

in those things which pertain to God .

1518 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which

Christ hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by

word and deed .

1519 Through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the

Spirit of God so that from Jerusalem and round about unto

Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ .

1520 Yea so have I strived to preach the gospel not where

Christ was named lest I should build upon another man's

foundation .

1521 But as it is written To whom he was not spoken of they

shall see and they that have not heard shall understand .

1522 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming

to you .

1523 But now having no more place in these parts and having a

great desire these many years to come unto you .

1524 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain I will come to you

for I trust to see you in my journey and to be brought on my way

thitherward by you if first I be somewhat filled with your

company .

1525 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints .

1526 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a

certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem .

1527 It hath pleased them verily and their debtors they are For

if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual

things their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things

1528 When therefore I have performed this and have sealed to

them this fruit I will come by you into Spain .

1529 And I am sure that when I come unto you I shall come in

the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ .

1530 Now I beseech you brethren for the Lord Jesus Christ's

sake and for the love of the Spirit that ye strive together with

me in your prayers to God for me .

1531 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in

Judaea and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be

accepted of the saints .

1532 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God and

may with you be refreshed .

1533 Now the God of peace be with you all Amen .

* 161 I commend unto you Phebe our sister which is a servant of

the church which is at Cenchrea .

162 That ye receive her in the Lord as becometh saints and that

ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you for

she hath been a succourer of many and of myself also .

163 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus .

164 Who have for my life laid down their own necks unto whom

not only I give thanks but also all the churches of the Gentiles

165 Likewise greet the church that is in their house Salute my

wellbeloved Epaenetus who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto

Christ .

166 Greet Mary who bestowed much labour on us .

167 Salute Andronicus and Junia my kinsmen and my

fellowprisoners who are of note among the apostles who also were

in Christ before me .

168 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord .

169 Salute Urbane our helper in Christ and Stachys my beloved .

1610 Salute Apelles approved in Christ Salute them which are of

Aristobulus' household .

1611 Salute Herodion my kinsman Greet them that be of the

household of Narcissus which are in the Lord .

1612 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa who labour in the Lord Salute

the beloved Persis which laboured much in the Lord .

1613 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord and his mother and mine .

1614 Salute Asyncritus Phlegon Hermas Patrobas Hermes and the

brethren which are with them .

1615 Salute Philologus and Julia Nereus and his sister and

Olympas and all the saints which are with them .

1616 Salute one another with an holy kiss The churches of

Christ salute you .

1617 Now I beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions

and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and

avoid them .

1618 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but

their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the

hearts of the simple .

1619 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men I am glad

therefore on your behalf but yet I would have you wise unto that

which is good and simple concerning evil .

1620 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet

shortly The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you Amen .

1621 Timotheus my workfellow and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater

my kinsmen salute you .

1622 I Tertius who wrote this epistle salute you in the Lord .

1623 Gaius mine host and of the whole church saluteth you

Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you and Quartus a

brother .

1624 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen .

1625 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to

my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the

revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world

began .

1626 But now is made manifest and by the scriptures of the

prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God

made known to all nations for the obedience of faith .

1627 To God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ for ever

Amen .