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1:4 who was declared the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,
1:5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles forin behalf of His name’s sake,
1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.
1:10 always in my prayers makingrequesting request, if perhaps now, at last by the will of God, I maywill succeed in coming to you.
1:13 I do not want you to be unaware, brethrenbrothers and sisters, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some fruit among you also, evenjust as among the rest of the Gentiles.
1:14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbariansthe uncultured, both to the wise and to the foolish.
1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written,: “But the righteous manone shallwill live by faith.”
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of menpeople who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seenperceived, being understood throughby what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
1:21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculationsreasonings, and their foolishsenseless hearthearts waswere darkened.
1:22 ProfessingClaiming to be wise, they became fools,
1:23 and they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible manmankind, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and crawling creatures.
1:24 Therefore God gave them overup to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
1:25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a liefalsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
1:26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural functionrelations for that which is unnaturalcontrary to nature,
1:27 and inlikewise the samemen, waytoo, also the men abandoned the natural functionrelations ofwith thewomen woman and burned in their desire toward one another, menmales with menmales committing indecentshameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them overup to a depraved mind, to do those things whichthat are not proper,
1:29 beingpeople having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips,
1:31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unlovingunfeeling, and unmerciful;
1:32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also giveapprove heartyof approval to those who practice them.
2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, you foolish person, everyone of you who passes judgment,; for in that matter in which you judge anothersomeone else, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
2:3 But do you suppose this, Oyou man,foolish whenperson youwho passpasses judgment on those who practice such things, and doyet thedoes samethem yourselfas well, that you will escape the judgment of God?
2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerancerestraint and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
2:5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself inon the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
2:6 who will renderrepay to each person according to his deeds:
2:7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory, and honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life;
2:8 but to those who are selfishlyself-serving ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, He will give wrath and indignation.
2:9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of manmankind who does evil, offor the Jew first and also offor the Greek,
2:10 but glory, and honor, and peace to everyone who does what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
2:13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are justrighteous before God, but the doers of the Law who will be justified.
2:14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively perform the thingsrequirements of the Law, these, though not having the Law, are a law to themselves,
2:15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearingtestifying witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
2:16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of menmankind through Christ Jesus.
2:17 But if you bearcall theyourself namea Jew and rely upon the Law and boast in God,
2:18 and know His will and approvedistinguish the things that are essentialmatter, being instructed outfrom of the Law,
2:19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to thepeople who are blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, havingpossessing in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,
2:21 you, therefore, who teach anothersomeone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shallis not to steal, do you steal?
2:22 You who say that one shouldis not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhorloathe idols, do you rob temples?
2:25 For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressorviolator of the Law, your circumcision has becometurned into uncircumcision.
2:26 So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision not be regarded as circumcision?
2:27 And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressorviolator of the Law?
2:29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from menpeople, but from God.
3:1 Then what advantage hasdoes the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
3:2 Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oraclesactual words of God.
3:4 MayFar from it never be! Rather, let God must prove to be found true, though every manperson be found a liar, as it is written,:ThatSo that You mayare be justified in Your words, And prevail when You are judged.”
3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking infrom a human termsviewpoint.)
3:6 MayFar from it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
3:8 And why not say (just as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), “Let’s us do evil that good may come of it”? Their condemnation is justdeserved.
3:10 as it is written,: “There is noneno righteous person, not even one;
3:11 There is noneno one who understands, There is noneno one who seeks forout God;
3:12 AllThey have all turned aside, together they have become uselesscorrupt; There is noneno one who does good, There is not even one.”
3:13 “Their throat is an open grave, With their tongues they keep deceiving,” “The poisonvenom of asps is under their lips”;
3:14 WhoseTheir mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”;
3:17 And thethey pathhave ofnot peaceknown theythe haveway notof knownpeace.”
3:20 because by the works of the Law nonone fleshof mankind will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
3:21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifestedrevealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
3:22 evenbut it is the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;,
3:24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;,
3:25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in theGod’s forbearancemerciful ofrestraint God He passedlet over the sins previously committed go unpunished;
3:26 for the demonstration, Ithat sayis, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
3:27 Where then is boasting? It ishas been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
3:28 For we maintain that a manperson is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.
3:31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? MayFar from it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.
4:2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about,; but not before God.
4:4 Now to the one who works, histhe wagewages isare not credited as a favor, but as what is due.
4:6 just as David also speaks of the blessing onof the manperson to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
4:14 For if those who are of the Law are heirs, then faith is made void and the promise is nullified;
4:17 (as it is written,:AI have made you a father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, eventhat is, God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that whichdo does not exist.
4:24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, asto thoseus who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
4:25 He who was delivered over because of our transgressionswrongdoings, and was raised because of our justification.
5:2 through whom we also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exultcelebrate in hope of the glory of God.
5:3 And not only this, but we also exultcelebrate in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;
5:7 For one will hardly die for a righteous manperson; though perhaps for the good manperson someone would even dare even to die.
5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yetstill sinners, Christ died for us.
5:11 And not only this, but we also exultcelebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all menmankind, because all sinned—
5:13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputedcounted against anyone when there is no law.
5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offenseviolation ofcommitted by Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
5:15 But the freegracious gift is not like the transgressionoffense. For if by the transgressionoffense of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, aboundoverflow to the many.
5:16 The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgressionoffense, resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the freegracious gift arose from many transgressionsoffenses, resulting in justification.
5:17 For if by the transgressionoffense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
5:18 So then, as through one transgressionoffense therethe resultedresult was condemnation to all menmankind, even so also through one act of righteousness therethe resultedresult was justification of life to all menmankind.
5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so also through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.
5:20 The Law came in so that the transgressionoffense would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
5:21 so that, as sin reigned in death, even so also grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6:2 MayFar from it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too mightmay walk in newness of life.
6:7 for hethe one who has died is freed from sin.
6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
6:11 EvenSo soyou too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
6:12 Therefore dosin is not letto sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
6:13 and do not go on presenting the membersparts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your membersbody’s parts as instruments of righteousness tofor God.
6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under lawthe Law but under grace.
6:15 What then? ShallAre we to sin because we are not under lawthe Law but under grace? MayFar from it never be!
6:16 Do you not know that whenthe one to whom you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of thethat same one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committedentrusted,
6:18 and havingafter beenbeing freed from sin, you became slaves ofto righteousness.
6:19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your membersbody as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your membersbody’s parts as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regardrelation to righteousness.
6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the freegracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
7:1 Or do you not know, brethrenbrothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the lawLaw), that the lawLaw has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?
7:2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband whileas long as he is livingalive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
7:3 So then, if while her husband is livingalive she isgives joinedherself to another man, she shallwill be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress thoughif she isgives joinedherself to another man.
7:4 Therefore, my brethrenbrothers and sisters, you also were madeput to diedeath in regard to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might bebelong joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were arousedbrought to light by the Law, were at work in the membersparts of our body to bear fruit for death.
7:7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? MayFar from it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
7:8 But sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
7:9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin becamecame aliveto life, and I died;
7:11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it, killed me.
7:13 Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? MayFar from it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effectingbringing about my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
7:14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of fleshfleshly, sold into bondage to sin.
7:15 For I do not understand what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I wouldwant like to do, but I amdo doing the very thing I hate.
7:16 ButHowever, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
7:17 SoBut now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin whichthat dwells in me.
7:18 For I know that nothing good dwellsdoes not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
7:20 But if I amdo doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin whichthat dwells in me.
7:22 For I joyfully concuragree with the law of God in the inner manperson,
7:23 but I see a different law in the membersparts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin, the law which is in my membersbody’s parts.
8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus.
8:4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
8:5 For those who are accordingin toaccord with the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are accordingin toaccord with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
8:12 So then, brethrenbrothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—
8:13 for if you are living accordingin toaccord with the flesh, you mustare going to die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
8:14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God.
8:15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
8:19 For the anxiouseagerly longingawaiting of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God.
8:23 And not only thisthat, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, the redemption of our body.
8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, withthrough perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
8:26 InNow in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know howwhat to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;
8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethrenbrothers and sisters;
8:33 Who will bring acharges charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;
8:34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes,but rather, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distresstrouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or perildanger, or sword?
8:36 Just as it is written,: “For Your sake we are beingkilled put to death all day long; We were consideredregarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, whichthat is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
9:1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying,; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,
9:3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethrencountrymen, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
9:4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and daughters, the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the temple service, and the promises,;
9:7 nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “through Isaac your descendants willshall be named.”
9:9 For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shallwill have a son.”
9:10 And not only thisthat, but there was also Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac;
9:13 Just as it is written,: “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
9:14 What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? MayFar from it never be!
9:15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomwhomever I have mercy, and I will haveshow compassion onto whomwhomever I haveshow compassion.”
9:16 So then, it does not depend on the manperson who willswants orit nor the manone who runs, but on God who has mercy.
9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purposereason I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.”
9:19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resistshas resisted His will?”
9:20 On the contrary, who are you, Oyou manfoolish person, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
9:21 Or does not the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vesselobject for honorable use, and another for common use?
9:22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with muchgreat patience vesselsobjects of wrath prepared for destruction?
9:23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vesselsobjects of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
9:24 evennamely us, whom He also called, not only from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.,
9:25 Asas He also says also in Hosea,: “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’ ”
9:27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel may be like the sand of the sea, itonly is the remnant that will be saved;
9:29 And just as Isaiah foretold,:UnlessIf the Lord of Sabaotharmies had not left to us a posteritydescendants, We would have become like Sodom, and would have resembledbeen like Gomorrah.”
9:30 What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, evenbut the righteousness whichthat is by faith;
9:31 buthowever, Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
9:32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though itthey werecould by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
9:33 just as it is written,: “Behold, I layam laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, And hethe one who believes in Him will not be disappointedput to shame.”
10:1 BrethrenBrothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
10:4 For Christ is the end of the lawLaw for righteousness to everyone who believes.
10:5 For Moses writes thatof the manrighteousness whothat practicesis based on the righteousnessLaw, whichthat isthe basedperson onwho lawperforms shallthem will live by that righteousnessthem.
10:6 But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascendgo up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),
10:11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointedput to shame.”
10:13 for “WhoeverEveryone willwho callcalls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
10:14 How then willare they to call on Him in whom they have not believed? How willare they to believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how willare they to hear without a preacher?
10:15 HowBut willhow are they to preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written,: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!”
10:18 But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? IndeedOn theythe have;contrary: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world.”
10:19 But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous bywith thatthose whichwho isare not a nation, ByWith a foolish nation withoutI understanding will I anger you.”
10:20 And Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who did not seek Me, I becamerevealed manifestMyself to those who did not ask for Me.”
10:21 But as for Israel, He says, “All the day long I have stretchedspread out My hands all day long to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
11:1 I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? MayFar from it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, since otherwise grace is no longer grace.
11:8 just as it is written,: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, Eyes to see not and ears to hear not, Down to this very day.”
11:9 And David says, “LetMay their table become a snare and a trap, And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
11:10 LetMay their eyes be darkened to see not, And bend their backs forevercontinually.”
11:11 I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? MayFar from it never be! But by their transgressionwrongdoing salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
11:12 Now if their transgressionwrongdoing isproves to be riches for the world, and their failure, is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be!
11:13 But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. InasmuchTherefore theninsofar as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
11:14 if somehow I mightmay move tomy jealousyown mypeople fellowto countrymenjealousy and save some of them.
11:15 For if their rejection isproves to be the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
11:16 If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are tooas well.
11:22 BeholdSee then the kindness and severity of God;: to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; for otherwise you alsotoo will be cut off.
11:23 And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in,; for God is able to graft them in again.
11:24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
11:25 For I do not want you, brethrenbrothers and sisters, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
11:26 and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,: “The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”
11:28 FromIn therelation standpointto of the gospel they are enemies foron your sakeaccount, but fromin therelation standpointto of God’s choice they are beloved foron theaccount sake of the fathers;
11:32 For God has shut up all in disobedience, so that He may show mercy to all.
11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
11:35 Or who has first given to Him, that it mightwould be paid back to him again?
11:36 For from Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.
12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethrenbrothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
12:4 For just as we have many membersparts in one body and all the membersbody’s parts do not have the same function,
12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually membersparts of one of another.
12:6 SinceHowever, since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exerciseuse them accordinglyproperly: if prophecy, accordingin to the proportion ofto hisone’s faith;
12:7 if service, in histhe act of serving; or hethe one who teaches, in histhe act of teaching;
12:8 or hethe one who exhorts, in histhe work of exhortation; hethe one who gives, with liberalitygenerosity; hethe one who leadsis in leadership, with diligence; hethe one who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
12:9 LetLove lovemust be withoutfree of hypocrisy. AbhorDetest what is evil; cling to what is good.
12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;,
12:17 Never payrepay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all menpeople.
12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all menpeople.
12:19 Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written,: “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
12:20 “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him,; and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
13:1 Every person is to be insubject subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
13:4 for it is a ministerservant of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a ministerservant of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.
13:5 Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’the sake of conscience.
13:7 RenderPay to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fearrespect to whom fearrespect; honor to whom honor.
13:8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for hethe one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the lawLaw.
13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the lawLaw.
13:11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we first believed.
13:12 The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let’s usrid layourselves asideof the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
13:13 Let’s us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensualitydebauchery, not in strife and jealousy.
14:1 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not forto thehave purposequarrels ofover passing judgment on his opinions.
14:2 One person has faith that he may eat all things, but hethe one who is weak eats only vegetables only.
14:5 One person regardsvalues one day aboveover another, another regardsvalues every day alikethe same. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
14:6 HeThe one who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and hethe one who eats, does so forwith regard to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and hethe one who eatsdoes not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat, and he gives thanks to God.
14:10 But as for you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or you againas well, why do you regard your brother or sister with contempt? For we will all standappear before the judgment seat of God.
14:11 For it is written,: “As I live, says the Lord, to Me every knee shallwill bow to Me, And every tongue shallwill give praise to God.”
14:13 Therefore let’s us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this: not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s or sister’s way.
14:14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to himthe one who thinks anythingsomething tois be unclean, to himthat person it is unclean.
14:15 For if because of food your brother or sister is hurt, you are no longer walking accordingin toaccordance with love. Do not destroy with your choice of food himthat person for whom Christ died.
14:18 For hethe one who serves Christ in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by menother people.
14:20 Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the manperson who eats and givescauses offense.
14:21 It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother or sister stumbles.
14:22 The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is hethe one who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
14:23 But hethe one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.
15:1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not just please ourselves.
15:3 For even Christ did not please Himself;, but as it is written,: “The reproachestaunts of those who reproachedtaunt You fellhave fallen on Me.”
15:5 Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another, according to Christ Jesus,
15:6 so that with one accordpurpose youand may with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:7 Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us, tofor the glory of God.
15:8 For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision onin behalf of the truth of God, to confirm the promises given to the fathers,
15:9 and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy; as it is written,: “Therefore I will give praise to You among the Gentiles, And I will sing praises to Your name.”
15:10 Again he says, “Rejoice, Oyou Gentiles, with His people.”
15:12 Again Isaiah says, “There shall come the root of Jesse, And He who arises to rule over the Gentiles, In Him shallwill the Gentiles hope.”
15:14 And concerning you, my brethrenbrothers and sisters, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.
15:15 But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given to me from God,
15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and roundall aboutaround as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
15:20 And thusin this way I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already namedknown by name, so that I would not build on another manperson’s foundation;
15:21 but just as it is written,: “They who hadhave nonot newsbeen oftold about Him shallwill see, And they who have not heard shallwill understand.”
15:25 but now, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
15:27 Yes,For they were pleased to do so, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are indebted to ministerdo to them a service also in material things.
15:30 Now I urge you, brethrenbrothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
15:32 so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and findrelax refreshing rest in your company.
16:1 I commendrecommend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea;,
16:4 who for my life risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;
16:7 Greet Andronicus and JuniasJunia, my kinsmenkinsfolk and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding amongin the view of the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
16:14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethrenbrothers and sisters with them.
16:17 Now I urge you, brethrenbrothers and sisters, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.
16:18 For such menpeople are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
16:19 For the report of your obedience has reached to alleveryone; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil.
16:21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, and so do Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen.
16:22 I, Tertius, who writehave written this letter, greet you in the Lord.
16:23 Gaius, host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, greets you, and Quartus, the brother.
16:24 [The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.]
16:26 but now ishas manifestedbeen disclosed, and bythrough the Scriptures of the prophets, accordingin toaccordance with the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;