If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Romans
Chapter 1
001:001 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be
an apostle,
separated unto the
gospel of God,
001:002 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in
the holy
scriptures,)
001:003 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which
was made of
the seed of David
according to the flesh;
001:004 And declared to be the Son of God with power,
according to the
spirit of
holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
001:005 By whom we have received grace and apostleship,
for obedience
to the faith among
all nations, for his name:
001:006 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
001:007 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.
001:008 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for
you all, that
your faith is spoken
of throughout the whole world.
001:009 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;
001:010 Making request, if by any means now at length I
might have a
prosperous journey by
the will of God to come unto you.
001:011 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you
some
spiritual gift, to the end ye
may be established;
001:012 That is, that I may be comforted together with
you by the
mutual faith both of
you and me.
001:013 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.
001:014 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the
Barbarians; both to
the wise, and
to the unwise.
001:015 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the
gospel to
you that are at Rome
also.
001:016 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.
001:017 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed
from faith to
faith: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.
001:018 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all
ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth
in
unrighteousness;
001:019 Because that which may be known of God is
manifest in them;
for God hath
shewed it unto them.
001:020 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:
001:021 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.
001:022 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
001:023 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.
001:024 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the
lusts of their own
hearts, to dishonour their own
bodies
between themselves:
001:025 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.
001:026 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:
001:027 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.
001:028 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;
001:029 Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication,
wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy,
murder,
debate, deceit, malignity;
whisperers,
001:030 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud,
boasters,
inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents,
001:031 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without
natural
affection, implacable,
unmerciful:
001:032 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.
002:001 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.
002:002 But we are sure that the judgment of God is
according to truth
against them
which commit such things.
002:003 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?
002:004 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and
forbearance
and longsuffering; not
knowing that the goodness of God
leadeth thee to repentance?
002:005 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;
002:006 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
002:007 To them who by patient continuance in well doing
seek for
glory and honour and
immortality, eternal life:
002:008 But unto them that are contentious, and do not
obey the truth,
but obey
unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
002:009 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man
that doeth
evil, of the Jew first,
and also of the Gentile;
002:010 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that
worketh good,
to the Jew first,
and also to the Gentile:
002:011 For there is no respect of persons with God.
002:012 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;
002:013 (For not the hearers of the law are just before
God, but the
doers of the law
shall be justified.
002:014 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:
002:015 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;)
002:016 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of
men by Jesus
Christ according to
my gospel.
002:017 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the
law, and
makest thy boast of
God,
002:018 And knowest his will, and approvest the things
that are more
excellent, being
instructed out of the law;
002:019 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide
of the blind,
a light of them
which are in darkness,
002:020 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes,
which hast
the form of knowledge
and of the truth in the law.
002:021 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest
thou not
thyself? thou that
preachest a man should not steal, dost
thou
steal?
002:022 Thou that sayest a man should not commit
adultery, dost thou
commit
adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou
commit
sacrilege?
002:023 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through
breaking the
law dishonourest thou
God?
002:024 For the name of God is blasphemed among the
Gentiles through
you, as it is
written.
002:025 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep
the law: but
if thou be a breaker
of the law, thy circumcision is
made
uncircumcision.
002:026 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the
righteousness of the
law, shall
not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
002:027 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?
002:028 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly;
neither is that
circumcision,
which is outward in the flesh:
002:029 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.
003:001 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit
is there of
circumcision?
003:002 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them
were committed
the oracles of
God.
003:003 For what if some did not believe? shall their
unbelief make
the faith of God
without effect?
003:004 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.
003:005 But if our unrighteousness commend the
righteousness of God,
what shall
we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?
(I
speak as a man)
003:006 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
003:007 For if the truth of God hath more abounded
through my lie unto
his glory; why
yet am I also judged as a sinner?
003:008 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.
003:009 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;
003:010 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
003:011 There is none that understandeth, there is none
that seeketh
after God.
003:012 They are all gone out of the way, they are
together become
unprofitable;
there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
003:013 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their
tongues they
have used deceit; the
poison of asps is under their lips:
003:014 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
003:015 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
003:016 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
003:017 And the way of peace have they not known:
003:018 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
003:019 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.
003:020 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.
003:021 But now the righteousness of God without the law
is
manifested, being witnessed by
the law and the prophets;
003:022 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:
003:023 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
003:024 Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption
that is in Christ
Jesus:
003:025 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;
003:026 To declare, I say, at this time his
righteousness: that he
might be
just, and the justifier of him which believeth
in
Jesus.
003:027 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what
law? of works?
Nay: but by the law
of faith.
003:028 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by
faith without
the deeds of the
law.
003:029 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of
the
Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles
also:
003:030 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the
circumcision by
faith, and
uncircumcision through faith.
003:031 Do we then make void the law through faith? God
forbid: yea,
we establish the
law.
004:001 What shall we say then that Abraham our father,
as pertaining
to the flesh, hath
found?
004:002 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath
whereof to
glory; but not before
God.
004:003 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed
God, and it was
counted unto him
for righteousness.
004:004 Now to him that worketh is the reward not
reckoned of grace,
but of
debt.
004:005 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him
that
justifieth the ungodly, his
faith is counted for
righteousness.
004:006 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of
the man, unto
whom God imputeth
righteousness without works,
004:007 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are
forgiven, and
whose sins are
covered.
004:008 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
004:009 Cometh this blessedness then upon the
circumcision only, or
upon the
uncircumcision also? for we say that faith
was
reckoned to Abraham for
righteousness.
004:010 How was it then reckoned? when he was in
circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
004:011 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:
004:012 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.
004:013 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.
004:014 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith
is made void,
and the promise made
of none effect:
004:015 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law
is, there is
no transgression.
004:016 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,
004:017 (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.
004:018 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.
004:019 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:
004:020 He staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but
was strong in faith,
giving glory to God;
004:021 And being fully persuaded that, what he had
promised, he was
able also to
perform.
004:022 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
004:023 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that
it was imputed
to him;
004:024 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if
we believe on
him that raised up
Jesus our Lord from the dead;
004:025 Who was delivered for our offences, and was
raised again for
our
justification.
005:001 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God
through our Lord Jesus
Christ:
005:002 By whom also we have access by faith into this
grace wherein
we stand, and
rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
005:003 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations
also: knowing
that tribulation
worketh patience;
005:004 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
005:005 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.
005:006 For when we were yet without strength, in due
time Christ died
for the
ungodly.
005:007 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die:
yet
peradventure for a good man
some would even dare to die.
005:008 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
while we were
yet sinners, Christ
died for us.
005:009 Much more then, being now justified by his blood,
we shall be
saved from wrath
through him.
005:010 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.
005:011 And not only so, but we also joy in God through
our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we
have now received the atonement.
005:012 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:
005:013 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin
is not
imputed when there is no
law.
005:014 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.
005:015 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.
005:016 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.
005:017 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.)
005:018 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.
005:019 For as by one man's disobedience many were made
sinners, so by
the obedience of
one shall many be made righteous.
005:020 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might
abound. But
where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound:
005:021 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so
might grace reign
through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ
our
Lord.
006:001 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin,
that grace
may abound?
006:002 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin,
live any
longer therein?
006:003 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized
into Jesus
Christ were baptized
into his death?
006:004 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.
006:005 For if we have been planted together in the
likeness of his
death, we shall be
also in the likeness of his resurrection:
006:006 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.
006:007 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
006:008 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we
shall also
live with him:
006:009 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead
dieth no more;
death hath no more
dominion over him.
006:010 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but
in that he
liveth, he liveth unto
God.
006:011 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin,
but alive unto
God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
006:012 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body,
that ye
should obey it in the
lusts thereof.
006:013 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.
006:014 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye
are not under
the law, but under
grace.
006:015 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under
the law, but
under grace? God
forbid.
006:016 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?
006:017 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.
006:018 Being then made free from sin, ye became the
servants of
righteousness.
006:019 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.
006:020 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were
free from
righteousness.
006:021 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye
are now
ashamed? for the end of
those things is death.
006:022 But now being made free from sin, and become
servants to God,
ye have your
fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting
life.
006:023 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal
life through Jesus
Christ our Lord.
007:001 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?
007:002 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.
007:003 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.
007:004 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.
007:005 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.
007:006 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.
007:007 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.
007:008 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
wrought in me all
manner of
concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
007:009 For I was alive without the law once: but when
the commandment
came, sin revived,
and I died.
007:010 And the commandment, which was ordained to life,
I found to be
unto death.
007:011 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
deceived me, and
by it slew
me.
007:012 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment
holy, and just,
and good.
007:013 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.
007:014 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am
carnal, sold
under sin.
007:015 For that which I do I allow not: for what I
would, that do I
not; but what I
hate, that do I.
007:016 If then I do that which I would not, I consent
unto the law
that it is good.
007:017 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that
dwelleth in
me.
007:018 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.
007:019 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil
which I would
not, that I do.
007:020 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I
that do it, but
sin that dwelleth
in me.
007:021 I find then a law, that, when I would do good,
evil is present
with me.
007:022 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
007:023 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.
007:024 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me
from the body
of this death?
007:025 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.
008:001 There is therefore now no condemnation to them
which are in
Christ Jesus, who
walk not after the flesh, but after
the
Spirit.
008:002 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me
free from the law of
sin and death.
008:003 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:
008:004 That the righteousness of the law might be
fulfilled in us,
who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
008:005 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.
008:006 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually
minded is life and
peace.
008:007 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:
for it is not
subject to the law
of God, neither indeed can be.
008:008 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
008:009 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.
008:010 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because
of sin; but
the Spirit is life
because of righteousness.
008:011 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.
008:012 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the
flesh, to live
after the
flesh.
008:013 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.
008:014 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they
are the sons
of God.
008:015 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.
008:016 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are
the children
of God:
008:017 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.
008:018 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.
008:019 For the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the
manifestation of
the sons of God.
008:020 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not
willingly,
but by reason of him
who hath subjected the same in hope,
008:021 Because the creature itself also shall be
delivered from the
bondage of
corruption into the glorious liberty of
the
children of God.
008:022 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and
travaileth in
pain together until
now.
008:023 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.
008:024 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?
008:025 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we
with patience
wait for it.
008:026 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.
008:027 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.
008:028 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.
008:029 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.
008:030 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.
008:031 What shall we then say to these things? If God be
for us, who
can be against us?
008:032 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?
008:033 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's
elect? It is
God that
justifieth.
008:034 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.
008:035 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
shall
tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
008:036 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all
the day long;
we are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter.
008:037 Nay, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through
him that loved
us.
008:038 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life,
nor angels,
nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor
things
to come,
008:039 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able
to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus
our Lord.
009:001 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my
conscience also
bearing me witness
in the Holy Ghost,
009:002 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
009:003 For I could wish that myself were accursed from
Christ for my
brethren, my kinsmen
according to the flesh:
009:004 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;
009:005 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning
the flesh
Christ came, who is over
all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
009:006 Not as though the word of God hath taken none
effect. For they
are not all
Israel, which are of Israel:
009:007 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham,
are they all
children: but, In
Isaac shall thy seed be called.
009:008 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.
009:009 For this is the word of promise, At this time
will I come, and
Sarah shall have
a son.
009:010 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had
conceived by one,
even by our
father Isaac;
009:011 (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;)
009:012 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
009:013 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
009:014 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness
with God? God
forbid.
009:015 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.
009:016 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him
that
runneth, but of God that
sheweth mercy.
009:017 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.
009:018 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have
mercy, and whom
he will he
hardeneth.
009:019 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find
fault? For
who hath resisted his
will?
009:020 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?
009:021 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the
same lump to
make one vessel unto
honour, and another unto dishonour?
009:022 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:
009:023 And that he might make known the riches of his
glory on the
vessels of mercy,
which he had afore prepared unto glory,
009:024 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews
only, but also
of the
Gentiles?
009:025 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my
people, which
were not my people;
and her beloved, which was not beloved.
009:026 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.
009:027 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:
009:028 For he will finish the work, and cut it short
in
righteousness: because a short
work will the Lord make upon
the
earth.
009:029 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.
009:030 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which
followed not
after righteousness,
have attained to righteousness, even
the
righteousness which is of
faith.
009:031 But Israel, which followed after the law of
righteousness,
hath not attained
to the law of righteousness.
009:032 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith,
but as it were
by the works of the
law. For they stumbled at that
stumblingstone;
009:033 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a
stumblingstone and
rock of
offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not
be
ashamed.
010:001 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for
Israel is,
that they might be
saved.
010:002 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of
God, but not
according to
knowledge.
010:003 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.
010:004 For Christ is the end of the law for
righteousness to every
one that
believeth.
010:005 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is
of the law,
That the man which
doeth those things shall live by them.
010:006 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:)
010:007 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to
bring up
Christ again from the
dead.)
010:008 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;
010:009 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.
010:010 For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with
the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
010:011 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on
him shall not
be ashamed.
010:012 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.
010:013 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be
saved.
010:014 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?
010:015 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!
010:016 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For
Esaias saith,
Lord, who hath
believed our report?
010:017 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of
God.
010:018 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.
010:019 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.
010:020 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.
010:021 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have
stretched forth my
hands unto a
disobedient and gainsaying people.
011:001 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.
011:002 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,
011:003 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged
down thine
altars; and I am left
alone, and they seek my life.
011:004 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.
011:005 Even so then at this present time also there is a
remnant
according to the election
of grace.
011:006 And if by grace, then is it no more of works:
otherwise grace
is no more grace.
But if it be of works, then it is no
more
grace: otherwise work is no
more work.
011:007 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he
seeketh for;
but the election hath
obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
011:008 (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.
011:009 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare,
and a trap,
and a stumblingblock,
and a recompence unto them:
011:010 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not
see, and bow
down their back
alway.
011:011 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.
011:012 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?
011:013 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the
apostle of
the Gentiles, I magnify
mine office:
011:014 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them
which are my
flesh, and might save
some of them.
011:015 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?
011:016 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also
holy: and if
the root be holy, so
are the branches.
011:017 And if some of the branches be broken off, and
thou, being a
wild olive tree,
wert graffed in among them, and with
them
partakest of the root and
fatness of the olive tree;
011:018 Boast not against the branches. But if thou
boast, thou
bearest not the root,
but the root thee.
011:019 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off,
that I might
be graffed in.
011:020 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off,
and thou
standest by faith. Be not
highminded, but fear:
011:021 For if God spared not the natural branches, take
heed lest he
also spare not
thee.
011:022 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.
011:023 And they also, if they abide not still in
unbelief, shall be
graffed in: for
God is able to graff them in again.
011:024 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which
is wild by
nature, and wert
graffed contrary to nature into a good
olive
tree: how much more shall
these, which be the natural
branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
011:025 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.
011:026 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:
011:027 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall
take away
their sins.
011:028 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for
your sakes: but
as touching the
election, they are beloved for the
father's
sakes.
011:029 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
011:030 For as ye in times past have not believed God,
yet have now
obtained mercy
through their unbelief:
011:031 Even so have these also now not believed, that
through your
mercy they also may
obtain mercy.
011:032 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that
he might
have mercy upon all.
011:033 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!
011:034 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who
hath been his
counsellor?
011:035 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be
recompensed
unto him again?
011:036 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all
things: to
whom be glory for ever.
Amen.
012:001 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.
012:002 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.
012:003 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.
012:004 For as we have many members in one body, and all
members have
not the same
office:
012:005 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and
every one
members one of
another.
012:006 Having then gifts differing according to the
grace that is
given to us, whether
prophecy, let us prophesy according
to
the proportion of faith;
012:007 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or
he that
teacheth, on teaching;
012:008 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.
012:009 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that
which is evil;
cleave to that
which is good.
012:010 Be kindly affectioned one to another with
brotherly love; in
honour
preferring one another;
012:011 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
012:012 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation;
continuing instant
in prayer;
012:013 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
012:014 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
012:015 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with
them that
weep.
012:016 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.
012:017 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide
things honest in
the sight of all
men.
012:018 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live
peaceably
with all men.
012:019 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather
give place
unto wrath: for it is
written, Vengeance is mine; I will
repay, saith the Lord.
012:020 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.
012:021 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
013:001 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.
013:002 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power,
resisteth the
ordinance of God:
and they that resist shall receive
to
themselves damnation.
013:003 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:
013:004 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.
013:005 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for
wrath, but
also for conscience
sake.
013:006 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they
are God's
ministers, attending
continually upon this very thing.
013:007 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to
whom tribute is
due; custom to
whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to
whom
honour.
013:008 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that
loveth another hath
fulfilled the law.
013:009 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.
013:010 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore
love is the
fulfilling of the
law.
013:011 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.
013:012 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.
013:013 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in
rioting and
drunkenness, not in
chambering and wantonness, not in
strife
and envying.
013:014 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not
provision
for the flesh, to fulfil
the lusts thereof.
014:001 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not
to doubtful
disputations.
014:002 For one believeth that he may eat all things:
another, who is
weak, eateth
herbs.
014:003 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.
014:004 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.
014:005 One man esteemeth one day above another: another
esteemeth
every day alike. Let
every man be fully persuaded in his
own
mind.
014:006 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.
014:007 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
014:008 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.
014:009 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and
revived, that
he might be Lord
both of the dead and living.
014:010 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.
014:011 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord,
every knee shall
bow to me, and
every tongue shall confess to God.
014:012 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
014:013 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.
014:014 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.
014:015 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now
walkest thou
not charitably.
Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom
Christ
died.
014:016 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
014:017 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink;
but
righteousness, and peace, and
joy in the Holy Ghost.
014:018 For he that in these things serveth Christ is
acceptable to
God, and approved of
men.
014:019 Let us therefore follow after the things which
make for peace,
and things
wherewith one may edify another.
014:020 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things
indeed are
pure; but it is evil
for that man who eateth with offence.
014:021 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.
014:022 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God.
Happy is he
that condemneth not
himself in that thing which he alloweth.
014:023 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because
he eateth
not of faith: for
whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
015:001 We then that are strong ought to bear the
infirmities of the
weak, and not
to please ourselves.
015:002 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his
good to
edification.
015:003 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it
is written,
The reproaches of them
that reproached thee fell on me.
015:004 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were
written for
our learning, that we
through patience and comfort of
the
scriptures might have
hope.
015:005 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you
to be
likeminded one toward
another according to Christ Jesus:
015:006 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify
God, even the
Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
015:007 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also
received us
to the glory of
God.
015:008 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:
015:009 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.
015:010 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
015:011 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and
laud him, all
ye people.
015:012 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.
015:013 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.
015:014 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.
015:015 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,
015:016 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.
015:017 I have therefore whereof I may glory through
Jesus Christ in
those things which
pertain to God.
015:018 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,
015:019 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.
015:020 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not
where Christ
was named, lest I
should build upon another man's foundation:
015:021 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken
of, they shall
see: and they that
have not heard shall understand.
015:022 For which cause also I have been much hindered
from coming to
you.
015:023 But now having no more place in these parts, and
having a
great desire these many
years to come unto you;
015:024 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.
015:025 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
015:026 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia
to make a
certain contribution for
the poor saints which are at
Jerusalem.
015:027 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.
015:028 When therefore I have performed this, and have
sealed to them
this fruit, I will
come by you into Spain.
015:029 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall
come in the
fulness of the
blessing of the gospel of Christ.
015:030 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;
015:031 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;
015:032 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of
God, and may
with you be
refreshed.
015:033 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
016:001 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a
servant of the
church which is at
Cenchrea:
016:002 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.
016:003 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
016:004 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.
016:005 Likewise greet the church that is in their house.
Salute my
well-beloved Epaenetus,
who is the firstfruits of Achaia
unto
Christ.
016:006 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
016:007 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and
my
fellow-prisoners, who are of
note among the apostles, who also
were in Christ before me.
016:008 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
016:009 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
016:010 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them
which are of
Aristobulus'
household.
016:011 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of
the
household of Narcissus, which
are in the Lord.
016:012 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the
Lord. Salute
the beloved Persis,
which laboured much in the Lord.
016:013 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
016:014 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas,
Hermes, and the
brethren which are
with them.
016:015 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his
sister, and
Olympas, and all the
saints which are with them.
016:016 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The
churches of Christ
salute you.
016:017 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which
cause divisions
and offences
contrary to the doctrine which ye have
learned;
and avoid them.
016:018 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.
016:019 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.
016:020 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under
your feet
shortly. The grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
016:021 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason,
and Sosipater,
my kinsmen, salute
you.
016:022 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
016:023 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church,
saluteth you.
Erastus the
chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and
Quartus
a brother.
016:024 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
016:025 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,
016:026 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:
016:027 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ
for ever.
Amen.