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Romans.

Romans one Paul, a servant of Christ, Jesus called to

be an apostles set apart for the Gospel of God,

which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy

Scriptures concerning his son, who was descended from David according

to the flesh, and was declared to be the son

of God in power according to the spirit of holiness,

by his resurrection from the dead. Jesus Christ, our Lord,

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring

about the obedience of faith for the sake of his.

Name among all the nations, including you who are called

to belong to Jesus Christ, to all those in Rome

who are loved by God and called to be saints.

Grace to you and peace from God, our Father and

the Lord Jesus Christ. First, I thank my God through

Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is

proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness,

whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of

his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in

my prayers, asking that somehow, by God's will, I may

now at last succeed in coming to you. For I

long to see you, that I may impart to you

some spiritual gift to strengthen you, that is, that we

may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours

and mine. I want you to know, brothers, that I

have often intended to come to you, but thus far

have been prevented, in order that I may reap some

harvest among you, as well as among the rest of

the Gentiles. I am under obligation both to Greeks and

to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

So I am eager to preach the Gospel to you also,

who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of

the Gospel, for it is the power of God for

salvation to everyone who believes, to the jew first, and

also to the Greek, for in it the righteousness of

God is revealed from faith, for faith, as it is written,

the righteous shall live by faith. For the wrath of

God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness

of men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For

what can be known about God as plain to them,

because God has shown it to them for his invisible attributes,

namely his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly

perceived ever since the creation of the world in the

things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

For although they knew God, they did not honor him

as God or give thanks to him. But they became

feudal in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the

glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man,

and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore, God gave

them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity,

to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they

exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped

and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is

blessed forever Amen. For this reason, God gave them up

to dishonorable passions for their women exchange natural relations for

those that are contrary to nature. And the men, like one,

gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with

passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men

and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God.

God gave them.

Up to a debased mind to do what ought not

to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.

They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They

are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors

of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though

they know God's decree that those who practice such things

deserve to die, they not only do them, but give

approval to those who.

Practice them Romans too. Therefore, you have no excuse, o man,

every one of you who judges, for in passing judgment

on another, you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice

the very same things. We know that the judgment of

God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do

you suppose, oh man, you who judge those who practice

such things and yet to them yourself, that you will

escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on

the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not

knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance.

But because of your heart and impenant and heart, you

are storing up wrath for yourself. On the day of wrath,

when God's righteous judgment will be revealed, he will render

to each one according to his works. To those who,

by patience and well doing, seek for glory and honor

and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those

who are self seeking and do not obey the truth,

but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There

will be tribulation and distress for every human being who

does evil, the Jew first, and also the Greek. But

glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good,

the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows

no partiality. For all who have sinned without the law

will also perish without the law. And all who have

sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not the hearers of the law who

are righteous before God, the doers of the law who

will be justified. For when gentiles who do not have

the law by nature do what the law requires, they

are a law to themselves. Even though they do not

have the law. They show that the work of the

law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also

bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse

them on that day when according to my Gospel, God

judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. But if

you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law,

and boast in God, and know his will, and approve

what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law.

And if you are sure that you yourself are a

guide to the blind, a light to those who are

in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children,

having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth.

You then teach others. Do you not teach yourself? While

you preach against stealing? Do you steal? You who say

that one must not commit adultery? Do you commit adultery?

You who have poor idols? Do you rob temples? You

who boast in the law, dishonor God by breaking the law?

For as it is written, the name of God is

blasphemed among the gentiles because of you. For circumcision, indeed,

is of value if you obey the law. But if

you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. So if

a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law,

will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision. Then he

who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law, will condemn

you who have the written code and circumcision but break

the law. For no one is a Jew who is

merely one outwardly, Nor is circumcision outward and physical. But

a Jew is one inwardly, And circumcision is a matter

of the heart, by the spirit, not by the letter.

His praise is not from man but from God Romans three.

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the

value of circumcision? Much in every way? To begin with,

the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What

if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness the faithfulness of God?

By no means? Let God be true though everyone were

a liar. As it is written that you may be

justified in your words and prevail when you are judged.

But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God,

what shall we say that God is unrighteous to inflict

wrath on us? I speak in a human way by

no means, For then how could God judge the world.

But if through my lie, God's truth abounds to his glory,

why am I still being condemned as a sinner? And

why not do evil that good may come? As some

people slanderously charge us with, saying that their condemnation is just. What,

then are we Jews any better off? No, not at all,

For we have already charged that all both Jews and

Greeks are under sin. As it is written, none is righteous,

no not one. No one understands, no one seeks for God.

All have turned aside. Together. They have become worthless. No

one does good, not even one. Their throat is an

open grave. They use their tongues to deceive. The venom

of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full

of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood.

In their paths are ruin and misery, and the way

of peace they have not known. There is no fear

of God before their eyes. Now we know that whatever

the law says, it speaks to those who are under

the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and

the whole world may be held accountable to God. God,

for by works of the law, no human being will

be justified in his sight, since through the law comes

knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has

been manifested apart from the law, although the law and

the prophets bear witness to it. The righteousness of God

through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For

there is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall

short of the glory of God, and are justified by

His grace as a gift through the redemption that is

in Christ, Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation

by his blood to be received by faith. This was

to show God's righteousness because in his divine forbearance he

had passed over former sins. It was to show his

righteousness at the present time, so that He might be

just and the justifier of the one who has faith

in Jesus. Then what becomes of our boasting? It is

excluded by what kind of law, by a law of works? No,

but by the law of faith. For we hold that

one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he

not the God of gentiles? Also yes of gentiles? Also

since God is one who will justify the circumcised by

faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then overthrow

the law by this faith by no means? On the contrary,

we uphold the law Romans. For what, then, shall we say,

was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something

to boast about, but not before God. For what does

the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted

to him as righteousness. Now to the one who works,

his wages are not counted as a gift, but as

his due. And to the one who does not work,

but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith

is counted as righteousness. Just as David also speaks of

the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness.

Apart from works. Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are

forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man

against whom the Lord will not count his sin. Is

this blessing then, only for the circumcised, or also so

for the uncircumcised. We say that faith was counted to

Abraham as righteousness. How then was it counted to him?

Was it before or after he had been circumcised. It

was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received

the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness

that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised.

The purpose was to make him the father of all

who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be

counted to them as well, and to make him the

father of the circumcised, who are not merely circumcised, but

who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that

our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. For the

promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be

heir of the world did not come through the law,

but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is

the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs,

faith is null and the promise is void, for the

law brings wrath. But where there is no law, there

is no transgression. That is why it depends on faith

in order that the promise may rest on grace and

be guaranteed to all his offspring, not only to the

adherent of the law, but also to the one who

shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of

us all. As it is written, I have made you

the father of many nations, in the presence of the

God in whom he believed, who gives life to the

dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

In hope. He believed against hope that he should become

the father of many nations, as he had been told,

so shall your offspring be. He did not wish in

faith when he considered his own body, which was as

good as dead since he was about one hundred years old,

or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No

distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God. But

he grew strong his faith as he gave glory to God,

fully convinced that God was able to do what he

had promised. That is why his faith was counted to

him as righteousness. But the words it was counted to

him were not written for his sake alone, but for

ours also. It will be counted to us who believe

in Him who raised from the dead, Jesus our Lord,

who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for

our justification Romans five. Therefore, since we have been justified

by faith. We have peace with God through our Lord

Jesus Christ. Through him, we have also obtained access by

faith into this grace in which we stand. And we

rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that,

we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. And hope

does not put us to shame, because God's love has

been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who

has been given to us. For while we were still

weak at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.

For one will scarcely die for a righteous person, though

perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die.

But God shows his love for us in that, while

we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since therefore

we have now been justified by His blood. Much more

shall we be saved by Him from the wrath of God.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to

God by the death of his son, much more now

that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by His life.

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our

Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Therefore,

just as sin came into the world through one man,

and death through sin, and so death spread to all

men because all sin for sin indeed was in the

world before the law was given. But sin is not

counted where there is no life. Awe. Yet death reigned

from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was

not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type

of the one who was to come. But the free

gift is not like the trespass. For if many died

through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of

God and the free gift by the grace of that

one man Jesus Christ, abounded for many. And the free

gift is not like the result of that one man's sin.

For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the

free gift following many trespasses brought justification. For if because

of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man,

much more will those who receive the abundance of grace

and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through

the one man Jesus Christ. Therefore, as one trespass led

to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness

leads to justification and life for all men. For as

by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners,

so by the one man's obedience, the many will be

made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass.

But where sin increased, grace abounded, all the more so

that as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign

through righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ, our

Lord Romans six. What shall we say, then, are we

to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means?

How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Do you not know that all of us who have

been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death.

We were buried therefore with him by baptism and to death,

in order that just as Christ was raised from the

dead by the glory of the Father, we too might

walk in newness of life. For if we have been

united with Him and a death like his, we shall

certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

We know that our old self was crucified with him

in order that the body of sin might be brought

to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved

to sin. For one who has died has been set

free from sin. Now we have died with Christ, we

believe that we will also live with him. We know

that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again.

Death no longer has dominion over him. For the death

he died, he died to sin once for all, but

the life he lives, he lives to God. So you

also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God.

In Christ, Jesus, let not sin. Therefore, reign and your

mortal body to make you obey its passions. Do not

present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but

present yourselves to God as those who have been brought

from death to life, and your members to God as

instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you,

since you are not under law but under grace, What

then are we to sin? Because we are not under

law but under grace means do you not know that

if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you

are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin,

which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness.

But thanks be to God that you, who were once

slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to

the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and

having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations.

For just as you once presented your members as slaves

to impurity and to lawlessness, leading to more lawlessness, so

now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free

in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting

at that time from the things of which you are

now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now that you have been set free from sin

and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get

leads to sanctification and its end eternal life. For the

wages of sin is death, but the free gift of

God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord, Romans

seven of it? Or do you not know, brothers, For

I am speaking to those who know the law, that

the law is binding on a person only as long

as he lives. For a married woman is bound by

law to her husband while he lives, but if her

husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly,

she will be called an adulteress if she lives with

another man while her husband is alive. But if her

husband dies, she is free from that law. And if

she marries another man, she is not an adulteress. Likewise,

my brothers, you also have died to the law through

the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another,

to him who has been raised from the dead, in

order that we may bear fruit for God. For while

we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused

by the law, were at work in our members to

bear fruit for death. But now we are released from

the law, having died to that which held us captive,

so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit,

and not in the old way of the written code.

What then, shall we say that the law is sin

by no means? Yet, if it had not been for

the law, aw, I would not have known sin, For

I would not have known what it is to covet.

If the law had not said, you shall not covet

but sin seizing an opportunity through the commandment produced in

me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law,

sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law.

But when the commandment came, sin came alive, and I died.

The very commandment that promised life proved to be death

to me. For sin seizing an opportunity through the commandment

deceived me, and through it killed me. So the law

is holy, and the Commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Did that which is good then bring death to me?

By no means. It was sin producing death in me

through what is good, in order that sin might be

shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become

sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual.

But I am of the flesh sold under sin. For

I do not understand my own actions, for I do

not do what I want, but I do the very

thing I hate. Now if I do what I do

not want, I agree with the law that it is good.

So now it is no longer I who do it,

but sin that dwells within me. For I know that

nothing good dwells in me, that is in my flesh.

For I have the desire to do what is right,

but not the ability to carry it out. For I

do not do the good I want, but the evil

I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now,

if I do what I do not want, it is

no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells

within me. So I find it to be a law

that when I want I want to do right, evil

lies close at hand. For I delight in the law

of God in my inner being, but I see in

my members another law, waging war against the law of

my mind, and making me captive to the law of

sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am,

who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks

be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then

I myself serve the law of God with my mind,

but with my flesh I serve the law of sin

romans Ete. There is therefore now no condemnation for those

who are in Christ Jesus, for the law of the

Spirit of Life has set you free in Christ Jesus

from the law of sin and death. For God has

done with the law. Weakened by the flesh could not

do by sending his own son in the likeness of

sinful flesh, and for sin. He condemned sin in the

flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law

might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to

the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For those who

live according to the flesh set their minds on the

things of the flesh. But those who live according to

the Spirit, set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

For to set the mind on the flesh is death.

But to set the mind on the Spirit is life

and peace. For the mind that is set on the

flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit

to God's law. Indeed it cannot. Those who are in

the flesh can not please God. You, however, are not

in the flesh, but in the spirit. If in fact,

the Spirit of God dwells in you, anyone who does

not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

But if Christ is in you, although the body is

dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness.

If the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the

dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from

the dead, will also give life to your mortal bodies

through His Spirit, who dwells in you. So, then, brothers,

we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according

to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh,

you will die. But if by the Spirit you put

to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For all who are led by the Spirit of God

are sons of God. For you did not receive the

spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you

have received the spirit of adoption as sons, by whom

we cry Abbah Father. The Spirit himself bears witness with

our spirit that we are children of God. And if children,

then heirs heirs of God and fellow errs with Christ,

provided we suffer with Him in order that we may

also be glorified with Him. For I consider that the

sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with

the glory that is to be revealed to us. For

the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of

the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility,

not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in

hope that the creation itself will be set free from

its bondage to corruptions and obtain the freedom of the

glory of the children of God. For we know that

the whole creation has been growing together in the pains

of childbirth until now, and not only the creation, but

we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit,

grown inwardly, as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons

the redemption of our bodies, for in this hope we

were saved. Now, hope that is seen is not hope,

for who hopes for what he sees. But if we

hope for what we do not see, we wait for

it with patience. Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness,

for we do not know what to pray for as

we ought, But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with

groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts

knows what is the mind of the Spirit. Because the

Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

And we know that for those who love God, all

things work together for good, for those those who are

called according to His purpose, for those whom He foreknew

He also predestined to be conformed to the image of

his son, in order that he might be the firstborn

among many brothers, and those whom he predestined he also called,

and those whom he called he also justified, and those

whom he justified he also glorified. What then, shall we

say to these things? If God is for us, who

can be against us? He who did not spare his

own son, but gave him up for us all, How

will he not also with him graciously give us all things.

Who shall bring any charge against God's elect It is

God who justifies who is to condemn Christ. Jesus is

the one who died more than that who was raised,

who is at the right hand of God, who indeed

is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the

love of Christ. Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution or

famine or nakedness or danger or sword as it is written,

for your sake, we are being killed all the day long.

We are regarded as she to be slaughtered. Know in

all these things we are more than conquerors through Him

who loved us. For I am sure that neither death

nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor

things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor

anything else in all creation will be able to separate

us from the love of God in Christ, Jesus our

Lord Romans nine, I am speaking the truth in Christ.

I am not lying. My conscience bears me witness and

the Holy Spirit of it that I have great sorrow

and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish

that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ

for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen. According to

the flesh, they are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption,

the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship,

and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs. And from

their race, according to the flesh is the Christ, who

is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. But it is

not as though the word of God has failed. For

not all who are descended from Israel belonged to Israel,

and not all are children of Abraham because they are

his offspring. But through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

This means that it is not the children of the

flesh who are the children of God, but the children

of the Promise are counted as offspring. For this is

what the promise said about this time next year I

will return, and Sarah shall have a son. And not

only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by

one man, our forefather, Isaac, though they were not yet

born and had done nothing either good or bad, in

order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because

of works, but because of him who calls. She was

told the older will serve the younger. As it is written,

Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. What shall we say, then?

Is there injustice on God's part by no means? For

he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom

I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom

I have compassion. So then it depends not on human

will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For

the scripture says to Pharaoh, for this very purpose, I

have raised you up that I might show my power

in you, and that MY name might be proclaimed in

all the earth. So then he has mercy on whomever

he wills, and he hardens whoever he wills. You will

say to me, then why does he still find fault?

For who can resist his will? But who are you,

oh man, to answer back to God? Will? What is

molded say to its molder, why have you made me

like this? Has the potter no right over the clay

to make out of the same lump, one vessel for

honorable use and another for dishonorable use. What if God,

desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power,

has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for

destruction in order to make known the riches of his glory,

for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand, for glory,

even us, whom he has called, not from the Jews only,

but also from the Gentiles. As indeed he says in Hoseiah,

those who were not my people, I will call my people,

and her who was not beloved, I will call beloved.

And in the very place where it was said to

them you are not my people, there they will be

called sons of the Living God. And Isaiah cries out

concerning Israel. Though the number of the sons of Israel

be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant

of them will be saved, for the Lord will carry

out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.

And as Isaiah predicted, if the Lord of Hosts had

not left us, offspring, we would have been like Sodom

and become like Gomorah. What shall we say then, that

gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it. That

is a righteousness that is by faith. But that Israel,

who pursue the law that would lead to righteousness did

not succeed in reaching that law. Why because they did

not pursue it by faith. But as if it were

based on works, they have stumbled over the stumbling stone.

As it is.

Written, Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of

stumbling and rock of offense, and whoever believes in him

will not be put to shame. Romans, ten brothers. My

heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that

they may be saved. For I bear them witness that

they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge,

for being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking

to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness

to everyone who believes. For Moses' rights about the righteousness

that it's based on the law that the person who

does the commandments shall live by them. But the righteousness

based on faith says, do not say in your heart,

who will ascend into heaven, that is to bring Christ down,

or who will descend into the abyss, that is to

bring Christ up from the dead. But what does it say?

The Word is near you, in your mouth and in

your heart. That is the word of faith that we proclaim.

Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord,

and believe in your heart that God raised him from

the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart

one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one

confesses and is saved. For the scripture says everyone who

believes in him will not be put to shame, for

there is no distinction between jew and Greek. For the

same Lord as Lord of all, bestowing his riches on

all who call on him. For everyone who calls on

the name of the Lord will be saved. How then,

will they call on him in whom they have not believed?

And how are they to believe in Him of whom

they have never heard? And how are they to hear

without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless

they are sent? As it is written? How beautiful are

the feet of those who preach the good news. But

they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord,

who has believed what he has heard from us? So

faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ.

But I ask have they not heard? Indeed they have,

for their voice has gone out to all the earth,

and their words to the ends of the world. But

I ask did Israel not understand? First? Moses says, I

will make you jealous of those who are not a

nation with a foolish nation. I will make you angry.

Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, I have

been found by those who did not seek me. I

have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.

But of Israel, he says, all day long, I have

held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people Romans.

I ask, then, has God rejected his people by no means?

For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,

a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God he has

not rejected his people, whom he foreknew. Do you not

know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals

to God against Israel, Lord, they have killed your prophets.

They have demolished your altars, and I alone am left,

and they seek my life. But what is God's reply

to him? I have kept for myself seven thousand men

who have not bowed the knee to bail. So too

at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

But if it is by grace, it is no longer

on the basis of words. Otherwise grace would no longer

be grace. What then Israel failed to obtain what it

was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened.

As it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor,

eyes that would not see, and ears that would not hear.

Down to this very day, and David says, let their

table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block,

and a retribution for them. Let their eyes be darkened

so that they cannot see and bend their backs forever.

So I ask, did they stumble in order that they

might fall? By no means? Rather, through their trespass, salvation

has come to the gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. Now,

if their trespass means richest for the world, and if

their failure means richest for the gentiles, how much more

will their full inclusion mean. Now I am speaking to

you Gentiles inasmuch then as I am an apostle to

the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to

make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.

For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world,

what will their acceptance mean but life from the daddem

If the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so

is the whole lump. And if the root is holy,

so are the branches. But if some of the branches

were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot,

were grafted in among the others, and now share in

the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be

arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is

not you who support the root, but the root that

supports you. Then you will say, branches were broken off

so that I might be grafted in. That is true,

they were broken off because of their unbelief. But you

stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither

will he spare you. Note, then the kindness and the

severity of God severity toward those who have fallen. But

God's kindness to you provided you continue in his kindness.

Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they,

if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be

grafted in. For God has the power to graft them

in again. For if you were cut from what is

by nature a wild olive tree and grafted contrary to

nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will

these than natural branches be grafted back into their own

olive tree. Lest you be wise in your own sight,

I want you to understand this mystery. Brothers, A partial

hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the

gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel

will be saved. As it is written, the Deliverer will

come from Zion. He will banish ungodliness from Jacob. And

this will be my covenant with them when I take

away their sins. As regards the gospel, they are enemies

of God for your sake. But as regards election, they

are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the

gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For just

as you were at one time disobedient to God, but

now have received mercy because of their disobedience. So they

too have now been disobedient, in order that by the

mercy shown to you, they also may now receive mercy.

For God has consigned all to disobedience, that He may

have mercy on all. Oh the depth of the riches

and wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments,

and how inscrutable his ways. For who has known the

mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor

or who has given a gift to him, that he

might be repaid for From him and through him and

to him, are all things? To Him be glory forever, Amen,

Romans twelve. I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the

mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice,

holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed

by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you

may discern what is the will of God, what is

good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given

to me, I say to everyone among you not to

think of himself more highly than he ought to think,

but to think with sober judgment, each according to the

measure of that God has assigned. For as in one body,

we have many members, and the members do not all

have the same function. So we, though many, are one

body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having

gifts that differ according to the grace given to us,

let us use them. If prophecy in proportion to our faith,

if service in our serving. The one who teaches in

his teaching, the one who exhorts in his exhortation, the

one who contributes in generosity, the one who leads with zeal,

the one who does acts of mercy with cheerfulness. Let

love be genuine, abhorre what is evil, hold fast to

what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo

one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal,

Be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord, Rejoice in hope,

be patient and tribulation, Be constant in prayer. Contribute to

the needs of the saints, and seek to show hospitality.

Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse them.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty,

but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your

own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give

thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all,

if possible, so far as it depends on you, live

peaceably with all beloved. Never avenge yourselves, but leave it

to the wrath of God. For it is written vengeance

is mine I will repay, says the Lord to the contrary.

If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty,

give him something to drink, for by so doing you

will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be

overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans thirteen.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for

there is no authority except from God, and those that

exist have been instituted by God. Therefore, whoever resists the

authorities resist what God has appointed, and those who resist

will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to

good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear

of the one who is in authority, then do what

is good, and you will receive his approval, for he

is God's servant. For your good. But if you do wrong,

be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain,

for he is the servant of God and Avenger, who

carries out God's wrath on the wrong doer. Therefore, one

must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath,

but also for the sake of conscience. For because of

this you also pay taxes. For the authorities are ministers

of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all

what is owed to them, taxes to whom taxes are owed,

revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect

is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Owe no

one anything except to love each other. For the one

who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments

you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, shall

not steal, you shall not covet, and any other commandment

are summed up in this word. You shall love your

neighbor as yourself. Love does no wrong to a neighbor.

Therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Besides this,

you know the time that the hour has come for

you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to

us now than when we first believed the night is

far gone, the day is at hand. So then let

us cast off the works of darkness and put on

the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in

the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual

immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put

on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for

the flesh to gratify its desires Romans fourteen. As for

the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but

not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may

eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let

not the one who eats despise the one who abstains,

And let not the one who abstains pass judgment on

the one who eats, For God has welcomed him. Who

are you to pass judgment on the servant of another.

It is before his own master that he stands or falls,

and he will be upheld, for the Lord is able

to make him stand. One person esteems one day is

better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each

one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The

one who observes the day, observes it in honor of

the Lord. The one who eats eats in honor of

the Lord, since he gives thanks to God. While the

one who abstains abstains in honor of the Lord and

gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself,

and none of us dies to himself. For if we live,

we live to the Lord, and if we die, we

die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or

whether we die, we are the Lord's For to this end,

Christ died and lived again that he might be Lord,

both of the dead and of the living. Why do

you pass judgment on your brother or you? Why do

you despise your brother? For we will all stand before

the judgment seat of God. For it is written, as

I live, says the Lord. Every knee shall bow to me,

and every tongue we shall confess to God. So then

each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore,

let us not pass judgment on one another any longer,

but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or

hindrance in the way of a brother. I know and

am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean

in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks

it unclean. For if your brother is grieved by what

you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By

what you eat. Do not destroy the one for whom

Christ died. So do not let what you regard as

good be spoken of as evil. For the Kingdom of

God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but

of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved

by men. So then let us pursue what makes for

peace and for mutual upbuilding. Do not, for the sake

of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean,

but it is raw for anyone to make another stumble

by what he eats. It is good not to eat meat,

or drink wine, or do anything that causes your brother

to stumble. The faith that you have keep between yourself

and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason

to pass judgment on himself for what he approves. But

whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the

eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed

from faith is sin. Romans fifteen. We who are strong,

have an obligation to bear with the failings of the week,

and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please

his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For

Christ did not please himself. But as it is written,

the reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.

For whatever was written in former days was written for

our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of

the scriptures, we might have hope. May the God of

endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony

with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together

you may with one voice glorify the God and Father

of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Therefore, welcome one another as

Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. For

I tell you that Christ became a servant to the

circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the

promises given to the patriarchs, and in order that the

gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,

therefore I will praise you among the gentiles and sing

to your name. And again it is said, rejoice o

gentiles with his people. And again praise the Lord, are

you gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him. And

again Isaiah says, the root of Jesse will come, even

he who arises to rule the gentiles. In him, will

the gentiles hope. May the God of Hope fill you

with all joy and peace and believing, so that by

the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you

yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and

able to instruct one another. But on some points I

have written to you very boldly by way of reminder,

because of the grace given me by God to be

a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles in the

priestly service of the Gospel of God, so that the

offering of the gentiles may be acceptable sanctified by the

Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus. Then I have reason to

be proud of my work for God, for I will

not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has

accomplished through me, to bring the gentiles to obedience by

word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders,

by the power of the Spirit of God, so that

from Jerusalem, and all the way around to mere Lyricum.

I have fulfilled the ministry of the Gospel of Christ,

and thus I make it my ambition to preach the Gospel,

not where Christ has already been named, lest I build

on someone else's foundation. But as it is written, those

who have never been told of him will see, and

those who have never heard will understand. This is the

reason why I have so often been hit from coming

to you. But now, since I no longer have any

room for work in these regions, and since I have

longed for many years to come to you, I hope

to see you in passing as I go to Spain,

and to be helped on my journey there by you.

Once I have enjoyed your company for a while. At present, however,

I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints.

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some

contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem, for

they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe

it to them. For if the gentiles have come to

share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be

of service to them in material blessings. When therefore I

have completed this and have delivered to them what has

been collected. I will leave for Spain by way of you.

I know that when I come to you, I will

come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ. I

appeal to you brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and

by the love of the Spirit, tot together with me

and your prayers to God on my behalf, that I

may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that

my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

so that by God's will I may come to you

with joy and be refreshed in your company. May the

God of Peace be with you all amen. Romans sixteen.

I commend to you are sister Phoebe, a servant of

the church at San Crie, that you may welcome her

in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints,

and help her in whatever she may need from you,

For she has been a patron of many, and of

myself as well. Greek Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers

in Christ Jesus, who risk their next for my life,

to whom not only I give thanks, but all the

churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well. Greet also

the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epenatus, who

was the first convert to Christ in Asia. Greet Mary,

who has worked hard for you. Greet Andronicus and Junia,

my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known

to the Apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

Greet Ampleatus, my beloved in the Lord. Greet or Banus,

our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stacus. Greet Appelles,

who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belonged to

the family of Aristobulus. Greet my kinsmen, Herodian, Greet those

in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus.

Greet those workers in the Lord. Tryphena and Tryphosa. Greet

the beloved Perss, who has worked hard in the Lord.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord. All so his mother,

who has been a mother to me as well. Greet

a syncretous Flagan, Hermes, petrobas Hermas and the brothers who

are with them. Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister,

and Olympus and all the saints who are with them.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches

of Christ greet you. I appeal to you, brothers, to

watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles,

contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught. Avoid them,

for such persons do not serve our Lord Christ but

their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery, they

deceive the hearts of the naive. For your obedience is

known to all, so that I rejoice over you. But

I want you to be wise as to what is good,

and innocent as to what is evil. The God of

Peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace

of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Timothy, my

fellow worker, greets you, so do Lucius and Jason, and

sussipiit my kinsman.

I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord. Gaeus,

who is house to me and to the whole church,

greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Cortus

greet you.

You now to him who is able to strengthen you.

According to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ.

According to the revelation of the mystery that was kept

secret for long ages, but has now been disclosed, and

through the prophetic writings, has been made known to all

nations according to the command of the Eternal God, to

bring about the obedience of faith to the only wise God,

Be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ. Amen h.