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Amen. + +45:001:026 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even + their women did change the natural use into that which is + against nature: + +45:001:027 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the + woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men + working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves + that recompence of their error which was meet. + +45:001:028 And even as they did not like to retain God in their + knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those + things which are not convenient; + +45:001:029 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, + wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, + debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, + +45:001:030 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, + inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, + +45:001:031 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural + affection, implacable, unmerciful: + +45:001:032 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such + things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have + pleasure in them that do them. + +45:002:001 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that + judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest + thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. + +45:002:002 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth + against them which commit such things. + +45:002:003 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such + things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the + judgment of God? + +45:002:004 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance + and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God + leadeth thee to repentance? + +45:002:005 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto + thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the + righteous judgment of God; + +45:002:006 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: + +45:002:007 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for + glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: + +45:002:008 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, + but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, + +45:002:009 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth + evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; + +45:002:010 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, + to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: + +45:002:011 For there is no respect of persons with God. + +45:002:012 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish + without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be + judged by the law; + +45:002:013 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the + doers of the law shall be justified. + +45:002:014 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature + the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, + are a law unto themselves: + +45:002:015 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their + conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean + while accusing or else excusing one another;) + +45:002:016 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus + Christ according to my gospel. + +45:002:017 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and + makest thy boast of God, + +45:002:018 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more + excellent, being instructed out of the law; + +45:002:019 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, + a light of them which are in darkness, + +45:002:020 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast + the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. + +45:002:021 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not + thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou + steal? + +45:002:022 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou + commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit + sacrilege? + +45:002:023 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the + law dishonourest thou God? + +45:002:024 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through + you, as it is written. + +45:002:025 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but + if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made + uncircumcision. + +45:002:026 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the + law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? + +45:002:027 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil + the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost + transgress the law? + +45:002:028 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that + circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: + +45:002:029 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is + that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose + praise is not of men, but of God. + +45:003:001 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of + circumcision? + +45:003:002 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed + the oracles of God. + +45:003:003 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make + the faith of God without effect? + +45:003:004 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it + is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, + and mightest overcome when thou art judged. + +45:003:005 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, + what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I + speak as a man) + +45:003:006 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? + +45:003:007 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto + his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? + +45:003:008 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some + affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose + damnation is just. + +45:003:009 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we + have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all + under sin; + +45:003:010 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: + +45:003:011 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh + after God. + +45:003:012 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become + unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. + +45:003:013 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they + have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: + +45:003:014 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: + +45:003:015 Their feet are swift to shed blood: + +45:003:016 Destruction and misery are in their ways: + +45:003:017 And the way of peace have they not known: + +45:003:018 There is no fear of God before their eyes. + +45:003:019 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to + them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, + and all the world may become guilty before God. + +45:003:020 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be + justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of + sin. + +45:003:021 But now the righteousness of God without the law is + manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; + +45:003:022 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus + Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is + no difference: + +45:003:023 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; + +45:003:024 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption + that is in Christ Jesus: + +45:003:025 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in + his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of + sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; + +45:003:026 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he + might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in + Jesus. + +45:003:027 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? + Nay: but by the law of faith. + +45:003:028 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without + the deeds of the law. + +45:003:029 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the + Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: + +45:003:030 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by + faith, and uncircumcision through faith. + +45:003:031 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, + we establish the law. + +45:004:001 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining + to the flesh, hath found? + +45:004:002 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to + glory; but not before God. + +45:004:003 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was + counted unto him for righteousness. + +45:004:004 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, + but of debt. + +45:004:005 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that + justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for + righteousness. + +45:004:006 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto + whom God imputeth righteousness without works, + +45:004:007 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and + whose sins are covered. + +45:004:008 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. + +45:004:009 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or + upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was + reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. + +45:004:010 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in + uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. + +45:004:011 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the + righteousness of the faith which he had yet being + uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that + believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness + might be imputed unto them also: + +45:004:012 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the + circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that + faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet + uncircumcised. + +45:004:013 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was + not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through + the righteousness of faith. + +45:004:014 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, + and the promise made of none effect: + +45:004:015 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is + no transgression. + +45:004:016 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the + end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that + only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the + faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, + +45:004:017 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) + before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the + dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they + were. + +45:004:018 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the + father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So + shall thy seed be. + +45:004:019 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body + now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet + the deadness of Sarah's womb: + +45:004:020 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but + was strong in faith, giving glory to God; + +45:004:021 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was + able also to perform. + +45:004:022 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. + +45:004:023 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed + to him; + +45:004:024 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on + him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; + +45:004:025 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for + our justification. + +45:005:001 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God + through our Lord Jesus Christ: + +45:005:002 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein + we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. + +45:005:003 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing + that tribulation worketh patience; + +45:005:004 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: + +45:005:005 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed + abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. + +45:005:006 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died + for the ungodly. + +45:005:007 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet + peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. + +45:005:008 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were + yet sinners, Christ died for us. + +45:005:009 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be + saved from wrath through him. + +45:005:010 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the + death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be + saved by his life. + +45:005:011 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus + Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. + +45:005:012 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death + by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have + sinned: + +45:005:013 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not + imputed when there is no law. + +45:005:014 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them + that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's + transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. + +45:005:015 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if + through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace + of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus + Christ, hath abounded unto many. + +45:005:016 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the + judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of + many offences unto justification. + +45:005:017 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more + they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of + righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) + +45:005:018 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men + to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free + gift came upon all men unto justification of life. + +45:005:019 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by + the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. + +45:005:020 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But + where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: + +45:005:021 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign + through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our + Lord. + +45:006:001 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace + may abound? + +45:006:002 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any + longer therein? + +45:006:003 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus + Christ were baptized into his death? + +45:006:004 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that + like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the + Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. + +45:006:005 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his + death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: + +45:006:006 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the + body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not + serve sin. + +45:006:007 For he that is dead is freed from sin. + +45:006:008 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also + live with him: + +45:006:009 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; + death hath no more dominion over him. + +45:006:010 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he + liveth, he liveth unto God. + +45:006:011 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, + but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. + +45:006:012 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye + should obey it in the lusts thereof. + +45:006:013 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of + unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as + those that are alive from the dead, and your members as + instruments of righteousness unto God. + +45:006:014 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under + the law, but under grace. + +45:006:015 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but + under grace? God forbid. + +45:006:016 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to + obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto + death, or of obedience unto righteousness? + +45:006:017 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye + have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was + delivered you. + +45:006:018 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of + righteousness. + +45:006:019 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of + your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to + uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield + your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. + +45:006:020 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from + righteousness. + +45:006:021 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now + ashamed? for the end of those things is death. + +45:006:022 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, + ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting + life. + +45:006:023 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal + life through Jesus Christ our Lord. + +45:007:001 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the + law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he + liveth? + +45:007:002 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her + husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she + is loosed from the law of her husband. + +45:007:003 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to + another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her + husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no + adulteress, though she be married to another man. + +45:007:004 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by + the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even + to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth + fruit unto God. + +45:007:005 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were + by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto + death. + +45:007:006 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein + we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and + not in the oldness of the letter. + +45:007:007 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had + not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, + except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. + +45:007:008 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all + manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. + +45:007:009 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment + came, sin revived, and I died. + +45:007:010 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be + unto death. + +45:007:011 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and + by it slew me. + +45:007:012 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, + and good. + +45:007:013 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. + But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that + which is good; that sin by the commandment might become + exceeding sinful. + +45:007:014 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold + under sin. + +45:007:015 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I + not; but what I hate, that do I. + +45:007:016 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law + that it is good. + +45:007:017 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in + me. + +45:007:018 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good + thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that + which is good I find not. + +45:007:019 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would + not, that I do. + +45:007:020 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but + sin that dwelleth in me. + +45:007:021 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present + with me. + +45:007:022 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: + +45:007:023 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law + of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin + which is in my members. + +45:007:024 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body + of this death? + +45:007:025 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the + mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law + of sin. + +45:008:001 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in + Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the + Spirit. + +45:008:002 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me + free from the law of sin and death. + +45:008:003 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the + flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful + flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: + +45:008:004 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, + who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. + +45:008:005 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the + flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the + Spirit. + +45:008:006 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually + minded is life and peace. + +45:008:007 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not + subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. + +45:008:008 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. + +45:008:009 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that + the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the + Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. + +45:008:010 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but + the Spirit is life because of righteousness. + +45:008:011 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead + dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall + also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in + you. + +45:008:012 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live + after the flesh. + +45:008:013 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye + through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall + live. + +45:008:014 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons + of God. + +45:008:015 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; + but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, + Abba, Father. + +45:008:016 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are + the children of God: + +45:008:017 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs + with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be + also glorified together. + +45:008:018 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not + worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed + in us. + +45:008:019 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the + manifestation of the sons of God. + +45:008:020 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, + but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, + +45:008:021 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the + bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the + children of God. + +45:008:022 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in + pain together until now. + +45:008:023 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the + firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within + ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of + our body. + +45:008:024 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: + for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? + +45:008:025 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience + wait for it. + +45:008:026 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know + not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself + maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be + uttered. + +45:008:027 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of + the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints + according to the will of God. + +45:008:028 And we know that all things work together for good to them + that love God, to them who are the called according to his + purpose. + +45:008:029 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be + conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the + firstborn among many brethren. + +45:008:030 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and + whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, + them he also glorified. + +45:008:031 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who + can be against us? + +45:008:032 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us + all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? + +45:008:033 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is + God that justifieth. + +45:008:034 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, + that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who + also maketh intercession for us. + +45:008:035 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall + tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or + nakedness, or peril, or sword? + +45:008:036 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; + we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. + +45:008:037 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through + him that loved us. + +45:008:038 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, + nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things + to come, + +45:008:039 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able + to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus + our Lord. + +45:009:001 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also + bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, + +45:009:002 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. + +45:009:003 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my + brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: + +45:009:004 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the + glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the + service of God, and the promises; + +45:009:005 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh + Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. + +45:009:006 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they + are not all Israel, which are of Israel: + +45:009:007 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all + children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. + +45:009:008 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are + not the children of God: but the children of the promise are + counted for the seed. + +45:009:009 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and + Sarah shall have a son. + +45:009:010 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, + even by our father Isaac; + +45:009:011 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any + good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election + might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) + +45:009:012 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. + +45:009:013 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. + +45:009:014 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God + forbid. + +45:009:015 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have + mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have + compassion. + +45:009:016 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that + runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. + +45:009:017 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same + purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in + thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the + earth. + +45:009:018 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom + he will he hardeneth. + +45:009:019 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For + who hath resisted his will? + +45:009:020 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall + the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made + me thus? + +45:009:021 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to + make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? + +45:009:022 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power + known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath + fitted to destruction: + +45:009:023 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the + vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, + +45:009:024 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also + of the Gentiles? + +45:009:025 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which + were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. + +45:009:026 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said + unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called + the children of the living God. + +45:009:027 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the + children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall + be saved: + +45:009:028 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in + righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon + the earth. + +45:009:029 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left + us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto + Gomorrha. + +45:009:030 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not + after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the + righteousness which is of faith. + +45:009:031 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, + hath not attained to the law of righteousness. + +45:009:032 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were + by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that + stumblingstone; + +45:009:033 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and + rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be + ashamed. + +45:010:001 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, + that they might be saved. + +45:010:002 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not + according to knowledge. + +45:010:003 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going + about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted + themselves unto the righteousness of God. + +45:010:004 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every + one that believeth. + +45:010:005 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, + That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. + +45:010:006 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, + Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that + is, to bring Christ down from above:) + +45:010:007 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up + Christ again from the dead.) + +45:010:008 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, + and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; + +45:010:009 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and + shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the + dead, thou shalt be saved. + +45:010:010 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with + the mouth confession is made unto salvation. + +45:010:011 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not + be ashamed. + +45:010:012 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for + the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. + +45:010:013 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be + saved. + +45:010:014 How then 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? + +45:010:015 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is + written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the + gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! + +45:010:016 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, + Lord, who hath believed our report? + +45:010:017 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of + God. + +45:010:018 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went + into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the + world. + +45:010:019 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will + provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a + foolish nation I will anger you. + +45:010:020 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that + sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not + after me. + +45:010:021 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my + hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. + +45:011:001 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I + also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of + Benjamin. + +45:011:002 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye + not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh + intercession to God against Israel saying, + +45:011:003 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine + altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. + +45:011:004 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to + myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the + image of Baal. + +45:011:005 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant + according to the election of grace. + +45:011:006 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace + is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more + grace: otherwise work is no more work. + +45:011:007 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; + but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded. + +45:011:008 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of + slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they + should not hear;) unto this day. + +45:011:009 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, + and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: + +45:011:010 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow + down their back alway. + +45:011:011 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God + forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto + the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. + +45:011:012 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the + diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more + their fulness? + +45:011:013 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of + the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: + +45:011:014 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my + flesh, and might save some of them. + +45:011:015 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the + world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the + dead? + +45:011:016 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if + the root be holy, so are the branches. + +45:011:017 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a + wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them + partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; + +45:011:018 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou + bearest not the root, but the root thee. + +45:011:019 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might + be graffed in. + +45:011:020 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou + standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: + +45:011:021 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he + also spare not thee. + +45:011:022 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them + which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou + continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut + off. + +45:011:023 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be + graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. + +45:011:024 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by + nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive + tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural + branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? + +45:011:025 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this + mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that + blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of + the Gentiles be come in. + +45:011:026 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There + shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away + ungodliness from Jacob: + +45:011:027 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away + their sins. + +45:011:028 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but + as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's + sakes. + +45:011:029 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. + +45:011:030 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now + obtained mercy through their unbelief: + +45:011:031 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your + mercy they also may obtain mercy. + +45:011:032 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might + have mercy upon all. + +45:011:033 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of + God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past + finding out! + +45:011:034 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his + counsellor? + +45:011:035 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed + unto him again? + +45:011:036 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to + whom be glory for ever. Amen. + +45:012:001 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that + ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable + unto God, which is your reasonable service. + +45:012:002 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by + the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that + good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. + +45:012:003 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that + is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he + ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath + dealt to every man the measure of faith. + +45:012:004 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have + not the same office: + +45:012:005 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one + members one of another. + +45:012:006 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is + given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to + the proportion of faith; + +45:012:007 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that + teacheth, on teaching; + +45:012:008 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him + do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that + sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. + +45:012:009 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; + cleave to that which is good. + +45:012:010 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in + honour preferring one another; + +45:012:011 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; + +45:012:012 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant + in prayer; + +45:012:013 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. + +45:012:014 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. + +45:012:015 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that + weep. + +45:012:016 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, + but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own + conceits. + +45:012:017 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in + the sight of all men. + +45:012:018 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably + with all men. + +45:012:019 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place + unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will + repay, saith the Lord. + +45:012:020 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give + him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on + his head. + +45:012:021 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. + +45:013:001 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is + no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. + +45:013:002 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the + ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to + themselves damnation. + +45:013:003 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. + Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is + good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: + +45:013:004 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do + that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in + vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute + wrath upon him that doeth evil. + +45:013:005 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but + also for conscience sake. + +45:013:006 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's + ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. + +45:013:007 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is + due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom + honour. + +45:013:008 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that + loveth another hath fulfilled the law. + +45:013:009 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, + Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou + shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is + briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love + thy neighbour as thyself. + +45:013:010 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the + fulfilling of the law. + +45:013:011 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake + out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we + believed. + +45:013:012 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore + cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour + of light. + +45:013:013 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and + drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife + and envying. + +45:013:014 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision + for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. + +45:014:001 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful + disputations. + +45:014:002 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is + weak, eateth herbs. + +45:014:003 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let + not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath + received him. + +45:014:004 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own + master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for + God is able to make him stand. + +45:014:005 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth + every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own + mind. + +45:014:006 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he + that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. + He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; + and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth + God thanks. + +45:014:007 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. + +45:014:008 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we + die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, + we are the Lord's. + +45:014:009 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that + he might be Lord both of the dead and living. + +45:014:010 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at + nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment + seat of Christ. + +45:014:011 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall + bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. + +45:014:012 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. + +45:014:013 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge + this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion + to fall in his brother's way. + +45:014:014 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is + nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing + to be unclean, to him it is unclean. + +45:014:015 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou + not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ + died. + +45:014:016 Let not then your good be evil spoken of: + +45:014:017 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but + righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. + +45:014:018 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to + God, and approved of men. + +45:014:019 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, + and things wherewith one may edify another. + +45:014:020 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are + pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. + +45:014:021 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any + thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is + made weak. + +45:014:022 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he + that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. + +45:014:023 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth + not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. + +45:015:001 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the + weak, and not to please ourselves. + +45:015:002 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to + edification. + +45:015:003 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, + The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. + +45:015:004 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for + our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the + scriptures might have hope. + +45:015:005 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be + likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: + +45:015:006 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the + Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +45:015:007 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us + to the glory of God. + +45:015:008 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision + for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the + fathers: + +45:015:009 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it + is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the + Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. + +45:015:010 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. + +45:015:011 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all + ye people. + +45:015:012 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and + he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall + the Gentiles trust. + +45:015:013 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in + believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of + the Holy Ghost. + +45:015:014 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye + also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able + also to admonish one another. + +45:015:015 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto + you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace + that is given to me of God, + +45:015:016 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, + ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the + Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy + Ghost. + +45:015:017 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in + those things which pertain to God. + +45:015:018 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which + Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, + by word and deed, + +45:015:019 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit + of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto + Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. + +45:015:020 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ + was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: + +45:015:021 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall + see: and they that have not heard shall understand. + +45:015:022 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to + you. + +45:015:023 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a + great desire these many years to come unto you; + +45:015:024 Whensoever I 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 thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with + your company. + +45:015:025 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. + +45:015:026 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a + certain contribution for the poor saints which are at + Jerusalem. + +45:015:027 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For + if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual + things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal + things. + +45:015:028 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them + this fruit, I will come by you into Spain. + +45:015:029 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the + fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. + +45:015:030 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, + and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with + me in your prayers to God for me; + +45:015:031 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in + Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be + accepted of the saints; + +45:015:032 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may + with you be refreshed. + +45:015:033 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. + +45:016:001 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the + church which is at Cenchrea: + +45:016:002 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that + ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for + she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. + +45:016:003 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: + +45:016:004 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not + only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. + +45:016:005 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my + well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto + Christ. + +45:016:006 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us. + +45:016:007 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my + fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also + were in Christ before me. + +45:016:008 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. + +45:016:009 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. + +45:016:010 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of + Aristobulus' household. + +45:016:011 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the + household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. + +45:016:012 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute + the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. + +45:016:013 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. + +45:016:014 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the + brethren which are with them. + +45:016:015 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and + Olympas, and all the saints which are with them. + +45:016:016 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ + salute you. + +45:016:017 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions + and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; + and avoid them. + +45:016:018 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but + their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive + the hearts of the simple. + +45:016:019 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad + therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto + that which is good, and simple concerning evil. + +45:016:020 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet + shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. + +45:016:021 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, + my kinsmen, salute you. + +45:016:022 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. + +45:016:023 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. + Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus + a brother. + +45:016:024 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. + +45:016:025 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my + gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the + revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the + world began, + +45:016:026 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the + prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, + made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: + +45:016:027 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. + Amen. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, KING JAMES, BOOK 45 *** + +********** This file should be named 8045.txt or 8045.zip ********** + +This eBook was produced by David Widger +See above the credits to previous producers of this text. + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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