Romans

New Testament · 16 chapters · 433 verses.

Chapter 1

1:1Paul, a slave of Jesus the Anointed One, called to be an apostle, set apart for the good news of God,
1:2which He promised beforehand through His prophets in holy writings,
1:3concerning His Son, who came from the seed of David according to the flesh,
1:4who was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection from the dead—Jesus the Anointed One our Lord,
1:5through whom we received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the nations, for the sake of His Name,
1:6among whom you also are called of Jesus the Anointed One;
1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called holy ones: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus the Anointed One.
1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus the Anointed One for you all, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,
1:10always in my prayers asking that somehow, now at last, I may have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.
1:11For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established—
1:12that is, that I may be encouraged together with you through one another’s faith, both yours and mine.
1:13And I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that many times I purposed to come to you—and was hindered until now—that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other nations.
1:14Both to Greeks and to non-Greeks, both to wise and to foolish, I am a debtor.
1:15So, as much as lies in me, I am ready to proclaim the good news also to you who are in Rome.
1:16For I am not ashamed of the good news of the Anointed One, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes—to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1:17For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written: “The righteous one will live by faith.”
1:18For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold down the truth in unrighteousness,
1:19because what may be known of God is manifest among them, for God manifested it to them.
1:20For His invisible things, from the creation of the world, are plainly seen, being understood through the things made—both His eternal power and divine nature—so that they are without excuse.
1:21For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but became futile in their thoughts, and their senseless heart was darkened.
1:22Professing to be wise, they became fools,
1:23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.
1:24Therefore God also gave them up in the desires of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.
1:25They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and honored and served the created thing rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. So be it.
1:26Because of this, God gave them up to dishonorable passions; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is against nature.
1:27And likewise the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their desire toward one another—males with males working shame and receiving in themselves the due repayment of their error.
1:28And as they did not see fit to retain God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things that are not fitting,
1:29having been filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, and malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and evil disposition; whisperers,
1:30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31without understanding, faithless, without natural affection, irreconcilable, unmerciful;
1:32who, knowing the righteous judgment of God—that those who practice such things are worthy of death—not only do them, but also approve of those who practice them.

Chapter 2

2:1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, every one of you who judges; for in that in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
2:2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who practice such things.
2:3And do you suppose this, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and do the same—that you will escape the judgment of God?
2:4Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
2:6who will render to each one according to his works:
2:7to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory, honor, and incorruptibility—eternal life;
2:8but to those who are self-seeking and refuse to obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,
2:9tribulation and distress upon every soul of man who works evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
2:10but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
2:11For there is no partiality with God.
2:12For as many as sinned without law will also perish without law; and as many as sinned under law will be judged through law.
2:13For it is not the hearers of the Law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the Law will be declared righteous.
2:14For when nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the Law, these, though not having law, are a law to themselves.
2:15They show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or even defending them,
2:16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men through Jesus the Anointed One, according to my good news.
2:17Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest upon the Law, and boast in God,
2:18and know His will, and discern what is excellent, being instructed out of the Law,
2:19and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness,
2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
2:21You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who proclaim that one must not steal, do you steal?
2:22You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
2:23You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through transgression of the Law?
2:24For “the Name of God is spoken evil of among the nations because of you,” as it is written.
2:25For circumcision indeed profits if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
2:26Therefore, if the uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision?
2:27And the one who is uncircumcised by nature, yet fulfills the Law, will judge you who, though having the letter and circumcision, are a transgressor of the Law.
2:28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh;
2:29but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter—whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Chapter 3

3:1What, then, is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
3:2Much in every way. First, indeed, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
3:3For what if some were faithless? Will their faithlessness make the faithfulness of God useless?
3:4By no means! But let God be true, and every man false, as it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words and may prevail when You are judged.”
3:5But if our unrighteousness establishes the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.
3:6By no means! For then how will God judge the world?
3:7For if the truth of God abounded through my falsehood to His glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?
3:8And why not say—as we are spoken evil of, and as some affirm that we say—“Let us do evil things that good may come”? Their judgment is just.
3:9What then? Are we better? Not at all! For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks with all being under sin,
3:10as it is written: “There is none righteous, not even one;
3:11there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God.
3:12All have turned aside; together they became worthless; there is none doing good, there is not even one.
3:13Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips;
3:14their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood;
3:16ruin and misery are in their ways,
3:17and the way of peace they have not known.
3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
3:19And we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those under the Law, so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may come under judgment before God.
3:20Therefore, by works of law no flesh will be declared righteous before Him, for through law comes knowledge of sin.
3:21But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, testified to by the Law and the Prophets—
3:22the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus the Anointed One to all and upon all those who believe; for there is no difference,
3:23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
3:24being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in the Anointed One Jesus,
3:25whom God set forth as an atonement offering, through faith in His blood, to show His righteousness because of the passing over of sins previously committed in the forbearance of God—
3:26to show His righteousness in the present time, that He might be righteous and declare righteous the one who is of the faith of Jesus.
3:27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
3:28Therefore we reckon that a man is declared righteous by faith apart from works of law.
3:29Is He the God of Jews only? Is He not also of the nations?
3:30Yes, also of the nations, since there is one God who will declare the circumcised righteous by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
3:31Do we then make law useless through faith? By no means! Rather, we establish law.

Chapter 4

4:1What, then, will we say that Abraham, our father according to the flesh, has found?
4:2For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something in which to boast—but not before God.
4:3For what does the writing say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
4:4Now to the one who works, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt.
4:5But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is reckoned as righteousness—
4:6even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
4:7“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered;
4:8blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin.”
4:9Is this blessedness, then, upon the circumcised only, or also upon the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
4:10How then was it reckoned? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.
4:11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, that righteousness might also be reckoned to them,
4:12and the father of circumcision to those who are not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith our father Abraham had while uncircumcised.
4:13For the promise that he would be heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through law, but through the righteousness of faith.
4:14For if those who are of law are heirs, faith has been made empty and the promise made useless.
4:15For the Law works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
4:16Because of this, it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, so that the promise may be sure to all the seed—not only to that which is of the Law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,
4:17who is the father of us all, as it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations”—before Him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead and calls the things that are not as though they are.
4:18Against hope, he believed in hope, so that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken: “So shall your seed be.”
4:19And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead, being about one hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
4:20And he did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
4:21and being fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was also able to do.
4:22Therefore it was also reckoned to him as righteousness.
4:23Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was reckoned to him,
4:24but also for ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
4:25who was delivered up because of our offenses and was raised because of our being declared righteous.

Chapter 5

5:1Therefore, having been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus the Anointed One,
5:2through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
5:3And not only so, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance,
5:4and endurance, proven character; and proven character, hope.
5:5And hope does not put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
5:6For while we were still weak, at the appointed time the Anointed One died for the ungodly.
5:7For scarcely will anyone die for a righteous man, though perhaps for the good man someone might even dare to die.
5:8But God commends His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, the Anointed One died for us.
5:9Much more, then, having now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath.
5:10For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved in His life.
5:11And not only so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus the Anointed One, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
5:12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death passed to all men because all sinned—
5:13for until law, sin was in the world; but sin is not reckoned when there is no law.
5:14Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a type of the One who was to come.
5:15But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the offense of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift in the grace of the one Man, Jesus the Anointed One, abound to the many.
5:16And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for the judgment from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the gift from many offenses resulted in a declaration of righteousness.
5:17For if by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One—Jesus the Anointed One.
5:18So then, as through one offense condemnation came to all men, so also through one righteous act came to all men a declaration of righteousness that brings life.
5:19For 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.
5:20And law entered alongside, so that the offense might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded beyond measure,
5:21so that just as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus the Anointed One our Lord.

Chapter 6

6:1What, then, will we say? Will we continue in sin that grace may abound?
6:2By no means! We who died to sin—how will we still live in it?
6:3Or are you ignorant that as many of us as were immersed into the Anointed One Jesus were immersed into His death?
6:4Therefore, we were buried with Him through immersion into death, so that just as the Anointed One was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
6:5For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, we will also be united with Him in the resurrection,
6:6knowing this: our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be made powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin.
6:7For he who has died has been set free from sin.
6:8And if we died with the Anointed One, we believe that we will also live with Him,
6:9knowing that the Anointed One, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has lordship over Him.
6:10For the death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.
6:11So also you, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Jesus the Anointed One our Lord.
6:12Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its desires.
6:13And do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those living from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
6:14For sin will not have lordship over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
6:15What then? Will we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
6:16Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey—whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
6:17But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that form of teaching to which you were delivered,
6:18and having been freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.
6:19I 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 leading to lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
6:20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
6:21What fruit, then, did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
6:22But now, having been freed from sin and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit leading to sanctification, and the end, eternal life.
6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus the Anointed One our Lord.

Chapter 7

7:1Or are you ignorant, brothers—for I speak to those who know law—that the Law has authority over a man as long as he lives?
7:2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband.
7:3So then, while her husband lives, she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she belongs to another man.
7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the Law through the body of the Anointed One, so that you might belong to Another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we might bear fruit to God.
7:5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were aroused through the Law, were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
7:6But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that which held us, so that we may serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
7:7What, then, will we say? Is the Law sin? By no means! Yet I would not have known sin except through law; for I would not have known covetousness if the Law had not said:
7:8“You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, worked in me every kind of covetousness; for apart from law sin is dead.
7:9And I was once alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
7:10And the commandment that was for life—this I found to be for death.
7:11For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
7:12Therefore, the Law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.
7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But sin, that it might appear as sin, produced death in me through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.
7:14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
7:15For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I do not practice what I desire, but I do what I hate.
7:16And if I do what I do not desire, I agree with the Law that it is good.
7:17But now it is no longer I who do it, but sin dwelling in me.
7:18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the desire is present with me, but I do not find how to do what is good.
7:19For the good that I desire, I do not do; but the evil that I do not desire, this I practice.
7:20And if I do what I do not desire, it is no longer I who do it, but sin dwelling in me.
7:21I find, then, this law: when I desire to do what is good, evil is present with me.
7:22For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man,
7:23but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and taking me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
7:24O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?
7:25I thank God through Jesus the Anointed One our Lord! So then, I myself serve the Law of God with my mind, but the law of sin with my flesh.

Chapter 8

8:1There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Jesus the Anointed One, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Jesus the Anointed One set me free from the law of sin and death.
8:3For what the Law could not do, being weak through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
8:4so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
8:5For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, on the things of the Spirit.
8:6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,
8:7because the mind of the flesh is enmity toward God, for it does not submit itself to the Law of God; indeed, it cannot.
8:8And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
8:9But 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 the Anointed One, he is not His.
8:10And if the Anointed One is in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised the Anointed One from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit dwelling in you.
8:12So then, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
8:13For 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.
8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, in whom we cry, “Father! Father!”
8:16The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
8:17and if children, then heirs—heirs indeed of God and fellow heirs with the Anointed One—if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified with Him.
8:18For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory about to be revealed in us.
8:19For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God.
8:20For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it—in hope
8:21that the creation itself also will be set free from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
8:22For we know that the whole creation groans together and labors in birth pains together until now.
8:23And not only so, but we ourselves also, having the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption—the redemption of our body.
8:24For in hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope; for why does anyone still hope for what he sees?
8:25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance.
8:26And likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses; for we do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be uttered.
8:27And He who searches the hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because He intercedes for the holy ones according to God’s will.
8:28And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
8:29For whom He foreknew, He also foreordained to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.
8:30And whom He foreordained, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these He also glorified.
8:31What, then, will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
8:32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all—how will He not also, with Him, freely give us all things?
8:33Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is the One who declares righteous.
8:34Who is the one who condemns? The Anointed One is the One who died, and more than that, was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
8:35Who will separate us from the love of the Anointed One? Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we are put to death all day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.”
8:37Yet in all these things we more than conquer through Him who 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 created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Jesus the Anointed One our Lord.

Chapter 9

9:1I speak the truth in the Anointed One; I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
9:2that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart.
9:3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from the Anointed One for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,
9:4who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the service, and the promises;
9:5to whom belong the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh, came the Anointed One, who is God over all, blessed forever. So be it.
9:6But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are from Israel are Israel,
9:7nor because they are Abraham’s seed are they all children; but, “Through Isaac your seed will be named.”
9:8That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.
9:9For this is the word of promise: “At this appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
9:10And not only so, but Rebecca also, having conceived by one man—our father Isaac—
9:11before they had yet been born or done anything good or evil, so that the purpose of God according to His choice might remain—not of works, but of Him who calls—
9:12it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.”
9:13As it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
9:14What, then, will we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means!
9:15For He says to Moses, “I will show mercy to whom I show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
9:16So then, it is not of the one who wills, nor of the one who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up: that I might show My power in you, and that My Name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
9:18So then, He shows mercy to whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.
9:19You will say to me, then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”
9:20No, but, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will the thing formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me this way?”
9:21Does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
9:22But what if God, willing to show wrath and make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
9:23and that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory—
9:24even us, whom He also called, not from Jews only, but also from nations?
9:25As He also says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ and her who was not beloved, ‘Beloved.’
9:26And it will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they will be called sons of the living God.”
9:27And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved.
9:28For He will finish the matter and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will carry out a matter cut short upon the land.”
9:29And as Isaiah said before: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and been made like Gomorrah.”
9:30What, then, will we say? That nations which did not pursue righteousness attained righteousness—the righteousness that is of faith—
9:31but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to a law of righteousness.
9:32Why? Because it was not by faith, but as though by works of law. For they stumbled at the stone of stumbling,
9:33as it is written: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and everyone who believes in Him will not be put to shame.”

Chapter 10

10:1Brothers, the desire of my heart and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation.
10:2For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
10:3For not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.
10:4For the Anointed One is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
10:5For Moses writes of the righteousness that is from the Law: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
10:6But the righteousness that is from faith speaks in this way: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into Heaven?’” that is, to bring the Anointed One down,
10:7or, “‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” that is, to bring the Anointed One up from the dead.
10:8But 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:
10:9that 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.
10:10For with the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.
10:11For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in Him will not be put to shame.”
10:12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all and is rich toward all who call on Him.
10:13For “everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord will be saved.”
10:14How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without one proclaiming?
10:15And how will they proclaim unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim good news of peace, of those who proclaim good news of good things!”
10:16But not all obeyed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
10:17So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the word of God.
10:18But I say, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice went out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.”
10:19But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation; by a foolish nation I will anger you.”
10:20And Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I became manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”
10:21But concerning Israel He says, “All day long I stretched out My hands to a people who refuse to obey and speak against Me.”

Chapter 11

11:1I say, then, has God rejected His people? By no means! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2God did not reject His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
11:3“Lord, they killed Your prophets and tore down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”?
11:4But what does God’s answer say to him? “I have left for Myself seven thousand men who did not bow the knee to Baal.”
11:5So then, at the present time also there is a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.
11:6And if by grace, it is no longer from works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if from works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
11:7What then? Israel did not obtain what it seeks, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened,
11:8as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, to this very day.”
11:9And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a repayment to them.
11:10Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and bend their back continually.”
11:11I say, then, did they stumble so that they might fall? By no means! But through their trespass salvation has come to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.
11:12Now if their trespass is riches for the world and their failure riches for the nations, how much more will their fullness be?
11:13For I speak to you, the nations. Inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle to the nations, I honor my ministry,
11:14if somehow I may provoke my own flesh to jealousy and save some of them.
11:15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
11:16And if the first portion is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are also.
11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partaker of the root and the richness of the olive tree,
11:18do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who bear the root, but the root bears you.
11:19You will say, then, “The branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
11:20Well said. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear.
11:21For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He will not spare you either.
11:22Behold, then, the kindness and severity of God: toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, God’s kindness, if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
11:23And they also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
11:24For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree and, contrary to nature, were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
11:25For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers—lest you be wise in your own conceit—that hardening in part has come upon Israel until the fullness of the nations comes in.
11:26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn ungodliness away from Jacob.
11:27And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”
11:28As regards the good news, they are enemies for your sake; but as regards God’s choice, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
11:29For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
11:30For just as you once refused to obey God, but now received mercy through their disobedience,
11:31so these also have now refused to obey, so that through the mercy shown to you they also may receive mercy.
11:32For God confined all in disobedience, that He might show mercy to all.
11:33O depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
11:34For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who became His counselor?
11:35Or who first gave to Him, that it should be repaid to him?
11:36For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. So be it.

Chapter 12

12:1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God—your reasonable service.
12:2And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.
12:3For through 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 sound judgment, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.
12:4For just as in one body we have many members, but all the members do not have the same function,
12:5so we, though many, are one body in the Anointed One, and individually members of one another.
12:6And having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;
12:7if service, in serving; or the one who teaches, in teaching;
12:8or the one who exhorts, in exhortation; the one who gives, with generosity; the one who leads, with diligence; the one who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil; cling to good.
12:10Be tenderly affectionate to one another in brotherly love, giving preference to one another in honor;
12:11not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
12:12rejoicing in hope, enduring in tribulation, persevering in prayer;
12:13sharing in the needs of the holy ones, pursuing hospitality.
12:14Bless those who persecute you; bless, and do not curse.
12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
12:16Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the lowly. Do not become wise in your own conceit.
12:17Repay no one evil for evil. Give thought to what is honorable in the sight of all men.
12:18If possible, as far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.
12:19Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath, for it is written: “Vengeance is Mine;
12:20I will repay,” says the Lord. “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by doing this, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
12:21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Chapter 13

13:1Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
13:2Therefore, the one who resists the authority has resisted the ordinance of God, and those who resist will receive judgment upon themselves.
13:3For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the authority,
13:4for it is God’s servant to you for good. But if you do what is evil, fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is God’s servant, an avenger who brings wrath upon the one who practices evil.
13:5Therefore, it is necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath, but also because of conscience.
13:6For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s servants, attending continually to this very thing.
13:7Render, therefore, to all what is owed: tax to whom tax, duty to whom duty, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
13:8Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled law.
13:9For, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
13:10Love works no evil to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfillment of law.
13:11And do this, knowing the time: that the hour has already come for us to awaken from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
13:12The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
13:13Let us walk properly, as in the daytime—not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.
13:14But put on the Lord Jesus the Anointed One, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its desires.

Chapter 14

14:1Receive the one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
14:2One believes he may eat all things, but the one who is weak eats only vegetables.
14:3Let not the one who eats despise the one who does not eat, and let not the one who does not eat judge the one who eats, for God has received him.
14:4Who are you to judge another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
14:5One esteems one day above another, while another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.
14:6The one who regards the day regards it to the Lord, and the one who does not regard the day does not regard it to the Lord. The one who eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one who does not eat does not eat to the Lord, and gives thanks to God.
14:7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself;
14:8for whether we live, we live to the Lord, or whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
14:9For to this end the Anointed One both died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
14:10But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of the Anointed One.
14:11For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue will confess to God.”
14:12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
14:13Therefore, let us no longer judge one another, but judge this instead: never to put a stumbling block or a cause of offense before a brother.
14:14I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to the one who regards anything as unclean, to him it is unclean.
14:15For if your brother is grieved because of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom the Anointed One died.
14:16Therefore, do not let your good be spoken of as evil.
14:17For the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
14:18For the one who serves the Anointed One in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
14:19So then, let us pursue the things that make for peace and the things that build up one another.
14:20Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil for the man who eats in a way that causes stumbling.
14:21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is made to fall, or is weakened.
14:22Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
14:23But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.

Chapter 15

15:1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak and not to please ourselves.
15:2Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
15:3For even the Anointed One did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The reproaches of those who reproach You fell upon Me.”
15:4For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
15:5Now may the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind toward one another, according to Jesus the Anointed One,
15:6so that with one accord and one mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One.
15:7Therefore, receive one another, just as the Anointed One also received us, to the glory of God.
15:8For I say that Jesus the Anointed One became a servant to the circumcised for the sake of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,
15:9and that the nations might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: “For this reason I will confess You among the nations, and I will sing praise to Your Name.”
15:10And again it says, “Rejoice, O nations, with His people.”
15:11And again, “Praise the Lord, all you nations, and let all the peoples praise Him.”
15:12And again Isaiah says, “The Root of Jesse will come, even He who rises to rule the nations; in Him the nations will hope.”
15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
15:14And I myself am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you yourselves are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able also to admonish one another.
15:15But I have written more boldly to you in part, brothers, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God,
15:16that I might be a servant of Jesus the Anointed One to the nations, ministering as a priest the good news of God, so that the offering of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
15:17Therefore, I have reason to boast in Jesus the Anointed One in the things pertaining to God.
15:18For I will not dare to speak of anything except what the Anointed One has accomplished through me, to bring the nations to obedience, by word and deed,
15:19by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the good news of the Anointed One.
15:20And thus I have made it my aim to proclaim the good news, not where the Anointed One was named, lest I build upon another’s foundation,
15:21but as it is written: “Those to whom He was not proclaimed will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”
15:22For this reason I also have often been hindered from coming to you.
15:23But now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having had a longing for many years to come to you,
15:24whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you in passing and to be sent forward there by you, once I have first enjoyed your company for a while.
15:25But now I am going to Jerusalem, serving the holy ones.
15:26For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the holy ones who are in Jerusalem.
15:27For they were pleased, and indeed they are debtors to them. For if the nations have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in material things.
15:28Therefore, when I have completed this and sealed to them this fruit, I will depart by way of you to Spain.
15:29And I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the good news of the Anointed One.
15:30Now I urge you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus the Anointed One and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God for me,
15:31that I may be delivered from those who refuse to obey in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the holy ones,
15:32so that I may come to you with joy through the will of God and be refreshed with you.
15:33May the God of peace be with you all. So be it.

Chapter 16

16:1And I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the assembly in Cenchrea,
16:2that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the holy ones and stand by her in whatever matter she may need from you; for she has been a patron of many, and of me myself.
16:3Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Jesus the Anointed One,
16:4who laid down their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations.
16:5Greet also the assembly in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruits of Achaia to the Anointed One.
16:6Greet Mary, who labored much for us;
16:7greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow captives, who are of note among the apostles and who were in the Anointed One before me.
16:8Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord;
16:9greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in the Anointed One, and Stachys, my beloved;
16:10greet Apelles, approved in the Anointed One. Greet those of the household of Aristobulus;
16:11greet Herodion, my relative. Greet those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord;
16:12greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
16:13Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
16:14Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brothers with them;
16:15greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, Olympas, and all the holy ones with them.
16:16Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of the Anointed One greet you.
16:17Now I urge you, brothers, to watch those who cause divisions and stumbling blocks contrary to the teaching you learned, and turn away from them.
16:18For such people do not serve our Lord Jesus the Anointed One, but their own belly; and by smooth words and flattery they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
16:19For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice, therefore, over you; but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
16:20And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet soon. The grace of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One be with you. So be it.
16:21Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, and so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
16:22I, Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.
16:23Gaius, host to me and to the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, greets you, and Quartus the brother.
16:24The grace of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One be with you all. So be it.
16:25Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my good news and the proclamation of Jesus the Anointed One, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret through the times of the ages,
16:26but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the command of the everlasting God, to all the nations for the obedience of faith—
16:27to the only wise God, through Jesus the Anointed One, be glory forever. So be it.