king james study 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 . ~~~~~~