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It is God's power + which is at work for the salvation of every one who believes-- + the Jew first, and then the Gentile. +001:017 For in the Good News a righteousness which comes from God is + being revealed, depending on faith and tending to produce faith; + as the Scripture has it, "The righteous man shall live by faith." +001:018 For God's anger is being revealed from Heaven against all + impiety and against the iniquity of men who through iniquity + suppress the truth. God is angry: +001:019 because what may be known about Him is plain to their + inmost consciousness; for He Himself has made it plain to them. +001:020 For, from the very creation of the world, His invisible perfections-- + namely His eternal power and divine nature--have been + rendered intelligible and clearly visible by His works, + so that these men are without excuse. +001:021 For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him + glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed + in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened. +001:022 While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools, +001:023 and, instead of worshipping the imperishable God, they worshipped + images resembling perishable man or resembling birds or + beasts or reptiles. +001:024 For this reason, in accordance with their own depraved cravings, + God gave them up to uncleanness, allowing them to dishonour + their bodies among themselves with impurity. +001:025 For they had bartered the reality of God for what is unreal, + and had offered divine honours and religious service + to created things, rather than to the Creator--He who is + for ever blessed. Amen. +001:026 This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. + For not only did the women among them exchange the natural + use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, + but the men also, +001:027 in just the same way--neglecting that for which nature intends women-- + burned with passion towards one another, men practising + shameful vice with men, and receiving in their own selves + the reward which necessarily followed their misconduct. +001:028 And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge + of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave + them up, for them to do things which should not be done. +001:029 Their hearts overflowed with all sorts of dishonesty, + mischief, greed, malice. They were full of envy and murder, + and were quarrelsome, crafty, and spiteful. +001:030 They were secret backbiters, open slanderers; hateful to God, + insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of sin, + disobedient to parents, destitute of common sense, +001:031 faithless to their promises, without natural affection, + without human pity. +001:032 In short, though knowing full well the sentence which God pronounces + against actions such as theirs, as things which deserve death, + they not only practise them, but even encourage and applaud + others who do them. +002:001 You are therefore without excuse, O man, whoever you are who + sit in judgement upon others. For when you pass judgement + on your fellow man, you condemn yourself; for you who sit + in judgement upon others are guilty of the same misdeeds; +002:002 and we know that God's judgement against those who commit + such sins is in accordance with the truth. +002:003 And you who pronounce judgement upon those who do such + things although your own conduct is the same as theirs-- + do you imagine that you yourself will escape unpunished + when God judges? +002:004 Or is it that you think slightingly of His infinite goodness, + forbearance and patience, unaware that the goodness of God + is gently drawing you to repentance? +002:005 The fact is that in the stubbornness of your impenitent heart + you are treasuring up against yourself anger on the day + of Anger--the day when the righteousness of God's judgements + will stand revealed. +002:006 To each man He will make an award corresponding to his actions; +002:007 to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, + are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life + of the Ages; +002:008 while on the other hand upon the self-willed who disobey + the truth and obey unrighteousness will fall anger and fury, + affliction and awful distress, +002:009 coming upon the soul of every man and woman who deliberately + does wrong--upon the Jew first, and then upon the Gentile; +002:010 whereas glory, honour and peace will be given to every one + who does what is good and right--to the Jew first and then + to the Gentile. +002:011 For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions. +002:012 For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish + apart from the Law, and all who have sinned whilst living + under the Law, will be judged by the Law. +002:013 It is not those that merely hear the Law read who are righteous + in the sight of God, but it is those that obey the Law + who will be pronounced righteous. +002:014 For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by natural instinct + the commands of the Law, they, without having a Law, + are a Law to themselves; +002:015 since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct + which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, + while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, + and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them + or perhaps maintain their innocence-- +002:016 on the day when God will judge the secrets of men's lives by + Jesus Christ, as declared in the Good News as I have taught it. +002:017 And since you claim the name of Jew, and find rest and satisfaction + in the Law, and make your boast in God, +002:018 and know the supreme will, and can test things that differ-- + being a man who receives instruction from the Law-- +002:019 and have persuaded yourself that, as for you, you are a guide + to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, +002:020 a schoolmaster for the dull and ignorant, a teacher of the young, + because in the Law you possess an outline of real knowledge + and an outline of the truth: +002:021 you then who teach your fellow man, do you refuse to teach yourself? + You who cry out against stealing, are you yourself a thief? +002:022 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? + You who loathe idols, do you plunder their temples? +002:023 You who make your boast in the Law, do you offend against its + commands and so dishonour God? +002:024 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentile nations + because of you, as Holy Writ declares. +002:025 Circumcision does indeed profit, if you obey the Law; + but if you are a Law-breaker, the fact that you have been + circumcised counts for nothing. +002:026 In the same way if an uncircumcised man pays attention to the just + requirements of the Law, shall not his lack of circumcision + be overlooked, and, +002:027 although he is a Gentile by birth, if he scrupulously obeys the Law, + shall he not sit in judgement upon you who, possessing, as you do, + a written Law and circumcision, are yet a Law-breaker? +002:028 For the true Jew is not the man who is simply a Jew outwardly, + and true circumcision is not that which is outward and bodily. +002:029 But the true Jew is one inwardly, and true circumcision + is heart-circumcision--not literal, but spiritual; + and such people receive praise not from men, but from God. +003:001 What special privilege, then, has a Jew? Or what benefit + is to be derived from circumcision? +003:002 The privilege is great from every point of view. First of all, + because the Jews were entrusted with God's truth. +003:003 For what if some Jews have proved unfaithful? Shall their + faithlessness render God's faithfulness worthless? +003:004 No, indeed; let us hold God to be true, though every man + should prove to be false. As it stands written, "That Thou + mayest be shown to be just in the sentence Thou pronouncest, + and gain Thy cause when Thou contendest." +003:005 But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a + clearer light, what shall we say? (Is God unrighteous-- + I speak in our everyday language--when He inflicts punishment? +003:006 No indeed; for in that case how shall He judge all mankind?) +003:007 If, for instance, a falsehood of mine has made God's truthfulness + more conspicuous, redounding to His glory, why am I judged + all the same as a sinner? +003:008 And why should we not say--for so they wickedly misrepresent us, + and so some charge us with arguing--"Let us do evil that good + may come"? The condemnation of those who would so argue is just. +003:009 What then? Are we Jews more highly estimated than they? + Not in the least; for we have already charged all Jews + and Gentiles alike with being in thraldom to sin. +003:010 Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man. +003:011 There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent + seeker after God. +003:012 All have turned aside from the right path; they have every + one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what + is right--no, not so much as one." +003:013 "Their throats resemble an opened grave; with their tongues + they have been talking deceitfully." "The venom of vipers + lies hidden behind their lips." +003:014 "Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness." +003:015 "Their feet move swiftly to shed blood. +003:016 Ruin and misery mark their path; +003:017 and the way to peace they have not known." +003:018 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." +003:019 But it cannot be denied that all that the Law says is addressed + to those who are living under the Law, in order that every + mouth may be stopped, and that the whole world may await + sentence from God. +003:020 For on the ground of obedience to Law no man living will be + declared righteous before Him. Law simply brings a sure + knowledge of sin. +003:021 But now a righteousness coming from God has been brought + to light apart from any Law, both Law and Prophets bearing + witness to it-- +003:022 a righteousness coming from God, which depends on faith + in Jesus Christ and extends to all who believe. + No distinction is made; +003:023 for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short + of the glory of God, +003:024 gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased grace + through the deliverance which is found in Christ Jesus. +003:025 He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-seat, + rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order + to demonstrate His righteousness--because of the passing over, + in God's forbearance, of the sins previously committed-- +003:026 with a view to demonstrating, at the present time, His righteousness, + that He may be shown to be righteous Himself, and the giver + of righteousness to those who believe in Jesus. +003:027 Where then is there room for your boasting? It is for ever + shut out. On what principle? On the ground of merit? + No, but on the ground of faith. +003:028 For we maintain that it is as the result of faith that a man is held + to be righteous, apart from actions done in obedience to Law. +003:029 Is God simply the God of the Jews, and not of the Gentiles also? + He is certainly the God of the Gentiles also, +003:030 unless you can deny that it is one and the same God who will + pronounce the circumcised to be acquitted on the ground of faith, + and the uncircumcised to be acquitted through the same faith. +003:031 Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? No, indeed; + we give the Law a firmer footing. +004:001 What then shall we say that Abraham, our earthly forefather, + has gained? +004:002 For if he was held to be righteous on the ground of his actions, + he has something to boast of; but not in the presence of God. +004:003 For what says the Scripture? "And Abraham believed God, + and this was placed to his credit as righteousness." +004:004 But in the case of a man who works, pay is not reckoned a favour + but a debt; +004:005 whereas in the case of a man who pleads no actions of his own, + but simply believes in Him who declares the ungodly free + from guilt, his faith is placed to his credit as righteousness. +004:006 In this way David also tells of the blessedness of the man to + whose credit God places righteousness, apart from his actions. +004:007 "Blessed," he says, "are those whose iniquities have been forgiven, + and whose sins have been covered over. +004:008 Blessed is the man of whose sin the Lord will not take account." +004:009 This declaration of blessedness, then, does it come simply + to the circumcised, or to the uncircumcised as well? + For Abraham's faith--so we affirm--was placed to his + credit as righteousness. +004:010 What then were the circumstances under which this took place? + Was it after he had been circumcised, or before? +004:011 Before, not after. And he received circumcision as a sign, + a mark attesting the reality of the faith-righteousness which was + his while still uncircumcised, that he might be the forefather + of all those who believe even though they are uncircumcised-- + in order that this righteousness might be placed to their credit; +004:012 and the forefather of the circumcised, namely of those who + not merely are circumcised, but also walk in the steps + of the faith which our forefather Abraham had while he was + as yet uncircumcised. +004:013 Again, the promise that he should inherit the world did + not come to Abraham or his posterity conditioned by Law, + but by faith-righteousness. +004:014 For if it is the righteous through Law who are heirs, + then faith is useless and the promise counts for nothing. +004:015 For the Law inflicts punishment; but where no Law exists, + there can be no violation of Law. +004:016 All depends on faith, and for this reason--that acceptance + with God might be an act of pure grace, +004:017 so that the promise should be made sure to all Abraham's true + descendants; not merely to those who are righteous through the Law, + but to those who are righteous through a faith like that of Abraham. + Thus in the sight of God in whom he believed, who gives life + to the dead and makes reference to things that do not exist, + as though they did, Abraham is the forefather of all of us. + As it is written, "I have appointed you to be the forefather + of many nations." +004:018 Under utterly hopeless circumstances he hopefully believed, + so that he might become the forefather of many nations, + in agreement with the words "Equally numerous shall + your posterity be." +004:019 And, without growing weak in faith, he could contemplate his + own vital powers which had now decayed--for he was nearly + 100 years old--and Sarah's barrenness. +004:020 Nor did he in unbelief stagger at God's promise, but became + mighty in faith, giving glory to God, +004:021 and being absolutely certain that whatever promise He is bound + by He is able also to make good. +004:022 For this reason also his faith was placed to his + credit as righteousness. +004:023 Nor was the fact of its being placed to his credit put on record + for his sake only; +004:024 it was for our sakes too. Faith, before long, will be placed + to the credit of us also who are believers in Him who raised Jesus, + our Lord, from the dead, +004:025 who was surrendered to death because of the offences we + had committed, and was raised to life because of the acquittal + secured for us. +005:001 Standing then acquitted as the result of faith, let us enjoy + peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, +005:002 through whom also, as the result of faith, we have obtained an + introduction into that state of favour with God in which we stand, + and we exult in hope of some day sharing in God's glory. +005:003 And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, + that suffering produces fortitude; +005:004 fortitude, ripeness of character; and ripeness of character, hope; +005:005 and that this hope never disappoints, because God's love + for us floods our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been + given to us. +005:006 For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right + moment died for the ungodly. +005:007 Why, it is scarcely conceivable that any one would die for a + simply just man, although for a good and lovable man perhaps + some one, here and there, will have the courage even to lay + down his life. +005:008 But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us + while we were still sinners. +005:009 If therefore we have now been pronounced free from guilt + through His blood, much more shall we be delivered from God's + anger through Him. +005:010 For if while we were hostile to God we were reconciled to Him + through the death of His Son, it is still more certain + that now that we are reconciled, we shall obtain salvation + through Christ's life. +005:011 And not only so, but we also exult in God through our + Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now obtained + that reconciliation. +005:012 What follows? This comparison. Through one man sin entered + into the world, and through sin death, and so death passed + to all mankind in turn, in that all sinned. +005:013 For prior to the Law sin was already in the world; only it + is not entered in the account against us when no Law exists. +005:014 Yet Death reigned as king from Adam to Moses even over + those who had not sinned, as Adam did, against Law. + And in Adam we have a type of Him whose coming was still future. +005:015 But God's free gift immeasurably outweighs the transgression. + For if through the transgression of the one individual the mass + of mankind have died, infinitely greater is the generosity + with which God's grace, and the gift given in His grace + which found expression in the one man Jesus Christ, have been + bestowed on the mass of mankind. +005:016 And it is not with the gift as it was with the results of one + individual's sin; for the judgement which one individual + provoked resulted in condemnation, whereas the free gift + after a multitude of transgressions results in acquittal. +005:017 For if, through the transgression of the one individual, + Death made use of the one individual to seize the sovereignty, + all the more shall those who receive God's overflowing grace + and gift of righteousness reign as kings in Life through + the one individual, Jesus Christ. +005:018 It follows then that just as the result of a single transgression + is a condemnation which extends to the whole race, so also + the result of a single decree of righteousness is a life-giving + acquittal which extends to the whole race. +005:019 For as through the disobedience of the one individual the mass + of mankind were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience + of the One the mass of mankind will be constituted righteous. +005:020 Now Law was brought in later on, so that transgression + might increase. But where sin increased, grace has overflowed; +005:021 in order that as sin has exercised kingly sway in inflicting death, + so grace, too, may exercise kingly sway in bestowing + a righteousness which results in the Life of the Ages through + Jesus Christ our Lord. +006:001 To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist + in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may + be the greater? +006:002 No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in + it any longer? +006:003 And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized + into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? +006:004 Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, + in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead + by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an + entirely new life. +006:005 For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, + we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection. +006:006 This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, + in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, + so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin; +006:007 for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved + from his sin. +006:008 But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we + shall also live with Him; +006:009 because we know that Christ, having come back to life, + is no longer liable to die. +006:010 Death has no longer any power over Him. For by the death + which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; + but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God. +006:011 In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead + in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, + because you are in Christ Jesus. +006:012 Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, + causing you to be in subjection to their cravings; +006:013 and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin + to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God + as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender + your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to + maintain the right. +006:014 For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects + not of Law, but of grace. +006:015 Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under + the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed! +006:016 Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants + to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, + whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) + or of Duty (resulting in righteousness)? +006:017 But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin, + you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth + in which you have been instructed. +006:018 You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became + the bondservants of Righteousness-- +006:019 your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures-- + and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage + to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you + must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever + advancing towards perfect holiness. +006:020 For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no + sort of subjection to Righteousness. +006:021 At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct + which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally + result in death. +006:022 But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, + and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward + in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages + as the final result. +006:023 For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is + the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord. +007:001 Brethren, do you not know--for I am writing to people acquainted + with the Law--that it is during our lifetime that we are + subject to the Law? +007:002 A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him + by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her + to him has now no hold over her. +007:003 This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she + lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; + but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under + the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, + she is not an adulteress. +007:004 So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation + of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to + Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield + fruit to God. +007:005 For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, + sinful passions--made sinful by the Law--were always being + aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield + fruit to death. +007:006 But seeing that we have died to that which once held us + in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we + render a service which, instead of being old and formal, + is new and spiritual. +007:007 What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? + No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught + by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. + For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, + if the Law had not repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not covet." +007:008 Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment + stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from + Law sin would be dead. +007:009 Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, + sin sprang into life, and I died; +007:010 and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring + me life, brought me death. +007:011 For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment + it completely deceived me, and also put me to death. +007:012 So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, + just and good. +007:013 Did then a thing which is good become death to me? No, indeed, + but sin did; so that through its bringing about death by means + of what was good, it might be seen in its true light as sin, + in order that by means of the Commandment the unspeakable + sinfulness of sin might be plainly shown. +007:014 For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual-- + the slave, bought and sold, of sin. +007:015 For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. + What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse + to is what I do. +007:016 But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit + the excellence of the Law, +007:017 and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin + which has its home within me does them. +007:018 For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has + its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, + the power to carry it out is not. +007:019 For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; + but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what + I constantly do. +007:020 But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer + be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home + within me does it. +007:021 I find therefore the law of my nature to be that when I desire + to do what is right, evil is lying in ambush for me. +007:022 For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God; +007:023 but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law + of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law + which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin. +007:024 (Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from + this death-burdened body? +007:025 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) To sum up then, + with my understanding, I--my true self--am in servitude + to the Law of God, but with my lower nature I am in servitude + to the Law of sin. +008:001 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are + in Christ Jesus; +008:002 for the Spirit's Law--telling of Life in Christ Jesus-- + has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death. +008:003 For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was + because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. + Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature + and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin + in human nature; +008:004 in order that in our case the requirements of the Law might be + fully met. For our lives are regulated not by our earthly, + but by our spiritual natures. +008:005 For if men are controlled by their earthly natures, they give + their minds to earthly things. If they are controlled by their + spiritual natures, they give their minds to spiritual things. +008:006 Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death; + but for it to be given up to spiritual things means + Life and peace. +008:007 Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. + Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed + cannot do so. +008:008 And those whose hearts are absorbed in earthly things + cannot please God. +008:009 You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, + if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if + any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not + belong to Him. +008:010 But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, + yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness. +008:011 And if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead + is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ from the dead + will give Life also to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit + who dwells in you. +008:012 Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we + are under obligation that we should live by their rule. +008:013 For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being + under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily + habits to death, you will live. +008:014 For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons. +008:015 You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness + of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. + But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been + adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, + "Abba! our Father!" +008:016 The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits, + to the fact that we are children of God; +008:017 and if children, then heirs too--heirs of God and co-heirs + with Christ; if indeed we are sharers in Christ's sufferings, + in order that we may also be sharers in His glory. +008:018 Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison + with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us. +008:019 For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, + is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God. +008:020 For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality + (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it). +008:021 Yet there was always the hope that at last the Creation itself + would also be set free from the thraldom of decay so as to enjoy + the liberty that will attend the glory of the children of God. +008:022 For we know that the whole of Creation is groaning together + in the pains of childbirth until this hour. +008:023 And more than that, we ourselves, though we possess + the Spirit as a foretaste and pledge of the glorious future, + yet we ourselves inwardly sigh, as we wait and long for open + recognition as sons through the deliverance of our bodies. +008:024 It is *in hope* that we have been saved. But an object + of hope is such no longer when it is present to view; + for when a man has a thing before his eyes, how can he be said + to hope for it? +008:025 But if we hope for something which we do not see, then we + eagerly and patiently wait for it. +008:026 In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness; for we + do not know what prayers to offer nor in what way to offer them. + But the Spirit Himself pleads for us in yearnings that can + find no words, +008:027 and the Searcher of hearts knows what the Spirit's meaning is, + because His intercessions for God's people are in harmony + with God's will. +008:028 Now we know that for those who love God all things are working + together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate + purpose He has called. +008:029 For those whom He has known beforehand He has also pre-destined + to bear the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Eldest + in a vast family of brothers; +008:030 and those whom He has pre-destined He also has called; + and those whom He has called He has also declared free from guilt; + and those whom He has declared free from guilt He has also + crowned with glory. +008:031 What then shall we say to this? If God is on our side, + who is there to appear against us? +008:032 He who did not withhold even His own Son, but gave Him up for all + of us, will He not also with Him freely give us all things? +008:033 Who shall impeach those whom God has chosen? God declares + them free from guilt. +008:034 Who is there to condemn them? Christ Jesus died, or rather has + risen to life again. He is also at the right hand of God, + and is interceding for us. +008:035 Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall affliction + or distress, persecution or hunger, nakedness or danger + or the sword? +008:036 As it stands written in the Scripture, "For Thy sake they are, + all day long, trying to kill us. We have been looked upon + as sheep destined for slaughter." +008:037 Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors through + Him who has loved us. +008:038 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither the lower + ranks of evil angels nor the higher, neither things present + nor things future, nor the forces of nature, +008:039 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be + able to separate us from the love of God which rests upon us + in Christ Jesus our Lord. +009:001 I am telling you the truth as a Christian man--it is no falsehood, + for my conscience enlightened, as it is, by the Holy Spirit + adds its testimony to mine-- +009:002 when I declare that I have deep grief and unceasing + anguish of heart. +009:003 For I could pray to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brethren, + my human kinsfolk--for such the Israelites are. +009:004 To them belongs recognition as God's sons, and they have His + glorious Presence and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, + and the Temple service, and the ancient Promises. +009:005 To them the Patriarchs belong, and from them in respect of His + human lineage came the Christ, who is exalted above all, + God blessed throughout the Ages. Amen. +009:006 Not however that God's word has failed; for all who have sprung + from Israel do not count as Israel, +009:007 nor because they are Abraham's true children. But the promise + was "Through Isaac shall your posterity be reckoned." +009:008 In other words, it is not the children by natural descent + who count as God's children, but the children made such + by the promise are regarded as Abraham's posterity. +009:009 For the words are the language of promise and run thus, + "About this time next year I will come, and Sarah shall + have a son." +009:010 Nor is that all: later on there was Rebecca too. + She was soon to bear two children to her husband, + our forefather Isaac-- +009:011 and even then, though they were not then born and had not + done anything either good or evil, yet in order that God's + electing purpose might not be frustrated, based, as it was, + not on their actions but on the will of Him who called them, + she was told, +009:012 "The elder of them will be bondservant to the younger." +009:013 This agrees with the other Scripture which says, "Jacob I + have loved, but Esau I have hated." +009:014 What then are we to infer? That there is injustice in God? +009:015 No, indeed; the solution is found in His words to Moses, "Wherever I + show mercy it shall be nothing but mercy, and wherever I show + compassion it shall be simply compassion." +009:016 And from this we learn that everything is dependent not + on man's will or endeavour, but upon God who has mercy. + For the Scripture said to Pharaoh, +009:017 "It is for this very purpose that I have lifted you so high-- + that I may make manifest in you My power, and that My name + may be proclaimed far and wide in all the earth." +009:018 This is a proof that wherever He chooses He shows mercy, + and wherever he chooses He hardens the heart. +009:019 "Why then does God still find fault?" you will ask; + "for who is resisting His will?" +009:020 Nay, but who are you, a mere man, that you should cavil + against GOD? Shall the thing moulded say to him who moulded it, + "Why have you made me thus?" +009:021 Or has not the potter rightful power over the clay to make out + of the same lump one vessel for more honourable and another + for less honourable uses? +009:022 And what if God, while choosing to make manifest the terrors + of His anger and to show what is possible with Him, has yet + borne with long-forbearing patience with the subjects of His + anger who stand ready for destruction, +009:023 in order to make known His infinite goodness towards the subjects + of His mercy whom He has prepared beforehand for glory, +009:024 even towards us whom He has called not only from among the Jews + but also from among the Gentiles? +009:025 So also in Hosea He says, "I will call that nation My People + which was not My People, and I will call her beloved who + was not beloved. +009:026 And in the place where it was said to them, `No people of Mine + are you,' there shall they be called sons of the everliving God." +009:027 And Isaiah cries aloud concerning Israel, "Though the number + of the sons of Israel be like the sands of the sea, + only a remnant of them shall be saved; +009:028 for the Lord will hold a reckoning upon the earth, making it + efficacious and brief." +009:029 Even as Isaiah says in an earlier place, "Were it not that the Lord, + the God of Hosts, had left us some few descendants, we should + have become like Sodom, and have come to resemble Gomorrah." +009:030 To what conclusion does this bring us? Why, that the Gentiles, + who were not in pursuit of righteousness, have overtaken it-- + a righteousness, however, which arises from faith; +009:031 while the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a Law + that could give righteousness, have not arrived at one. +009:032 And why? Because they were pursuing a righteousness which should + arise not from faith, but from what they regarded as merit. + They stuck their foot against the stone which lay in their way; +009:033 in agreement with the statement of Scripture, "See, I am + placing on Mount Zion a stone for people to stumble at, + and a rock for them to trip over, and yet he whose faith + rests upon it shall never have reason to feel ashamed." +010:001 Brethren, the longing of my heart, and my prayer to God, + on behalf of my countrymen is for their salvation. +010:002 For I bear witness that they possess an enthusiasm for God, + but it is an unenlightened enthusiasm. +010:003 Ignorant of the righteousness which God provides and building + their hopes upon a righteousness of their own, they have + refused submission to God's righteousness. +010:004 For as a means of righteousness Christ is the termination + of Law to every believer. +010:005 Moses says that he whose actions conform to the righteousness + required by the Law shall live by that righteousness. +010:006 But the righteousness which is based on faith speaks in a + different tone. "Say not in your heart," it declares, + "`Who shall ascend to Heaven?'"--that is, to bring Christ down; +010:007 "nor `Who shall go down into the abyss?'"--that is, to bring + Christ up again from the grave. +010:008 But what does it say? "The Message is close to you, in your + mouth and in your heart;" that is, the Message which we are + publishing about the faith-- +010:009 that if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in + your heart believe that God brought Him back to life, + you shall be saved. +010:010 For with the heart men believe and obtain righteousness, + and with the mouth they make confession and obtain salvation. +010:011 The Scripture says, "No one who believes in Him shall have + reason to feel ashamed." +010:012 Jew and Gentile are on precisely the same footing; + for the same Lord is Lord over all, and is infinitely kind + to all who call upon Him for deliverance. +010:013 For "every one, without exception, who calls on the name + of the Lord shall be saved." +010:014 But how are they to call on One in whom they have not believed? + And how are they to believe in One whose voice they have + never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher? +010:015 And how are men to preach unless they have been sent to do so? + As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring + glad tidings of good!" +010:016 But, some will say, they have not all hearkened to the Good News. + No, for Isaiah asks, "Lord, who has believed the Message they + have heard from us?" +010:017 And this proves that faith comes from a Message heard, and that + the Message comes through its having been spoken by Christ. +010:018 But, I ask, have they not heard? Yes, indeed: "To the whole + world the preachers' voices have sounded forth, and their words + to the remotest parts of the earth." +010:019 But again, did Israel fail to understand? Listen to Moses first. + He says, "I will fire you with jealousy against a nation + which is no nation, and with fury against a nation + devoid of understanding." +010:020 And Isaiah, with strange boldness, exclaims, "I have been + found by those who were not looking for Me, I have revealed + Myself to those who were not inquiring of Me." +010:021 While as to Israel he says, "All day long I have stretched + out My arms to a self-willed and fault-finding people." +011:001 I ask then, Has God cast off His People? No, indeed. + Why, I myself am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham + and of the tribe of Benjamin. +011:002 God has not cast off His People whom He knew beforehand. + Or are you ignorant of what Scripture says in speaking of Elijah-- + how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying, +011:003 "Lord, they have put Thy Prophets to death, and have overthrown + Thy altars; and, now that I alone remain, they are thirsting + for my blood"? +011:004 But what did God say to him in reply? "I have reserved + for Myself 7,000 men who have never bent the knee to Baal." +011:005 In the same way also at the present time there has come to be + a remnant whom God in His grace has selected. +011:006 But if it is in His grace that He has selected them, + then His choice is no longer determined by human actions. + Otherwise grace would be grace no longer. +011:007 How then does the matter stand? It stands thus. That which + Israel are in earnest pursuit of, they have not obtained; + but God's chosen servants have obtained it, and the rest + have become hardened. +011:008 And so Scripture says, "God has given them a spirit of drowsiness-- + eyes to see nothing with and ears to hear nothing with-- + even until now." +011:009 And David says, "Let their very food become a snare and a trap + to them, a stumbling-block and a retribution. +011:010 Let darkness come over their eyes that they may be unable to see, + and make Thou their backs continually to stoop." +011:011 I ask, however, "Have they stumbled so as to be finally ruined?" + No, indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come to the Gentiles + in order to arouse the jealousy of the descendants of Israel; +011:012 and if their lapse is the enriching of the world, and their + overthrow the enriching of the Gentiles, will not still + greater good follow their restoration? +011:013 But to you Gentiles I say that, since I am an Apostle specially + sent to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry, +011:014 trying whether I can succeed in rousing my own countrymen + to jealousy and thus save some of them. +011:015 For if their having been cast aside has carried with it + the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted + again be but Life out of death? +011:016 Now if the firstfruits of the dough are holy, so also is + the whole mass; and if the root of a tree is holy, so also + are the branches. +011:017 And if some of the branches have been pruned away, and you, + although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among + them and have become a sharer with others in the rich sap + of the root of the olive tree, +011:018 beware of glorying over the natural branches. Or if you are + so glorying, do not forget that it is not you who uphold the root: + the root upholds you. +011:019 "Branches have been lopped off," you will say, "for the sake + of my being grafted in." +011:020 This is true; yet it was their unbelief that cut them off, + and you only stand through your faith. +011:021 Do not be puffed up with pride. Tremble rather--for if God did + not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. +011:022 Notice therefore God's kindness and God's severity. + On those who have fallen His severity has descended, + but upon you His kindness has come, provided that you do not + cease to respond to that kindness. Otherwise you will be + cut off also. +011:023 Moreover, if they turn from their unbelief, they too will be + grafted in. For God is powerful enough to graft them in again; +011:024 and if you were cut from that which by nature is a wild olive + and contrary to nature were grafted into the good olive tree, + how much more certainly will these natural branches be grafted + on their own olive tree? +011:025 For there is a truth, brethren, not revealed hitherto, + of which I do not wish to leave you in ignorance, for fear you + should attribute superior wisdom to yourselves--the truth, + I mean, that partial blindness has fallen upon Israel until + the great mass of the Gentiles have come in; +011:026 and so all Israel will be saved. As is declared + in Scripture, "From Mount Zion a Deliverer will come: + He will remove all ungodliness from Jacob; +011:027 and this shall be My Covenant with them; when I have taken + away their sins." +011:028 In relation to the Good News, the Jews are God's enemies for + your sakes; but in relation to God's choice they are dearly + loved for the sake of their forefathers. +011:029 For God does not repent of His free gifts nor of His call; +011:030 but just as you were formerly disobedient to Him, but now have + received mercy at a time when they are disobedient, +011:031 so now they also have been disobedient at a time when you are + receiving mercy; so that to them too there may now be mercy. +011:032 For God has locked up all in the prison of unbelief, that upon + all alike He may have mercy. +011:033 Oh, how inexhaustible are God's resources and God's wisdom + and God's knowledge! How impossible it is to search into His + decrees or trace His footsteps! +011:034 "Who has ever known the mind of the Lord, or shared His counsels?" +011:035 "Who has first given God anything, so as to receive + payment in return?" +011:036 For the universe owes its origin to Him, was created by Him, + and has its aim and purpose in Him. To Him be the glory + throughout the Ages! Amen. +012:001 I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, + to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy + sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act + of reasonable worship. +012:002 And do not follow the customs of the present age, + but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, + so that you may learn by experience what God's will is-- + that will which is good and beautiful and perfect. +012:003 For through the authority graciously given to me I warn + every individual among you not to value himself unduly, + but to cultivate sobriety of judgement in accordance with + the amount of faith which God has allotted to each one. +012:004 For just as there are in the one human body many parts, + and these parts have not all the same function; +012:005 so collectively we form one body in Christ, while individually + we are linked to one another as its members. +012:006 But since we have special gifts which differ in accordance + with the diversified work graciously entrusted to us, + if it is prophecy, let the prophet speak in exact proportion + to his faith; +012:007 if it is the gift of administration, let the administrator + exercise a sound judgement in his duties. +012:008 The teacher must do the same in his teaching; and he who exhorts + others, in his exhortation. He who gives should be liberal; + he who is in authority should be energetic and alert; + and he who succours the afflicted should do it cheerfully. +012:009 Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; + cling to what is right. +012:010 As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; + in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another. +012:011 Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, + the Lord's own servants, +012:012 full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and + persistent in prayer. +012:013 Relieve the necessities of God's people; always practise hospitality. +012:014 Invoke blessings on your persecutors--blessings, not curses. +012:015 Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. +012:016 Have full sympathy with one another. Do not give your + mind to high things, but let humble ways content you. + Do not be wise in your own conceits. +012:017 Pay back to no man evil for evil. Take thought for what is + right and seemly in every one's esteem. +012:018 If you can, so far as it depends on you, live at peace with + all the world. +012:019 Do not be revengeful, my dear friends, but give way before anger; + for it is written, "`Revenge belongs to Me: I will pay back,' + says the Lord." +012:020 On the contrary, therefore, if your enemy is hungry, give him food; + if he is thirsty, quench his thirst. For by doing this you + will be heaping burning coals upon his head. +012:021 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome the evil with goodness. +013:001 Let every individual be obedient to those who rule over him; + for no one is a ruler except by God's permission, and our present + rulers have had their rank and power assigned to them by Him. +013:002 Therefore the man who rebels against his ruler is resisting + God's will; and those who thus resist will bring + punishment upon themselves. +013:003 For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers + but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not?--to have no reason + to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, + and then he will commend you. +013:004 For he is God's servant for your benefit. But if you do what + is wrong, be afraid. He does not wear the sword to no purpose: + he is God's servant--an administrator to inflict + punishment upon evil-doers. +013:005 We must obey therefore, not only in order to escape punishment, + but also for conscience' sake. +013:006 Why, this is really the reason you pay taxes; for tax-gatherers + are ministers of God, devoting their energies to this very work. +013:007 Pay promptly to all men what is due to them: taxes to those + to whom taxes are due, toll to those to whom toll is due, + respect to those to whom respect is due, honour to those to whom + honour is due. +013:008 Owe nothing to any one except mutual love; for he who loves + his fellow man has satisfied the demands of Law. +013:009 For the precepts, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," "Thou shalt + do no murder," "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not covet," + and all other precepts, are summed up in this one command, + "Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thou lovest thyself." +013:010 Love avoids doing any wrong to one's fellow man, and is therefore + complete obedience to Law. +013:011 Carry out these injunctions because you know the critical + period at which we are living, and that it is now high time, + to rouse yourselves from sleep; for salvation is now nearer + to us than when we first became believers. +013:012 The night is far advanced, and day is about to dawn. + We must therefore lay aside the deeds of darkness, and clothe + ourselves with the armour of Light. +013:013 Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves + becomingly, not indulging in revelry and drunkenness, + nor in lust and debauchery, nor in quarrelling and jealousy. +013:014 On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, + and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings. +014:001 I now pass to another subject. Receive as a friend a man + whose faith is weak, but not for the purpose of deciding mere + matters of opinion. +014:002 One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while a man + of weaker faith eats nothing but vegetables. +014:003 Let not him who eats certain food look down upon him who abstains + from it, nor him who abstains from it find fault with him + who eats it; for God has received both of them. +014:004 Who are you that you should find fault with the servant of another? + Whether he stands or falls is a matter which concerns his + own master. But stand he will; for the Master can give him + power to stand. +014:005 One man esteems one day more highly than another; + another esteems all days alike. Let every one be thoroughly + convinced in his own mind. +014:006 He who regards the day as sacred, so regards it for the Master's sake; + and he who eats certain food eats it for the Master's sake, + for he gives thanks to God; and he who refrains from eating it + refrains for the Master's sake, and he also gives thanks to God. +014:007 For not one of us lives to himself, and not one dies to himself. +014:008 If we live, we live to the Lord: if we die, we die to the Lord. + So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. +014:009 For this was the purpose of Christ's dying and coming to life-- + namely that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living. +014:010 But you, why do you find fault with your brother? + Or you, why do you look down upon your brother? + We shall all stand before God to be judged; +014:011 for it is written, "`As I live,' says the Lord, `to Me every knee + shall bow, and every tongue shall make confession to God.'" +014:012 So we see that every one of us will give account of himself to God. +014:013 Therefore let us no longer judge one another; but, instead of that, + you should come to this judgement--that we must not put + a stumbling-block in our brother's path, nor anything + to trip him up. +014:014 As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know + and am certain that in its own nature no food is `impure'; + but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is. +014:015 If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, + your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, + by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died. +014:016 Therefore do not let the boon which is yours in common be + exposed to reproach. +014:017 For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, + but of right conduct, peace and joy, through the Holy Spirit; +014:018 and whoever in this way devotedly serves Christ, God takes + pleasure in him, and men highly commend him. +014:019 Therefore let us aim at whatever makes for peace and mutual + upbuilding of character. +014:020 Do not for food's sake be throwing down God's work. + All food is pure; but a man is in the wrong if his food + is a snare to others. +014:021 The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine + or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall. +014:022 As for you and your faith, keep your faith to yourself in + the presence of God. The man is to be congratulated who does + not pronounce judgement on himself in what his actions sanction. +014:023 But he who has misgivings and yet eats meat is condemned already, + because his conduct is not based on faith; for all conduct + not based on faith is sinful. +015:001 As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses + of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure. +015:002 Let each of us endeavour to please his fellow Christian, + aiming at a blessing calculated to build him up. +015:003 For even the Christ did not seek His own pleasure. + His principle was, "The reproaches which they addressed + to Thee have fallen on me." +015:004 For all that was written of old has been written for our instruction, + so that we may always have hope through the power of endurance + and the encouragement which the Scriptures afford. +015:005 And may God, the giver of power of endurance and of + that encouragement, grant you to be in full sympathy with one + another in accordance with the example of Christ Jesus, +015:006 so that with oneness both of heart and voice you may glorify + the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. +015:007 Habitually therefore give one another a friendly reception, + just as Christ also has received you, and thus promote + the glory of God. +015:008 My meaning is that Christ has become a servant to the people + of Israel in vindication of God's truthfulness--in showing + how sure are the promises made to our forefathers-- +015:009 and that the Gentiles also have glorified God in acknowledgment + of His mercy. So it is written, "For this reason I will + praise Thee among the Gentiles, and sing psalms in honour + of Thy name." +015:010 And again the Psalmist says, "Be glad, ye Gentiles, in company + with His People." +015:011 And again, "Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and let all + the people extol Him." +015:012 And again Isaiah says, "There shall be the Root of Jesse and One + who rises up to rule the Gentiles. On Him shall the Gentiles + build their hopes." +015:013 May God, the giver of hope, fill you with continual joy and peace + because you trust in Him--so that you may have abundant hope + through the power of the Holy Spirit. +015:014 But as to you, brethren, I am convinced--yes, I Paul am convinced-- + that, even apart from my teaching, you are already full of goodness + of heart, and enriched with complete Christian knowledge, + and are also competent to instruct one another. +015:015 But I write to you the more boldly--partly as reminding you + of what you already know--because of the authority graciously + entrusted to me by God, +015:016 that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, + doing priestly duties in connexion with God's Good News + so that the sacrifice--namely the Gentiles--may be acceptable + to Him, being (as it is) an offering which the Holy Spirit + has made holy. +015:017 I can therefore glory in Christ Jesus concerning the work + for God in which I am engaged. +015:018 For I will not presume to mention any of the results that Christ + has brought about by other agency than mine in securing + the obedience of the Gentiles by word or deed, +015:019 with power manifested in signs and marvels, and through the power + of the Holy Spirit. But--to speak simply of my own labours-- + beginning in Jerusalem and the outlying districts, + I have proclaimed without reserve, even as far as Illyricum, + the Good News of the Christ; +015:020 making it my ambition, however, not to tell the Good News + where Christ's name was already known, for fear I should be + building on another man's foundation. +015:021 But, as Scripture says, "Those shall see, to whom no report + about Him has hitherto come, and those who until now have + not heard shall understand." +015:022 And it is really this which has again and again prevented + my coming to you. +015:023 But now, as there is no more unoccupied ground in this part + of the world, and I have for years past been eager to pay + you a visit, +015:024 I hope, as soon as ever I extend my travels into Spain, + to see you on my way and be helped forward by you on my journey, + when I have first enjoyed being with you for a time. +015:025 But at present I am going to Jerusalem to serve God's people, +015:026 for Macedonia and Greece have kindly contributed a certain sum + in relief of the poor among God's people, in Jerusalem. +015:027 Yes, they have kindly done this, and, in fact, it was a debt they + owed them. For seeing that the Gentiles have been admitted + in to partnership with the Jews in their spiritual blessings, + they in turn are under an obligation to render sacred service + to the Jews in temporal things. +015:028 So after discharging this duty, and making sure that these kind + gifts reach those for whom they are intended, I shall start + for Spain, passing through Rome on my way there; +015:029 and I know that when I come to you it will be with a vast + amount of blessing from Christ. +015:030 But I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ + and by the love which His Spirit inspires, to help me + by wrestling in prayer to God on my behalf, +015:031 asking that I may escape unhurt from those in Judaea who + are disobedient, and that the service which I am going to + Jerusalem to render may be well received by the Church there, +015:032 in order that if God be willing I may come to you with a glad heart, + and may enjoy a time of rest with you. +015:033 May God, who gives peace be with you all! Amen. +016:001 Herewith I introduce our sister Phoebe to you, who is a servant + of the Church at Cenchreae, +016:002 that you may receive her as a fellow Christian in a manner + worthy of God's people, and may assist her in any matter + in which she may need help. For she has indeed been a kind + friend to many, including myself. +016:003 Greetings to Prisca and Aquila my fellow labourers in the work + of Christ Jesus-- +016:004 friends who have endangered their own lives for mine. + I am grateful to them, and not I alone, but all the + Gentile Churches also. +016:005 Greetings, too, to the Church that meets at their house. + Greetings to my dear Epaenetus, who was the earliest convert + to Christ in the province of Asia; +016:006 to Mary who has laboured strenuously among you; +016:007 and to Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen, who once shared + my imprisonment. They are of note among the Apostles, + and are Christians of longer standing than myself. +016:008 Greetings to Ampliatus, dear to me in the Lord; +016:009 to Urban, our fellow labourer in Christ, and to my dear Stachys. +016:010 Greetings to Apella, that veteran believer; and to the members + of the household of Aristobulus. +016:011 Greetings to my countryman, Herodion; and to the believing + members of the household of Narcissus. +016:012 Greetings to those Christian workers, Tryphaena and Tryphosa; + also to dear Persis, who has laboured strenuously in + the Lord's work. +016:013 Greetings to Rufus, who is one of the Lord's chosen people; + and to his mother, who has also been a mother to me. +016:014 Greetings to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, + and to the brethren associated with them; +016:015 to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister and Olympas, + and to all God's people associated with them. +016:016 Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the Churches of Christ + send greetings to you. +016:017 But I beseech you, brethren, to keep a watch on those who are + causing the divisions among you, and are leading others into sin, + in defiance of the instruction which you have received; + and habitually to shun them. +016:018 For men of that stamp are not bondservants of Christ our Lord, + but are slaves to their own appetites; and by their plausible + words and their flattery they utterly deceive the minds + of the simple. +016:019 Your fidelity to the truth is everywhere known. + I rejoice over you, therefore, but I wish you to be wise + as to what is good, and simple-minded as to what is evil. +016:020 And before long, God the giver of peace will crush Satan under + your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you! +016:021 Timothy, my fellow worker, sends you greetings, and so do my + countrymen Lucius, Jason and Sosipater. +016:022 I, Tertius, who write this letter, send you Christian greetings. +016:023 Gaius, my host, who is also the host of the whole Church, + greets you. So do Erastus, the treasurer of the city, + and Quartus our brother. +016:024 [] +016:025 To Him who has it in His power to make you strong, as declared + in the Good News which I am spreading, and the proclamation + concerning Jesus Christ, in harmony with the unveiling of + the Truth which in the periods of past Ages remained unuttered, +016:026 but has now been brought fully to light, and by the command + of the God of the Ages has been made known by the writings + of the Prophets among all the Gentiles to win them to obedience + to the faith-- +016:027 to God, the only wise, through Jesus Christ, even to Him + be the glory through all the Ages! 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