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You can also find out about how to make a +donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. + + +**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** + +**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** + +*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** + + +Title: The World English Bible (WEB): Romans + +Release Date: June, 2005 [EBook #8272] +[This file was first posted on July 4, 2003] + +Edition: 10 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): ROMANS *** + + + + +From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward. + + + +Book 45 Romans +001:001 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, + set apart for the Good News of God, +001:002 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, +001:003 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according + to the flesh, +001:004 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to + the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, + Jesus Christ our Lord, +001:005 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience + of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake; +001:006 among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ; +001:007 to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: + Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the + Lord Jesus Christ. +001:008 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, + that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. +001:009 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News + of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always + in my prayers, +001:010 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered + by the will of God to come to you. +001:011 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, + to the end that you may be established; +001:012 that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us + by the other's faith, both yours and mine. +001:013 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I + often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, + that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among + the rest of the Gentiles. +001:014 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise + and to the foolish. +001:015 So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News + to you also who are in Rome. +001:016 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is + the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; + for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. +001:017 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. + As it is written, "But the righteous shall live + by faith."{Habakkuk 2:4} +001:018 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all + ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress + the truth in unrighteousness, +001:019 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, + for God revealed it to them. +001:020 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world + are clearly seen, being perceived through the things + that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; + that they may be without excuse. +001:021 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, + neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, + and their senseless heart was darkened. +001:022 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, +001:023 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an + image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, + and creeping things. +001:024 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their + hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be + dishonored among themselves, +001:025 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped + and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is + blessed forever. Amen. +001:026 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. + For their women changed the natural function into that which + is against nature. +001:027 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, + burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is + inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due + penalty of their error. +001:028 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, + God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things + which are not fitting; +001:029 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, + wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, + murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, +001:030 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, + inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, +001:031 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural + affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; +001:032 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice + such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, + but also approve of those who practice them. +002:001 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. + For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. + For you who judge practice the same things. +002:002 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against + those who practice such things. +002:003 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, + and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? +002:004 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, + and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads + you to repentance? +002:005 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you + are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, + revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; +002:006 who "will pay back to everyone according to their + works:"{Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12} +002:007 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, + and incorruptibility, eternal life; +002:008 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, + but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, +002:009 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, + to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. +002:010 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, + to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. +002:011 For there is no partiality with God. +002:012 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without + the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged + by the law. +002:013 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, + but the doers of the law will be justified +002:014 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things + of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, +002:015 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, + their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts + among themselves accusing or else excusing them) +002:016 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to + my Good News, by Jesus Christ. +002:017 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, + and glory in God, +002:018 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, + being instructed out of the law, +002:019 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, + a light to those who are in darkness, +002:020 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in + the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. +002:021 You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? + You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal? +002:022 You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? + You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? +002:023 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law + do you dishonor God? +002:024 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because + of you,"{Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22} just as it is written. +002:025 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, + but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision + has become uncircumcision. +002:026 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, + won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? +002:027 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills + the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision + are a transgressor of the law? +002:028 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that + circumcision which is outward in the flesh; +002:029 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision + is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; + whose praise is not from men, but from God. +003:001 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the + profit of circumcision? +003:002 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted + with the oracles of God. +003:003 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith + nullify the faithfulness of God? +003:004 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. + As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, + and might prevail when you come into judgment."{Psalm 51:4} +003:005 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, + what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? + I speak like men do. +003:006 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world? +003:007 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, + why am I also still judged as a sinner? +003:008 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm + that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" + Those who say so are justly condemned. +003:009 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. + For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they + are all under sin. +003:010 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one. +003:011 There is no one who understands. There is no one who + seeks after God. +003:012 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. + There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as + one."{Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20} +003:013 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they + have used deceit."{Psalm 5:9} "The poison of vipers is under + their lips;"{Psalm 140:3} +003:014 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."{Psalm 10:7} +003:015 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. +003:016 Destruction and misery are in their ways. +003:017 The way of peace, they haven't known."{Isaiah 59:7-8} +003:018 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."{Psalm 36:1} +003:019 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to + those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, + and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. +003:020 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified + in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. +003:021 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has + been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; +003:022 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ + to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, +003:023 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; +003:024 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption + that is in Christ Jesus; +003:025 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice{or, a propitiation}, + through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his + righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, + in God's forbearance; +003:026 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; + that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him + who has faith in Jesus. +003:027 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? + Of works? No, but by a law of faith. +003:028 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart + from the works of the law. +003:029 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? + Yes, of Gentiles also, +003:030 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised + by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. +003:031 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! + No, we establish the law. +004:001 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found + according to the flesh? +004:002 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something + to boast about, but not toward God. +004:003 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, + and it was accounted to him for righteousness."{Genesis 15:6} +004:004 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, + but as debt. +004:005 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies + the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. +004:006 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God + counts righteousness apart from works, +004:007 "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, + whose sins are covered. +004:008 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge + with sin."{Psalm 32:1-2} +004:009 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on + the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted + to Abraham for righteousness. +004:010 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, + or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. +004:011 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness + of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, + that he might be the father of all those who believe, + though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might + also be accounted to them. +004:012 The father of circumcision to those who not only are of + the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith + of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision. +004:013 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should + be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through + the righteousness of faith. +004:014 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, + and the promise is made of no effect. +004:015 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, + neither is there disobedience. +004:016 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, + to the end that the promise may 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. +004:017 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations."{Genesis + 17:5} This is in the presence of him whom he believed: + God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, + as though they were. +004:018 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might + become a father of many nations, according to that which had + been spoken, "So will your seed be."{Genesis 15:5} +004:019 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, + already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred + years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. +004:020 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, + but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, +004:021 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able + also to perform. +004:022 Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."{Genesis + 15:6} +004:023 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for + his sake alone, +004:024 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe + in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead, +004:025 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised + for our justification. +005:001 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God + through our Lord Jesus Christ; +005:002 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace + in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. +005:003 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, + knowing that suffering works perseverance; +005:004 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: +005:005 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been + poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was + given to us. +005:006 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died + for the ungodly. +005:007 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps + for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. +005:008 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we + were yet sinners, Christ died for us. +005:009 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be + saved from God's wrath through him. +005:010 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God + through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, + we will be saved by his life. +005:011 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, + through whom we have now received the reconciliation. +005:012 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, + and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, + because all sinned. +005:013 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged + when there is no law. +005:014 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, + even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, + who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. +005:015 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass + of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, + and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, + abound to the many. +005:016 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment + came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many + trespasses to justification. +005:017 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; + so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace + and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through + the one, Jesus Christ. +005:018 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; + even so through one act of righteousness, all men were + justified to life. +005:019 For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, + even so through the obedience of the one, many will + be made righteous. +005:020 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; + but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; +005:021 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through + righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. +006:001 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, + that grace may abound? +006:002 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live + in it any longer? +006:003 Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus + were baptized into his death? +006:004 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, + that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory + of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. +006:005 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, + we will also be part of his resurrection; +006:006 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, + that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we + would no longer be in bondage to sin. +006:007 For he who has died has been freed from sin. +006:008 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also + live with him; +006:009 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. + Death no more has dominion over him! +006:010 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; + but the life that he lives, he lives to God. +006:011 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive + to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. +006:012 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you + should obey it in its lusts. +006:013 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, + but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, + and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. +006:014 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, + but under grace. +006:015 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, + but under grace? May it never be! +006:016 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as + servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; + whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? +006:017 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, + you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching + whereunto you were delivered. +006:018 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. +006:019 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, + for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness + and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your + members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. +006:020 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in + regard to righteousness. +006:021 What 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. +006:022 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants + of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result + of eternal life. +006:023 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is + eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. +007:001 Or don't you know, brothers{The word for "brothers" + here and where context allows may also be correctly translated + "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} (for I speak to men + who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man + for as long as he lives? +007:002 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband + while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged + from the law of the husband. +007:003 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, + she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, + she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, + though she is joined to another man. +007:004 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law + through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, + to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring + forth fruit to God. +007:005 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which + were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth + fruit to death. +007:006 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died + to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness + of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. +007:007 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! + However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. + For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, + "You shall not covet."{Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21} +007:008 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, + produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, + sin is dead. +007:009 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, + sin revived, and I died. +007:010 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; +007:011 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, + and through it killed me. +007:012 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, + and righteous, and good. +007:013 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! + But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death + to me through that which is good; that through the commandment + sin might become exceeding sinful. +007:014 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, + sold under sin. +007:015 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I + desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. +007:016 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law + that it is good. +007:017 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. +007:018 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. + For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing + that which is good. +007:019 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I + don't desire, that I practice. +007:020 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, + but sin which dwells in me. +007:021 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, + evil is present. +007:022 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, +007:023 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law + of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law + of sin which is in my members. +007:024 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body + of this death? +007:025 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, + I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law. +008:001 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are + in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, + but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according + to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"} +008:002 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free + from the law of sin and of death. +008:003 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, + God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh + and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; +008:004 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, + who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. +008:005 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds + on the things of the flesh, but those who live according + to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. +008:006 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit + is life and peace; +008:007 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; + for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. +008:008 Those who are in the flesh can't please God. +008:009 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so + that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't + have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. +008:010 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, + but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. +008:011 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead + dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead + will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit + who dwells in you. +008:012 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live + after the flesh. +008:013 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit + you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. +008:014 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are + children of God. +008:015 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, + but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, + "Abba{Abba is an Aramaic word for father or daddy, often used + affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father + in heaven.}! Father!" +008:016 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are + children of God; +008:017 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs + with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be + glorified with him. +008:018 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time + are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be + revealed toward us. +008:019 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children + of God to be revealed. +008:020 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, + but because of him who subjected it, in hope +008:021 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage + of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. +008:022 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain + together until now. +008:023 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits + of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, + waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. +008:024 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. + For who hopes for that which he sees? +008:025 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for + it with patience. +008:026 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we + don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself + makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered. +008:027 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, + because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. +008:028 We know that all things work together for good for those who + love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. +008:029 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed + to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn + among many brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where + context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers + and sisters" or "siblings."} +008:030 Whom he predestined, those he also called. + Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, + those he also glorified. +008:031 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, + who can be against us? +008:032 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, + how would he not also with him freely give us all things? +008:033 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? + It is God who justifies. +008:034 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, + who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, + who also makes intercession for us. +008:035 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, + or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, + or peril, or sword? +008:036 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. + We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."{Psalm 44:22} +008:037 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through + him who loved us. +008:038 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, + nor principalities, nor things present, nor things + to come, nor powers, +008:039 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, + will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is + in Christ Jesus our Lord. +009:001 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience + testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, +009:002 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. +009:003 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ + for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh, +009:004 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, + the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; +009:005 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning + the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. +009:006 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. + For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel. +009:007 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. + But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."{Genesis 21:12} +009:008 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children + of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed. +009:009 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, + and Sarah will have a son."{Genesis 18:10,14} +009:010 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. +009:011 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, + that the purpose of God according to election might stand, + not of works, but of him who calls, +009:012 it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."{Genesis 25:23} +009:013 Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."{Malachi + 1:2-3} +009:014 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness + with God? May it never be! +009:015 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, + and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."{Exodus 33:19} +009:016 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, + but of God who has mercy. +009:017 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I + caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, + and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."{Exodus 9:16} +009:018 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens + whom he desires. +009:019 You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? + For who withstands his will?" +009:020 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the + thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me + like this?"{Isaiah 29:16; 45:9} +009:021 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump + to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? +009:022 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his + power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath + made for destruction, +009:023 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels + of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, +009:024 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also + from the Gentiles? +009:025 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' + which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was + not beloved."{Hosea 2:23} +009:026 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, + 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children + of the living God.'"{Hosea 1:10} +009:027 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children + of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant + who will be saved; +009:028 for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, + because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."{Isaiah + 10:22-23} +009:029 As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies{Greek: Sabaoth + (for Hebrew: Tze'va'ot)} had left us a seed, we would have become + like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."{Isaiah 1:9} +009:030 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't + follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, + even the righteousness which is of faith; +009:031 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive + at the law of righteousness. +009:032 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were + by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; +009:033 even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling + stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him + will be disappointed."{Isaiah 8:14; 28:16} +010:001 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, + that they may be saved. +010:002 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, + but not according to knowledge. +010:003 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking + to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject + themselves to the righteousness of God. +010:004 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law + for righteousness to everyone who believes. +010:005 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one + who does them will live by them."{Leviticus 18:5} +010:006 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say + in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'{Deuteronomy 30:12} + (that is, to bring Christ down); +010:007 or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'{Deuteronomy 30:13} + (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)" +010:008 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, + and in your heart;"{Deuteronomy 30:14} that is, the word of faith, + which we preach: +010:009 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, + and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, + you will be saved. +010:010 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; + and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. +010:011 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not + be disappointed."{Isaiah 28:16} +010:012 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same + Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. +010:013 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will + be saved."{Joel 2:32} +010:014 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? + How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? + How will they hear without a preacher? +010:015 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: + "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News + of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"{Isaiah 52:7} +010:016 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, + "Lord, who has believed our report?"{Isaiah 53:1} +010:017 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. +010:018 But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound + went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of + the world."{Psalm 19:4} +010:019 But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke + you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation + void of understanding I will make you angry."{Deuteronomy 32:31} +010:020 Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who + didn't seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask + for me."{Isaiah 65:1} +010:021 But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands + to a disobedient and contrary people."{Isaiah 65:2} +011:001 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! + For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, + of the tribe of Benjamin. +011:002 God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you + know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads + with God against Israel: +011:003 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken + down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my + life."{1 Kings 19:10,14} +011:004 But how does God answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven + thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."{1 Kings 19:18} +011:005 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant + according to the election of grace. +011:006 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace + is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; + otherwise work is no longer work. +011:007 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, + but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. +011:008 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, + eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, + to this very day."{Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10} +011:009 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, + a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. +011:010 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. + Bow down their back always."{Psalm 69:22,23} +011:011 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! + But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, + to provoke them to jealousy. +011:012 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss + the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? +011:013 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am + an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; +011:014 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, + and may save some of them. +011:015 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, + what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? +011:016 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, + so are the branches. +011:017 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a + wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker + with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree; +011:018 don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you + who support the root, but the root supports you. +011:019 You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might + be grafted in." +011:020 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand + by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear; +011:021 for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will + he spare you. +011:022 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those + who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue + in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. +011:023 They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be + grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. +011:024 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, + and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, + how much more will these, which are the natural branches, + be grafted into their own olive tree? +011:025 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers,{The word + for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be + correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} + of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, + that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the + fullness of the Gentiles has come in, +011:026 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, + "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn + away ungodliness from Jacob. +011:027 This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their + sins."{Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34} +011:028 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. + But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake. +011:029 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. +011:030 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have + obtained mercy by their disobedience, +011:031 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy + shown to you they may also obtain mercy. +011:032 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have + mercy on all. +011:033 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge + of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways + past tracing out! +011:034 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been + his counselor?"{Isaiah 40:13} +011:035 "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to + him again?"{Job 41:11} +011:036 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. + To him be the glory for ever! Amen. +012:001 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present + your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, + which is your spiritual service. +012:002 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by + the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is + the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. +012:003 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every + man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly + than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has + apportioned to each person a measure of faith. +012:004 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members + don't have the same function, +012:005 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually + members one of another. +012:006 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, + if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion + of our faith; +012:007 or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, + to his teaching; +012:008 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, + let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; + he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. +012:009 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. + Cling to that which is good. +012:010 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; + in honor preferring one another; +012:011 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; +012:012 rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly + in prayer; +012:013 contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality. +012:014 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse. +012:015 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. +012:016 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your + mind on high things, but associate with the humble. + Don't be wise in your own conceits. +012:017 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable + in the sight of all men. +012:018 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace + with all men. +012:019 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to + God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; + I will repay, says the Lord."{Deuteronomy 32:35} +012:020 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, + give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire + on his head."{Proverbs 25:21-22} +012:021 Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. +013:001 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, + for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist + are ordained by God. +013:002 Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance + of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment. +013:003 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. + Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? + Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same, +013:004 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that + which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; + for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him + who does evil. +013:005 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of + the wrath, but also for conscience' sake. +013:006 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants + of God's service, attending continually on this very thing. +013:007 Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes + are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; + honor to whom honor. +013:008 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves + his neighbor has fulfilled the law. +013:009 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," + "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall + not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds + "You shall not give false testimony,"}{Exodus 20:13-15,17; + Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21} and whatever other commandments there are, + are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love + your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18} +013:010 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment + of the law. +013:011 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you + to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us + than when we first believed. +013:012 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw + off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light. +013:013 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling + and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, + and not in strife and jealousy. +013:014 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision + for the flesh, for its lusts. +014:001 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes + over opinions. +014:002 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak + eats only vegetables. +014:003 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. + Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God + has accepted him. +014:004 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord + he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God + has power to make him stand. +014:005 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every + day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. +014:006 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does + not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. + He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. + He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, + and gives God thanks. +014:007 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. +014:008 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die + to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's. +014:009 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, + that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. +014:010 But 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 Christ. +014:011 For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee + will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"{Isaiah 45:23} +014:012 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God. +014:013 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, + that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, + or an occasion for falling. +014:014 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is + unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything + to be unclean, to him it is unclean. +014:015 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk + no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for + whom Christ died. +014:016 Then don't let your good be slandered, +014:017 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, + but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. +014:018 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God + and approved by men. +014:019 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, + and things by which we may build one another up. +014:020 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed + are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates + a stumbling block by eating. +014:021 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything + by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak. +014:022 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. + Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves. +014:023 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it + isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. + (14:24) Now to him who is able to establish you according + to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, + according to the revelation of the mystery which has been + kept secret through long ages, (14:25) but now is revealed, + and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the + commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience + of faith to all the nations; (14:26) to the only wise God, + through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! + Amen.{TR places verses 24-26 after Romans 16:24 as verses 25-27.} +015:001 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, + and not to please ourselves. +015:002 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, + to be building him up. +015:003 For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, + "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."{Psalm 69:9} +015:004 For whatever things were written before were written for + our learning, that through patience and through encouragement + of the Scriptures we might have hope. +015:005 Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be + of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus, +015:006 that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God + and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. +015:007 Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted + you,{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} to the glory of God. +015:008 Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision + for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises + given to the fathers, +015:009 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. + As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among + the Gentiles, and sing to your name."{2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49} +015:010 Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."{Deuteronomy + 32:43} +015:011 Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples + praise him."{Psalm 117:1} +015:012 Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, + he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles + will hope."{Isaiah 11:10} +015:013 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace + in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power + of the Holy Spirit. +015:014 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers{The word + for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly + translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, that you + yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, + able also to admonish others. +015:015 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, + because of the grace that was given to me by God, +015:016 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, + serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering + up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by + the Holy Spirit. +015:017 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things + pertaining to God. +015:018 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which + Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, + by word and deed, +015:019 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; + so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have + fully preached the Good News of Christ; +015:020 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ + was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation. +015:021 But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. + They who haven't heard will understand."{Isaiah 52:15} +015:022 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you, +015:023 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, + and having these many years a longing to come to you, +015:024 whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. + For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way + there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while. +015:025 But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints. +015:026 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia + to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints + who are at Jerusalem. +015:027 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. + For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their + spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them + in fleshly things. +015:028 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed + to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain. +015:029 I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness + of the blessing of the Good News of Christ. +015:030 Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by + the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me + in your prayers to God for me, +015:031 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, + and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable + to the saints; +015:032 that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, + and together with you, find rest. +015:033 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. +016:001 I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant{or, + deacon} of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, +016:002 that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, + and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need + from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, + and of my own self. +016:003 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, +016:004 who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I + give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles. +016:005 Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, + my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ. +016:006 Greet Mary, who labored much for us. +016:007 Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, + who are notable among the apostles, who also were in + Christ before me. +016:008 Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. +016:009 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved. +016:010 Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are + of the household of Aristobulus. +016:011 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household + of Narcissus, who are in the Lord. +016:012 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. + Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord. +016:013 Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. +016:014 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the + brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows + may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" + or "siblings."} who are with them. +016:015 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, + and all the saints who are with them. +016:016 Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of + Christ greet you. +016:017 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing + the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine + which you learned, and turn away from them. +016:018 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, + but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, + they deceive the hearts of the innocent. +016:019 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore + over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, + but innocent in that which is evil. +016:020 And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. + The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. +016:021 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, + and Sosipater, my relatives. +016:022 I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord. +016:023 Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. + Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, + as does Quartus, the brother. +016:024 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen. +016:025 {See Romans 14:23} +016:026 {See Romans 14:23} +016:027 {See Romans 14:23} {TR places Romans 14:24-26 at the end + of Romans instead of at the end of chapter 14, and numbers + these verses 16:25-27.} + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): ROMANS *** + +This file should be named 8272.txt or 8272.zip + +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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