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PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS + +St. Paul wrote this epistle at Corinth, when he was preparing to go to +Jerusalem with the charitable contributions collected in Achaia and +Macedonia for the relief of the Christians in Judea; which was about +twenty-four years after Our Lord's Ascension. It was written in Greek; +but at the same time translated into Latin, for the benefit of those who +did not understand that language. And though it is not the first of his +Epistles in the order of time, yet it is first placed on account of +sublimity of the matter contained in it, of the preeminence of the place +to which it was sent, and in veneration of the Church. + + +Romans Chapter 1 + +He commends the faith of the Romans, whom he longs to see. The +philosophy of the heathens, being void of faith and humility, betrayed +them into shameful sins. + +1:1. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated +unto the gospel of God. + +1:2. Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy +scriptures, + +1:3. Concerning his Son, who was made to him of the seed of David, +according to the flesh, + +1:4. Who was predestinated the Son of God in power, according to the +spirit of sanctification, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ +from the dead: + +Predestinated, etc... Christ as man, was predestinated to be the Son of +God: and declared to be so (as the apostle here signifies) first, by +power, that is, by his working stupendous miracles; secondly, by the +spirit of sanctification, that is, by his infinite sanctity; thirdly, by +his ressurection, or raising himself from the dead. + +1:5. By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the +faith, in all nations, for his name: + +1:6. Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ: + +1:7. To all that are at Rome, the beloved of God, called to be saints. +Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus +Christ. + +1:8. First, I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all: +because your faith is spoken of in the whole world. + +1:9. For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of +his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you: + +1:10. Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length +I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you. + +1:11. For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual +grace, to strengthen you: + +1:12. That is to say, that I may be comforted together in you by that +which is common to us both, your faith and mine. + +1:13. And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often +purposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I might +have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. + +1:14. To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the +unwise, I am a debtor. + +1:15. So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you +also that are at Rome. + +1:16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God +unto salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first and to the +Greek. + +1:17. For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, +as it is written: The just man liveth by faith. + +1:18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all +ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in +injustice: + +1:19. Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God +hath manifested it unto them. + +1:20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are +clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. His eternal +power also and divinity: so that they are inexcusable. + +1:21. Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as +God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their +foolish heart was darkened. + +1:22. For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. + +1:23. And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the +likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of +fourfooted beasts and of creeping things. + +1:24. Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto +uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. + +1:25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served +the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. + +1:26. For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For +their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against +nature. + +God delivered them up... Not by being author of their sins, but by +withdrawing his grace, and so permitting them, in punishment of their +pride, to fall into those shameful sins. + +1:27. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the +women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, +working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense +which was due to their error. + +1:28. And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God +delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not +convenient. + +1:29. Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, +wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: +whisperers, + +1:30. Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, +inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, + +1:31. Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without +mercy. + +1:32. Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they +who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, +but they also that consent to them that do them. + +Romans Chapter 2 + +The Jews are censured, who make their boast of the law and keep it not. +He declares who are the true Jews. + +2:1. Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that +judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For +thou dost the same things which thou judgest. + +2:2. For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, +against them that do such things. + +2:3. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things +and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? + +2:4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and +longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee +to penance? + +2:5. But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest +up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just +judgment of God: + +2:6. Who will render to every man according to his works. + +2:7. To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory +and honour and incorruption, eternal life: + +2:8. But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but +give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. + +2:9. Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: +of the Jew first, and also of the Greek. + +2:10. But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to +the Jew first, and also to the Greek. + +2:11. For there is no respect of persons with God. + +2:12. For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the +law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. + +2:13. For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers +of the law shall be justified. + +2:14. For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those +things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to +themselves. + +2:15. Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their +conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between +themselves accusing or also defending one another, + +2:16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus +Christ, according to my gospel. + +2:17. But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy +boast of God, + +2:18. And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, +being instructed by the law: + +2:19. Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light +of them that are in darkness, + +2:20. An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the +form of knowledge and of truth in the law. + +2:21. Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, +that preachest that men should not steal, stealest. + +2:22. Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest +adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege: + +2:23. Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the +law dishonourest God. + +2:24. (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, +as it is written.) + +2:25. Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou +be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. + +2:26. If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not +this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? + +2:27. And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil +the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a +transgressor of the law? + +2:28. For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that +circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. + +2:29. But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that +of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of +men, but of God. + +Romans Chapter 3 + +The advantages of the Jews. All men are sinners and none can be +justified by the works of the law, but only by the grace of Christ. + +3:1. What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of +circumcision? + +3:2. Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were +committed to them. + +3:3. For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief +make the faith of God without effect? God forbid! + +3:4. But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou +mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art +judged. + +God only is essentially true. All men in their own capacity are liable +to lies and errors: nevertheless God, who is the truth, will make good +his promise of keeping his church in all truth. See St. John 16.13. + +3:5. But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? +Is God unjust, who executeth wrath? + +3:6. (I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God +judge this world? + +3:7. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his +glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner? + +3:8. And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) +let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just. + +3:9. What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both +Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. + +3:10. As it is written: There is not any man just. + +There is not any man just, viz... by virtue either of the law of +nature, or of the law of Moses; but only by faith and grace. + +3:11. There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after +God. + +3:12. All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable +together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one. + +3:13. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have +dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips. + +3:14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: + +3:15. Their feet swift to shed blood: + +3:16. Destruction and misery in their ways: + +3:17. And the way of peace they have not known. + +3:18. There is no fear of God before their eyes. + +3:19. Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh +to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the +world may be made subject to God. + +3:20. Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before +him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. + +3:21. But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, +being witnessed by the law and the prophets. + +3:22. Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and +upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction. + +3:23. For all have sinned and do need the glory of God. + +3:24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that +is in Christ Jesus, + +3:25. Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his +blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins, + +3:26. Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in +this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is +of the faith of Jesus Christ. + +3:27. Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of +works? No, but by the law of faith. + +3:28. For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works +of the law. + +By faith, etc... The faith, to which the apostle here attributes man's +justification, is not a presumptuous assurance of our being justified; +but a firm and lively belief of all that God has revealed or promised. +Heb. 11. A faith working through charity in Jesus Christ. Gal. 5.6. In +short, a faith which takes in hope, love, repentance, and the use of the +sacraments. And the works which he here excludes, are only the works of +the law: that is, such as are done by the law of nature, or that of +Moses, antecedent to the faith of Christ: but by no means, such as +follow faith, and proceed from it. + +3:29. Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? +yes, of the Gentiles also. + +3:30. For it is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith and +uncircumcision through faith. + +3:31. Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we +establish the law. + +Romans Chapter 4 + +Abraham was not justified by works done, as of himself, but by grace and +by faith. And that before he was circumcised. Gentiles, by faith, are +his children. + +4:1. What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father +according to the flesh? + +4:2. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, +but not before God. + +By works... Done by his own strength, without the grace of God, and +faith in him. Not before God... Whatever glory or applause such works +might procure from men, they would be of no value in the sight of God. + +4:3. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God: and it was +reputed to him unto justice. + +Reputed, etc... By God, who reputeth nothing otherwise than it is. +However, we may gather from this word, that when we are justified, our +justification proceedeth from God's free grace and bounty; and not from +any efficacy which any act of ours could have of its own nature, +abstracting from God's grace. + +4:4. Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to +grace but according to debt. + +To him that worketh... Vis., as of his own fund, or by his own strength. +Such a man, says the apostle, challenges his reward as a debt due to his +own performances; whereas he who worketh not, that is, who presumeth not +upon any works done by his own strength, but seeketh justice through +faith and grace, is freely justified by God's grace. + +4:5. But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth +the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose +of the grace of God. + +4:6. As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God reputeth +justice without works: + +4:7. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are +covered. + +Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are +covered... That is, blessed are those who, by doing penance, have +obtained pardon and remission of their sins, and also are covered; that +is, newly clothed with the habit of grace, and vested with the stole of +charity. + +4:8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin. + +Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin... That is, +blessed is the man who hath retained his baptismal innocence, that no +grievous sin can be imputed to him. And, likewise, blessed is the man, +who after fall into sin, hath done penance and leads a virtuous life, by +frequenting the sacraments necessary for obtaining the grace to prevent +a relapse, that sin is no more imputed to him. + +4:9. This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or +in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was +reputed to justice. + +In the circumcision, etc... That is, is it only for the Jews that are +circumcised? No, says the apostle, but also for the uncircumcised +Gentiles: who, by faith and grace, may come to justice; as Abraham did +before he was circumcised. + +4:10. How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision or in +uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. + +4:11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of +the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father +of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it +may be reputed to justice: + +4:12. And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that +are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the +faith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham. + +4:13. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, +that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith. + +4:14. For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the +promise is made of no effect. + +Be heirs... That is, if they alone, who follow the ceremonies of thelaw, +be heirs of the blessings promised to Abraham; then that faith which was +so much praised in him, will be found to be of little value. And the +very promise will be made void, by which he was promised to be the +father, not of the Jews only, but of all nations of believers. + +4:15. For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is +there transgression. + +The law worketh wrath... The law, abstracting from faith and grace, +worketh wrath occasionally, by being an occasion of many transgressions, +which provoke God's wrath. + +4:16. Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise +might be firm 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, + +4:17. (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), +before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those +things that are not, as those that are. + +4:18. Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the +father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So +shall thy seed be. + +4:19. And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own +body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the +dead womb of Sara. + +4:20. In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust: but was +strengthened in faith, giving glory to God: + +4:21. Most fully knowing that whatsoever he has promised, he is able +also to perform. + +4:22. And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice. + +4:23. Now it is not written only for him that it was reputed to him +unto justice, + +4:24. But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him +that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead, + +4:25. Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our +justification. + +Romans Chapter 5 + +The grounds we have for hope in Christ. Sin and death came by Adam, +grace and life by Christ. + +5:1. Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, +through our Lord Jesus Christ: + +5:2. By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein +we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. + +5:3. And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that +tribulation worketh patience; + +5:4. And patience trial; and trial hope; + +5:5. And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured +forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us. + +5:6. For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the +time, die for the ungodly? + +5:7. For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man +some one would dare to die. + +5:8. But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we +were sinners according to the time. + +5:9. Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by his +blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him. + +5:10. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the +death of his Son: much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his +life. + +5:11. And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus +Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation. + +5:12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin +death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned. + +By one man... Adam, from whom we all contracted original sin. + +5:13. For until the law sin was in the world: but sin was not imputed, +when the law was not. + +Not imputed... That is, men knew not, or made no account of sin, neither +was it imputed to them, in the manner it was afterwards, when they +transgressed the known written law of God. + +5:14. But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who +have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who +is a figure of him who was to come. + +5:15. But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence of +one, many died: much more the grace of God and the gift, by the grace of +one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. + +5:16. And not as it was by one sin, so also is the gift. For judgment +indeed was by one unto condemnation: but grace is of many offences unto +justification. + +5:17. For if by one man's offence death reigned through one; much more +they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice shall +reign in life through one, Jesus Christ. + +5:18. Therefore, as by the offence of one, unto all men to condemnation: +so also by the justice of one, unto all men to justification of life. + +5:19. For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners: so +also by the obedience of one, many shall be made just. + +5:20. Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin +abounded, grace did more abound. + +That sin might abound... Not as if the law were given on purpose for sin +to abound: but that it so happened through man's perversity, taking +occasion of sinning more, from the prohibition of sin. + +5:21. That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might reign by +justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord. + +Romans Chapter 6 + +The Christian must die to sin and live to God. + +6:1. What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may +abound? + +6:2. God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any +longer therein? + +6:3. Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are +baptized in his death? + +6:4. For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as +Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may +walk in newness of life. + +6:5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, +we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. + +6:6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body +of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer. + +Old man--body of sin... Our corrupt state, subject to sin and +concupiscence, coming to us from Adam, is called our old man, as our +state, reformed in and by Christ, is called the new man. And the vices +and sins, which then ruled in us are named the body of sin. + +6:7. For he that is dead is justified from sin. + +6:8. Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also +together with Christ. + +6:9. Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. +Death shall no more have dominion over him. + +6:10. For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he liveth, +he liveth unto God. + +6:11. So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto +God, in Christ Jesus our Lord. + +6:12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the +lusts thereof. + +6:13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin: +but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead; +and your members as instruments of justice unto God. + +6:14. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under +the law, but under grace. + +6:15. What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but +under grace? God forbid! + +6:16. Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, +his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or +of obedience unto justice. + +6:17. But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin but have +obeyed from the heart unto that form of doctrine into which you have +been delivered. + +6:18. Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice. + +6:19. I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. +For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, +unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto +sanctification. + +6:20. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to +justice. + +6:21. What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are +now ashamed? For the end of them is death. + +6:22. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you +have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. + +6:23. For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life +everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord. + +Romans Chapter 7 + +We are released by Christ from the law and from the guilt of sin, though +the inclination to it still tempts us. + +7:1. Know you not, brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) that +the law hath dominion over a man as long as it liveth? + +As long as it liveth... or, as long as he liveth. + +7:2. For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is +bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law +of her husband. + +7:3. Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an +adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she +is delivered from the law of her husband: so that she is not an +adulteress, if she be with another man. + +7:4. Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the +body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from +the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God. + +7:5. For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by +the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. + +7:6. But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were +detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the +oldness of the letter. + +7:7. What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not +know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law +did not say: Thou shalt not covet. + +7:8. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all +manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. + +Sin taking occasion... Sin, or concupiscence, which is called sin, +because it is from sin, and leads to sin, which was asleep before, was +weakened by the prohibition: the law not being the cause thereof, nor +properly giving occasion to it: but occasion being taken by our corrupt +nature to resist the commandment laid upon us. + +7:9. And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment +came, sin revived, + +7:10. And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the +same was found to be unto death to me. + +7:11. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it +killed me. + +7:12. Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and +just and good. + +7:13. Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But +sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me: +that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure. + +That it may appear sin, or that sin may appear, viz... To be the monster +it is, which is even capable to take occasion from that which is good, +to work death. + +7:14. For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under +sin. + +7:15. For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good +which I will: but the evil which I hate, that I do. + +I do not that good which I will, etc... The apostle here describes the +disorderly motions of passion and concupiscence; which oftentimes in us +get the start of reason: and by means of which even good men suffer in +the inferior appetite what their will abhors: and are much hindered in +the accomplishment of the desires of their spirit and mind. But these +evil motions, (though they are called the law of sin, because they come +from original sin, and violently tempt and incline to sin,) as long as +the will does not consent to them, are not sins, because they are not +voluntary. + +7:16. If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it +is good. + +7:17. Now then it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me. + +7:18. For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my +flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to +accomplish that which is good, I find not. + +7:19. For the good which I will, I do not: but the evil which I will +not, that I do. + +7:20. Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it: but +sin that dwelleth in me. + +7:21. I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is +present with me. + +7:22. For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward +man: + +7:23. But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of +my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members. + +7:24. Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this +death? + +7:25. The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, +with the mind serve the law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sin. + +Romans Chapter 8 + +There is no condemnation to them that, being justified by Christ, walk +not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. Their strong +hope and love of God. + +8:1. There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ +Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh. + +8:2. For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered +me from the law of sin and of death. + +8:3. 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 of +sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh. + +8:4. That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk +not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. + +8:5. For they that are according to the flesh mind the things that are +of the flesh: but they that are according to the spirit mind the things +that are of the spirit. + +8:6. For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit +is life and peace. + +8:7. Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not +subject to the law of God: neither can it be. + +8:8. And they who are in the flesh cannot please God. + +8:9. But you are not in the flesh, but 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. + +8:10. And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: +but the spirit liveth, because of justification. + +8:11. And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell +in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also +your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you. + +8:12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live +according to the flesh. + +8:13. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by +the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. + +8:14. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of +God. + +8:15. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear: but +you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba +(Father). + +8:16. For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are +the sons of God. + +The Spirit himself, etc... By the inward motions of divine love, and the +peace of conscience, which the children of God experience, they have a +kind of testimony of God's favour; by which they are much strengthened +in their hope of their justification and salvation; but yet not so as to +pretend to an absolute assurance: which is not usually granted in this +mortal life: during which we are taught to work out our salvation with +fear and trembling. Phil. 2.12. And that he that thinketh himself to +stand, must take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. 10.12. See also, Rom. 11.20, +21, 22. + +8:17. And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with +Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified +with him. + +8:18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be +compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us. + +8:19. For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of +the sons of God. + +The expectation of the creature, etc... He speaks of the corporeal +creation, made for the use and service of man; and, by occasion of his +sin, made subject to vanity, that is, to a perpetual instability, +tending to corruption and other defects; so that by a figure of speech +it is here said to groan and be in labour, and to long for its +deliverance, which is then to come, when sin shall reign no more; and +God shall raise the bodies and unite them to their souls never more to +separate, and to be in everlasting happiness in heaven. + +8:20. For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by +reason of him that made it subject, in hope. + +8:21. Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the +servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children +of God. + +8:22. For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, +even till now. + +8:23. And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of +the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the +adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body. + +8:24. For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For +what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? + +8:25. But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with +patience. + +8:26. Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity. For, we know not +what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself asketh for +us with unspeakable groanings, + +Asketh for us... The Spirit is said to ask, and desire for the saints, +and to pray in us; inasmuch as he inspireth prayer, and teacheth us to +pray. + +8:27. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what the Spirit desireth: +because he asketh for the saints according to God. + +8:28. And we know that to them that love God all things work together +unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be +saints. + +8:29. For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable +to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many +brethren. + +He also predestinated, etc... That is, God hath preordained that all his +elect should be conformable to the image of his Son. We must not here +offer to pry into the secrets of God's eternal election; only firmly +believe that all our good, in time and eternity, flows originally from +God's free goodness; and all our evil from man's free will. + +8:30. And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he +called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also +glorified. + +8:31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is +against us? + +8:32. He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us +all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things? + +8:33. Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that +justifieth: + +8:34. Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is +risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh +intercession for us. + +8:35. Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall +tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or +persecution? Or the sword? + +8:36. (As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day +long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) + +8:37. But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath +loved us. + +8:38. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor +principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor +might, + +I am sure... That is, I am persuaded; as it is in the Greek, pepeismai. + +8:39. 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. + +Romans Chapter 9 + +The apostle's concern for the Jews. God's election is free and not +confined to their nation. + +9:1. I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me +witness in the Holy Ghost: + +9:2. That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart. + +9:3. For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: +who are my kinsmen according to the flesh: + +Anathema... A curse. The apostle's concern and love for his countrymen +the Jews was so great, that he was willing to suffer even an anathema, +or curse, for their sake; or any evil that could come upon him, without +his offending God. + +9:4. Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children +and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the +service of God and the promises: + +9:5. Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the +flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen. + +9:6. Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not +Israelites that are of Israel. + +All are not Israelites, etc... Not all, who are the carnal seed of +Israel, are true Israelites in God's account: who, as by his free grace, +he heretofore preferred Isaac before Ismael, and Jacob before Esau, so +he could, and did by the like free grace, election and mercy, raise up +spiritual children by faith to Abraham and Israel, from among the +Gentiles, and prefer them before the carnal Jews. + +9:7. Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but in +Isaac shall thy seed be called. + +9:8. That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are the +children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are +accounted for the seed. + +9:9. For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I +come. And Sara shall have a son. + +9:10. And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of +Isaac our father. + +9:11. For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or +evil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand): + +Not yet born, etc... By this example of these twins, and the preference +of the younger to the elder, the drift of the apostle is, to shew that +God, in his election, mercy and grace, is not tied to any particular +nation, as the Jews imagined; nor to any prerogative of birth, or any +forgoing merits. For as, antecedently to his grace, he sees no merits in +any, but finds all involved in sin, in the common mass of condemnation; +and all children of wrath: there is no one whom he might not justly +leave in that mass; so that whomsoever he delivers from it, he delivers +in his mercy: and whomsoever he leaves in it, he leaves in his justice. +As when, of two equally criminal, the king is pleased out of pure mercy +to pardon one, whilst he suffers justice to take place in the execution +of the other. + +9:12. Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The +elder shall serve the younger. + +9:13. As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated. + +9:14. What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid! + +9:15. For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have +mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy. + +9:16. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, +but of God that sheweth mercy. + +Not of him that willeth, etc... That is, by any power or strength of his +own, abstracting from the grace of God. + +9:17. For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised +thee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared +throughout all the earth. + +To this purpose, etc... Not that God made him on purpose that he should +sin, and so be damned; but foreseeing his obstinacy in sin, and the +abuse of his own free will, he raised him up to be a mighty king, to +make a more remarkable example of him: and that his power might be +better known, and his justice in punishing him, published throughout the +earth. + +9:18. Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he +hardeneth. + +He hardeneth... Not by being the cause or author of his sin, but by +withholding his grace, and so leaving him in his sin, in punishment of +his past demerits. + +9:19. Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For +who resisteth his will? + +9:20. 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? + +9:21. Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to +make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? + +The potter... This similitude is used only to shew that we are not to +dispute with our Maker, nor to reason with him why he does not give as +uch grace to one as to another; for since the whole lump of our clay is +vitiated by sin, it is owing to his goodness and mercy, that he makes +out of it so many vessels of honor; and it is no more than just, that +others, in punishment of their unrepented sins, should be given up to be +vessels of dishonor. + +9:22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power +known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for +destruction, + +9:23. That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy +which he hath prepared unto glory? + +9:24. Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also +of the Gentiles. + +9:25. As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my +people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not +obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy. + +9:26. And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are +not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God. + +9:27. And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the +children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. + +A remnant... That is, a small number only of the children of Israel +shall be converted and saved. How perversely is this text quoted for the +salvation of men of all religions, when it speaks only of the converts +of the children of Israel! + +9:28. For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because +a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth. + +9:29. And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a +seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha. + +9:30. What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after +justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith. + +9:31. But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come +unto the law of justice. + +9:32. Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of +works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone. + +9:33. As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a +rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded. + +Romans Chapter 10 + +The end of the law is faith in Christ. which the Jews refusing to submit +to, cannot be justified. + +10:1. Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for +them unto salvation. + +10:2. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not +according to knowledge. + +10:3. For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish +their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God. + +The justice of God... That is, the justice which God giveth us through +Christ; as on the other hand, the Jews' own justice is, that which they +pretended to by their own strength, or by the observance of the law, +without faith in Christ. + +10:4. For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that +believeth. + +10:5. For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that +shall do it shall live by it. + +10:6. But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy +heart: Who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down; + +10:7. Or who shall descend into the deep? That is, to bring up Christ +again from the dead. + +10:8. But what saith the scripture? The word is nigh thee; even in thy +mouth and in thy heart. This is the word of faith, which we preach. + +10:9. For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in +thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be +saved. + +Thou shalt be saved... To confess the Lord Jesus, and to call upon the +name of the Lord (ver. 13) is not barely the professing a belief in the +person of Christ; but moreover, implies a belief of his whole doctrine, +and an obedience to his law; without which, the calling him Lord will +save no man. St. Matt. 7.21. + +10:10. For, with the heart, we believe unto justice: but, with the +mouth, confession is made unto salvation. + +10:11. For the scripture saith: Whosoever believeth in him shall not be +confounded. + +10:12. For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the +same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him. + +10:13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be +saved. + +10:14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? +Or how shall they believe him of whom they have not heard? And how shall +they hear without a preacher? + +10:15. And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: +How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of +them that bring glad tidings of good things? + +Unless they be sent... Here is an evident proof against all new +teachers, who have all usurped to themselves the ministry without any +lawful mission, derived by succession from the apostles, to whom Christ +said, John 20.21, As my Father hath sent me, I also send you. + +10:16. But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath +believed our report? + +10:17. Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ. + +10:18. But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, verily: Their sound hath +gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the +whole world. + +10:19. But I say: Hath not Israel known? First, Moses saith: I will +provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation: by a foolish +nation I will anger you. + +10:20. But Isaias is bold, and saith: I was found by them that did not +seek me. I appeared openly to them that asked not after me. + +10:21. But to Israel he saith: All the day long have I spread my hands +to a people that believeth not and contradicteth me. + +Romans Chapter 11 + +God hath not cast off all Israel. The Gentiles must not be proud but +stand in faith and fear. + +11:1. 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. + +11:2. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not +what the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against Israel? + +11:3. Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars. +And I am left alone: and they seek my life. + +11:4. But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven +thousand men that have not bowed their knees to Baal. + +Seven thousand, etc... This is very ill alleged by some, against the +perpetual visibility of the church of Christ; the more, because however +the number of the faithful might be abridged by the persecution of +Jezabel in the kingdom of the ten tribes, the church was at the same +time in a most flourishing condition (under Asa and Josaphat) in the +kingdom of Judah. + +11:5. Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant saved +according to the election of grace. + +11:6. And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no +more grace. + +It is not now by works, etc... If salvation were to come by works, done +by nature, without faith and grace, salvation would not be a grace or +favour, but a debt; but such dead works are indeed of no value in the +sight of God towards salvation. It is not the same with regard to works +done with, and by, God's grace; for to such works as these, he has +promised eternal salvation. + +11:7. What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the +election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded. + +11:8. As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; +eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, until +this present day. + +God hath given them, etc... Not by his working or acting in them; but by +his permission, and by withdrawing his grace in punishment of their +obstinacy. + +11:9. And David saith: Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a +stumbling block and a recompense unto them. + +11:10. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down +their back always. + +11:11. I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God +forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that +they may be emulous of them. + +That they should fall... The nation of the Jews is not absolutely and +without remedy cast off for ever; but in part only, (many thousands of +them having been at first converted,) and for a time; which fall of +theirs, God has been pleased to turn to the good of the Gentiles. + +11:12. Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the +diminution of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more the fulness +of them? + +11:13. For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle of +the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry, + +11:14. If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my +flesh and may save some of them. + +11:15. For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what +shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? + +11:16. For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the +root be holy, so are the branches. + +11:17. And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild +olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of +the fatness of the olive tree: + +11:18. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest +not the root: but the root thee. + +11:19. Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be +grafted in. + +11:20. Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest +by faith. Be not highminded, but fear. + +Thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear... We see here that +he who standeth by faith may fall from it; and therefore must live in +fear, and not in the vain presumption and security of modern sectaries. + +11:21. For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest +perhaps also he spare not thee. + +11:22. See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them +indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of +God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. + +Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off... The Gentiles are here admonished +not to be proud, nor to glory against the Jews: but to take occasion +rather from their fall to fear and to be humble, lest they be cast off. +Not that the whole church of Christ can ever fall from him; having been +secured by so many divine promises in holy writ; but that each one in +particular may fall; and therefore all in general are to be admonished +to beware of that, which may happen to any one in particular. + +11:23. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be +grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. + +11:24. For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural +to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good olive tree: +how much more shall they that are the natural branches be grafted into +their own olive tree? + +11:25. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery +(lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part +has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come +in. + +11:26. And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall +come out of Sion, he that shall deliver and shall turn away ungodliness +from Jacob. + +11:27. And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their +sins. + +11:28. As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: +but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the +fathers. + +11:29. For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. + +For the gifts and the calling of God are without... his repenting +himself of them; for the promises of God are unchangeable, nor can he +repent of conferring his gifts. + +11:30. For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have +obtained mercy, through their unbelief: + +11:31. So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they +also may obtain mercy. + +11:32. For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on +all. + +Concluded all in unbelief... He hath found all nations, both Jews and +Gentiles, in unbelief and sin; not by his causing, but by the abuse of +their own free will; so that their calling and election is purely owing +to his mercy. + +11:33. O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of +God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his +ways! + +11:34. For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his +counsellor? + +11:35. Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him? + +11:36. For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be +glory for ever. Amen. + +Romans Chapter 12 + +Lessons of Christian virtues. + +12:1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you +present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your +reasonable service. + +12:2. And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness +of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and +the perfect will of God. + +12:3. For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among +you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise +unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure +of faith. + +12:4. For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have +not the same office: + +12:5. So we, being many, are one body in Christ; and every one members +one of another: + +12:6. And having different gifts, according to the grace that is given +us, either prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith; + +12:7. Or ministry, in ministering; or he that teacheth, in doctrine; + +12:8. He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; +he that ruleth, with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with +cheerfulness. + +12:9. Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, +cleaving to that which is good, + +12:10. Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour +preventing one another. + +12:11. In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord. + +12:12. Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer. + +12:13. Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing +hospitality. + +12:14. Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not. + +12:15. Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep. + +12:16. Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, +but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits. + +12:17. To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not +only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men. + +12:18. If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men. + +12:19. Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto +wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. + +12:20. But if the enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give +him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his +head. + +12:21. Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good. + +Romans Chapter 13 + +Lessons of obedience to superiors and mutual charity. + +13:1. Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power +but from God: and those that are ordained of God. + +13:2. Therefore, he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of +God. And they that resist purchase to themselves damnation. + +13:3. For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. +Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good: and +thou shalt have praise from the same. + +13:4. For he is God's minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that +which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is +God's minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil. + +13:5. Wherefore be subject of necessity: not only for wrath, but also +for conscience' sake. + +13:6. For therefore also you pay tribute. For they are the ministers of +God, serving unto this purpose. + +13:7. Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute +is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom +honour. + +13:8. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth +his neighbour hath fulfilled the law. + +13:9. For: 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 comprised in this +word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. + +13:10. The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the +fulfilling of the law. + +13:11. And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to +rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. + +13:12. The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore +cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light. + +13:13. Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and +drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and +envy. + +13:14. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for +the flesh in its concupiscences. + +Romans Chapter 14 + +The strong must bear with the weak. Cautions against judging and giving +scandal. + +14:1. Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes +about thoughts. + +14:2. For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, +let him eat herbs. + +Eat all things. Viz., without observing the distinction of clean and +unclean meats, prescribed by the law of Moses: which was now no longer +obligatory. Some weak Christians, converted from among the Jews, as we +here gather from the apostle, made a scruple of eating such meats as +were deemed unclean by the law; such as swine's flesh, etc., which the +stronger sort of Christians did eat without scruple. Now the apostle, to +reconcile them together, exhorts the former not to judge or condemn the +latter, using their Christian liberty; and the latter, to take care not +to despise or scandalize their weaker brethren, either by bringing them +to eat what in their conscience they think they should not, or by giving +them such offence, as to endanger the driving them thereby from the +Christian religion. + +14:3. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that +eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to +him. + +14:4. Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own lord +he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him +stand. + +14:5. For one judgeth between day and day: and another judgeth every +day. Let every man abound in his own sense. + +Between day, etc... Still observing the sabbaths and festivals of the +law. + +14:6. He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord. And he that +eateth eateth to the Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that +eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth thanks to God. + +14:7. For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself. + +14:8. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we +die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are +the Lord's. + +14:9. For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord +both of the dead and of the living. + +14:10. But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou +despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of +Christ. + +14:11. For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall +bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God. + +14:12. Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for +himself. + +14:13. Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this +rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother's +way. + +14:14. I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is +unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to +him it is unclean. + +14:15. For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest +not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom +Christ died. + +14:16. Let not then our good be evil spoken of. + +14:17. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and +peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. + +14:18. For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved +of men. + +14:19. Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and +keep the things that are of edification, one towards another. + +14:20. Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are +clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. + +14:21. It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing +whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak. + +14:22. Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Blessed is he +that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth. + +14:23. But he that discerneth, if he eat, is condemned; because not of +faith. For all that is not of faith is sin. + +Discerneth... That is, distinguisheth between meats, and eateth against +his conscience, what he deems unclean. Of faith... By faith is here +understood judgment and conscience: to act against which is always a +sin. + +Romans Chapter 15 + +He exhorts them to be all of one mind and promises to come and see them. + +15:1. Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the +weak and not to please ourselves. + +15:2. Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to +edification. + +15:3. For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The +reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me. + +15:4. For what things soever were written were written for our learning: +that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have +hope. + +15:5. Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of one +mind, one towards another, according to Jesus Christ: + +15:6. That with one mind and with one mouth you may glorify God and the +Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +15:7. Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also hath received you, +unto the honour of God. + +15:8. For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for +the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: + +Minister of the circumcision... That is, executed his office and +ministry towards the Jews, the people of the circumcision. + +15:9. But that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy, as it is +written: Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles +and will sing to thy name. + +15:10. And again he saith: rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people. + +15:11. And again: praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles: and magnify him, all +ye people. + +15:12. And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse; and he +that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope. + +15:13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing: +that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy Ghost. + +15:14. And I myself also, my brethren, am assured of you that you also +are full of love, replenished with all knowledge, so that you are able +to admonish one another. + +15:15. But I have written to you, brethren, more boldly in some sort, as +it were putting you in mind, because of the grace which is given me from +God, + +15:16. That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: +sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be +made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost. + +15:17. I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus towards God. + +15:18. For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ +worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, + +15:19. By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy +Ghost, so that from Jerusalem round about, as far as unto Illyricum, I +have replenished the gospel of Christ. + +15:20. And I have so preached this gospel, not where Christ was named, +lest I should build upon another man a foundation. + +15:21. But as it is written: They to whom he was not spoken of shall +see: and they that have not heard shall understand. + +15:22. For which cause also, I was hindered very much from coming to you +and have been kept away till now. + +15:23. But now, having no more place in these countries and having a +great desire these many years past to come unto you, + +15:24. When I shall begin to take my journey into Spain, I hope that, as +I pass, I shall see you and be brought on my way thither by you: if +first, in part, I shall have enjoyed you. + +15:25. But now I shall go to Jerusalem, to minister unto the saints. + +15:26. For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a +contribution for the poor of the saints that are in Jerusalem. + +15:27. For it hath pleased them: and they are their debtors. For, if the +Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they ought +also in carnal things to minister to them. + +15:28. When therefore I shall have accomplished this and consigned to +them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain. + +15:29. And I know that when I come to you I shall come in the abundance +of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. + +15:30. I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ +and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers +for me to God, + +15:31. That I may be delivered from the unbelievers that are in Judea +and that the oblation of my service may be acceptable in Jerusalem to +the saints. + +15:32. That I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be +refreshed with you. + +15:33. Now the God of peace be with, you all. Amen. + +Romans Chapter 16 + +He concludes with salutations, bidding them beware of all that should +oppose the doctrine they had learned. + +16:1. And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is in the ministry of +the church, that is in Cenchrae: + +16:2. That you receive her in the Lord as becometh saints and that you +assist her in whatsoever business she shall have need of you. For she +also hath assisted many, and myself also. + +16:3. Salute Prisca and Aquila, my helpers, in Christ Jesus + +16:4. (Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not I +only give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles), + +16:5. And the church which is in their house. Salute Epenetus, my +beloved: who is the firstfruits of Asia in Christ. + +16:6. Salute Mary, who hath laboured much among you. + +16:7. Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who +are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. + +16:8. Salute Ampliatus, most beloved to me in the Lord. + +16:9. Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus and Stachys, my +beloved. + +16:10. Salute Apellas, approved in Christ. + +16:11. Salute them that are of Aristobulus' household. Salute Herodian, +my kinsman. Salute them that are of Narcissus' household, who are in the +Lord. + +16:12. Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute +Persis, the dearly beloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord. + +16:13. Salute Rufus, elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine. + +16:14. Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes: and the +brethren that are with them. + +16:15. Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympias: +and all the saints that are with them. + +16:16. Salute one another with an holy kiss. All the churches of Christ +salute you. + +16:17. Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions +and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid +them. + +16:18. For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own +belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the +innocent. + +16:19. For your obedience is published in every place. I rejoice +therefore in you. But I would have you to be wise in good and simple in +evil. + +16:20. And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The +grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. + +16:21. Timothy, my fellow labourer, saluteth you: and Lucius and Jason +and Sosipater, my kinsmen. + +16:22. I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. + +16:23. Caius, my host, and the whole church saluteth you. Erastus, the +treasurer of the city, saluteth you: and Quartus, a brother. + +16:24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. + +16:25. Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel +and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the +mystery which was kept secret from eternity; + +16:26. (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, +according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) +known among all nations: + +16:27. To God, the only wise, through Jesus Christ, to whom be honour +and glory for ever and ever. 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