Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Verse 1
1. Paul, a slave[1] of Jesus Christ, a called apostle,[2] having been set apart to the Gospel of God,
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2. which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures:[3]
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3. concerning His Son, who became a physical descendant of David,[4]
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4. who was established to be God’s powerful Son (in accordance with Spirit of holiness[5]) by resurrection from the dead[6]—Jesus Christ our Lord—
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5. through whom we have received grace and apostleship to promote obedience of faith among all ethnic nations concerning His name[7]
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6. (among these you also are called by Jesus Christ);
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7. to all the called saints[8] who are in Rome, beloved of God: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Sovereign Jesus Christ.[9]
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8. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.[10]
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9. Further, the God whom I serve with my spirit[11] in the Gospel of His Son is my witness, how without ceasing I always remember you in my prayers,
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10. begging that perhaps now, at last, I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.[12]
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11. For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established
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12. —that is, that I may be encouraged among you by our mutual faith,[13] both yours and mine.
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13. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.[14]
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14. I am a debtor[15] both to Greeks and to non-Greeks, both to wise and to foolish.
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15. So, for my part, I am eager to preach the Gospel to you who are in Rome as well.
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16. I am not ashamed[16] of the Gospel of Christ,[17] because it is the power of God for the salvation of each one who believes[18] (for the Jew first, then the Greek);
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17. because in it God’s righteousness is revealed, from faith to faith; just as it is written: “The righteous one will live by faith.”[19]
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18. Now the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of the people who suppress the truth by unrighteousness,[20]
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19. precisely because what may be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.
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20. Because His invisible attributes, namely His eternal power and divine nature, are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood from what has been made, so that they are inexcusable;[21]
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21. precisely because, knowing God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks;[22] so their reasonings became worthless and their senseless hearts were darkened.[23]
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22. Claiming to be wise, they became fools,[24]
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23. and exchanged for themselves the glory of the incorruptible God for an image resembling a perishable man[25]—even birds and quadrupeds and reptiles!
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24. Therefore God also gave them up, through the cravings of their hearts for vileness, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves
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25. —they had exchanged the truth of God for the lie,[26] and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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26. For this reason God gave them up[27] to degrading passions; in fact even their females exchanged the natural sexual function for that against nature;
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27. likewise also the males, abandoning the natural use of the female, were inflamed[28] in their lust toward one another, males committing the disgraceful act[29] with males, and receiving in themselves the due penalty[30] for their error.
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28. So precisely because they determined not to retain God in their knowledge,[31] God gave them up to a debased mind, to do wrong things:
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29. having been filled[32] with all unrighteousness, fornication,[33] wickedness, greed, depravity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; gossips,
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30. slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, braggarts, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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31. senseless, faithless, hardhearted, intransigent,[34] unmerciful;
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32. who, knowing full well God’s just sentence, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do them but also approve of other practitioners.[35]
Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Verse 1
1. Now then, you there, whoever you are who judges someone else for things you practice yourself—you condemn yourself and are inexcusable.
Chapter 2 Verse 2
2. Further, we know that God’s judgment against those who practice such things[1] is according to truth.
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3. So then, you there, you who judge those who practice such things while doing the same, do you really imagine that you will escape God’s judgment?[2]
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4. Or do you scorn the riches of His kindness, tolerance and longsuffering, not recognizing that the goodness of God is leading you toward repentance?[3]
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5. Rather, due to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up wrath for yourself in the day of God’s wrath and revelation and righteous judgment,[4]
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6. who will repay each one according to his works:[5]
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7. to those who seek for glory, honor and incorruption, by persevering in doing good—eternal life;[6]
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8. but to those who, due to self-seeking,[7] are actually disobeying the truth (while obeying the unrighteousness)—fury and wrath,
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9. tribulation and anguish, upon every human soul who works at the evil,[8] whether Jew (first) or Greek;
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10. but glory, honor and peace to everyone who works the good, whether Jew (first) or Greek.[9]
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11. Now there is no favoritism with God.
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12. For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law; while as many as have sinned with law will be judged by law.[10]
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13. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified[11]
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14. (indeed, whenever the ethnic nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these, although not having law, are a law to themselves;
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15. who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness,[12] and their reasonings among themselves accusing or even excusing)
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16. in the day when God, according to my Gospel, will judge people’s secrets by Jesus Christ.[13]
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17. Look, you declare yourself a Jew, and rest on the Law, and boast in God,
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18. and know the Will, and approve the superior things, being instructed out of the Law.
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19. Further, you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,
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20. an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth.[14]
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21. You then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?
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22. You who say not to commit adultery, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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23. You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law?
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24. For, just as it is written: “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[15]
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25. Now circumcision does have value if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
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26. So if the uncircumcised keeps the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
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27. And will not the physically uncircumcised who fulfills the law judge you, complete with written code and circumcision, who are a transgressor of the Law?
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28. Because a person is not a [true] Jew who is only one outwardly, nor is [true] circumcision something outward in the flesh;
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29. but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—in spirit, not letter—whose praise is not from men but from God.[16]
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Verse 1
1. So what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the profit of circumcision?
Chapter 3 Verse 2
2. Much in every way![1] First of all, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.[2]
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3. So, what if some did not believe? Their unbelief will not nullify God’s faithfulness, will it?
Chapter 3 Verse 4
4. Of course not! Rather, let God be found true, but every man a liar; just as it is written: “That you may be justified in your words, and may overcome when you are judged.”[3]
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5. Now if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what shall we say? God is not unrighteous for inflicting His wrath, is He? (I speak as a man.)
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6. Of course not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?
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7. Still, if the truth of God abounded to His glory by my falsehood, just why am I still judged as a sinner?[4]
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8. However, we must not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come” (as some people slanderously claim that we do)—their condemnation is well deserved![5]
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9. What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks[6] that they are all under sin.
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10. Just as it is written: “No one is righteous, not even one;
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11. there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
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12. All have turned aside, together they have been made useless; there is no one who shows kindness, no, not so much as one.”[7]
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13. “Their throat is an opened grave; they habitually deceive with their tongues.”[8] “Viper’s venom is under their lips”;[9]
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14. “whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”[10]
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15. “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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16. ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,
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17. and the way of peace they have not known.”[11]
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18. “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”[12]
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19. Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world become accountable to God.
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20. It follows that no flesh will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because through the law comes the real knowledge of sin.[13]
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21. But now, apart from law, a righteousness from God has been revealed, being attested by the Law and the Prophets,
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22. namely, a righteousness from God through faith in Jesus Christ, into all and upon all[14] those who believe. There is no difference:
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23. all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,[15]
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24. being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
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25. whom God has openly made available as a propitiation through the faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness because of the passing over, in God’s forbearance, of the previously committed sins;[16]
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26. to demonstrate His righteousness at this present time, so as to be just, Himself, and the justifier of him who is of the Faith of Jesus.[17]
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27. Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law, that of works? No, but by a law of faith.
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28. Therefore we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from works of law.
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29. Or is God for Jews only? Is He not also for Gentiles? Yes, also for Gentiles,
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30. since indeed there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through the Faith.[18]
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31. Do we then nullify law through the Faith? Of course not! Rather, we uphold law.[19]
Chapter 4
Chapter 4 Verse 1
1. What then shall we say that our father Abraham discovered, as a man?
Chapter 4 Verse 2
2. If Abraham was really justified by works, he has a boast—but not before God.
Chapter 4 Verse 3
3. So what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[1]
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4. Now to him who works, the pay is not counted as a gift but as an obligation.
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5. But to him who does not work[2] but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
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6. Just as David speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
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7. “Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered up.
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8. Blessed is the man to whom the LORD will not impute sin!”[3]
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9. Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? Since we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness,
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10. how then was it credited? After he was circumcised or while still uncircumcised? Not circumcised, but uncircumcised!
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11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness from his faith while still uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, in order that this righteousness may be credited to them also,[4]
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12. and the father of the circumcised—not only those who are circumcised, but especially those who follow in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham while still uncircumcised.[5]
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13. Now the promise that he would be the heir of the world[6] was not to Abraham, or his seed, through law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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14. For if those who are of law are heirs, the faith is made empty and the promise has been invalidated;
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15. because the law produces wrath, since where there is no law neither is there transgression.[7]
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16. For this reason it is of faith so that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise be guaranteed to all the seed—not only to those of law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;
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17. just as it is written: “I have made you a father of many ethnic nations”[8]—in the presence of Him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead and calls the non-existent things as though they did exist.[9]
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18. Contrary to hope, Abraham in hope believed, so as to become a father of many ethnic nations, according to what had been spoken: “So shall your seed be.”[10]
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19. And not being weak in faith, he did not[11] consider his own body, already dead[12] (being about a hundred years old), or the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
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20. He did not waver at God’s promise in unbelief; rather, he was strengthened by the faith, giving glory to God,
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21. being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform[13]
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22. —that is why it was credited to him as righteousness.
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23. Now it was not only for his sake that it was written that it was credited to him,
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24. but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, we who believe on Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
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25. who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.[14]
Chapter 5
Chapter 5 Verse 1
1. Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at[1] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Chapter 5 Verse 2
2. through whom also we have had the access, by the Faith, into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
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3. Not only so, but we should also rejoice[2] in the sufferings, knowing that the suffering produces perseverance;
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4. and the perseverance, proven character; and the proven character, hope;
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5. and the hope does not humiliate, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.[3]
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6. Now then, when we were incapacitated, even so Christ died for the ungodly, at the right moment.
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7. Now scarcely even for a righteous person will someone offer to die (although on behalf of a good man someone might dare even to die),
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8. but God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!
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9. So now that we have been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from the wrath through Him!
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10. Because since we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, while we were enemies, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life![4]
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11. No wonder we rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation![5]
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12. Now then, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, just so death spread to all men, because all sinned[6]
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13. —sin was in the world before the law, to be sure, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
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14. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression[7] (he is a type of the coming one).[8]
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15. Now the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one, how much more did God’s grace and the bounty by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
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16. Again, the gift is not like what came from one man’s having sinned: because the judgment into condemnation followed one offense, while the gracious gift into justification followed many offenses.[9]
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17. Further, if by the offense of the one man death reigned through that man, much more will those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.[10]
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18. So then, as through one offense there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.[11]
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19. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners,[12] so also through the obedience of the One the many[13] will be constituted righteous.
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20. However, law came on the scene so that the offense might abound; but where the sin abounded, the grace superabounded,
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21. so that just as sin reigned in the death,[14] so also the grace might reign through righteousness into eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Chapter 6
Chapter 6 Verse 1
1. So what shall we say? Shall we continue in the sin so that the grace may abound?
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2. Of course not! How can we who died to sin keep on living in it?
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3. Or are you unaware that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?[1]
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4. Therefore, we were buried with Him by means of that baptism into that death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by means of the Father’s glory, we also should walk in newness of life.
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5. Now if we have become united with Him in His death, we will certainly be in His resurrection as well;
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6. knowing this, that our old self[2] was crucified with Him in order that the body of the sin[3] might be set aside, so that we no longer be enslaved to that sin—
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7. because he who has died has been released from that sin.[4]
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8. Now since we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
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9. knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, cannot die again;[5] death can no longer master Him
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10. —the death He died He died to sin once for all, while the life He lives He lives to God.
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11. Thus you also, consider yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.[6]
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12. Therefore do not let the sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey it with the body’s evil desires
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13. —do not present any part[7] of your body to sin as an implement for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body parts to God as implements for righteousness.
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14. Really, sin must not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
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15. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!
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16. Do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey them as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether of sin into death, or of obedience into righteousness?
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17. But thanks be to God that although you used to be the slaves of the sin you wholeheartedly obeyed that pattern of doctrine into which you were delivered.
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18. So having been emancipated from the sin, you became enslaved to the righteousness.[8]
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19. I continue to speak on a human level because of the weakness of your flesh. Now just as you used to present your body parts as slaves to uncleanness, and to ever increasing lawlessness,[9] so now present your body parts as slaves to righteousness with a view to sanctification.
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20. For when you were slaves to the sin, you were ‘free’ from the righteousness.
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21. So what ‘fruit’ did you have at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? The end of those things is death![10]
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22. But now, having been emancipated from the sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your ‘fruit’ into sanctification—and the end is eternal life!
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23. Because the wages of sin is death,[11] but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Verse 1
1. Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law has authority over someone only as long as he lives?
Chapter 7 Verse 2
2. For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if the man should die, she is released from the law about the husband.
Chapter 7 Verse 3
3. So then, if she should ‘marry’ another man while her husband is living, she will be labeled an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from that law, not being an adulteress if she marries another man.
Chapter 7 Verse 4
4. Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body[1] of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God.
Chapter 7 Verse 5
5. Because when we were in the flesh,[2] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death.
Chapter 7 Verse 6
6. But now we have been released from the law, having died to what was gripping us, so as to slave in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.[3]
Chapter 7 Verse 7
7. So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin[4] except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”
Chapter 7 Verse 8
8. But the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting.[5] Now without the law sin is dead.
Chapter 7 Verse 9
9. Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died.
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10. Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death.
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11. Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me.
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12. So then, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Chapter 7 Verse 13
13. So has what is good become death to me? Of course not! Rather the sin, that it might be exposed as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment the sin might become extremely sinful.
Chapter 7 Verse 14
14. We know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been ‘sold’ under sin[6]
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15. —you see, I do not understand what I am doing: I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate![7]
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16. But if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
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17. So now it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin dwelling in me.
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18. Further, I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because to will is present with me, but I do not find how to perform the good.
Chapter 7 Verse 19
19. Because I do not do the good that I want to do; rather I practice the evil that I do not want to do.
Chapter 7 Verse 20
20. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin dwelling in me.
Chapter 7 Verse 21
21. So I find this ‘law’: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
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22. I joyfully agree with God’s law according to the inner man,
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23. but I see a different ‘law’ in my body parts, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of the sin that is in my body parts.
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24. What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?[8]
Chapter 7 Verse 25
25. I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Verse 1
1. Now then, there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit,[1]
Chapter 8 Verse 2
2. because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me[2] free from the law of the sin and the death.
Chapter 8 Verse 3
3. Further, what the law could not do, in that it was weak due to the flesh, God has done by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned the sin in the flesh,[3]
Chapter 8 Verse 4
4. so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Chapter 8 Verse 5
5. Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Chapter 8 Verse 6
6. Further, the mind-set of the flesh yields death, but the mind-set of the Spirit yields life and peace;
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7. because the mind-set of the flesh represents enmity against God, since it does not submit to God’s law, nor indeed can it.
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8. So, those who are ‘in flesh’ cannot please God.[4]
Chapter 8 Verse 9
9. You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
Chapter 8 Verse 10
10. But if Christ is in you, the body is dead through sin, but the Spirit is life through righteousness.
Chapter 8 Verse 11
11. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies[5] because of His Spirit who dwells in you.[6]
Chapter 8 Verse 12
12. So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live according to it;
Chapter 8 Verse 13
13. because if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if you put to death the practices of the body, by the Spirit, you will live.
Chapter 8 Verse 14
14. Because as many as are led by God’s Spirit, these are God’s sons[7]
Chapter 8 Verse 15
15. —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”[8]
Chapter 8 Verse 16
16. That Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children
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17. —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ[9] (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him).[10]
Chapter 8 Verse 18
18. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.
Chapter 8 Verse 19
19. You see, the creation waits with eager anticipation for the revelation of God’s sons;
Chapter 8 Verse 20
20. because without choice the creation was subjected to futility, due to the One who did the subjecting, based on the hope
Chapter 8 Verse 21
21. that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the freedom of the glory of God’s children.[11]
Chapter 8 Verse 22
22. Yes, we know that the whole creation has been groaning and in labor pains until now.
Chapter 8 Verse 23
23. Not only that, we ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body.
Chapter 8 Verse 24
24. Yes, we were saved in the hope,[12] but a hope that is seen is not hope—why would anyone hope for what he sees?
Chapter 8 Verse 25
25. But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance.
Chapter 8 Verse 26
26. Likewise also the Spirit comes to the aid of the hope in our weaknesses, since we do not know what we need to pray for. Indeed the Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf with inexpressible groanings,
Chapter 8 Verse 27
27. while He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, since He prays for the saints in accordance with God.[13]
Chapter 8 Verse 28
28. Further, we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to purpose.
Chapter 8 Verse 29
29. Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son,[14] so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
Chapter 8 Verse 30
30. Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.[15]
Chapter 8 Verse 31
31. What then shall we say to these things? Since God is for us, who is against us?
Chapter 8 Verse 32
32. He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also graciously give us all things?[16]
Chapter 8 Verse 33
33. Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is He who justifies.
Chapter 8 Verse 34
34. Who is he who condemns? Christ is He who died, but even more, was indeed raised, who indeed is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes on our behalf.[17]
Chapter 8 Verse 35
35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
Chapter 8 Verse 36
36. (As it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.”[18])
Chapter 8 Verse 37
37. No, in all these things we prevail completely through Him who loved us.
Chapter 8 Verse 38
38. Because I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come,
Chapter 8 Verse 39
39. neither height nor depth nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.[19]
Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Verse 1
1. I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience is testifying with me in the Holy Spirit—
Chapter 9 Verse 2
2. I have great sorrow and unceasing distress in my heart.
Chapter 9 Verse 3
3. For I keep wishing that I myself could be accursed away from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my physical relatives,
Chapter 9 Verse 4
4. the Israelites.[1] To them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.
Chapter 9 Verse 5
5. The patriarchs are theirs, and from them came the Christ (the physical part),[2] who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.
Chapter 9 Verse 6
6. However, it is not as though the Word of God has failed![3] For not all who have descended from Israel are ‘Israel’.
Chapter 9 Verse 7
7. Neither are they all ‘children’ because they are Abraham’s descendants; but, “in Isaac will your seed be called.”[4]
Chapter 9 Verse 8
8. That is, it is not the physical children who are God’s ‘children’, but the children of the promise are regarded as ‘seed’.
Chapter 9 Verse 9
9. For this is the word of promise: “At this season I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”[5]
Chapter 9 Verse 10
10. Not only that, but also when Rebecca had conceived twins by our forefather Isaac
Chapter 9 Verse 11
11. (though they had not yet been born, not having done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),
Chapter 9 Verse 12
12. it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.”[6]
Chapter 9 Verse 13
13. As it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[7]
Chapter 9 Verse 14
14. So what shall we say, there is no injustice with God, is there? Of course not!
Chapter 9 Verse 15
15. For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”[8]
Chapter 9 Verse 16
16. So then, it is not of him who wills nor of him who strives, but of God who shows mercy.
Chapter 9 Verse 17
17. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[9]
Chapter 9 Verse 18
18. So then, He has mercy on whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes.
Chapter 9 Verse 19
19. You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has ever resisted His will?”
Chapter 9 Verse 20
20. Really now, just who are you, O man, to talk back to God? What is formed will not say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
Chapter 9 Verse 21
21. Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?[10]
Chapter 9 Verse 22
22. What if God, wishing to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
Chapter 9 Verse 23
23. just in order to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy,[11] which He prepared beforehand for glory,
Chapter 9 Verse 24
24. even us whom He called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
Chapter 9 Verse 25
25. As He also says in Hosea: “I will call the ‘not my people’, ‘my people’, and the ‘not loved’ (f), ‘loved’.”[12]
Chapter 9 Verse 26
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.”[13]
Chapter 9 Verse 27
27. And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;
Chapter 9 Verse 28
28. because He is finishing and cutting short an accounting in righteousness; yes, the Lord will impose a condensed accounting[14] upon the earth.”[15]
Chapter 9 Verse 29
29. And as Isaiah had said previously: “Unless the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.”[16]
Chapter 9 Verse 30
30. So what shall we say? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained to righteousness, namely the righteousness that comes from faith;
Chapter 9 Verse 31
31. while Israel, pursuing a standard of righteousness, did not attain to that standard.
Chapter 9 Verse 32
32. Why not? Because it was not from faith, but as from works of the law. They stumbled over the ‘stumbling stone’;
Chapter 9 Verse 33
33. as it is written: “Look! I am placing in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense, and no one who believes on Him will be put to shame.”[17]
Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Verse 1
1. Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.
Chapter 10 Verse 2
2. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to real knowledge.
Chapter 10 Verse 3
3. For they, failing to understand God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to God’s righteousness.
Chapter 10 Verse 4
4. Now for everyone who believes into righteousness, Christ is the end of the law[1]
Chapter 10 Verse 5
5. —Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”[2]
Chapter 10 Verse 6
6. But the righteousness that is from faith speaks like this: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”[3] (that is, to bring Christ down)
Chapter 10 Verse 7
7. “or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’”[4] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
Chapter 10 Verse 8
8. So what does it say? “The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”[5] (that is, the message of faith that we proclaim):
Chapter 10 Verse 9
9. That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Chapter 10 Verse 10
10. Because with the heart one believes into righteousness, and with the mouth one promises[6] into salvation.
Chapter 10 Verse 11
11. Because the Scripture says: “Everyone who believes on Him will never be put to shame”[7];
Chapter 10 Verse 12
12. because there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him;
Chapter 10 Verse 13
13. because: “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.”[8]
Chapter 10 Verse 14
14. How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe on Him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone proclaiming it?
Chapter 10 Verse 15
15. And how will they proclaim unless they are sent? As it is written: “How timely is the arrival[9] of those who bring good news of peace,[10] of those who announce the good things.”[11]
Chapter 10 Verse 16
16. (However, they did not all obey the gospel; because Isaiah says: “LORD, who has believed our message?”[12])
Chapter 10 Verse 17
17. So, the faith is from a message, and that message is by the Word of God.[13]
Chapter 10 Verse 18
18. But I say, did they really not hear? Indeed yes: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their spoken words to the ends of the inhabited world.”[14]
Chapter 10 Verse 19
19. Again I say, did Israel really not know? First Moses says: “I will provoke you to jealousy by a non-nation, I will move you to anger by a senseless nation.”[15]
Chapter 10 Verse 20
20. But Isaiah is so bold as to say: “I was found by those who were not seeking me; I was revealed to those who were not asking for me.”[16]
Chapter 10 Verse 21
21. But concerning Israel he says: “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”[17]
Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Verse 1
1. So now I say, God did not reject His people, did He? Of course not! Why I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin![1]
Chapter 11 Verse 2
2. God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel saying:
Chapter 11 Verse 3
3. “LORD, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life!”[2]
Chapter 11 Verse 4
4. But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men[3] who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”[4]
Chapter 11 Verse 5
5. Even so then at this present time, there is a remnant according to an election by grace.
Chapter 11 Verse 6
6. Now if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise the grace is no longer grace. But if from works, it is no longer grace; otherwise the work is no longer work.[5]
Chapter 11 Verse 7
7. What then? What Israel is seeking, this it did not obtain; but the election[6] did obtain it, while the rest were dulled.
Chapter 11 Verse 8
8. Just as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that were not to see and ears that were not to hear, to this very day.”[7]
Chapter 11 Verse 9
9. And David says: “Let their table be made into a snare and into a trap, into a stumbling block and into a retribution to them.
Chapter 11 Verse 10
10. Let their eyes be darkened so as not to see, and their back always be bowed down.”[8]
Chapter 11 Verse 11
11. So now I say, surely they have not stumbled so as to fall [and stay fallen]? Of course not! Rather, through their transgression the salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
Chapter 11 Verse 12
12. Now if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss riches for the nations, how much more their fulfillment!
Chapter 11 Verse 13
13. So I am speaking to you Gentiles (inasmuch as I am ‘apostle to the Gentiles’, I magnify my ministry),
Chapter 11 Verse 14
14. if somehow I can provoke my own people[9] to jealousy and save some of them.
Chapter 11 Verse 15
15. For if their being rejected means reconciliation for the world, what will their restoration be but life from the dead?
Chapter 11 Verse 16
16. Now if the ‘firstfruit’ is holy, so is the whole batch; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Chapter 11 Verse 17
17. Now if some of the branches were broken off, while you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them, and with them have become a partaker of the root and the rich sap of the cultivated olive,
Chapter 11 Verse 18
18. do not boast against those branches (since if you do boast—it is not you who support the root but the root you).
Chapter 11 Verse 19
19. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
Chapter 11 Verse 20
20. Granted. Because of unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!
Chapter 11 Verse 21
21. Because if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you either!
Chapter 11 Verse 22
22. So consider the kindness and severity of God: upon those who fell, severity; but toward you, kindness, if you continue in that kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.[10]
Chapter 11 Verse 23
23. And even they, if they do not persist in the unbelief, will be grafted back in, because God has the power to graft them in again.
Chapter 11 Verse 24
24. For if you were cut out of a wild by nature olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?[11]
Chapter 11 Verse 25
25. Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant of this ‘mystery’[12] (so that you not be conceited): hardening has come upon Israel in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
Chapter 11 Verse 26
26. And so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn ungodliness away from Jacob;[13]
Chapter 11 Verse 27
27. this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”[14]
Chapter 11 Verse 28
28. On the one hand, regarding the Gospel, they are enemies because of you; on the other, regarding the election, they are beloved on account of the forefathers.
Chapter 11 Verse 29
29. Because God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.[15]
Chapter 11 Verse 30
30. For just as you also were once disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy through their disobedience,
Chapter 11 Verse 31
31. so also these have now been disobedient that through the mercy shown to you they also may be shown mercy.
Chapter 11 Verse 32
32. Yes, God has given everyone over to disobedience so that He might show mercy to all.[16]
Chapter 11 Verse 33
33. Oh, the depth of the riches of God’s wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways![17]
Chapter 11 Verse 34
34. Because “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”[18]
Chapter 11 Verse 35
35. Or “Who has ever given to Him and has to be repaid?”[19]
Chapter 11 Verse 36
36. Because from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.[20] To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Verse 1
1. Now then, brothers, I exhort you, in view of God’s compassions, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice,[1] holy, satisfying to God—your intelligent duty.
Chapter 12 Verse 2
2. Yes, stop conforming to the pattern of this world; rather, be transformed by the renewing of your mind so as to be able to experience the good and satisfying and perfect will of God.[2]
Chapter 12 Verse 3
3. Based on the grace given to me, I say to everyone among you not to set your sights higher than you should, but set them sensibly, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each.[3]
Chapter 12 Verse 4
4. Because just as in one body we have many parts, but all the parts do not have the same function,
Chapter 12 Verse 5
5. so we, who are many, are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.
Chapter 12 Verse 6
6. Since we have different spiritual gifts according to the grace that was given us, let us use them: if prophecy, according to the analogy of the Faith;[4]
Chapter 12 Verse 7
7. if serving, in the serving; if teaching, in the teaching;
Chapter 12 Verse 8
8. if exhorting, in the exhortation;[5] the sharer, with simplicity; the leader, with diligence; the mercy-shower, with cheerfulness.[6]
Chapter 12 Verse 9
9. Love is to be genuine: abhorring the malignant; clinging to the good;
Chapter 12 Verse 10
10. showing family affection to one another in brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
Chapter 12 Verse 11
11. not lagging in diligence; serving the Lord with an enthusiastic spirit;
Chapter 12 Verse 12
12. rejoicing in the hope; enduring the affliction; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
Chapter 12 Verse 13
13. distributing to the needs of the saints; practicing hospitality.[7]
Chapter 12 Verse 14
14. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.[8]
Chapter 12 Verse 15
15. Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.
Chapter 12 Verse 16
16. Regard each other as being on the same level—do not distinguish the upper classes, but associate with the lower classes; do not exalt yourself.[9]
Chapter 12 Verse 17
17. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Have regard for things that everyone considers to be good.
Chapter 12 Verse 18
18. If possible, what depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
Chapter 12 Verse 19
19. Dear ones, do not avenge yourselves; rather give place to the wrath;[10] for it is written: “Vengeance is up to me; I will repay,”[11] says the Lord.
Chapter 12 Verse 20
20. Therefore, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.”[12]
Chapter 12 Verse 21
21. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome the evil with the good.[13]
Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Verse 1
1. Let every soul submit to the governing authorities, because there is no authority except under God, and the existing authorities have been placed by God.
Chapter 13 Verse 2
2. Therefore whoever resists the authority is opposed to God’s ordinance, and those who oppose will bring judgment on themselves.[1]
Chapter 13 Verse 3
3. Now rulers are not a terror to good deeds but to bad ones. So if you wish not to fear the authority, do the good and you will have praise from the same;
Chapter 13 Verse 4
4. because it is God’s minister to you with a view to the good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword for nothing; because it is God’s minister, an avenger with a view to wrath on the wrongdoer.
Chapter 13 Verse 5
5. Therefore it is necessary to submit, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience.[2]
Chapter 13 Verse 6
6. This is precisely why you pay taxes, for they are God’s servants, continually attending on this very thing.[3]
Chapter 13 Verse 7
7. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes, customs to whom customs, respect to whom respect, honor to whom honor.
Chapter 13 Verse 8
8. Owe no one anything except to love one another, since he who loves the other has fulfilled the law.[4]
Chapter 13 Verse 9
9. Because—”You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,”[5] “You shall not covet,”[6] and whatever further commandment—everything is summed up in this word, namely: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”[7]
Chapter 13 Verse 10
10. Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment[8] of the law.
Chapter 13 Verse 11
11. Besides this, knowing the time, it is high time for us to be awakened from sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
Chapter 13 Verse 12
12. The night is nearly over, and the day is near;[9] so let us get rid of the works of the darkness, and let us put on the weapons of the light.[10]
Chapter 13 Verse 13
13. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual orgies and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.
Chapter 13 Verse 14
14. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, with a view to lusts.[11]
Chapter 14
Chapter 14 Verse 1
1. Receive someone who is weak in the faith, but not for disputes over arguables.
Chapter 14 Verse 2
2. One man has faith to eat everything, while the weak one eats only vegetables.
Chapter 14 Verse 3
3. One who eats must not look down on one who does not, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does,[1] because God has accepted him.
Chapter 14 Verse 4
4. Who are you to judge someone else’s household servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And stand he will, for God has the power to make him stand.[2]
Chapter 14 Verse 5
5. One man esteems one day above another; another esteems everyday alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.[3]
Chapter 14 Verse 6
6. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it.[4] And he who eats, eats to the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, also giving thanks to God.
Chapter 14 Verse 7
7. You see, none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
Chapter 14 Verse 8
8. Because if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Chapter 14 Verse 9
9. For this very reason Christ both died and rose, and lived,[5] so as to rule both dead and living.[6]
Chapter 14 Verse 10
10. But you, why do you judge your brother? And you too, why do you look down on your brother? Because we will all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.[7]
Chapter 14 Verse 11
11. For it is written: “‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall acknowledge God.’”[8]
Chapter 14 Verse 12
12. So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Chapter 14 Verse 13
13. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but rather resolve this: not to put a stumbling block or pitfall in a brother’s way.
Chapter 14 Verse 14
14. I know and have been convinced by Sovereign Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself[9] (still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean),
Chapter 14 Verse 15
15. but if your brother is offended because of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, with your food, ruin someone for whom Christ died.
Chapter 14 Verse 16
16. So do not let your good be slandered;
Chapter 14 Verse 17
17. because the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in Holy Spirit.
Chapter 14 Verse 18
18. For whoever serves the Christ in these things is satisfying to God and approved by men.[10]
Chapter 14 Verse 19
19. So then, let us pursue the things that promote peace and the things by which one may edify another.
Chapter 14 Verse 20
20. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are ‘clean’; however it is wrong for the man who gives offence by eating.
Chapter 14 Verse 21
21. It is good not to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weakened.[11]
Chapter 14 Verse 22
22. Do you have faith? Have it privately before God. Happy is he who does not judge himself in what he approves.
Chapter 14 Verse 23
23. But he who eats with doubt stands condemned, because it is not from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.[12]
Chapter 14 Verse 24
24. Now to Him who has power to establish you according to my Gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret through long ages,
Chapter 14 Verse 25
25. but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures,[13] according to the command of the eternal God, with a view to obedience of faith among all ethnic nations
Chapter 14 Verse 26
26. —to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ—to Him be the glory forever! Amen.[14]
Chapter 15
Chapter 15 Verse 1
1. Now we who are strong ought to bear with the limitations of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Chapter 15 Verse 2
2. Let each of us please the neighbor with a view to what is good for edifying.
Chapter 15 Verse 3
3. Because even the Christ did not please Himself; rather, as it is written: “The revilings of those reviling you fell on me.”[1]
Chapter 15 Verse 4
4. Whatever things were written before were so written for our instruction, so that through the fortitude and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Chapter 15 Verse 5
5. Now may the God of that fortitude and that encouragement grant you to be of the same mind[2] among yourselves according to Christ Jesus,
Chapter 15 Verse 6
6. so that you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one heart and voice.
Chapter 15 Verse 7
7. Therefore accept one another, just as the Christ also accepted us,[3] to the glory of God.
Chapter 15 Verse 8
8. Now I say that Christ Jesus[4] has become a minister to the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers;
Chapter 15 Verse 9
9. and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy,[5] as it is written: “For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, O LORD,[6] and will sing psalms to your name.”[7]
Chapter 15 Verse 10
10. And again He says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!”[8]
Chapter 15 Verse 11
11. And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and laud Him, all you peoples!”[9]
Chapter 15 Verse 12
12. And again, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, even He who rises up to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will place their hope on Him.”[10]
Chapter 15 Verse 13
13. Now may the God of the hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,[11] so that you may abound in that hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.[12]
Chapter 15 Verse 14
14. Now I myself am really confident about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.[13]
Chapter 15 Verse 15
15. Nevertheless I have written to you quite boldly on some points, brothers, as a reminder to you, because of the grace given to me by God,
Chapter 15 Verse 16
16. that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering,[14] sanctified by Holy Spirit.
Chapter 15 Verse 17
17. So in Christ Jesus I do have a boast in things pertaining to God;
Chapter 15 Verse 18
18. because I do not presume to speak of anything except those things that Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient—by word and deed,
Chapter 15 Verse 19
19. by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of God’s Spirit, so that I have fully proclaimed[15] the Gospel of the Christ from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.[16]
Chapter 15 Verse 20
20. It has always been my aim to evangelize where Christ has not been named, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation;
Chapter 15 Verse 21
21. rather, as it is written: “Those to whom He was not announced will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”[17]
Chapter 15 Verse 22
22. That is why I have been hindered these many times from coming to you.
Chapter 15 Verse 23
23. But now, no longer having a place in these parts, and having a longing these many years to come to you,
Chapter 15 Verse 24
24. whenever I travel to Spain I will come to you.[18] Because I hope to see you while passing through, and to be sent on my way there by you, if I may first enjoy your company for a while.
Chapter 15 Verse 25
25. Now, however, I am traveling to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
Chapter 15 Verse 26
26. Because Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
Chapter 15 Verse 27
27. Yes, they were pleased, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are also obligated to minister to them in physical things.
Chapter 15 Verse 28
28. So when I have finished this and have sealed to them this ‘fruit’, I will go by way of you to Spain.[19]
Chapter 15 Verse 29
29. And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel[20] of the Christ.
Chapter 15 Verse 30
30. Now I implore you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf,[21]
Chapter 15 Verse 31
31. that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe, and that my service to Jerusalem may be well received by the saints;
Chapter 15 Verse 32
32. so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be refreshed together with you.
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33. Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Chapter 16
Chapter 16 Verse 1
1. I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the congregation in Cenchrea,
Chapter 16 Verse 2
2. so that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever matter she may need from you; for indeed she herself has been a helper of many, including my own self.
Chapter 16 Verse 3
3. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
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4. who risked their own necks for my life;[1] to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the congregations of the Gentiles.
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5. And greet the congregation that is in their house.[2] Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the first convert to Christ from Achaia.[3]
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6. Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you.[4]
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7. Greet Andronicus and Junias, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, and who were in Christ before me.
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8. Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.
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9. Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.
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10. Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
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11. Greet Herodian, my countryman. Greet those who are of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
Chapter 16 Verse 12
12. Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.[5]
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13. Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, also his mother, and mine.[6]
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14. Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brothers who are with them.
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15. Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, also Olympus and all the saints who are with them.[7]
Chapter 16 Verse 16
16. Greet one another with a holy kiss. The congregations of Christ greet you.
Chapter 16 Verse 17
17. Now I exhort you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine you have learned, and avoid them.
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18. Because such people do not serve our Lord Jesus[8] Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.[9]
Chapter 16 Verse 19
19. I rejoice over you because your obedience has become known to all, but I want you to be wise as to what is good, yet innocent as to what is evil.[10]
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20. The God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet![11] Sign off The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ[12] be with you.
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21. Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my countrymen.
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22. I, Tertius, who penned this letter in the Lord, greet you.
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23. Gaius, host to me and the whole congregation, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, greets you, as does brother Quartus.[13]
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24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us[14] all!Amen.[15]