1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
2 which he had previously promised by his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
3 concerning his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who was of the lineage of David according to the flesh,
4 who was declared the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead,
5 and through whom we received grace and apostleship, to obey the faith among all nations out of love of his name;
6 among whom are you also, called to be of Jesus Christ;
7 to all who are in Rome, loved by God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First of all I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is spreading throughout the world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,
10 praying that in some way I may finally, by the will of God, have a prosperous journey to come to you.
11 For I desire to see you, to give you some spiritual gift, so that you may be confirmed;
12 that is, to be mutually comforted by the faith that is common to you and me.
13 But I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often purposed to come to you (but until now I have been prevented), so that I might also have some fruit among you, as among the other Gentiles.
14 To Greeks and non-Greeks, to wise and non-wise I am a debtor.
15 Therefore, as for me, I am ready to announce the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed by faith and for faith, as it is written: But the just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness;
19 because what is known about God is manifest to them, for God has revealed it to them.
20 For the invisible things of him, his eternal power and godhead, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood from the things made, so that they are without excuse.
21 For when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give thanks to him, but their thoughts became futile, and his foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into image likenesses to corruptible man, to birds, to four-footed animals, and to reptiles.
24 Therefore God also gave them over to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, so that they dishonored their own bodies among themselves,
25 since they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, honoring and worshiping creatures rather than to the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them over to shameful passions; for even their women changed the natural use for that which is against nature,
27 and in the same way the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lasciviousness one with another, men committing shameful acts with men, and receiving in themselves the retribution due for their loss.
28 And since they did not approve of taking account of God, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do things that are not fitting;
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, perversity, covetousness, wickedness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malignity;
30 gossipers, backbiters, haters of God, revilers, proud, haughty, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 foolish, disloyal, without natural affection, unforgiving, without mercy;
32 who, having understood the judgment of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also take pleasure in those who practice them.
1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judges; for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; because you who judge do the same.
2 But we know that the judgment of God against those who practice such things is according to truth.
3 And do you think this, O man, you who judge those who do such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness, patience and long-suffering, not knowing that his kindness leads you to repentance?
5 But because of your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6 who will reward each one according to his works:
7 eternal life to those who, persevering in doing good, seek glory and honor and immortality,
8 but wrath and anger to those who are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness;
9 tribulation and anguish on every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also the Greek;
11 because there is no partiality toward God.
12 For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law;
13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles who do not have the law do by nature what is of the law, these, although they do not have the law, are a law to themselves,
15 showing the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and accusing them or defending their reasoning,
16 on the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and you rely on the law, and you glory in God,
18 and you know his will, and being instructed by the law you approve of what is best,
19 and you trust that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 a teacher of the unlearned, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth.
21 You then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one should not steal, do you steal?
22 You who say that adultery should not be committed, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
23 You who boast about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
24 For as it is written, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.
25 For truly circumcision is profitable, if you keep the law; But if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
26 If then the uncircumcised man keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
27 And he who is physically uncircumcised, but he keeps the law perfectly, he will condemn you, who by the letter of the law and by circumcision are a transgressor of the law.
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision what is done outwardly in the flesh;
29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise comes not from men, but from God.
1 What advantage then has the Jew? or what is the benefit of circumcision?
2 A lot, anyway. First, certainly, that the word of God has been entrusted to them.
3 What if some of them have been unbelievers? Will your disbelief have made God’s faithfulness null and void?
4 No way; but let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written: That you may be justified in your words, and conquer when you are judged.
5 And if our injustice highlights the justice of God, what shall we say? Will God who gives punishment be unjust? (I speak as a man.)
6 In no way; Otherwise, how would God judge the world?
7 But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I still judged a sinner?
8 And why not say (as we are slandered, and as some, whose condemnation is just, affirm that we say): Let us do evil that good may come?
9 What then? Are we better than them? In no way; for we have already accused Jews and Gentiles, that all are under sin.
10 As it is written: There is none righteous, not even one;
11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God.
12 They all went astray, together they became useless; There is no one who does good, there is not even one.
13 His throat is an open grave; With his tongue they deceive. There is poison from asps under his lips;
14 His mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
15 His feet are quick to shed blood;
16 Devastation and misfortune are in his ways;
17 And they knew not the way of peace.
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 But we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may be brought under the judgment of God;
20 since by the works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight; because through the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe in him. For there is no difference,
23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God has made a propitiation through faith in his blood, to manifest his righteousness, because in his patience he had passed over past sins,
26 with a view to manifesting his righteousness at this time, so that he might be just, and the one who justifies the which is from the faith of Jesus.
27 Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? For the works? No, but by the law of faith.
28 We conclude, therefore, that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
29 Is God only the God of the Jews? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Indeed, he also of the Gentiles.
30 For God is one, and he will justify those who are circumcised by faith, and those who are uncircumcised through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? In no way, but we confirm the law.
1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our father according to the flesh, found?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not with God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
4 But to him who works, his wages are not counted as a grace, but as a debt;
5 But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the wicked, his faith is counted as righteousness.
6 Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God attributes righteousness without works,
7 saying: Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord does not accuse of sin.
9 Is this blessedness then only for those of the circumcision, or also for those of the uncircumcision? Because we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
10 How then was it told to him? Being in the circumcision, or in the uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while he was still uncircumcised; so that he would be the father of all uncircumcised believers, so that faith too would be counted as righteousness to them;
12 and father of circumcision, for those who are not only of the circumcision, but also follow the steps of faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
13 For not by the law was the promise given to Abraham or his descendants that he would be heir of the world, but by the righteousness of faith.
14 For if those who are of the law are the heirs, faith is in vain and the promise is void.
15 For the law produces wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression either.
16 Therefore it is by faith, that it may be by grace, so that the promise may be established for all his descendants; not only for her who is of the law, but also for her who is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
17 (as it is written: I have made you a father to many nations) before God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls things that are not as if they were.
18 He believed in hope against hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was said to him: Thus shall your descendants be.
19 And he was not weakened in faith when he considered his body, which was already as good as dead (being almost a hundred years old), or the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
20 Nor did he doubt the promise of God through unbelief, but he was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21 fully convinced that he was also able to do all that he had promised;
22 Therefore his faith also was counted to him as righteousness.
23 And not only was it written about him that it was counted to him,
24 but also about us to whom it is to be told, that is, to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 who was delivered for our transgressions, and raised again for our justification.
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2 through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only this, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces patience;
4 and patience, trial; and the test, hope;
5 and hope does not put us to shame; because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
6 For Christ, while we were still weak, at his time died for the wicked.
7 Indeed, hardly any man will die for a righteous man; However, it could be that someone dared to die for the good.
8 But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more, since we are now justified by his blood, through him we will be saved from wrath.
10 For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved through his life.
11 And not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all sinned.
13 For before the law there was sin in the world; but where there is no law, sin is not charged.
14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even among those who did not sin after the transgression of Adam, who is a type of him who was to come.
15 But the gift was not like the transgression; For if many died through the transgression of that one, the grace and gift of God abounded much more to the many through the grace of one man, Jesus Christ.
16 And with the gift it does not happen as in the case of that one who sinned; for indeed the judgment came because of one sin unto condemnation, but the gift came because of many transgressions unto justification.
17 For if death reigned through the transgression of one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.
18 Therefore, just as through one transgression came condemnation to all men, so through one righteousness came justification of life to all men.
19 For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one the many will be made righteous.
20 But the law was introduced so that sin would abound; but when sin abounded, grace abounded all the more;
21 so that just as sin reigned unto death, so grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 In no way. For those of us who have died to sin, how can we still live in it?
3 Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 For we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we were planted with him in the likeness of his death, so we will also be in the likeness of his resurrection;
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so that we would no longer serve sin.
7 For he who has died has been justified from sin.
8 And if we die with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
9 knowing that Christ, having risen from the dead, dies no more; Death no longer rules over him.
10 For as soon as he died, he died to sin once for all; but as long as he lives, he lives for God.
11 So consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Let not therefore let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey it in its lusts;
13 Nor do you present your members to sin as instruments of iniquity, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14 For sin will not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? In no way.
16 Do you not know that if you submit yourselves to someone as slaves to obey him, you are slaves of him whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
17 But thank God, that although you were slaves of sin, you have obeyed from the heart to that form of doctrine to which you were delivered;
18 and having been freed from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
19 I speak as a human, because of your human weakness; that just as you presented your members for iniquity to serve uncleanness and iniquity, so now present your members for sanctification to serve righteousness.
20 For when you were slaves to sin, you were free regarding righteousness.
21 But what fruit did you have of those things of which you are now ashamed? Because their end is death.
22 But now that you have been freed from sin and made servants of God, you have as your fruit sanctification, and as its end, eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law rules over a man as long as he lives?
2 For a married woman is subject by law to her husband as long as he lives; But if her husband dies, she is free from her husband’s law.
3 Therefore, if during her husband’s lifetime she joins another man, she will be called an adulteress; But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that if she joins another husband, she will not be an adulteress.
4 So you also, my brothers, have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to whom he raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit for God.
5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that were by law worked in our members, bearing fruit unto death.
6 But now we are free from the law, having died to that to which we were subject, so that we serve under the new regime of the Spirit and not under the old regime of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law a sin? In no way. But I did not know sin except through the law; for neither would I know covetousness, unless the law said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, produced in me all covetousness; because without the law sin is dead.
9 And I once lived without the law; But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
10 And I found that the same commandment that was for life proved to me to be death;
11 because sin, taking advantage of the commandment, deceived me and killed me by it.
12 Therefore the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy, just, and good.
13 Then what is good became death to me? In no way; But sin, in order to show itself to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold to sin.
15 For what I do, I do not understand; For I do not do what I want, but what I hate, that is what I do.
16 And if I do what I do not want, I approve that the law is good.
17 So it is no longer I who do this, but sin that dwells in me.
18 And I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good; because wanting good is in me, but not doing it.
19 For I do not do the good that I want, but the evil that I do not want, that is what I do.
20 And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells in me.
21 Therefore, desiring to do good, I find this law: that evil is in me.
22 For according to the inner man, I delight in the law of God;
23 But I see another law in my members, rebelling against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin that is in my members.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will free me from this body of death?
25 I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
1 Now therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death.
3 For what was impossible for the law, because it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and because of sin, condemned sin in the flesh;
4 that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who are of the flesh think about the things of the flesh; but those who are of the Spirit, in the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be mindful of the flesh is death, but to be mindful of the Spirit is life and peace.
7 For the imagination of the flesh is enmity against God; because they do not submit to the law of God, nor can they;
8 and those who live according to the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you do not live according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
10 But if Christ is in you, the body is truly dead because of sin, but the spirit lives because of righteousness.
11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit who dwells in you.
12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, that we may live according to the flesh;
13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
15 For you have not received the spirit of slavery to fear again, but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father!
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, so that we may be glorified with him.
18 For I am certain that the afflictions of the present time are not worth comparing with the glory to come that will be revealed in us.
19 For the longing of the creation is to wait for the manifestation of the sons of God.
twentyFor the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;
21 For the creation itself will also be freed from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groans together, and is in labor pains together until now;
23 and not only her, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we also groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
24 For in hope we were saved; but the hope that is seen is not hope; because what someone sees, why wait?
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait patiently for it.
26 And in the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness; For what we should pray for as we ought, we do not know, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be uttered.
27 But he who searches hearts knows what the intention of the Spirit is, because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30 And those whom he predestined, these he also called; and those whom he called, these he also justified; and those whom he justified, these he also glorified.
31 What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?
33 Who will accuse God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is he who will condemn? Christ is the one who died; Even more, he who also rose again, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36 As it is written: For your sake we are killed all the time; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to help us. separate from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, and my conscience bears witness to me in the Holy Spirit,
2 that I have great sadness and continuous pain in my heart.
3 For I myself would like to be accursed, separated from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, who are my relatives according to the flesh;
4 who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, the glory, the covenant, the giving of the law, the worship and the promises;
5 of whom are the patriarchs, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
6 Not that the word of God has failed; because not all those who descend from Israel are Israelites,
7 nor are they all children because they are descendants of Abraham; but: In Isaac your descendants will be called.
8 This is: Not those who are children according to the flesh are the children of God, but those who are children according to the promise are counted as descendants.
9 For the word of promise is this: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.
10 And not only this, but also when Rebekah conceived of one, Isaac our father,
11 (for they were not yet born, nor had they yet done either good or evil, so that the purpose of God according to the election might stand, not by the works but by him who calls),
12 it was said to him: The elder will serve the younger.
13 As it is written: I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.
14 What then shall we say? That there is injustice in God? In no way.
15 For he says to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
16 So it does not depend on him who wills, nor on him who runs, but on God who has mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose I have raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be announced throughout the earth.
18 So whomever he wills, he has mercy, and whomever he wills to harden, he hardens.
19 But you will say to me: Why then does he blame? because who has resisted his will?
20 But first, O man, who are you, that you should argue with God? Will the clay vessel say to the one who formed it: Why have you made me like this?
21 Or does not the potter have power over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22 And what if God, desiring to show his wrath and make known his power, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 and to make known the riches of his glory, he showed them to the vessels of mercy which he prepared beforehand for glory,
24 whom he also called, that is, us, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As also in Hosea it says: I will call those who were not my people my people, and the unloved, beloved.
26 And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called children of the living God.
27 Isaiah also cries concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;
28 for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth justly and promptly.
29 And as Isaiah said before: If the Lord of hosts had not left us descendants, We would have become like Sodom, and we would have been like Gomorrah.
30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained righteousness, that is, the righteousness that is by faith;
31 But Israel, which sought a law of righteousness, did not obtain it.
32 Why? For they went after her not by faith, but as by works of the law, for they stumbled at the stumbling stone,
33 as it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of stumbling; And whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
1 Brothers, certainly the desire of my heart, and my prayer to God for Israel, is for salvation.
2 For I testify to you that you have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God;
4 because the end of the law is Christ, for righteousness to everyone who believes.
5 For Moses writes of the righteousness that comes from the law: The man who does these things will live by them.
6 But the righteousness that comes by faith says this: Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend to heaven? (that is, to bring down Christ);
7 or, who will descend into the abyss? (that is, to raise Christ from the dead).
8 But what does he say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the word of faith that we preach:
9 that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, but with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.
11 For the Scripture says: Whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
12 For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same one who is Lord of all, he is rich to all who call on him;
13 for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without a preacher?
15 And how will they preach if they are not sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who announce peace, of those who announce good news!
16 But not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says: Lord, who has believed our report?
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing comes from the word of God.
18 But I say, Have you not heard? But their voice has gone out throughout the earth, and their words to the ends of the earth.
19 I also say, Has Israel not known this? First Moses says: I will provoke you to jealousy with a people that is no people; With a foolish people I will provoke you to anger.
20 And Isaiah boldly says: I was found among those who did not seek me; I manifested myself to those who did not ask about me.
21 But about Israel he says: All day long I stretched out my hands to a rebellious and contradicting people.
1 I say therefore, Has God rejected his people? In no way. For I also am an Israelite, of the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he calls upon God against Israel, saying:
3 Lord, they have put to death your prophets, and they have torn down your altars; and only I am left, and they are trying to kill me?
4 But what does the divine answer tell you? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee before Baal.
5 So also even at this time there has remained a remnant chosen by grace.
6 And if by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. And if by works, it is no longer grace; Otherwise the work is no longer a work.
7 What then? What Israel sought, it has not achieved; but the chosen ones have achieved it, and the rest were hardened;
8 as it is written: God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they did not see and ears so that they did not hear, to this day.
9 And David says, Let his banquet become a snare and a snare, a stumbling block and a retribution;
10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and their backs be burdened forever.
11 I say therefore, Have the people of Israel stumbled that they should fall? In no way; but through their transgression salvation came to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12 And if their transgression is the wealth of the world, and their defection the wealth of the Gentiles, how much more is their full restoration?
13 For I speak to you, Gentiles. Because I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I honor my ministry,
14 in case I can somehow provoke those of my blood to jealousy and save some of them.
15 For if the exclusion of him is the reconciliation of the world, what is the admission of him but life from the dead?
16 If the firstfruits are holy, so is the remaining dough; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 For if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in their place, and have become a partaker of the root and of the rich sap of the olive tree,
18 do not boast against the branches; And if you boast, know that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19 For the branches, you will say, were broken off so that I might be grafted in.
20 Good; Because of their unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be proud, but fear.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
22 Look then at the goodness and severity of God; severity certainly toward those who fell, but kindness toward you, if you remain in that kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.
23 And even they, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut off from the wild olive tree by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into the good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, so that you may not be arrogant about yourselves: that hardening has come to Israel in part, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
26 and then all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come from Zion, who will turn away wickedness from Jacob.
27 And this will be my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.
28 So as for the gospel, they are enemies because of you; but as to choice, they are loved for the parents’ sake.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
30 For as you also were once disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy through their disobedience,
31 so these also have now been disobedient, so that through the mercy granted to you they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God subjected everyone to disobedience, so that he would have mercy on everyone.
33 O depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways unsearchable!
34 For who understood the mind of the Lord? Or who was his advisor?
35 Or who gave to him first, that he might be rewarded?
36 For from him, and through him, and to him, are all things. Let the glory be his for centuries. Amen.
1 Therefore, I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
3 I say therefore, by the grace given to me, to each one who is among you, not to think more highly of himself than he ought to have, but to think of himself wisely, according to the measure of faith he has. God distributed to each one.
4 For just as in one body we have many members, but not all the members have the same function,
5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and all members one of another.
6 Therefore, having different gifts, according to the grace given to us, if the gift of prophecy, let it be used according to the measure of faith;
7 or if of service, in serving; or he who teaches, in teaching;
8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who distributes, liberally; the one who presides, with care; he who shows mercy, with joy.
9 Love be without pretense. Hate what is bad, follow what is good.
10 Love one another with brotherly love; as to honor, preferring one to another.
11 In what requires diligence, do not be lazy; fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
12 rejoicing in hope; suffered in tribulation; constant in prayer;
13 sharing for the needs of the saints; practicing hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; cry with those who cry.
16 Unanimous among you; not haughty, but associating with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil; Seek what is good before all men.
18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.
19 Do not avenge yourselves, my beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written: Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
20 So if your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for by doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
1 Let every person submit to higher authorities; because there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God.
2 So whoever opposes authority resists what God has established; and those who resist bring condemnation upon themselves.
3 For magistrates are not to instill fear in those who do good, but in those who do evil. Would you have no fear of authority? Do good, and you will have praise from it;
4 because he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do evil, fear; for he does not carry the sword in vain, for he is a servant of God, an avenger to punish him who does evil.
5 Therefore it is necessary to be subject to him, not only for the sake of punishment, but also for the sake of conscience.
6 For this is also why you pay taxes, because they are servants of God who continually attend to this very thing.
7 Pay to all what you owe: to whom I tribute, tribute; to whom tax, tax; whom I respect, respect; to him who honors, honors.
8 Owe no one anything except to love one another; because he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
9 Because: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not covet, and every other commandment, is summarized in this sentence: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
10 Love does no harm to its neighbor; so the fulfillment of the law is love.
11 And this, knowing the time, that it is time to rise from sleep; because now our salvation is closer to us than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, and the day is approaching. Let us therefore put away the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
13 Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in gluttony and drunkenness, not in lust and lasciviousness, not in strife and envy,
14 but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not provide for the lust of the flesh.
1 Receive the weak in faith, but not to quarrel over opinions.
2 Because one believes that he has to eat everything; another, who is weak, eats legumes.
3 Let him who eats not despise him who does not eat, and let him who does not eat not judge him who eats; because God has received him.
4 Who are you, that you judge someone else’s servant? For his own lord he stands, or falls; but he will stand, because the Lord is able to make him stand.
5 One makes a difference between day and day; another judges the same every day. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 He who pays attention to the day, he pays attention to the Lord; and he who does not pay attention to the day, does not pay attention to the Lord. He who eats, eats for the Lord, because he gives thanks to God; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.
7 For none of us lives for himself, and none of us dies for himself.
8 For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we belong to the Lord.
9 For this is why Christ died and rose again and lived again, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you too, why do you look down on your brother? Because we will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written: As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess God.
12 So each one of us will give an account of himself to God.
13 Therefore, let us no longer judge one another, but rather decide not to cause a stumbling block or an opportunity for our brother to fall.
14 I know, and I trust in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks something is unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if your brother is grieved because of food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not cause him for whom Christ died to be lost through your food.
16 Therefore let not your good be reproached;
17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 For he who serves Christ in this pleases God and is approved of men.
19 So let us follow what contributes to peace and mutual edification.
20 Do not destroy the work of God because of food. All things are truly clean; But it is evil for a man to cause others to stumble with what he eats.
21 It is good not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor anything in which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or becomes weak.
22 Do you have faith? Have it for yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
23 But whoever doubts what he eats, he is condemned, because he does not do it with faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
1 Therefore we who are strong must bear the infirmities of the weak, and not please ourselves.
2 Let each of us please his neighbor in what is good, for edification.
3 For not even Christ pleased himself; but as it is written: The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.
4 For the things that were written before were written for our instruction, so that through patience and the comfort of the Scriptures we might have hope.
5 But the God of patience and consolation grant you the same mind among yourselves according to Christ Jesus,
6 so that with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 Therefore receive one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.
8 For I tell you, Christ Jesus became a servant of the circumcision to show the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,
9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: Therefore , I will confess you among the Gentiles, And I will sing to your name.
10 And again he says: Rejoice, Gentiles, with his people.
11 And again: Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and magnify him, all people.
12 And again Isaiah says: There will be the root of Jesse, And he who will arise to rule the Gentiles; The Gentiles will wait for him.
13 And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 But I am sure of you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, full of all knowledge, so that you can admonish one another.
15 But I have written to you, brothers, partly boldly, as if to remind you, because of the grace given to me from God,
16 to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might be an offering to him. pleasant, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17 Therefore I have something to boast about in Christ Jesus concerning God.
18 For I would not dare to speak except of what Christ has done through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed,
19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; So that from Jerusalem and all around to Illyricum, I have filled everything with the gospel of Christ.
20 And in this way I strove to preach the gospel, not where Christ had already been named, so as not to build on another’s foundation,
21 but, as it is written: Those to whom it was never announced about him will see; And those who have never heard of him will understand.
22 For this reason I have been prevented many times from coming to you.
23 But now, having no more field in these regions, and having desired for many years to come to you,
24 when I go to Spain, I will come to you; because I hope to see you as I pass, and to be directed there by you, once I have enjoyed with you.
25 But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.
26 For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make an offering for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem.
27 For it seemed good to them, and they are indebted to them; because if the Gentiles have been made partakers of his spiritual goods, they must also minister to them of the material goods.
28 Therefore, when I have finished this, and have given them this fruit, I will pass among you towards Spain.
29 And I know that when I come to you, I will come with an abundance of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
30 But I beseech you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you help me by praying for me to God,
31 that I may be delivered from the rebels who are in Judea, and that the offering of my service to the saints in Jerusalem be accepted;
32 so that it may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may be recreated together with you.
33 And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
1 I also recommend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a deaconess of the church in Cenchrea;
2 that you receive her in the Lord, as she is worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever she needs from you; because she has helped many, and myself.
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
4 who laid down their lives for me; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
5 Greet also the church of his house. Greet Epenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruit of Achaia for Christ.
6 Greet Mary, who has worked hard among you.
7 Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are highly esteemed among the apostles, and who also were before me in Christ.
8 Greet Broadas, my beloved in the Lord.
9 Greet Urban, our fellow worker in Christ Jesus, and Stachys, my beloved.
10 Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those of the house of Aristobulus.
11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those of the house of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
12 Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who work in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persida, who has worked hard in the Lord.
13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his and my mother.
14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brothers who are with them.
15 Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, Olympias and all the saints who are with them.
16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
17 But I urge you, brothers, to pay attention to those who cause divisions and offenses against the doctrine that you have learned, and to separate yourself from them.
18 For such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own bellies, and with smooth words and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
19 Because your obedience has become known to all, so I rejoice over you; But I want you to be wise for good, and naive for evil.
20 And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
21 Timothy my collaborator, and Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my relatives, greet you.
22 I Tertius, who wrote the epistle, greet you in the Lord.
23 Gaius, host of mine and of the entire church, greets you. Erastus, treasurer of the city, and Brother Cuartus greet you.
24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
25 And to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been hidden from time immemorial,
26 but which has now been revealed, and which by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the Eternal God, has made himself known to all nations to obey the faith,
27 to the only wise God, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
