Romans

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, a called apostle having been set apart for the gospel of God,

which He promised beforehand through His prophets in Holy Scriptures,

concerning His Son, the One having come of the seed of David according to the flesh,

the One having been determined the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by resurrection [from] the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord,

To all those being in Rome beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you⁺ and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you⁺, because your⁺ faith is being proclaimed in all the world.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, is my witness how unceasingly I make remembrance of you⁺,

always upon my prayers, imploring if somehow now at last by the will of God I will make a prosperous journey to come to you⁺.

For I long to see you⁺ so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you⁺, to your⁺ being strengthened,

and, that is, to be encouraged together among you⁺ through the faith among one another, both of you⁺ and of me.

I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone believing—both to Jew first, and to Greek.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it has been written: “And the righteous one will live by faith.”

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, suppressing the truth in unrighteousness,

because that which [is] known of God is manifest among them, for God has revealed [it] to them.

For from the creation of the world His invisible [qualities], both His eternal power and divinity, are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, for them to be without excuse.

For having known God, not as God did they glorify [Him], or give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their foolish heart was darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

and they changed the glory of the immortal God into the likeness of an image of mortal man and birds and quadrupeds and creeping things.

Therefore God gave them up in the sinful desires of their hearts to uncleanness to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the One having created, who is blessed to the ages! Amen.

Because of this, God gave up them to passions of dishonor. For even their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature.

And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working out shame and receiving back in themselves the recompense that was fitting of their error.

And just as they did not see fit to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up to an unfit mind, to do the [things] not being proper;

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; gossips,

slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boasters; inventors of evil, disobedient to parents;

unintelligent, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;

who, having known the righteous decree of God that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only are doing them, but also agree with those practicing [them].

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, every one who is judging. For in that which you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, for you, the one judging, practice the same things.

But we know that the judgment of God upon those practicing such things is according to truth.

Now do you reckon this, O man, the one judging those practicing such things, and doing them [yourself], that you will escape the judgment of God?

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

who “will repay to each according to his works,”

to those who indeed with perseverance in good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

but to those of self-interest and disobeying the truth but obeying unrighteousness, wrath and anger;

tribulation and distress upon every soul of man working evil, both of Jew first, and also of Greek;

but glory and honor and peace to everyone working good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

For there is no partiality with God.

For when Gentiles, not having the law, may do by nature the things of the law, these not having a law are a law to themselves,

who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also testifying, and the thoughts between one another accusing or also defending [them]

on the day when God judges the secrets of men according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

But if you are named a Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God,

and you know the will and approve the [things] being superior, being instructed out of the law,

and you have persuaded yourself [that you] are a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness,

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth—

then [you] who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself? [You] who are preaching not to steal, do you steal?

[You] who are saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? [You] who are abhorring idols, do you rob temples?

[You] who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law?

As it has been written: “For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you⁺.”

For [it is] not the one [who] on the outside is a Jew, nor [is] [that] on the outside in flesh circumcision.

But a Jew [is one] on the inside, and circumcision [is] of heart, in spirit, not in letter, of whom the praise [is] not of men, but of God.

Much in every way. For first indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For what If some disbelieved? Will their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

But if our unrighteousness proves God’s righteousness, what will we say? God, inflicting the wrath, [is] unrighteous? I speak according to man.

But if the truth of God in my falsehood abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

And [is it] not, as we are slandered and as some affirm us to say, “Let us do evil so that the good may come”? Their judgment is just.

What then? Are we better? Not at all. For we charged before both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin.

As it has been written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;

there is no one understanding; there is no one seeking out God.

All turned away; together they became worthless; there is none who is doing kindness, there is not even one.”

“Their throat [is] a grave having been opened; they keep practicing deceit with their tongues;” “the poison of vipers [is] under their lips,”

“of whom the mouth is full of cursing and of bitterness;”

“their feet [are] swift to shed blood;

ruin and misery [are] in their paths;

and a way of peace they did not know.”

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Now we know that as much as the law says, it speaks to those in the law, so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be under judgment to God.

Therefore by works of the law, not any flesh will be justified before Him; for through the law [is] knowledge of sin.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified to by the Law and the Prophets.

And the righteousness of God [is] through faith from Jesus Christ toward all those believing. For there is no distinction,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that [is] in Christ Jesus,

whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins having taken place beforehand in the forbearance of God,

for the demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, for Him to be just and justifying the one of the faith from Jesus.

Where then [is] the boasting? It was excluded. By what kind of law? That of works? No, but by the law of faith.

For we reckon a man to be justified by faith apart from works of law.

Or [is He] the God of Jews only, not also of Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles,

since indeed God [is] one, who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through the [same] faith.

Do we, then, nullify the law through faith? Never may it be! Rather, we uphold the law.

What then will we say [that] Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a ground of boasting, but not before God.

For what does the Scripture say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”

Now to the one working, the wage is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt.

But to the one not working but believing on the One justifying the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness,

just as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:

“Blessed [are] [those] whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord shall never reckon sin.”

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that [he had while] in the uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness to be reckoned also to them,

and father of circumcision to those not only of circumcision, but also to those walking in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham in uncircumcision.

For the law brings about wrath; and where there is no law, neither [is there] transgression.

Because of this [it is] of faith, so that [it may be] according to grace for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to that of the law, but also to that of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

(as it has been written: “A father of many nations I have set you”) before [Him] whom he believed—God, the One making alive the dead and calling existing the [things] not as existing—

who against hope in hope believed, for him to become the father of many nations, according to that having been spoken, “So will your seed be.”

And not having become weak in the faith, he considered his body already having become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

Yet he did not doubt in unbelief in the promise of God, but was empowered in faith, having given glory to God,

and having been fully assured that what He has promised, He is also able to do.

Therefore also “it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”

Now it was not written because of him alone that “it was reckoned to him,”

but also because of us, to whom it is about to be reckoned, to those believing on the One having raised Jesus our Lord out from the dead,

who was delivered over because of our trespasses, and was raised because of our justification.

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

And not only [so], but also we boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;

and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

And hope does not put [us] to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, the One having been given to us.

Still indeed Christ, [in] our still being weak, according to the right time, died for the ungodly.

But God demonstrates His own love to us, that [in] our being still sinners, Christ died for us.

Therefore much more, having been justified now by His blood, we will be saved by Him from wrath!

For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved in His life!

And not only [so], but also we are boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we now received reconciliation.

Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed through to all men, because all sinned.

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed, there being no law.

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those not having sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the coming One.

But not as the trespass, so also [is] the gracious gift; for if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift in grace, that of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to the many!

And not as through one having sinned [is] the gift; for indeed the judgment out of one [is] to condemnation; but the gracious gift out of many trespasses [is] to justification.

For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one, much more will those receiving the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!

So then, just as through one trespass [is] condemnation to all men so also through one righteous act [is] justification of life to all men.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

And the law entered so that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace overabounded,

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What then will we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound?

Never may it be! [We] who died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

Or are you⁺ ignorant that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

We were buried, therefore, with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised out from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have become united in the likeness of His death, yet also we will be of the resurrection,

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [Him], so that the body of sin might be nullified, [for] us no longer to be slaves to sin.

For the one having died has been justified from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,

knowing that Christ, having been raised out from the dead, dies no more; death no longer rules over Him.

For that which He died, He died to sin once for all; but that which He lives, He lives to God.

So also you⁺, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your⁺ mortal body, in order to obey its desires.

Neither present your⁺ members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as living out from the dead, and your⁺ members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.

For sin will not rule over you⁺, for you⁺ are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Never may it be!

Do you⁺ not know that to whom you⁺ present yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you⁺ are slaves to the one whom you⁺ obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

But thanks [be] to God that you⁺ used to be slaves of sin, but you⁺ obeyed from the heart the form of teaching to which you⁺ were delivered up.

Now having been set free from sin, you⁺ became slaves to righteousness.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your⁺ flesh. For just as you⁺ presented your⁺ members [as] slaves to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your⁺ members [as] slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.

For when you⁺ were slaves of sin, you⁺ were free from righteousness.

What fruit, therefore, were you⁺ having then in the [things] of which you⁺ are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.

But now, having been set free from sin and having become slaves to God, you⁺ have your⁺ fruit unto sanctification, and the end [is] eternal life.

For the wages of sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For the married woman is bound by law to the living husband; but if the husband should die, she is released from the law of the husband.

So then, of the husband being alive, if she becomes unto another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, [so as] not for her to be an adulteress, having become unto another man.

Likewise, my brothers, you⁺ also have been put to death to the law through the body of Christ, for you⁺ to become unto another, unto the One having been raised out from the dead, so that we should bear fruit to God.

But now we have been released from the law, having died to that by which we were held, so as for us to serve in the newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

What then will we say? [Is] the law sin? Never may it be! But I did not know sin, if not through the law. For I would not have been conscious of covetousness if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

But sin, having taken the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all covetousness; for apart from the law, sin [is] dead.

And I was once alive apart from the law, but [on] the commandment's having come, sin revived and I died;

and the commandment that [was] unto life, this was found by me unto death.

For sin, having taken the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me].

So indeed, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

Did that which [is] good, then, become death to me? Never may it be! But so that sin might be shown as sin, it is producing death through that which [is] good to me, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond excess.

For we have known that the law is spiritual; but I am fleshly, having been sold as a slave under sin.

For what I carry out, I do not understand. For what I want, this I do not practice; but what I hate, this I do.

Now if what I do not want, this I do, I assent to the law, that [it is] good.

But now I no longer carry it out, but the sin dwelling in me.

For I know that there does not dwell in me—that is, in my flesh—good. For to want is present with me, but not to carry out the good.

For the good that I want, I do not do; but the evil that I do not want, this I practice.

Now if what I do not want, this I do, no longer do I carry it out, but sin dwelling in me.

I find, then, the law in my wanting to do good, that evil is present with me.

For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,

but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin being in my members.

O wretched man [that] I am! Who will deliver me out of this body of death?

But thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself indeed with the mind serve God’s law, but [with] the flesh the law of sin.

Therefore [there is] now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set you free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law [was] incapable of in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent His Son in the likeness of flesh of sin and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, those not walking according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those being according to the flesh mind the [things] of the flesh, but those according to the Spirit the [things] of the Spirit.

For the mind of the flesh [is] death, but the mind of the Spirit [is] life and peace,

because the mind of the flesh [is] hostility toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for [it is] not even able.

And those being in the flesh are not able to please God.

But you⁺ are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you⁺; and if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this one is not of Him.

But if Christ [is] in you⁺, the body [is] indeed dead because of sin, but the spirit [is] life because of righteousness.

And if the Spirit of the One having raised Jesus out from the dead dwells in you⁺, the One having raised Christ Jesus out from the dead will also make alive your⁺ mortal bodies through His Spirit, the One dwelling 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⁺ are about to die; but if by the Spirit you⁺ put to death the deeds of the body, you⁺ will live.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

For you⁺ did not receive a spirit of slavery again unto fear, but you⁺ received the Spirit of adoption as sons, in whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

and if children, also heirs: heirs indeed of God, and co-heirs of Christ, if indeed we suffer with [Him], so that we may also be glorified with [Him].

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time [are] not comparable to the glory about to be revealed in us.

For the eager expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God.

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the One having subjected [it], in hope

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay, into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

For we know that all the creation groans together and travails together until now.

And not only [so], but we ourselves, even having the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

For in hope we were saved, but hope being seen is not hope. For does anyone hope for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await in perseverance.

Now likewise also, the Spirit joins to help in our weakness; for we do not know the [things] that we should pray for as it is necessary, but the Spirit Himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.

And the One searching hearts knows what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because He intercedes for the saints according to God.

And we know that God works together all things for good to those loving God, to those being called according to purpose,

because whom He foreknew, He also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be firstborn among many brothers.

And whom He predestined, these also He called; and whom He called, these also He justified; and whom He justified, these also He glorified.

What then will we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us—

He who indeed did not spare [His] own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?

Who will bring an accusation against the chosen ones of God? God [is] the One justifying.

Who [is] the one condemning? Christ Jesus the One having died, now rather having been raised, [is] He who is also at the right hand of God, and who is interceding for us.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

As it has been written: “For Your sake we face death all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter.”

But in all these things we are more than conquerors through the One having loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things about to be, nor powers,

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that [is] in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I speak truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience is testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

who are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the lawgiving and the service and the promises,

whose [are] the fathers, and from whom [is] Christ according to the flesh, being God over all, blessed to the ages! Amen.

But [it is] not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who [are] of Israel, [are] these Israel.

That is, the children of the flesh, these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed.

for they not yet having been born nor having done anything good or evil, so that the purpose of God according to election might stand—

not of works but of the One calling, it was said to her, “The greater will serve the lesser.”

As it has been written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

What then will we say? [Is there] injustice with God? Never may it be!

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I may have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I may have compassion.”

So then, [it is] not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of God having mercy.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this very thing I raised you up, so that I might display My power in you, and that My name should be declared in all the earth.”

So then, He has mercy on whom He wants, and He hardens whom He wants.

You will say, then, to me, “Why then does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”

But rather, O man, who are you answering against God? [Will] the thing formed say to the One having formed [it], “Why did you make me thus?”

Or does the potter not have authority over the clay to make out of the same lump the one vessel indeed for honor, but the one for dishonor?

And [what] if God, desiring to display the wrath and to make known His power, bore with much patience vessels of wrath, having been fitted for destruction,

so that He might also make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to [that] law.

Why? Because [it was] not by faith, but as by works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

Brothers, indeed the good pleasure of my heart and [my] supplication to God on behalf of them [is] for salvation.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

For the end of law [is] Christ, unto righteousness to everyone believing.

For Moses writes [of] the righteousness that [is] of the law, that, “The man having done these things will live in them.”

But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: “You should not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring down Christ),

or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring up Christ out 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,

that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus [is] Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him out from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.

For the Scripture says, “Everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame.”

For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich to all those calling upon Him,

for, “Whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”

How then can they call upon One in whom they did not believe? And how can they believe in One of whom they did not hear? And how can they hear apart from one preaching?

And how can they preach unless they can be sent? As it has been written: “How beautiful [are] the feet of those proclaiming good news of good things!”

But not all heeded the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

So faith [is] by hearing, and hearing [is] through the word of Christ.

“Lord, they killed Your prophets, they tore down Your altars, and I alone was left, and they seek my life”?

But what does the divine answer say to him? “I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow the knee to Baal.”

So then also in the present time, there has been a remnant according to the election of grace,

and if by grace, no longer out of works; otherwise grace no longer is grace.

What then? What Israel seeks after, this it did not obtain, but the elect obtained [it]. And the rest were hardened,

as it has been written: God gave “them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this very day.”

Now if the firstfruit [is] holy, also [is] the lump; and if the root [is] holy, also [are] the branches.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partaker of the fatness of the root of the olive tree,

do not boast over the branches. But if you boast over [them], you do not support the root, but the root you.

You will say, then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

Rightly so: They were broken off by unbelief, but you have stood by faith. Do not be high-minded, but be afraid.

For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you.

Behold, therefore, the kindness and severity of God: severity indeed upon those having fallen, but kindness of God upon you, if you continue in the kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

For I do not want you⁺ to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you⁺ may not be wise in yourselves: A hardening in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles may come in.

And thus all Israel will be saved, as it has been written: “The Delivering One will come out of Zion; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

For God closed up all in disobedience so that He may have mercy on all.

O, the depth of riches, both of wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

“For who knew the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?”

Or “who first gave to Him, and it will be given back to him?”

For from Him and through Him and unto Him [are] all things. To Him [be] the glory to the ages! Amen.

Therefore I exhort you⁺, brothers, through the compassions of God, to present your⁺ bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy to God, well-pleasing, which is your⁺ reasonable service.

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, for you⁺ to discern what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

For through the grace having been given to me, I say to everyone being among you⁺ not to be high-minded above what it is necessary to think, but to think so as to be sound-minded, as God allotted to each a measure of faith.

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function,

so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

And we are having different gifts according to the grace having been given to us: if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;

and if service, in the service; and if teaching, in the teaching;

and if exhorting, in the exhortation; giving, in generosity; leading, in diligence; showing mercy, in cheerfulness.

devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another in honor,

not slothful in diligence, being fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,

to rejoice with the rejoicing, to weep with the weeping,

minding the same thing toward one another, not minding the high [things], but going along with the lowly. Do not be wise in yourselves,

repaying to no one evil for evil, giving forethought to right [things] before all men;

if possible of you⁺, being at peace with all men;

not avenging yourselves, beloved; but give place to wrath, for it has been written: “Vengeance [is] Mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Rather, “If your enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him a drink; for doing this, you will heap coals of fire upon his head.”

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil in good.

Let every soul be subject to the authorities being above [him]. For there is no authority except by God; but those existing are appointed by God.

Therefore the one setting [himself] against the authority has resisted the ordinance of God, and those having resisted will receive judgment to themselves.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Now do you want not to fear the authority? Do that which [is] good, and you will have praise from him.

For he is God’s servant to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is God’s servant, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing evil.

Therefore [it is] necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath, but also because of the conscience.

For because of this, you⁺ also pay taxes; for they are ministers of God, attending continually to this very thing.

Pay to all their dues: tax to whom tax, revenue to whom revenue, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one loving the other has fulfilled the law.

For, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and if any other commandment, it is summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love works no evil to the neighbor; therefore love [is] the fulfillment of the law.

And do this, knowing the time, that [it is] already the hour for you⁺ to be awakened out of sleep; for our salvation [is] nearer now than when we came to believe.

The night is advanced, and the day has drawn near; therefore let us lay aside the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Let us walk properly as in daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no forethought for the desires of the flesh.

And receive the one being weak in the faith, not for passing judgment on reasonings.

Indeed, one believes to eat all things, but the one being weak eats vegetables.

Who are you, judging another’s servant? To [his] own master he stands or falls. And he will be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

For both if we should live, we live to the Lord, and if we should die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we should live and if we should die, we are the Lord’s.

For unto this Christ died and lived again, so that He might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

But why do you judge your brother? Or why also do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

For it has been written: “[As] I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue will confess to God.”

So then, each of us will give account concerning himself to God.

May we no longer, therefore, judge one another; but rather you⁺ decide this, not to put a stumbling block or obstacle before a brother.

For if because of food your brother is grieved, no longer do you walk according to love. Do not destroy with your food that one for whom Christ died.

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For the one serving Christ in in this [is] well-pleasing to God and approved by men.

So then, may we pursue the [things] of peace, and the [things] of building up one another.

[It is] good neither to eat meat nor to drink wine nor [anything] in which your brother stumbles.

For as much as was written before was all written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have the hope.

For I say [that] Christ has become a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers,

and [for] the Gentiles to glorify God for mercy, as it has been written: “Because of this I will praise You among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to Your name.”

And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

And again: “Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and extol Him, all the peoples.”

And again, Isaiah says: “There will be the root of Jesse, and the One arising to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will hope.”

And may the God of hope fill you⁺ with all joy and peace in believing, for you⁺ to abound in hope in the power [of] the Holy Spirit.

For I will not dare to speak of anything that Christ did not work through me for the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so as for me, from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, to have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ,

And I know that coming to you⁺ I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

Now I exhort you⁺, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me to God,

so that having come to you⁺ in joy, through the will of God I may be refreshed together with you⁺.

Now I commend to you⁺ Phoebe our sister, being also a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

so that you⁺ might receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and you⁺ might assist her in whatever matter she may need of you⁺. For she also has been a patroness of many, and of myself.

Now I exhort you⁺, brothers, to watch out for those causing divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you⁺ learned, and turn away from them.

And the God of peace will crush Satan under your⁺ feet in quickness. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you⁺.

Now to Him being able to strengthen you⁺ according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery having been kept silent in the times of the ages,

but now having been made manifest also through the prophetic writings, according to the commandment of the eternal God having been made known to all the Gentiles unto obedience of faith—

[to] the only wise God [be] the glory unto the ages of the ages, which [is] through Jesus Christ! Amen.