Romans
Chapter 1
1:1Paul a servant of Jesus Christos called to be an Apostle, put apart to preach the Gospel of Theos,
1:2(Which he had promised before by his Prophets in the holy Scriptures)
1:3Concerning his Son (who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh,
1:4And declared mightily to be the Son of Theos, touching the Spirit of sanctification by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christos our Kyrios)
1:5By whom we have received grace and Apostleship (that obedience might be given to the faith) for his Name among all the Gentiles,
1:6Among whom you be also the called of Jesus Christos:
1:7To all you that be at Rome beloved of Theos, called to be Saints:Grace be with you,and peace from Theos our Father,and from the Kyrios Jesus Christos.
1:8First I thank my Theos through Jesus Christos for you all, because your faith is published throughout the whole world.
1:9For Theos is my witness (whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of his Son) that without ceasing I make mention of you, always in my prayers, asking,
1:10If by some means, one time or other I might have a prosperous journey by the will of Theos, to come to you.
1:11For I long to see you,that I might bestow among you some spiritual gift,that you might be strengthened:
1:12That is,that I might be comforted together with you, through our mutual faith, both yours and mine.
1:13Now my brethren, I would that you should not be ignorant, how that I have oftentimes purposed to come to you (but have been hindered until now) that I might have some fruit also among you, as I have among the other Gentiles.
1:14I am debtor both to the Greeks,and to the Barbarians, both to the wise men and to the unwise.
1:15Therefore, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you also that are at Rome.
1:16For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christos:for it is the power of Theos to salvation to every one that believes, to the Jew first,and also to the Grecian.
1:17For by it the righteousness of Theos is revealed from faith to faith:as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
1:18For the wrath of Theos is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness,and unrighteousness of men, who withhold the truth in unrighteousness.
1:19Forasmuch as that, which may be know of Theos, is manifest in them:for Theos has showed it to them.
1:20For the invisible things of him,that is, his eternal power and Godhead, are seen by the creation of the world, being considered in his works, to the intent that they should be without excuse:
1:21Because that when they knew Theos, they glorified him not as Theos,neither were thankful,but became vain in their thoughts,and their foolish heart was full of darkness.
1:22When they professed themselves to be wise, they became fools.
1:23For they turned the glory of the incorruptible Theos to the similitude of the image of a corruptible man,and of birds,and four footed beasts,and of creeping things.
1:24Therefore also Theos gave them up to their hearts lusts, to uncleanness, to defile their own bodies between themselves:
1:25Which turned the truth of Theos to a lie,and worshiped and served the creature, forsaking the Creator, which is blessed forever, Amen.
1:26For this cause Theos gave them up to vile affections:for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.
1:27And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman,and burned in their lust one toward another,and man with man worked filthiness,and received in themselves such recompense of their error, as was meet.
1:28For as they regarded not to acknowledge Theos, even so Theos delivered them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient,
1:29Being full of all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, of murder, of debate, of deceit, taking all things in the evil part, whisperers,
1:30Backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, such as can never be appeased, merciless.
1:32Which men, though they knew the righteous ordinance of Theos, how that they who comit such things are worthy of death, yet not only do the same,but also favor them that do them.
Chapter 2
2:1Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that condemn:for in that that you condemn another, you condemn yourself:for you that condemn, do the same things.
2:2But we know that the judgment of Theos is according to truth, against them which comit such things.
2:3And think you this, O you man,that condemn them which do such things,and do the same,that you shall escape the judgment of Theos?
2:4Or despise you the riches of his bountifulness,and patience,and long sufferance, not knowing that the bountifulness of Theos leads you to repentance?
2:5But you, after your hardness,and heart that and repent, heap up as a treasure to yourself wrath against the day of wrath,and of the declaration of the just judgment of Theos,
2:6Who will reward every man according to his works:
2:7That is, to them which through patience in well-doing, seek glory,and honor,and immortality, everlasting life:
2:8But to them that are contentious and disobey the truth,and obey unrighteousness, shall be indignation and wrath.
2:9Tribulation and anguish shall be upon the psyche of every man that does evil:of the Jew first,and also of the Grecian.
2:10But to every man that does good, shall be glory,and honor,and peace:to the Jew first,and also to the Grecian.
2:11For there is no respect of persons with Theos.
2:12For as many as have sinned without the Law, shall perish also without the Law:and as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be judged by the Law,
2:13(For the hearers of the Law are not righteous before Theos:but the doers of the Law shall be justified.
2:14For when the Gentiles which have not the Law, do by nature, the things contained in the Law, they having not the Law, are a Law to themselves,
2:15Which show the effect of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness,and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing,)
2:16At the day when Theos shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christos, according to my Gospel.
2:17Behold, you are called a Jew,and rest in the Law,and glory in Theos,
2:18And know his will,and approve the things that are excellent, in that you are instructed by the Law:
2:19And persuade yourself that you are a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
2:20An instructor of them which lack discretion, a teacher of the unlearned, which have the form of knowledge,and of the truth in the Law.
2:21You therefore, which teach another, teach you not yourself? You that preach, A man should not steal, do you steal?
2:22You that say, A man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, commit you sacrilege?
2:23You that glory in the Law, through transgression of the Law, dishonor Theos?
2:24For the Name of Theos is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
2:25For circumcision verily is profitable, if you do the Law:but if you be a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.
2:26Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
2:27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature (if it keep the Law) condemn you which by the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?
2:28For he is not a Jew, which is one outward:neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
2:29But he is a Jew which is one within,and the circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter, whose praise is not of men,but of Theos.
Chapter 3
3:1What is then the preferment of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
3:2Much every manner of way:for chiefly, because to them were of credit committed the oracles of Theos.
3:3For what, though some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of Theos without effect?
3:4Theos forbid:yes, let God be true,and every man a liar, as it is written,That you might be justified in your words,and overcome, when you are judged.
3:5Now if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of Theos, what shall we say? Is Theos unrighteous which punishes? (I speak as a man.)
3:6Theos forbid:else how shall God judge the world?
3:7For if the verity of Theos has more abounded through my lie to his glory, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?
3:8And (as we are blamed, and as some affirm, that we say) why do we not evil, that good may come of it? Whose judgment is just.
3:9What then? Are we more excellent? No, in no wise:for we have already proved,that all, both Jews and Gentiles are under sin,
3:10As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.
3:11There is none that understands:there is none that seeks Theos.
3:12They have all gone out of the way:they have been made altogether unprofitable:there is none that does good, no not one.
3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre:they have used their tongues to deceit:the poison of asps is under their lips.
3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood.
3:16Destruction and calamity are in their ways,
3:17And the way of peace they have not known.
3:18The fear of Theos is not before their eyes.
3:19Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says it to them which are under the Law,that every mouth may be stopped,and all the world be subject to the judgment of Theos.
3:20Therefore by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified in his sight:for by the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
3:21But now is the righteousness, of Theos made manifest without the Law, having witness of the Law and of the Prophets,
3:22Namely, the righteousness of Theos by the faith of Jesus Christos, to all,and upon all that believe.
3:23For there is no difference:for all have sinned,and are deprived of the glory of Theos,
3:24And are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christos Jesus,
3:25Whom Theos has set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness, by the forgiveness of the sins that are passed,
3:26Through the patience of God, to show at this time his righteousness,that he might be just,and a justifier of him which is of the faith of Jesus.
3:27Where is then the rejoicing? It is excluded. By what Law? Of works? No:but by the Law of faith.
3:28Therefore we conclude,that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the Law.
3:29Theos, is he the God of the Jews only,and not of the Gentiles also? Yes, even of the Gentiles also.
3:30For it is one Theos, who shall justify circumcision of faith,and uncircumcision through faith.
3:31Do we then make the Law of none effect through faith? God forbid:yes, we establish the Law.
Chapter 4
4:1What shall we say then,that Abraham our father has found concerning the flesh?
4:2For if Abraham were justified by works, he has in which to rejoice, but not with Theos.
4:3For what says the Scripture? Abraham believed Theos,and it was counted to him for righteousness.
4:4Now to him that works, the wages is not counted by grace,but by debt:
4:5But to him that works not,but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
4:6Even as David declares the blessedness of the man, to whom Theos imputes righteousness without works, saying,
4:7Blessed are they, whose lawless deeds are forgiven,and whose sins are covered.
4:8Blessed is the man, to whom the Kyrios will not impute sin.
4:9Came this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say,that faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousness.
4:10How was it then imputed? When he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not when he was circumcised,but when he was uncircumcised.
4:11After, he received the sign of circumcision, as the seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, when he was uncircumcised,that he should be the father of all them that believe, not being circumcised,that righteousness might be imputed to them also,
4:12And the father of circumcision, not to them only which are of the circumcision,but to them also that walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had when he was uncircumcised.
4:13For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not given to Abraham, or to his seed, through the Law,but through the righteousness of faith.
4:14For if they who are of the Law, be heirs, faith is made void,and the promise is made of none effect.
4:15For the Law causes wrath:for where no Law is, there is no transgression.
4:16Therefore it is by faith,that it might come by grace,and the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the Law:but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
4:17(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations) even before Theos whom he believed, who quickens the dead,and calls those things which be not, as though they were.
4:18Which Abraham above hope, believed under hope,that he should be the father of many nations:according to that which was spoken to him, So shall your seed be.
4:19And he was not weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, which was now dead, being almost a hundred year old,neither the deadness of Sarah's womb.
4:20Neither did he doubt of the promise of Theos through unbelief,but was strengthened in the faith,and gave glory to Theos,
4:21Being fully assured that he who had promised, was also able to do it.
4:22And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
4:23Now it is not written for him only,that it was imputed to him for righteousness,
4:24But also for us, to whom it shall be imputed for righteousness, which believe in him that raised up Jesus our Kyrios from the dead,
4:25Who was delivered to death for our trespasses,and is risen again for our justification.
Chapter 5
5:1Then being justified by faith, we have peace toward Theos through our Kyrios Jesus Christos.
5:2By whom also through faith, we have had this access into this grace, in which we stand, and rejoice under the hope of the glory of Theos.
5:3Neither that only,but also we rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings forth patience,
5:4And patience experience,and experience hope,
5:5And hope makes not ashamed, because the love of Theos is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, which is given to us.
5:6For Christos, when we were yet of no strength, at his time died for the ungodly.
5:7Would one will scarcely die for a righteous man:but yet for a good man it may be that one dare die.
5:8But Theos sets out his love toward us, seeing that while we were yet sinners, Christos died for us.
5:9Much more than, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
5:10For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to Theos by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life,
5:11And not only so,but we also rejoice in Theos through our Kyrios Jesus Christos, by whom we have now received the atonement.
5:12Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,and death by sin,and so death went over all men:in who all men have sinned.
5:13For to the time of the Law was sin in the world,but sin is not imputed, while there is no law.
5:14But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them also that sinned not after the like manner of that transgression of Adam, which was the figure of him that was to come.
5:15But yet the gift is not so, as is the trespass:for if through the trespass of that one, many be dead, much more the grace of Theos,and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christos, has abounded to many.
5:16Neither is the gift so, as that which entered in by one that sinned:for the judgment came from one trespass to condemnation:but the gift is from many trespasses to justification.
5:17For if by the trespass of one, death reigned through one, much more shall they who receive that abundance of grace,and of that gift of that righteousness, reign in life through one,that is, Jesus Christos.
5:18Likewise then as through one trespass, judgment came on all men to condemnation, so by the justifying of one, the benefit abounded toward all men to the justification of life.
5:19For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by that obedience of that one shall many also be made righteous.
5:20Moreover the Law entered upon it that the trespass should abound: nevertheless, where sin abounded, there grace abounded much more:
5:21That as sin had reigned to death, so might grace also reign by righteousness to eternal life, through Jesus Christos our Kyrios.
Chapter 6
6:1What shall we say then? Shall we continue still in sin,that grace may abound? God forbid.
6:2How shall we, that are dead to sin, live yet in it?
6:3Know you not,that all we which have been baptized into Jesus Christos, have been baptized into his death?
6:4We are buried then with him by baptism into his death,that like as Christos was raised up from the dead to the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.
6:5For if we be planted with him to the similitude of his death, even so shall we be to the similitude of his resurrection,
6:6Knowing this,that our old man is crucified with him,that the body of sin might be destroyed,that we should no longer serve sin.
6:7For he that is dead, is justified from sin.
6:8Therefore, if we be dead with Christos, we believe that we shall live also with him,
6:9Knowing that Christos being raised from the dead, dies no more:death has no more dominion over him.
6:10For in that he died, he died once to sin but in that he lives, he lives to Theos.
6:11Likewise reckon yourselves also,that you are dead to sin,but are alive to Theos in Jesus Christos our Kyrios.
6:12Let not sin reign therefore in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts of it:
6:13Neither give you your members, as weapons of unrighteousness to sin:but give yourselves to Theos, as they that are alive from the dead,and give your members as weapons of righteousness to Theos.
6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you:for you are not under the Law,but under grace.
6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the Law,but under grace? God forbid.
6:16Know you not,that to whomever you give yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey, whether it be of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
6:17But Theos be thanked,that you have been the servants of sin,but you have obeyed from the heart to the form of the doctrine, heart you were delivered.
6:18Being then made free from sin, you are made the servants of righteousness.
6:19I speak after the manner of man, because of the infirmity of your flesh:for as you have given your members servants to uncleanness and to lawlessness, to commit lawlessness, so now give your members servants to righteousness in holiness.
6:20For when you were the servants of sin, you were freed from righteousness.
6:21What fruit had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
6:22But now being freed from sin,and made servants to Theos, you have your fruit in holiness,and the end, everlasting life.
6:23For the wages of sin is death:but the gift of Theos is eternal life, through Jesus Christos our Kyrios.
Chapter 7
7:1Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the Law) that the Law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
7:2For the woman who is in subjection to a man, is bound by the Law to the man, while he lives:but if the man be dead, she is delivered from the law of the man.
7:3So then, if while the man lives, she takes another man, she shall be called an adulteress:but if the man be dead, she is free from the Law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she take another man.
7:4So you, my brethren, are dead also to the Law by the body of Christos,that you should be to another, even to him that is raised up from the dead,that we should bring forth fruit to Theos.
7:5For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were by the Law, had force in our members, to bring forth fruit to death.
7:6But now we are delivered from the Law, he being dead by which we were held,that we should serve in newness of Spirit,and not in the oldness of the letter.
7:7What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? God forbid. No, I knew not sin,but by the Law:for I had not known lust, except the Law had said, You shall not lust.
7:8But sin took an occasion by the commandment,and worked in me all manner of covetous desire:for without the Law sin is dead.
7:9For I once was alive, without the Law:but when the commandment came, sin revived,
7:10But I died:and the same commandment which was ordained to life, was found to be to me to death.
7:11For sin took occasion by the commandment, and deceived me, and by it slew me.
7:12Therefore the Law is holy,and that commandment is holy,and just,and good.
7:13Was that then which is good, made death to me? God forbid:but sin,that it might appear sin, worked death in me by that which is good,that sin might be out of measure sinful by the commandment.
7:14For we know that the Law is spiritual,but I am carnal, sold under sin.
7:15For I allow not that which I do:for what I would,that do I not:but what I hate,that do I.
7:16If I do then that which I would not, I consent to the Law,that it is good.
7:17Now then, it is no more I,that do it,but sin that dwells in me.
7:18For I know,that in me,that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing:for to will is present with me:but I find no means to perform that which is good.
7:19For I do not the good thing, which I would,but the evil, which I would not,that do I.
7:20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it,but the sin that dwells in me.
7:21I find then that when I would do good, I am thus yoked,that evil is present with me.
7:22For I delight in the Law of Theos, concerning the inner man:
7:23But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the Law of my mind,and leading me captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.
7:24O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!
7:25I thank Theos through Jesus Christos our Kyrios. Then I myself in my mind serve the Law of Theos,but in my flesh the law of sin.
Chapter 8
8:1Now then there is no condemnation to them that are in Christos Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,but after the Spirit.
8:2For the Law of the Spirit of life, which is in Christos Jesus, has freed me from the law of sin and of death.
8:3For (that that was impossible to the Law, inasmuch as it was weak, because of the flesh) Theos sending his own Son, in the similitude of sinful flesh,and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
8:4That the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, which walk not after the flesh,but after the Spirit.
8:5For they that are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh:but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
8:6For the wisdom of the flesh is death:but the wisdom of the Spirit is life and peace,
8:7Because the wisdom of the flesh is enmity against Theos:for it is not subject to the Law of Theos,neither indeed can be.
8:8So then they that are in the flesh, cannot please Theos.
8:9Now you are not in the flesh,but in the Spirit, because the spirit of Theos dwells in you:but if any man has not the Spirit of Christos, the same is not his.
8:10And if Christos be in you, the body is dead, because of sin:but the Spirit is life for righteousness sake.
8:11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Christos from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by His Spirit that dwells in you.
8:12Therefore brethren, we are debtors-- not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:
8:13For if you live after the flesh, you shall die:but if you mortify the deeds of the body by the Spirit, you shall live.
8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of Theos, they are the sons of Theos.
8:15For you have not received the Spirit of bondage, to fear again: but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry Abba, Father.
8:16The same Spirit bears witness with our spirit,that we are the children of Theos.
8:17If we be children, we are also heirs, even the heirs of Theos,and heirs annexed with Christos:if so be that we suffer with him,that we may also be glorified with him.
8:18For I reckon that the afflictions of this present time are not worthy of the glory, which shall be showed to us.
8:19For the fervent desire of the creature waits when the sons of Theos shall be revealed,
8:20Because the creature is subject to vanity, not of its own will,but by reason of him, which has subdued it under hope,
8:21Because the creature also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of Theos.
8:22For we know that every creature groans with us also,and suffers birth pains together to this present.
8:23And not only the creature,but we also which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we do sigh in ourselves, waiting for the adoption, even the redemption of our body.
8:24For we are saved by hope:but hope that is seen, is not hope:for how can a man hope for that which he sees?
8:25But if we hope for that we see not, we do with patience abide for it.
8:26Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities:for we know not what to pray as we ought:but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with sighs, which cannot be expressed.
8:27But he that searches the hearts, knows what is the meaning of the Spirit:for he makes intercession for the Saints, according to the will of Theos.
8:28Also we know that all things work together for the best to them that love Theos, even to them that are called of his purpose.
8:29For those who he knew before, he also predestined to be made like to the image of his Son,that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
8:30Moreover whom he predestined, them also he called,and whom he called, them also he justified,and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
8:31What shall we then say to these things? If Theos be on our side, who can be against us?
8:32Who spared not his own Son,but gave him for us all to death, how shall he not with him freely give us all things also?
8:33Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's chosen? It is Theos that justifies,
8:34Who shall condemn? It is Christos who is dead, yes, or rather, which is risen again, who is also at the right hand of Theos,and makes intercession also for us.
8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christos? Shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
8:36As it is written,For your sake are we killed all day long:we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
8:37Nevertheless, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
8:38For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
8:39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of Theos, who is in Christos Jesus our Kyrios.
Chapter 9
9:1I say the truth in Christos, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
9:2That I have great heaviness,and continual sorrow in my heart.
9:3For I would wish myself to be separate from Christos,for my brethren that are my kinsmen according to the flesh,
9:4Which are the Israelites, to whom pertains the adoption,and the glory,and the Covenants,and the giving of the Law,and the service of God,and the promises.
9:5Of whom are the fathers,and of whom concerning the flesh, Christos came, who is Theos over all, blessed forever, Amen.
9:6Notwithstanding it cannot be that the word of Theos should take none effect:for all they are not Israel, which are of Israel:
9:7Neither are they all children, because they are the seed of Abraham:but, In Isaac shall your seed be called:
9:8That is, they who are the children of the flesh, are not the children of Theos:but the children of the promise, are counted for the seed.
9:9For this is a word of promise, in this same time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
9:10Neither he only felt this,but also Rebecca when she had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac.
9:11For before the children were born,and when they had neither done good, nor evil (that the purpose of Theos might remain according to election, not by works,but by him that calls)
9:12It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
9:13As it is written, I have loved Jacob,and have hated Esau.
9:14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with Theos? God forbid.
9:15For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on him, to whom I will show mercy:and will have compassion on him, on who I will have compassion.
9:16So then it is not in him that wills, nor in him that runs,but in Theos that shows mercy.
9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh,For this same purpose have I stirred you up,that I might show my power in you,and that my Name might be declared throughout all the earth.
9:18Therefore he has mercy on whom he will,and whom he will, he hardens.
9:19You will say then to me, Why does he yet complain? For who has resisted his will?
9:20But, O man, who are you which plead against Theos? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
9:21Has not the potter power of the clay to make of the same lump one vessel to honor,and another to dishonor?
9:22What and if Theos would, to show his wrath,and to make his power known, suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath, prepared to destruction?
9:23And that he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of eleos, which he has prepared to glory?
9:24Even us whom he has called, not of the Jews only,but also of the Gentiles,
9:25As he says also in Hosea, I will call them, My people, who were not my people:and her, Beloved, which was not beloved.
9:26And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people,that there they shall be called, The children of the living Theos.
9:27Also Isaiah cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel were as the sand of the sea, yet shall but a remnant be saved.
9:28For he will make his account,and gather it into a short sum with righteousness:for the Kyrios will make a short count in the earth.
9:29And as Isaiah said before, Except the Kyrios of hosts had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom,and had been like to Gomorrah.
9:30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles which followed not righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
9:31But Israel which followed the Law of righteousness, could not attained to the Law of righteousness.
9:32Why? Because they sought it not by faith,but as it were by the works of the Law:for they have stumbled at the stumbling stone,
9:33As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone, and a rock of offense: and every one that believes in him, shall not be ashamed.
10:1Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to Theos for Israel is,that they might be saved.
10:2For I bear them testimony, that they have the zeal of Theos, but not according to knowledge.
10:3For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of Theos,and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of Theos.
10:4For Christos is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believes.
10:5For Moses thus does the righteousness which is of the Law, That the man who does these things, shall live by it.
10:6But the righteousness which is of faith, speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is to bring Christos from above)
10:7Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is to bring Christos again from the dead)
10:8But what says it? The word is near you, even in your mouth,and in your heart. This is the word of faith which we preach.
10:9For if you shall confess with your mouth the Kyrios Jesus,and shall believe in your heart,that Theos raised him up from the dead, you shall be saved:
10:10For with the heart man believes to righteousness,and with the mouth man confesses to salvation.
10:11For the Scripture says, Whoever believes in him, shall not be ashamed.
10:12For there is no difference between the Jew and the Grecian:for he that is Kyrios over all, is rich to all,that call on him.
10:13For whoever shall call upon the Name of the Kyrios, shall be saved.
10:14But how shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
10:15And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them which bring glad tidings of peace,and bring glad tidings of good things!
10:16But they have not all obeyed the Gospel:for Isaiah says, Kyrios, who has believed our report?
10:17Then faith is by hearing,and hearing by the word of Theos.
10:18But I ends, Have they not heard? No doubt their sound went out through all the earth,and their words into the ends of the world.
10:19But I demand, Did not Israel know God? First Moses says, I will provoke you to envy by a nation that is not my nation,and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
10:20And Isaiah is bold,and says, I was found of them that sought me not,and have been made manifest to them that asked not after me.
10:21And to Israel he says, All the day long have I stretched forth my hand to a disobedient,and contradicting people.
Chapter 11
11:1I Demand then, Has Theos cast away his people? God forbid:for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2Theos has not cast away his people who he knew before. Know you not what the Scripture says of Elias, how he makes intercession with Theos against Israel, saying,
11:3Kyrios, they have killed your Prophets,and digged down your altars:and I am left alone,and they seek my psyche?
11:4But what says the answer of God to him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
11:5Even so then at this present time is there a remnant according to the election of grace.
11:6And if it be of grace, it is no more of works:or else were grace no more grace:but if it be of works, it is no more grace:or else were work no more work.
11:7What then? Israel has not obtained that he sought:but the election has obtained it,and the rest have been hardened,
11:8According as it is written, Theos has given them the spirit of slumber:eyes that they should not see,and ears that they should not hear to this day.
11:9And David says, Let their table be made a snare,and a net,and a stumbling block, even for a recompense to them.
11:10Let their eyes be darkened that they see not,and bend their back always.
11:11I demand then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid: but through their trespass, salvation comes to the Gentiles, to provoke them to follow them.
11:12Now if their trespass is the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their abundance be?
11:13For in that I speak to the Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office,
11:14To try if by any means I might provoke them of my flesh to follow them,and might save some of them.
11:15For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving be,but life from the dead?
11:16For if the first fruits be holy, so is the whole lump:and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
11:17And though some of the branches be broken off, and you being a wild Olive tree, were grafted in among them, and made partaker of the root, and fatness of the Olive tree.
11:18Boast not yourself against the branches:and if you boast yourself, you bear not the root,but the root bears you.
11:19You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
11:20Well:through unbelief they are broken off,and you stand by faith:be not high minded,but fear.
11:21For if Theos spared not the natural branches, take heed,lest he also spare not you.
11:22Behold therefore the bountifulness,and severity of Theos:toward them which have fallen, severity:but toward you, bountifulness, if you continue in his bountifulness:or else you shall also be cut off.
11:23And they also, if they do not remain in unbelief, shall be grafted in:for Theos is able to graft them in again.
11:24For if you were cut out of the Olive tree, which was wild by nature,and were grafted contrary to nature in a right Olive tree, how much more shall they that are by nature, be grafted in their own Olive tree?
11:25For I would not, brethren,that you should be ignorant of this secret (lest you should be arrogant in yourselves) that partly obstinacy is come to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
11:26And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion,and shall turn away the ungodliness from Jacob.
11:27And this is my covenant to them, When I shall take away their sins.
11:28As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes:but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers sakes.
11:29For the gifts and calling of Theos are without repentance.
11:30For even as you in times past have not believed Theos, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
11:31Even so now have they not believed by the eleos showed to you,that they also may obtain mercy.
11:32For Theos has shut up all in unbelief,that he might have mercy on all.
11:33O the deepness of the riches, both of the wisdom,and knowledge of Theos! How unsearchable are his judgments,and his ways past finding out!
11:34For who has known the mind of the Kyrios? Or who was his counselor?
11:35Or who has given to him first,and he shall be recompensed?
11:36For of him,and through him,and for him are all things:to him be glory forever. Amen.
Chapter 12
12:1I urge you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of Theos,that you give up your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to Theos, who is your reasonable serving of God.
12:2And do not fashion yourselves like this world,but be changed by the renewing of your mind,that you may prove what that good,and acceptable and perfect will of Theos is.
12:3For I say through the grace that is given to me, to every one that is among you,that no man think more highly than he ought to think,but to think according to sobriety, as Theos has dealt to every man the measure of faith.
12:4For as we have many members in one body,and all members have not one office,
12:5So we being many are one body in Christos,and every one, one another members.
12:6Seeing then that we have gifts that are diverse, according to the grace that is given to us, whether we have prophecy, let us prophecy according to the portion of faith:
12:7Or an office, let us wait on the office:or he that teaches, on teaching:
12:8Or he that exhorts, on exhortation:he that distributes, let him do it with simplicity:he that rules, with diligence:he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
12:9Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil,and cleave to that which is good.
12:10Be affectionate to love one another with brotherly love. In giving honor, go one before another,
12:11Not slothful to do service: fervent in spirit, serving the Kyrios,
12:12Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing in prayer,
12:13Distributing to the necessities of the Saints:giving yourselves to hospitality.
12:14Bless them which persecute you:bless, I say,and curse not.
12:15Rejoice with them that rejoice,and weep with them that weep.
12:16Be of the same mind toward one another:do not be high minded:but make yourselves equal to them of the lower sort:be not wise in yourselves.
12:17Recompense to no man evil for evil:procure things honest in the sight of all men.
12:18If it be possible, as much as in you is, have peace with all men.
12:19Repay beloved, avenge not yourselves,but give place to wrath:for it is written, Vengeance is mine:I will repay, says the Kyrios.
12:20Therefore, if your enemy hunger, feed him:if he thirst, give him drink:for in so doing, you shall heap coals of fire on his head.
12:21Be not overcome of evil,but overcome evil with goodness.
Chapter 13
13:1Let every psyche be subject to the higher powers:for there is no power but of Theos:and the powers that exist are appointed by Theos.
13:2Whoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of Theos:and they that resist, shall receive judgment to themselves.
13:3For Magistrates are not to be feared for good works,but for evil. Will you then be without fear of the power? Do well:so shall you have praise of the same.
13:4For he is the minister of Theos for your wealth,but if you do evil, fear:for he bears not the sword in vain:for he is the minister of Theos to take vengeance on him that does evil.
13:5Therefore you must be subject, not because of wrath only,but also for conscience sake.
13:6For, for this cause you pay also tribute: for they are God's ministers, applying themselves for the same thing.
13:7Give to all men therefore their duty:tribute, to whom you owe tribute:custom, to whom custom:fear, to whom fear:honor, to whom you owe honor.
13:8Owe nothing to any man,but to love one another:for he that loves another, has fulfilled the Law.
13:9For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet:and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, even in this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
13:10Love does not evil to his neighbor:therefore is love the fulfilling of the Law.
13:11And that, considering the season,that it is now time that we should arise from sleep:for now is our salvation nearer, then when we believed it.
13:12The night is past,and the day is at hand, let us therefore cast away the works of darkness,and let us put on the armor of light,
13:13So that we walk honestly, as in the day:not in gluttony,and drunkenness,neither in chambering and wantonness, nor in strife and envying.
13:14But put on the Kyrios Jesus Christos,and take no thought for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.
Chapter 14
14:1Him that is weak in the faith, receive to you,but not for controversies of disputations.
14:2One believes that he may eat of all things:and another, which is weak, eats herbs.
14:3Let not him that eats, despise him that eats not:and let not him which eats not, condemn him that eats:for Theos has received him.
14:4Who are you that condemn another man's servant? He stands or falls to his own master:yes, he shall be established:for Theos is able to make him stand.
14:5This man esteems one day above another day,and another man counts every day alike:let every man be fully persuaded in his mind.
14:6He that observes the day, observes it to the Kyrios:and he that observes not the day, observes it not to the Kyrios. He that eats, eats to the Kyrios:for he gives Theos thanks:and he that eats not, eats not to the Kyrios,and gives Theos thanks.
14:7For none of us lives to himself,neither does any die to himself.
14:8For whether we live, we live to the Kyrios: or whether we die, we die to the Kyrios: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
14:9For Christos therefore died and rose again,and revived,that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.
14:10But why do you condemn your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all appear before the judgment seat of Christos.
14:11For it is written, I live, says the Kyrios,and every knee shall bow to me,and all tongues shall confess to Theos.
14:12So then every one of us shall give accounts of himself to Theos.
14:13Let us not therefore judge one another any more:but use your judgment rather in this,that no man put an occasion to fall, or a stumbling block before his brother.
14:14I know,and am persuaded through the Kyrios Jesus,that there is nothing unclean of itself:but to him that reckons anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
14:15But if your brother be grieved for the meat, you no longer walk charitably:destroy not him with your meat,for whom Christos died.
14:16Cause not your commodity to be evil spoken of.
14:17For the kingdom of Theos, is not meat nor drink,but righteousness,and peace,and joy in the Holy Spirit.
14:18For whoever in these things serves Christos, is acceptable to Theos,and is approved of men.
14:19Let us then follow those things which concern peace, and with which one may edify another.
14:20Destroy not the work of Theos for meats sake:all things indeed are pure:but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.
14:21It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or made weak.
14:22Have you faith? Have it with yourself before Theos:blessed is he that condemns not himself in that thing which he approves.
14:23For he that doubts, is condemned if he eat, because he eats not of faith:and whatever is not of faith, is sin.
Chapter 15
15:1We which are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak,and not to please ourselves.
15:2Therefore let every man please his neighbor in that that is good to edification.
15:3For Christos also would not please himself,but as it is written, The rebukes of them which rebuke you, fell on me.
15:4For whatever things are written formerly, are writ for our learning,that we through patience,and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
15:5Now the Theos of patience and consolation give you that you be like minded one toward another, according to Christos Jesus,
15:6That you with one mind,and with one mouth may praise Theos, even the Father of our Kyrios Jesus Christos.
15:7Therefore receive you one another, as Christos also received us to the glory of Theos.
15:8Now I say,that Jesus Christos was a minister of the circumcision,for the truth of Theos, to confirm the promises made to the fathers.
15:9And let the Gentiles praise Theos,for his eleos, as it is written,For this cause I will confess you among the Gentiles,and sing to your Name.
15:10And again he says, Rejoice, you Gentiles with his people.
15:11And again, Praise the Kyrios, all the Gentiles,and laud you him, all people together.
15:12And again Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse,and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust.
15:13Now the Theos of hope fill you with all joy,and peace in believing,that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
15:14And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren,that you also are full of goodness,and filled with all knowledge,and are able to admonish one another.
15:15Nevertheless, brethren, I have somewhat boldly after a sort written to you, as one that puts you in remembrance, through the grace that is given me of Theos,
15:16That I should be the minister of Jesus Christos toward the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of Theos,that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
15:17I have therefore of what I may rejoice in Christos Jesus in those things which pertain to Theos.
15:18For I dare not speak of anything, which Christos has not worked by me, to make the Gentiles obedient in word and deed,
15:19With the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of Theos:so that from Jerusalem,and round about to Illyricum, I have caused to abound the Gospel of Christos.
15:20Yes, so I enforced myself to preach the Gospel, not where Christos was named,lest I should have built on another man's foundation.
15:21But as it is written, to whom he was not spoken of, they shall see him, and they that heard not, shall understand him.
15:22Therefore also I have been oft let to come to you:
15:23But now seeing I have no more place in these quarters,and also have been desirous many years ago to come to you,
15:24When I shall take my journey into Spain, I will come to you:for I trust to see you in my journey,and to be brought on my way there by you, after that I have been somewhat filled with your company.
15:25But now go I to Jerusalem, to minister to the Saints.
15:26For it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia, to make a certain distribution to the poor Saints who are at Jerusalem.
15:27For it has pleased them,and their debtors are they:for if the Gentiles be made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things.
15:28When I have therefore performed this,and have sealed them this fruit, I will pass by you into Spain.
15:29And I know when I come,that I shall come to you with abundance of the blessing of the Gospel of Christos.
15:30Also brethren, I urge you for our Kyrios Jesus Christos's sake,and for the love of the spirit,that you would strive with me by prayers to Theos for me,
15:31That I may be delivered from them which are disobedient in Judea,and that my service which I have to do at Jerusalem, may be accepted of the Saints,
15:32That I may come to you with joy by the will of Theos,and may with you be refreshed.
15:33Thus the Theos of peace be with you all. Amen.
Chapter 16
16:1I Commend Phoebe our sister to you, which is a servant of the Church of Cenchrea:
16:2That you receive her in the Kyrios, as it becomes Saints,and that you assist her in whatever business she needs of your aid:for she has given hospitality to many,and to me also.
16:3Greet Priscilla,and Aquila my fellow helpers in Christos Jesus,
16:4(Which have for my psyche laid down their own necks. To whom not I only give thanks,but also all the Churches of the Gentiles.)
16:5Likewise greet the Church that is in their house. Salute my beloved Epaenetus, which is the first fruits of Achaia in Christos.
16:6Greet Mary which bestowed much labor on us.
16:7Salute Andronicus and Junia my cousins and fellow prisoners, which are notable among the Apostles,and were in Christos before me.
16:8Greet Amplias my beloved in the Kyrios.
16:9Salute Urbanus our fellow helper in Christos,and Stachys my beloved.
16:10Salute Apelles approved in Christos. Salute them which are of Aristobulus friends.
16:11Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them which are of the friends of Narcissus which are in the Kyrios.
16:12Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, which women labor in the Kyrios. Salute the beloved Persis, which woman has labored much in the Kyrios.
16:13Salute Rufus chosen in the Kyrios,and his mother and mine.
16:14Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes,and the brethren who are with them.
16:15Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus,and his sister,and Olympas,and all the Saints who are with them.
16:16Salute one another with a holy kiss. The Churches of Christos salute you.
16:17Now I urge you, brethren, mark them diligently which cause division and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned,and avoid them.
16:18For they that are such, serve not the Kyrios Jesus Christos,but their own bellies,and with fair speech and flattering deceive the hearts of the simple.
16:19For your obedience is come abroad among all:I am glad therefore of you:but yet I would have the wise to that which is good,and simple concerning evil.
16:20The Theos of peace shall tread Satanas under your feet shortly. The grace of our Kyrios Jesus Christos be with you.
16:21Timothy my helper,and Lucius,and Jason,and Sosipater my kinsmen, salute you.
16:22I Tertius, which wrote out this Epistle, salute you in the Kyrios.
16:23Gaius my host,and of the whole Church salutes you. Erastus the steward of the city salutes you,and Quartus a brother.
16:24The grace of our Kyrios Jesus Christos be with you all. Amen.
16:25To him now that is of power to establish you according to my Gospel,and preaching of Jesus Christos, by the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began:
16:26(But now is opened,and made known among all nations by the Scriptures of the Prophets, at the commandment of the everlasting Theos for the obedience of faith)
16:27To Theos, I say, only wise, be praise through Jesus Christos forever. Amen. Written to the Romans from Christ,and sent by Phebe, servant of the Church which is at Cenchrea.