Romans

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Romans 1

(1) Paul, slave of Christ Jesus, called apostle, having been set apart for the glad-tidings of God, (2) which He promised beforehand through His prophets in holy scriptures, (3) concerning His son, the one having come to be from seed of David according to flesh, (4) the one having been marked out as a son of God in power according to spirit of holiness, by resurrection from dead ones—Jesus Christ our lord, (5) through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name, (6) among whom you also are called of Jesus Christ: (7) to all the ones being in Rome, beloved of God, called holy ones—grace to you and peace from God our Father and lord Jesus Christ.

(8) First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ concerning all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. (9) For God is my witness, whom I serve in cultic service in my spirit in the glad-tidings of His son, how unceasingly I make remembrance of you, (10) always begging in my prayers, if perhaps at last I will be prospered in the will of God to come to you. (11) For I long to see you, in order that I may share with you some spiritual gracious-gift, for you to be strengthened— (12) that is, to be co-encouraged among you, through the faith among one another, both yours and mine. (13) But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I set before myself to come to you, and I was hindered until now, in order that I might have some fruit also among you, just as also among the rest of the nations. (14) Both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish, I am a debtor. (15) Thus, as for me, I am eager to proclaim glad-tidings also to you, the ones in Rome.

(16) For I am not ashamed of the glad-tidings, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes—to Judean first and also to Greek. (17) For the righteousness of God is revealed in it, from faith into faith, just as it has been written: “But the righteous one from faith will live.”

(18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, the ones holding down the truth in unrighteousness, (19) because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God made it manifest to them. (20) For His invisible things are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood through the made things—both His eternal power and divinity—so that they are without excuse, (21) because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as god nor give thanks, but they were made futile in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened. (22) Claiming to be wise, they became foolish, (23) and they exchanged the glory of the imperishable God for the likeness of an image of perishable man and of birds and of four-footed animals and of reptiles. (24) Therefore God gave them over, in the desires of their hearts, to impurity, for their bodies to be dishonored among themselves— (25) who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and revered and offered cultic service to the creation rather than the one having created, who is blessed into the ages. Amen. (26) Because of this, God gave them over to passions of dishonor; for their females exchanged the natural use for the one contrary to nature; (27) and likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their craving toward one another, males among males, working out shamelessness and receiving back in themselves the due payment that was fitting for their error. (28) And just as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them over to a disapproved mind, to do the things that are not proper— (29) having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; whisperers, (30) slanderers, God-haters, insolent ones, arrogant ones, boasters, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, (31) senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless— (32) who, having known the righteous-decree of God, that the ones practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them but also co-approve the ones practicing.

Romans 2

(1) Therefore you are without excuse, O man—every one who judges; for in that which you judge the other, you condemn yourself, for you practice the same things—you who judge. (2) But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those practicing such things. (3) But do you reckon this, O man, the one judging those practicing such things and doing them, that you will escape the judgment of God? (4) Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? (5) But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of revelation of the righteous-judgment of God, (6) who will render to each according to his works: (7) to those indeed seeking glory and honor and incorruptibility with endurance of good work—eternal life; (8) but to those from selfish-ambition, and disobeying the truth while being persuaded by unrighteousness—wrath and anger. (9) Tribulation and distress upon every soul of man working out the evil—both Judean first and Greek; (10) but glory and honor and peace to everyone working the good—both Judean first and Greek. (11) For there is no partiality with God.

(12) For as many as sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as sinned in law will be judged through law. (13) For the hearers of law are not righteous before God, but the doers of law will be justified. (14) For whenever nations, the ones not having law, by nature do the things of the law, these, not having law, are a law to themselves, (15) who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness together, and between one another their reasonings accusing or also defending— (16) in the day when God judges the hidden things of men according to my glad-tidings through Christ Jesus.

(17) But if you are named a Judean and rest upon law and boast in God, (18) and you know the will and approve the things that differ, being instructed from the law, (19) and you are confident that you yourself are a guide of blind ones, a light of those in darkness, (20) an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the embodiment of the knowledge and of the truth in the law— (21) the one then teaching another, do you not teach yourself? The one proclaiming, “Do not steal”—do you steal? (22) The one saying, “Do not commit adultery”—do you commit adultery? The one abhorring the idols—do you commit temple-robbery? (23) You who boast in law dishonor God through the transgression of the law. (24) For “the name of God is blasphemed among the nations because of you,” just as it has been written. (25) For circumcision indeed profits if you practice law; but if you are a transgressor of law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. (26) If then the uncircumcision keeps the righteous-decrees of the law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision? (27) And the one who is by nature uncircumcised, fulfilling the law, will judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of law. (28) For he is not a Judean who is one in the visible, nor is circumcision that which is visible in the flesh; (29) but the Judean in the hidden—and the circumcision of the heart, in spirit, not letter—whose praise is not from men but from God.

Romans 3

(1) What then is the advantage of the Judean, or what the benefit of circumcision? (2) Much in every way. First indeed, that they were entrusted the oracles of God. (3) What then? If some were unfaithful, will their unfaithfulness nullify the faithfulness of God? (4) May it not be! Let God be true and every man a liar, just as it has been written: “So that You may be justified in Your words and prevail in Your being judged.” (5) But if our unrighteousness confirms the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who brings the wrath—is He unrighteous? I speak according to man. (6) May it not be! Otherwise, how will God judge the world? (7) But if the truth of God abounded in my lie unto His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? (8) And not as we are slandered, and as some allege us to say, “Let us do the evil things, that the good things may come”—whose judgment is just.

(9) What then? Are we better? Not at all; for we have before charged both Judeans and Greeks, all, to be under sin— (10) just as it has been written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; (11) there is no one understanding; there is no one seeking God; (12) all turned aside; together they became worthless; there is no one doing kindness, there is not even one; (13) their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived; venom of asps is under their lips; (14) whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; (15) their feet are swift to shed blood; (16) destruction and misery are in their ways; (17) and the way of peace they did not know; (18) there is no fear of God before their eyes.” (19) But we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become liable to God. (20) Because from works of law no flesh will be justified before Him; for through law comes knowledge of sin.

(21) But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets: (22) the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ, unto all who believe. For there is no distinction; (23) for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (24) being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus— (25) whom God set forth as a mercy seat, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness, because of the passing-over of previously committed sins, (26) in the forbearance of God, for the demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, for Him to be righteous and justifying the one from faith of Jesus.

(27) Where then is boasting? It was excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith. (28) For we reckon a man to be justified by faith apart from works of law. (29) Or is God of Judeans only? Not also of Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles— (30) since one God, who will justify circumcision from faith and uncircumcision through the faith. (31) Do we then nullify law through faith? May it not be! But we uphold law.

Romans 4

(1) What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to flesh, has found? (2) For if Abraham was justified from works, he has a boast—but not toward God. (3) For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.” (4) To the one working, the wage is not reckoned according to grace but according to debt; (5) but to the one not working but believing upon the one justifying the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness. (6) Just as David also speaks the blessing of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works: (7) “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds were forgiven and whose sins were covered; (8) blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will by no means reckon.” (9) Is this blessing then upon circumcision, or also upon uncircumcision? For we say, “Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.” (10) How then was it reckoned? Being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision. (11) And he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that was in uncircumcision, for him to be the father of all who believe through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be reckoned also to them— (12) and father of circumcision, not only to those from circumcision but also to those walking in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham in uncircumcision.

(13) For not through law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but through righteousness of faith. (14) For if those from law are heirs, faith is emptied and the promise is nullified. (15) For the law works out wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression. (16) Because of this it is from faith, in order that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be firm to all the seed—not only to the one from the law but also to the one from faith of Abraham, who is father of us all— (17) just as it has been written: “I have appointed you father of many nations”—before the God whom he believed, who makes alive the dead and calls the not-being as being. (18) Who, against hope, upon hope believed, for him to become father of many nations, according to the having been said: “So shall your seed be.” (19) And not having weakened in faith, he considered his own body already deadened—being about a hundred years old—and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. (20) But toward the promise of God he did not waver in unfaithfulness, but was empowered by faith, giving glory to God, (21) and having been fully assured that what He has promised, He is able also to do. (22) Therefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

(23) But it was not written for his sake only that it was reckoned to him, (24) but also for us, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to those believing upon the one having raised Jesus our lord from dead, (25) who was delivered up for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

Romans 5

(1) Having been justified from faith, we have peace toward God through our lord Jesus Christ, (2) through whom also we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we have stood; and we boast upon hope of the glory of God. (3) Not only this, but also we boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works out endurance, (4) and endurance proven-character, and proven-character hope. (5) And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through holy spirit, which has been given to us. (6) For while we were still weak, in accordance with the time, Christ died for the ungodly. (7) For scarcely for a righteous one would anyone die; for perhaps someone even dares to die for the good one. (8) But God confirms His own love toward us, because while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (9) Much more therefore, having been justified now by his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath. (10) For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life. (11) Not only this, but also boasting in God through our lord Jesus Christ, through whom we now received the reconciliation.

(12) Through this, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death passed through to all men, because of whom all sinned— (13) for until law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. (14) But death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those not having sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one coming. (15) But not as the trespass, so also the gracious gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ superabounded unto the many. (16) And the gift is not as through one having sinned. For the verdict was from one unto condemnation, but the gracious gift from many trespasses unto a righteous-verdict. (17) For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those receiving the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. (18) So then, as through one trespass unto all men unto condemnation, so also through one righteous-act unto all men unto justification of life. (19) For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinful, so also through the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous. (20) Law entered alongside, in order that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-superabounded, (21) so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord.

Romans 6

(1) What then shall we say? Should we remain in sin, in order that grace might abound? (2) May it not be! We who died to sin, how shall we still live in it? (3) Or are you ignorant that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (4) We were co-buried therefore with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from dead ones through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life. (5) For if we have come to be co-grown with the likeness of his death, we shall also be of the resurrection. (6) Knowing this, that our old man was co-crucified, in order that the body of sin might be nullified, for us no longer to serve sin. (7) For the one having died has been justified from sin. (8) But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also co-live with him, (9) knowing that Christ, having been raised from dead ones, no longer dies; death no longer has lordship over him. (10) For what he died, he died to sin once for all; but what he lives, he lives to God. (11) So also you, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (12) Do not therefore let sin reign in your mortal body, to obey its desires; (13) neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as alive from dead ones, and your members as weapons of righteousness to God. (14) For sin will not have lordship over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

(15) What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not be! (16) Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, slaves you are to whom you obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (17) But thanks to God, that you were slaves of sin, but you obeyed from the heart unto the pattern of teaching to which you were delivered over. (18) And having been freed from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness. (19) I speak a human thing because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness. (20) For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. (21) What fruit therefore did you have then, over which now you are ashamed? For the end of those things is death. (22) But now, having been freed from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto holiness—and the end, eternal life. (23) For the rations-of-pay of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our lord.

Romans 7

(1) Or are you ignorant, brothers—for I speak to those knowing law—that the law has lordship over a man for as long a time as he lives? (2) For the married woman has been bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband dies, she has been discharged from the law of the husband. (3) So then, while the husband lives, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes a wife to another husband; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having become a wife to another husband. (4) So that, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ, for you to become another’s—the one having been raised from dead ones—in order that we might bear fruit to God. (5) For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, the ones through the law, were being activated in our members to bear fruit to death. (6) But now we were discharged from the law, having died in that in which we were being held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not oldness of letter.

(7) What then shall we say? Is the law sin? May it not be! But I did not know sin except through law; for I was not aware of coveting except the law was saying, “You shall not covet.” (8) But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, worked out in me all coveting; for apart from law, sin is dead. (9) And I was living apart from law at one time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, (10) and I died. And the commandment, the one unto life, this was found unto death for me. (11) For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. (12) So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good. (13) Did the good thing become death to me? May it not be! But sin, in order that it might appear as sin, working out death in me through the good thing, in order that sin might become beyond measure sinful through the commandment.

(14) For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold under sin. (15) For what I work out I do not recognize; for I do not practice what I wish, but what I hate, this I do. (16) But if I do what I do not wish, I agree with the law that it is good. (17) But now, no longer I work it out, but the sin dwelling in me. (18) For I know that good does not dwell in me—that is, in my flesh. For the wishing lies beside me, but the working out of the good is not. (19) For the good that I wish I do not do, but the evil that I do not wish, this I practice. (20) But if what I do not wish, this I do, no longer I work it out, but the sin dwelling in me. (21) I find therefore the law, for me who wishes to do the good, that the evil lies beside me. (22) For I delight together in the law of God according to the inward man; (23) but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive in the law of sin being in my members. (24) Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? (25) Thanks to God, through Jesus Christ our lord. So then, I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 8

(1) There is therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus— (2) for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed you from the law of sin and of death. (3) For the impossible thing of the law, in which it was weak through the flesh—God, having sent His own son in likeness of flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh, (4) in order that the righteous-requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to flesh but according to spirit. (5) For those being according to flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those according to spirit, the things of the spirit. (6) For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the spirit is life and peace; (7) because the mind-set of the flesh is hostility toward God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed is it able. (8) And those being in flesh are not able to please God. (9) But you are not in flesh but in spirit, if indeed the spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the spirit of the Christ, this one is not his. (10) But if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. (11) And if the spirit of the one having raised Jesus from dead ones dwells in you, the one having raised the Christ from dead ones will make alive also your mortal bodies through His spirit dwelling in you.

(12) So then, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to flesh. (13) For if you live according to flesh, you are about to die; but if by 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 sons of God. (15) For you did not receive a spirit of bondage again into fear, but you received a spirit of sonship, in which we cry, “Abba, Father!” (16) The spirit itself bears witness together with our spirit that we are children of God. (17) And if children, also heirs—heirs indeed of God, co-heirs of the Christ—if indeed we suffer together, in order that we might also be co-glorified.

(18) For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy compared to the coming glory to be revealed upon us. (19) For the eager expectation of the creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God. (20) For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but through the one having subjected it—upon hope, (21) that the creation itself also will be freed from the bondage of decay into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. (22) For we know that all the creation groans together and suffers birth-pains together until now. (23) Not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the spirit—even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting eagerly sonship, the redemption of our body. (24) For by hope we were saved; but hope being seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he sees? (25) But if we hope for what we do not see, we await eagerly through endurance. (26) Likewise, the spirit also helps together our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray as is necessary, but the spirit itself intercedes with groanings inexpressible. (27) But the one searching the hearts knows what the mind-set of the spirit is, because it intercedes according to God on behalf of holy ones. (28) And we know that all things work together for good for those loving God, for those being called according to purpose; (29) because whom He foreknew, He also foreordained, conformed to the image of His son, for him to be firstborn among many brothers. (30) And whom He foreordained, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

(31) What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? (32) He who indeed did not spare His own son but delivered him up for us all—how will He not also grant us all things with him? (33) Who will bring a charge against the elect of God? God is the one justifying. (34) Who is the one condemning? Christ Jesus is the one having died—rather, having been raised—who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes on behalf of us. (35) Who will separate us from the love of the Christ? Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? (36) Just as it has been written: “For Your sake we are being put to death all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter.” (37) But in all these we overwhelmingly conquer through the one having loved us. (38) For I have been convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things coming, nor powers, (39) nor height nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our lord.

Romans 9

(1) Truth I speak in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience bearing witness together with me in holy spirit— (2) that great sorrow is to me and unceasing pain in my heart. (3) For I was wishing myself to be accursed from the Christ, on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh— (4) who are Israelites, of whom the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the law-giving and the cultic-service and the promises— (5) of whom the fathers, and from whom the Christ according to flesh—who is over all, God—blessed into the ages. Amen.

(6) But not as though the word of God has fallen. For not all those from Israel are Israel; (7) nor, because they are seed of Abraham, are all children; but “In Isaac will be called to you a seed.” (8) That is, not the children of the flesh are these children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed. (9) For this is the word of promise: “According to this time I will come, and there will be for Sarah a son.” (10) And not only this, but also Rebecca, having conceived from one—from Isaac our father— (11) for, not yet having been born nor having done anything good or worthless, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain— (12) not from works but from the one calling, it was said to her: “The greater will serve the lesser.” (13) Just as it has been written: “I loved Jacob, but Esau I hated.”

(14) What then shall we say? Is there injustice with God? May it not be! (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 then, it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of the God showing mercy. (17) For the scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this very thing I raised you up, so that I might show in you My power, and so that My name might be declared in all the earth.” (18) So then, He shows mercy to whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.

(19) You will say to me then: “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His purpose?” (20) O man, on the contrary! Who are you, the one answering back to God? Will the thing shaped say to the one having shaped it, “Why did You make me thus?” (21) Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honour and another for dishonour? (22) But if God, willing to show the wrath and to make known His power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction— (23) and in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory— (24) whom He also called us, not only from Judeans but also from nations; (25) as also He says in Hosea: “I will call the not-my-people My people, and the not-having-been-loved having-been-loved.” (26) And it will be, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they will be called sons of the living God. (27) But Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel: “If the number of the sons of Israel is as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved; (28) for the Lord will make a word upon the earth, completing and cutting short.” (29) And just as Isaiah has said before: “If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

(30) What then shall we say? That nations, not pursuing righteousness, attained righteousness—but the righteousness from faith; (31) but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at the law. (32) Why? Because it was not from faith but as from works; they stumbled at the stone of stumbling— (33) just as it has been written: “Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and the one believing upon him will not be put to shame.”

Romans 10

(1) Brothers, the good-will of my heart and the prayer toward God on behalf of them is for salvation. (2) For I bear witness to them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. (3) For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God. (4) For Christ is the end of law, for righteousness to everyone who believes.

(5) For Moses writes the righteousness from the law: “The one having done these things will live in them.” (6) But the righteousness from faith says thus: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’—that is, to bring Christ down— (7) or, ‘Who will go down into the abyss?’—that is, to bring Christ up from dead ones.” (8) But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we proclaim: (9) that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from dead ones, you will be saved. (10) For with the heart it is believed unto righteousness, and with the mouth it is confessed unto salvation. (11) For the scripture says: “Everyone believing upon him will not be put to shame.” (12) For there is no distinction between Judean and Greek; for the same lord of all is rich toward all who call upon him. (13) For “everyone who calls upon the name of the lord will be saved.”

(14) How then will they call upon him in whom they did not believe? And how will they believe him whom they did not hear? And how will they hear without one proclaiming? (15) And how will they proclaim if they are not sent? Just as it has been written: “How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming glad-tidings of good things!” (16) But not all obeyed the glad-tidings; for Isaiah says: “Lord, who believed our report?” (17) So faith is from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. (18) But I say: Did they not hear? Nevertheless, “Into all the earth their sound went out, and to the ends of the inhabited world their words.” (19) But I say: Did Israel not know? First, Moses says: “I will provoke you to jealousy by a not-nation; by a foolish nation I will provoke you to anger.” (20) But Isaiah dares boldly and says: “I was found by those not seeking me; I became manifest to those not asking after me.” (21) But toward Israel He says: “All the day I stretched out My hands toward a disobeying and contradicting people.”

Romans 11

(1) I say then: God did not reject His people, did He? May it not be! For I also am an Israelite, from seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. (2) God did not reject His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know, in Elijah, what the scripture says, how he intercedes with God against Israel? (3) “Lord, they killed Your prophets; they demolished Your altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my life.” (4) But what does the divine answer say to him? “I left for Myself seven thousand men who did not bend a knee to Baal.” (5) So then also in the present time a remnant according to election of grace has come to be. (6) But if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise grace no longer becomes grace. (7) What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened. (8) Just as it has been written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so as not to see, and ears so as not to hear, until this very day.” (9) And David says: “Let their table become a trap and a snare and a stumbling-block and a retribution to them; (10) let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and bend their back always.”

(11) I say then: did they stumble in order that they might fall? May it not be! But by their trespass, salvation to the nations, in order to provoke them to jealousy. (12) But if their trespass is the riches of the world, and their defeat the riches of nations, how much more their fullness. (13) But I speak to you, the nations: inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, I glorify my service, (14) if perhaps I might provoke my flesh to jealousy and save some of them. (15) For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what is the acceptance, if not life from dead ones? (16) And if the first-fruit is holy, also the lump; and if the root is holy, also the branches. (17) But if some of the branches were broken out, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a co-partaker of the root of the richness of the olive, (18) do not boast against the branches. But if you boast—you do not carry the root, but the root carries you. (19) You will say then: “Branches were broken out so that I might be grafted in.” (20) Well! By unfaithfulness they were broken out, but you stand by faith. Do not set your mind on high things, but fear. (21) For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. (22) Behold then the kindness and severity of God: on the fallen, severity; but on you, God’s kindness, if you remain in the kindness; otherwise you also will be cut out. (23) And those, if they do not remain in unfaithfulness, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again. (24) For if you were cut out from the wild olive according to nature, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive, how much more will these, the ones according to nature, be grafted into their own olive.

(25) For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, in order that you might not be wise in yourselves: that a hardening in part has come to be to Israel, until the fullness of the nations might enter. (26) And so all Israel will be saved, just as it has been written: “The rescuer will come from Zion; he will turn away ungodlinesses from Jacob. (27) And this is their covenant from Me, when I take away their sins.” (28) According to the glad-tidings indeed, enemies because of you; but according to election, beloved because of the fathers. (29) For the gracious gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. (30) For just as you once disobeyed God, but now were shown mercy by the disobedience of these, (31) so also these now disobeyed your mercy, in order that they also might now be shown mercy. (32) For God shut up all into disobedience, in order that He might show mercy to all.

(33) O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and unfathomable His ways! (34) For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who became His counselor? (35) Or who has given first to Him, and it will be repaid to him? (36) For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things; to Him be the glory into the ages. Amen.

Romans 12

(1) I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice—holy, well-pleasing to God—which is your rational cultic service. (2) And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of the mind, for you to approve what the will of God is: the good and well-pleasing and complete.

(3) For I say, through the grace having been given to me, to everyone being among you: not to think beyond what is necessary to think, but to think so as to be sober-minded, to each as God apportioned a measure of faith. (4) For just as in one body we have many members, but the members do not all have the same function, (5) so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. (6) And having gracious-gifts according to the grace having been given to us, different: whether prophecy, according to the proportion of the faith; (7) whether service, in the service; whether the one teaching, in the teaching; (8) whether the one exhorting, in the exhortation; the one sharing, in sincerity; the one standing before, in diligence; the one showing mercy, in cheerfulness.

(9) Let love be without hypocrisy: abhorring the evil, clinging to the good; (10) in brotherly love, tenderly loving one another; in honour, going before one another; (11) in diligence, not slothful; in spirit, boiling; serving the lord; (12) in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, being devoted; (13) sharing in the needs of the holy ones; pursuing hospitality. (14) Bless those persecuting you; bless and do not curse. (15) Rejoice with rejoicing ones; weep with weeping ones. (16) Thinking the same thing toward one another; not thinking high things, but being carried along together with the lowly; do not become wise in yourselves. (17) Rendering to no one evil in return for evil; foreseeing good things before all men; (18) if possible, as far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men. (19) Not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath; for it has been written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.” (20) But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for doing this you will pile up coals of fire upon his head. (21) Do not be overcome by the evil, but overcome the evil with the good.

Romans 13

(1) Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God; the ones existing have been ordered by God. (2) So that the one resisting the authority has resisted the order of God; and the ones having resisted will receive judgment to themselves. (3) For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you wish, however, not to fear the authority? Do the good, and you will have praise from it. (4) For it is God’s servant to you for the good. But if you do the evil, fear; for it does not bear the sword in vain. For it is God’s servant, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing the evil. (5) Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath but also because of the conscience. (6) For because of this you also pay taxes; for they are ministers of God, being devoted to this very thing. (7) Render to all the obligations: to the one the tax, the tax; to the one the revenue, the revenue; to the one the fear, the fear; to the one the honour, the honour.

(8) Owe nothing to no one, except to love one another; for the one loving the other has fulfilled law. (9) For the “You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,” and if any other commandment, is summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” (10) Love does not work evil to the neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilment of the law.

(11) And this, knowing the time—that it is already the hour for you to be raised from sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. (12) The night advanced; but the day has drawn near. Let us put away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light. (13) As in day, let us walk properly—not in carousings and drunkennesses, not in beddings and licentiousnesses, not in strife and jealousy. (14) But put on the lord Jesus Christ, and do not make forethought for the flesh, for desires.

Romans 14

(1) But receive the one being weak in the faith—not for judgments of reasonings. (2) One indeed believes to eat all things; but the one being weak eats vegetables. (3) The one eating, let him not despise the one not eating; and the one not eating, let him not judge the one eating; for God received him. (4) Who are you, the one judging another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls; but he will be made to stand, for the lord is able to make him stand. (5) One indeed judges a day above a day; another judges every day. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. (6) The one thinking the day, thinks it to the lord; and the one eating, eats to the lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one not eating, to the lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. (7) For no one of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself; (8) for if we live, we live to the lord; and if we die, we die to the lord; if then we live and if we die, we are the lord’s. (9) For for this Christ died and lived, in order that he might be lord of both dead and living. (10) But you, why do you judge your brother? Or also you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand beside the judgment-seat of God. (11) For it has been written: “As I live, says the Lord, that to Me every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess to God.” (12) So then each of us will give an account concerning himself to God.

(13) Let us therefore no longer judge one another; but judge this rather: not to place a stumbling-block or an offense to the brother. (14) I know and have been convinced in lord Jesus that nothing is common through itself, except to the one reckoning anything to be common—to that one it is common. (15) For if your brother is grieved because of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one on behalf of whom Christ died, by your food. (16) Therefore let not your good be blasphemed. (17) For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in holy spirit. (18) For the one serving the Christ in this is well-pleasing to God and approved by men. (19) So then let us pursue the things of peace and the things of building up—the things for one another. (20) Not for the sake of food tear down the work of God. All things indeed are clean, but evil to the man who eats through a stumbling-block. (21) It is good not to eat meats nor to drink wine nor to do that in which your brother stumbles. (22) The faith which you have, have according to yourself before God. Blessed is the one not judging himself in what he approves. (23) But the one doubting, if he eats, has been condemned, because it is not from faith; but everything which is not from faith is sin.

Romans 15

(1) But we, the strong ones, owe to carry the weaknesses of the unable ones, and not to please ourselves. (2) Let each of us please the neighbour, for the good, toward building up. (3) For even the Christ did not please himself; but just as it has been written: “The reproaches of those reproaching You fell upon me.” (4) For as many things as were written beforehand were written for our instruction, in order that through the endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have the hope. (5) And may the God of endurance and encouragement give to you to think the same thing among one another, according to Christ Jesus, (6) in order that with one accord, with one mouth, you might glorify the God and Father of our lord Jesus Christ.

(7) Therefore receive one another, just as also the Christ received you, for the glory of God. (8) For I say Christ has become a servant of circumcision, for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers— (9) and the nations, for mercy, to glorify God; just as it has been written: “Because of this I will confess to You among nations, and to Your name I will sing praise.” (10) And again it says: “Rejoice, nations, with His people.” (11) And again: “Praise the Lord, all the nations, and let all the peoples praise Him.” (12) And again Isaiah says: “There will be the root of Jesse, and the one arising to rule nations; on him the nations will hope.” (13) And may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for you to abound in the hope, in the power of holy spirit.

(14) But I have been convinced, my brothers, concerning you—even I myself—that you yourselves are full of goodness, having been filled with all the knowledge, being able also to admonish one another. (15) But more boldly I wrote to you, in part, as recalling to you, because of the grace having been given to me by God, (16) for me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, ministering as a priest the glad-tidings of God, in order that the offering of the nations might become acceptable, having been sanctified in holy spirit. (17) Therefore I have the boasting in Christ Jesus, the things toward God. (18) For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not work out through me, for the obedience of nations, in word and in work— (19) in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, I have fulfilled the glad-tidings of the Christ. (20) But thus being ambitious to proclaim glad-tidings, not where Christ was named, in order that I might not build upon another’s foundation— (21) but just as it has been written: “To those to whom it was not announced about him, they will see; and those who have not heard will understand.”

(22) Therefore also I was being hindered many times from coming to you. (23) But now, no longer having a place in these regions, and having a longing to come to you from many years, (24) whenever I might travel to Spain—for I hope, passing through, to behold you and by you to be sent forward there, if first in part I might be filled from you. (25) But now I am going to Jerusalem, serving the holy ones. (26) For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make some sharing for the poor of the holy ones in Jerusalem. (27) For they were pleased, and they are their debtors; for if the nations shared in their spiritual things, they owe also to minister to them in fleshy things. (28) Therefore, having completed this and having sealed to them this fruit, I will go through you to Spain. (29) But I know that coming to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Christ. (30) But I exhort you, brothers, through our lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers on behalf of me toward God, (31) in order that I might be rescued from the disobeying ones in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem might become acceptable to the holy ones, (32) in order that in joy, having come to you through the will of God, I might rest together with you. (33) And the God of peace be with all of you. Amen.

Romans 16

(1) But I commend to you Phoebe our sister, being a servant of the assembly which is in Cenchreae, (2) that you may receive her in the lord, worthily of the holy ones, and may stand by her in whatever matter she may need from you; for she also became a patron of many, and of myself. (3) Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, (4) who laid down their own neck for my life—for whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations— (5) and greet the assembly at their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia for Christ. (6) Greet Mary, who labored many things for you. (7) Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my co-captives, who are notable among the apostles, who also have come to be in Christ before me. (8) Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the lord. (9) Greet Urbanus, our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved. (10) Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet the ones of Aristobulus. (11) Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet the ones of Narcissus, the ones being in the lord. (12) Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, the ones laboring in the lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored many things in the lord. (13) Greet Rufus, the elect in the lord, and his mother and mine. (14) Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them. (15) Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy ones with them. (16) Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of the Christ greet you.

(17) But I exhort you, brothers, to watch out for those making the divisions and the offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them. (18) For such ones do not serve our lord Christ, but their own belly; and through smooth-speech and blessing-talk they deceive the hearts of the innocent ones. (19) For your obedience has reached to all; therefore I rejoice over you. But I wish you to be wise for the good, but innocent for the evil. (20) And the God of peace will crush the Adversary under your feet quickly. The grace of our lord Jesus be with you.

(21) Timothy, my fellow-worker, greets you; and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen. (22) I, Tertius, the one having written the letter, greet you in the lord. (23) Gaius, my host and of the whole assembly, greets you; Erastus, the steward of the city, greets you, and Quartus the brother.

(25) But to the one being able to establish you according to my glad-tidings and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery having been kept silent in eternal times— (26) but now having been manifested, and through prophetic writings, according to the command of the eternal God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith— (27) to the only-wise God, through Jesus Christ, to Whom be the glory into the ages. Amen.