ROM 1:1 Paul, a
bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle,
set apart for the gospel of God,
ROM 1:2 which He promised beforehand through
His prophets in the holy Scriptures,
ROM 1:3 concerning His Son, who was born of a
descendant of David according to the flesh,
ROM 1:4 who was declared the Son of God with
power by the resurrection from the dead, according
to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,
ROM 1:5 through whom we have received grace
and apostleship to bring about the obedience of
faith among all the Gentiles, for His name's sake,
ROM 1:6 among whom you also are the called of
Jesus Christ;
ROM 1:7 to all who are beloved of God in
Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from
God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
ROM 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus
Christ for you all, because your faith is being
proclaimed throughout the whole world.
ROM 1:9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit in
the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my
witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you,
ROM 1:10 always in my prayers making request,
if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may
succeed in coming to you.
ROM 1:11 For I long to see you in order that
I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you
may be established;
ROM 1:12 that is, that I may be encouraged
together with you while among you, each of us by the
other's faith, both yours and mine.
ROM 1:13 And I do not want you to be unaware,
brethren, that often I have planned to come to you
(and have been prevented thus far) in order that I
might obtain some fruit among you also, even as
among the rest of the Gentiles.
ROM 1:14 I am under obligation both to Greeks
and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the
foolish.
ROM 1:15 Thus, for my part, I am eager to
preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
ROM 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel,
for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone
who believes, to the Jew first and also to the
Greek.
ROM 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God
is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written,
"But the righteous man shall live by faith."
ROM 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness,
ROM 1:19 because that which is known about
God is evident within them; for God made it evident
to them.
ROM 1:20 For since the creation of the world
His invisible attributes, His eternal power and
divine nature, have been clearly seen, being
understood through what has been made, so that they
are without excuse.
ROM 1:21 For even though they knew God, they
did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they
became futile in their speculations, and their
foolish heart was darkened.
ROM 1:22 Professing to be wise, they became
fools,
ROM 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the
incorruptible God for an image in the form of
corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals
and crawling creatures.
ROM 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the
lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies
might be dishonored among them.
ROM 1:25 For they exchanged the truth of God
for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature
rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever.
Amen.
ROM 1:26 For this reason God gave them over
to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the
natural function for that which is unnatural,
ROM 1:27 and in the same way also the men
abandoned the natural function of the woman and
burned in their desire toward one another, men with
men committing indecent acts and receiving in their
own persons the due penalty of their error.
ROM 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to
acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a
depraved mind, to do those things which are not
proper,
ROM 1:29 being filled with all
unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of
envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are
gossips,
ROM 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent,
arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient
to parents,
ROM 1:31 without understanding,
untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
ROM 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 give hearty approval to those who
practice them.
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ROM 2:1 Therefore
you are without excuse, every man of you who passes
judgment, for in that you judge another, you condemn
yourself; for you who judge practice the same
things.
ROM 2:2 And we know that the judgment of God
rightly falls upon those who practice such things.
ROM 2:3 And do you suppose this, O man, when
you pass judgment upon those who practice such
things and do the same yourself, that you will
escape the judgment of God?
ROM 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches
of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not
knowing that the kindness of God leads you to
repentance?
ROM 2:5 But because of your stubbornness and
unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for
yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God,
ROM 2:6 who will render to every man
according to his deeds:
ROM 2:7 to those who by perseverance in doing
good seek for glory and honor and immortality,
eternal life;
ROM 2:8 but to those who are selfishly
ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey
unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
ROM 2:9 There will be tribulation and
distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the
Jew first and also of the Greek,
ROM 2:10 but glory and honor and peace to
every man who does good, to the Jew first and also
to the Greek.
ROM 2:11 For there is no partiality with God.
ROM 2:12 For all who have sinned without the
Law will also perish without the Law; and all who
have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;
ROM 2:13 for not the hearers of the Law are
just before God, but the doers of the Law will be
justified.
ROM 2:14 For when Gentiles who do not have
the Law do instinctively the things of the Law,
these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,
ROM 2:15 in that they show the work of the
Law written in their hearts, their conscience
bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately
accusing or else defending them,
ROM 2:16 on the day when, according to my
gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through
Christ Jesus.
ROM 2:17 But if you bear the name "Jew," and
rely upon the Law, and boast in God,
ROM 2:18 and know His will, and approve the
things that are essential, being instructed out of
the Law,
ROM 2:19 and are confident that you yourself
are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are
in darkness,
ROM 2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a
teacher of the immature, having in the Law the
embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,
ROM 2:21 you, therefore, who teach another,
do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one
should not steal, do you steal?
ROM 2:22 You who say that one should not
commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who
abhor idols, do you rob temples?
ROM 2:23 You who boast in the Law, through
your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?
ROM 2:24 For "the name of God is blasphemed
among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is
written.
ROM 2:25 For indeed circumcision is of value,
if you practice the Law; but if you are a
transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has
become uncircumcision.
ROM 2:26 If therefore the uncircumcised man
keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his
uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
ROM 2:27 And will not 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 transgressor of the Law?
ROM 2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one
outwardly; neither is circumcision that which is
outward in the flesh.
ROM 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 men, but from God.
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ROM 3:1 Then what
advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of
circumcision?
ROM 3:2 Great in every respect. First of all,
that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
ROM 3:3 What then? If some did not believe,
their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of
God, will it?
ROM 3:4 May it never be! Rather, let God be
found true, though every man be found a liar, as it
is written, "That Thou mightest be justified in Thy
words, And mightest prevail when Thou art judged."
ROM 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 in human terms.)
ROM 3:6 May it never be! For otherwise how
will God judge the world?
ROM 3:7 But if through my lie the truth of
God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being
judged as a sinner?
ROM 3:8 And why not say (as we are
slanderously reported and as some affirm that we
say), "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their
condemnation is just.
ROM 3:9 What then? Are we better than they?
Not at all; for we have already charged that both
Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
ROM 3:10 as it is written, "There is none
righteous, not even one;
ROM 3:11 There is none who understands, There
is none who seeks for God;
ROM 3:12 All have turned aside, together they
have become useless; There is none who does good,
There is not even one."
ROM 3:13 "Their throat is an open grave, With
their tongues they keep deceiving," "The poison of
asps is under their lips";
ROM 3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and
bitterness";
ROM 3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood,
ROM 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their
paths,
ROM 3:17 And the path of peace have they not
known."
ROM 3:18 "There is no fear of God before
their eyes."
ROM 3:19 Now we know that whatever the Law
says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, that
every mouth may be closed, and all the world may
become accountable to God;
ROM 3:20 because by the works of the Law no
flesh will be justified in His sight; for through
the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
ROM 3:21 But now apart from the Law the
righteousness of God has been manifested, being
witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
ROM 3:22 even the righteousness of God
through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who
believe; for there is no distinction;
ROM 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short
of the glory of God,
ROM 3:24 being justified as a gift by His
grace through the redemption which is in Christ
Jesus;
ROM 3:25 whom God displayed publicly as a
propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to
demonstrate His righteousness, because in the
forbearance of God He passed over the sins
previously committed;
ROM 3:26 for the demonstration, I say, of His
righteousness at the present time, that He might be
just and the justifier of the one who has faith in
Jesus.
ROM 3:27 Where then is boasting? It is
excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by
a law of faith.
ROM 3:28 For we maintain that a man is
justified by faith apart from works of the Law.
ROM 3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is
He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles
also,
ROM 3:30 since indeed God who will justify
the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised
through faith is one.
ROM 3:31 Do we then nullify the Law through
faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we
establish the Law.
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ROM 4:1 What then
shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according
to the flesh, has found?
ROM 4:2 For if Abraham was justified by
works, he has something to boast about; but not
before God.
ROM 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? "And
Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as
righteousness."
ROM 4:4 Now to the one who works, his wage is
not reckoned as a favor, but as what is due.
ROM 4:5 But to the one who does not work, but
believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith
is reckoned as righteousness,
ROM 4:6 just as David also speaks of the
blessing upon the man to whom God reckons
righteousness apart from works:
ROM 4:7 "Blessed are those whose lawless
deeds have been forgiven, And whose sins have been
covered.
ROM 4:8 "Blessed is the man whose sin the
Lord will not take into account."
ROM 4:9 Is this blessing then upon the
circumcised, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we
say, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham as
righteousness."
ROM 4:10 How then was it reckoned? While he
was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while
circumcised, but while uncircumcised;
ROM 4:11 and he received the sign of
circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the
faith which he had while uncircumcised, that he
might be the father of all who believe without being
circumcised, that righteousness might be reckoned to
them,
ROM 4:12 and the father of circumcision to
those who not only are of the circumcision, but who
also follow in the steps of the faith of our father
Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.
ROM 4:13 For the promise to Abraham or to his
descendants that he would be heir of the world was
not through the Law, but through the righteousness
of faith.
ROM 4:14 For if those who are of the Law are
heirs, faith is made void and the promise is
nullified;
ROM 4:15 for the Law brings about wrath, but
where there is no law, neither is there violation.
ROM 4:16 For this reason it is by faith, that
it might be in accordance with grace, in order that
the promise may be certain to all the descendants,
not only to those who are of the Law, but also to
those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the
father of us all,
ROM 4:17 (as it is written, "A father of many
nations have I made you") in the sight of Him whom
he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead
and calls into being that which does not exist.
ROM 4:18 In hope against hope he believed, in
order that he might become a father of many nations,
according to that which had been spoken, "So shall
your descendants be."
ROM 4:19 And without becoming weak in faith
he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead
since he was about a hundred years old, and the
deadness of Sarah's womb;
ROM 4:20 yet, with respect to the promise of
God, he did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong
in faith, giving glory to God,
ROM 4:21 and being fully assured that what He
had promised, He was able also to perform.
ROM 4:22 Therefore also it was reckoned to
him as righteousness.
ROM 4:23 Now not for his sake only was it
written, that it was reckoned to him,
ROM 4:24 but for our sake also, to whom it
will be reckoned, as those who believe in Him who
raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
ROM 4:25 He who was delivered up because of
our transgressions, and was raised because of our
justification.
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ROM 5:1 Therefore
having been justified by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
ROM 5:2 through whom also we have obtained
our introduction by faith into this grace in which
we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.
ROM 5:3 And not only this, but we also exult
in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings
about perseverance;
ROM 5:4 and perseverance, proven character;
and proven character, hope;
ROM 5:5 and hope does not disappoint, because
the love of God has been poured out within our
hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
ROM 5:6 For while we were still helpless, at
the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
ROM 5:7 For one will hardly die for a
righteous man; though perhaps for the good man
someone would dare even to die.
ROM 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us.
ROM 5:9 Much more then, having now been
justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the
wrath of God through Him.
ROM 5:10 For if while we were enemies, we
were reconciled to God through the death of His Son,
much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved
by His life.
ROM 5:11 And not only this, but we also exult
in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom
we have now received the reconciliation.
ROM 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man
sin entered into the world, and death through sin,
and so death spread to all men, because all sinned -
-
ROM 5:13 for until the Law sin was in the
world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
ROM 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam
until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in
the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type
of Him who was to come.
ROM 5:15 But the free gift is not like the
transgression. For if by the transgression of the
one the many died, much more did the grace of God
and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus
Christ, abound to the many.
ROM 5:16 And the gift is not like that which
came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand
the judgment arose from one transgression resulting
in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift
arose from many transgressions resulting in
justification.
ROM 5:17 For if by the transgression of the
one, death reigned through the one, much more those
who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness will reign in life through the One,
Jesus Christ.
ROM 5:18 So then as through one transgression
there resulted condemnation to all men, even so
through one act of righteousness there resulted
justification of life to all men.
ROM 5:19 For as through the one man's
disobedience the many were made sinners, even so
through the obedience of the One the many will be
made righteous.
ROM 5:20 And the Law came in that the
transgression might increase; but where sin
increased, grace abounded all the more,
ROM 5:21 that, as sin reigned in death, even
so grace might reign through righteousness to
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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ROM 6:1 What
shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that
grace might increase?
ROM 6:2 May it never be! How shall we who
died to sin still live in it?
ROM 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who
have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been
baptized into His death?
ROM 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with
Him through baptism into death, in order that as
Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of
the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
ROM 6:5 For if we have become united with Him
in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be
also in the likeness of His resurrection,
ROM 6:6 knowing this, that our old self was
crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be
done away with, that we should no longer be slaves
to sin;
ROM 6:7 for he who has died is freed from
sin.
ROM 6:8 Now if we have died with Christ, we
believe that we shall also live with Him,
ROM 6:9 knowing that Christ, having been
raised from the dead, is never to die again; death
no longer is master over Him.
ROM 6:10 For the death that He died, He died
to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He
lives to God.
ROM 6:11 Even so consider yourselves to be
dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
ROM 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in
your mortal body that you should obey its lusts,
ROM 6:13 and do not go on presenting the members
of your body to sin as instruments of
unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as
those alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness to God.
ROM 6:14 For sin shall not be master over
you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
ROM 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we
are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
ROM 6:16 Do you not know that when you
present yourselves to someone as slaves for
obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey,
either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience
resulting in righteousness?
ROM 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
committed,
ROM 6:18 and having been freed from sin, you
became slaves of righteousness.
ROM 6:19 I am speaking in human terms because
of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you
presented your members as slaves to impurity and to
lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so
now present your members as slaves to righteousness,
resulting in sanctification.
ROM 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you
were free in regard to righteousness.
ROM 6:21 Therefore what benefit were you then
deriving from the things of which you are now
ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
ROM 6:22 But now having been freed from sin
and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit,
resulting in sanctification, and the outcome,
eternal life.
ROM 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but
the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
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ROM 7:1 Or do you
not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who
know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a
person as long as he lives?
ROM 7:2 For the married woman is bound by law
to her husband while he is living; but if her
husband dies, she is released from the law
concerning the husband.
ROM 7:3 So then if, while her husband is
living, she is joined to another man, she shall be
called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she
is free from the law, so that she is not an
adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
ROM 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were
made to die to the Law through the body of Christ,
that you might be joined to another, to Him who was
raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit for
God.
ROM 7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the
sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were
at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for
death.
ROM 7:6 But now we have been released from
the Law, having died to that by which we were bound,
so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in
oldness of the letter.
ROM 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the Law
sin? May 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."
ROM 7:8 But sin, taking opportunity through
the commandment, produced in me coveting of every
kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
ROM 7:9 And I was once alive apart from the
Law; but when the commandment came, sin became
alive, and I died;
ROM 7:10 and this commandment, which was to
result in life, proved to result in death for me;
ROM 7:11 for sin, taking opportunity through
the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed
me.
ROM 7:12 So then, the Law is holy, and the
commandment is holy and righteous and good.
ROM 7:13 Therefore did that which is good
become a cause of death for me? May it never be!
Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown
to be sin by effecting my death through that which
is good, that through the commandment sin might
become utterly sinful.
ROM 7:14 For we know that the Law is
spiritual; but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to
sin.
ROM 7:15 For that which I am doing, I do not
understand; for I am not practicing what I would
like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
ROM 7:16 But if I do the very thing I do not
wish to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that it
is good.
ROM 7:17 So now, no longer am I the one doing
it, but sin which indwells me.
ROM 7:18 For I know that nothing good dwells
in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is
present in me, but the doing of the good is not.
ROM 7:19 For the good that I wish, I do not
do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish.
ROM 7:20 But if I am doing the very thing I
do not wish, I am no longer the one doing it, but
sin which dwells in me.
ROM 7:21 I find then the principle that evil
is present in me, the one who wishes to do good.
ROM 7:22 For I joyfully concur with the law
of God in the inner man,
ROM 7:23 but I see a different law in the
members of my body, waging war against the law of my
mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin
which is in my members.
ROM 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set
me free from the body of this death?
ROM 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus
Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself
with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the
other, with my flesh the law of sin.
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ROM 8:1 There is
therefore now no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus.
ROM 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin
and of death.
ROM 8:3 For what the Law could not do, weak
as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His
own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an
offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
ROM 8:4 in order that the requirement of the
Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk
according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
ROM 8:5 For those who are according to the
flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh,
but those who are according to the Spirit, the
things of the Spirit.
ROM 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is
death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and
peace,
ROM 8:7 because the mind set on the flesh is
hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself
to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so;
ROM 8:8 and those who are in the flesh cannot
please God.
ROM 8:9 However, you are not in the flesh but
in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in
you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of
Christ, he does not belong to Him.
ROM 8:10 And if Christ is in you, though the
body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive
because of righteousness.
ROM 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised
Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised
Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to
your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells
you.
ROM 8:12 So then, brethren, we are under
obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to
the flesh - -
ROM 8:13 for if you are living according to
the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you
are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will
live.
ROM 8:14 For all who are being led by the
Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
ROM 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 by which we
cry out, "Abba! Father!"
ROM 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are children of God,
ROM 8:17 and if children, heirs also, heirs
of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we
suffer with Him in order that we may also be
glorified with Him.
ROM 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
ROM 8:19 For the anxious longing of the
creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons
of God.
ROM 8:20 For the creation was subjected to
futility, not of its own will, but because of Him
who subjected it, in hope
ROM 8:21 that the creation itself also will
be set free from its slavery to corruption into the
freedom of the glory of the children of God.
ROM 8:22 For we know that the whole creation
groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together
until now.
ROM 8:23 And not only this, but also we
ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of
our body.
ROM 8:24 For in hope we have been saved, but
hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one also
hope for what he sees?
ROM 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not
see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
ROM 8:26 And in the same way the Spirit also
helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray
as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for
us with groanings too deep for words;
ROM 8:27 and He who searches the hearts knows
what the mind of the Spirit is, because He
intercedes for the saints according to the will of
God.
ROM 8:28 And we know that God causes all
things to work together for good to those who love
God, to those who are called according to His
purpose.
ROM 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also
predestined to become conformed to the image of His
Son, that He might be the first-born among many
brethren;
ROM 8:30 and whom He predestined, these He
also called; and whom He called, these He also
justified; and whom He justified, these He also
glorified.
ROM 8:31 What then shall we say to these
things? If God is for us, who is against us?
ROM 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not
also with Him freely give us all things?
ROM 8:33 Who will bring a charge against
God's elect? God is the one who justifies;
ROM 8:34 who is the one who condemns? Christ
Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised,
who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes
for us.
ROM 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love
of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword?
ROM 8:36 Just as it is written, "For Thy sake
we are being put to death all day long; We were
considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
ROM 8:37 But in all these things we
overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
ROM 8:38 For I am convinced that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
ROM 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other
created thing, shall be able to separate us from the
love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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ROM 9:1 I am
telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my
conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,
ROM 9:2 that I have great sorrow and
unceasing grief in my heart.
ROM 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were
accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my
brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
ROM 9:4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs
the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants
and the giving of the Law and the temple service and
the promises,
ROM 9:5 whose are the fathers, and from whom
is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over
all, God blessed forever. Amen.
ROM 9:6 But it is not as though the word of
God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are
descended from Israel;
ROM 9:7 neither are they all children because
they are Abraham's descendants, but: "through Isaac
your descendants will be named."
ROM 9:8 That is, it is not the children of
the flesh who are children of God, but the children
of the promise are regarded as descendants.
ROM 9:9 For this is a word of promise: "At
this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son."
ROM 9:10 And not only this, but there was
Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one
man, our father Isaac;
ROM 9:11 for though the twins were not yet
born, and had not done anything good or bad, in
order that God's purpose according to His choice
might stand, not because of works, but because of
Him who calls,
ROM 9:12 it was said to her, "The older will
serve the younger."
ROM 9:13 Just as it is written, "Jacob I
loved, but Esau I hated."
ROM 9:14 What shall we say then? There is no
injustice with God, is there? May it never be!
ROM 9:15 For He says to Moses, "I will have
mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whom I have compassion."
ROM 9:16 So then it does not depend on the
man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who
has mercy.
ROM 9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh,
"For this very purpose I raised you up, to
demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might
be proclaimed throughout the whole earth."
ROM 9:18 So then He has mercy on whom He
desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
ROM 9:19 You will say to me then, "Why does
He still find fault? For who resists His will?"
ROM 9:20 On the contrary, who are you, O man,
who answers back to God? The thing molded will not
say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this,"
will it?
ROM 9:21 Or does not the potter have a right
over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel
for honorable use, and another for common use?
ROM 9:22 What if God, although willing to
demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known,
endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared
for destruction?
ROM 9:23 And He did so in order that He might
make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of
mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
ROM 9:24 even us, whom He also called, not
from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.
ROM 9:25 As He says also in Hosea, "I will
call those who were not My people, 'My people,' And
her who was not beloved, 'beloved.'"
ROM 9:26 "And it shall be that in the place
where it was said to them, 'you are not My people,'
There they shall be called sons of the living God."
ROM 9:27 And Isaiah cries out concerning
Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be
as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that will
be saved;
ROM 9:28 for the Lord will execute His word
upon the earth, thoroughly and quickly."
ROM 9:29 And just as Isaiah foretold, "Except
the Lord of Sabaoth had left to us a posterity, We
would have become as Sodom, and would have resembled
Gomorrah."
ROM 9:30 What shall we say then? That
Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained
righteousness, even the righteousness which is by
faith;
ROM 9:31 but Israel, pursuing a law of
righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
ROM 9:32 Why? Because they did not pursue it
by faith, but as though it were by works. They
stumbled over the stumbling stone,
ROM 9:33 just as it is written, "Behold, I
lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of
offense, And he who believes in Him will not be
disappointed."
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ROM 10:1
Brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for
them is for their salvation.
ROM 10:2 For I bear them witness that they
have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with
knowledge.
ROM 10:3 For not knowing about God's
righteousness, and seeking to establish their own,
they did not subject themselves to the righteousness
of God.
ROM 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for
righteousness to everyone who believes.
ROM 10:5 For Moses writes that the man who
practices the righteousness which is based on law
shall live by that righteousness.
ROM 10:6 But the righteousness based on faith
speaks thus, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will
ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ
down),
ROM 10:7 or' Who will descend into the
abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the
dead)."
ROM 10:8 But what does it say? "The word is
near you, in your mouth and in your heart" - - that
is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
ROM 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth
Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God
raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;
ROM 10:10 for with the heart man believes,
resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he
confesses, resulting in salvation.
ROM 10:11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever
believes in Him will not be disappointed."
ROM 10:12 For there is no distinction between
Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all,
abounding in riches for all who call upon Him;
ROM 10:13 for "Whoever will call upon the
name of the Lord will be saved."
ROM 10:14 How then shall they call upon Him
in whom they have not believed? And how shall they
believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how
shall they hear without a preacher?
ROM 10:15 And how shall they preach unless
they are sent? Just as it is written, "How beautiful
are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of good
things!"
ROM 10:16 However, they did not all heed the
glad tidings; for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has
believed our report?"
ROM 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and
hearing by the word of Christ.
ROM 10:18 But I say, surely they have never
heard, have they? Indeed they have; "Their voice has
gone out into all the earth, And their words to the
ends of the world."
ROM 10:19 But I say, surely Israel did not
know, did they? At the first Moses says, "I will
make you jealous by that which is not a nation, By a
nation without understanding will I anger you."
ROM 10:20 And Isaiah is very bold and says,
"I was found by those who sought Me not, I became
manifest to those who did not ask for Me."
ROM 10:21 But as for Israel He says, "All the
day long I have stretched out My hands to a
disobedient and obstinate people."
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ROM 11:1 I say
then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May
it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant
of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
ROM 11:2 God has not rejected His people whom
He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture
says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with
God against Israel?
ROM 11:3 "Lord, they have killed Thy
prophets, they have torn down Thine altars, and I
alone am left, and they are seeking my life."
ROM 11:4 But what is the divine response to
him? "I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who
have not bowed the knee to Baal."
ROM 11:5 In the same way then, there has also
come to be at the present time a remnant according
to God's gracious choice.
ROM 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no
longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no
longer grace.
ROM 11:7 What then? That which Israel is
seeking for, it has not obtained, but those who were
chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
ROM 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."
ROM 11:9 And David says, "Let their table
become a snare and a trap, And a stumbling block and
a retribution to them.
ROM 11:10 "Let their eyes be darkened to see
not, And bend their backs forever."
ROM 11:11 I say then, they did not stumble so
as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their
transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to
make them jealous.
ROM 11:12 Now if their transgression be
riches for the world and their failure be riches for
the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment
be!
ROM 11:13 But I am speaking to you who are
Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of
Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
ROM 11:14 if somehow I might move to jealousy
my fellow countrymen and save some of them.
ROM 11:15 For if their rejection be the
reconciliation of the world, what will their
acceptance be but life from the dead?
ROM 11:16 And if the first piece of dough be
holy, the lump is also; and if the root be holy, the
branches are too.
ROM 11:17 But if some of the branches were
broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were
grafted in among them and became partaker with them
of the rich root of the olive tree,
ROM 11:18 do not be arrogant toward the
branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it
is not you who supports the root, but the root
supports you.
ROM 11:19 You will say then, "Branches were
broken off so that I might be grafted in."
ROM 11:20 Quite right, they were broken off
for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do
not be conceited, but fear;
ROM 11:21 for if God did not spare the
natural branches, neither will He spare you.
ROM 11:22 Behold then the kindness and
severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to
you, God's kindness, if you continue in His
kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
ROM 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.
ROM 11:24 For if you were cut off from what
is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted
contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how
much more shall these who are the natural branches
be grafted into their own olive tree?
ROM 11:25 For I do not want you, brethren, to
be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in
your own estimation, that a partial hardening has
happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles
has come in;
ROM 11:26 and thus all Israel will be saved;
just as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from
Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob."
ROM 11:27 "And this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins."
ROM 11:28 From the standpoint of the gospel
they are enemies for your sake, but from the
standpoint of God's choice they are beloved for the
sake of the fathers;
ROM 11:29 for the gifts and the calling of
God are irrevocable.
ROM 11:30 For just as you once were
disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy
because of their disobedience,
ROM 11:31 so these also now have been
disobedient, in order that because of the mercy
shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.
ROM 11:32 For God has shut up all in
disobedience that He might show mercy to all.
ROM 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!
ROM 11:34 For who has known the mind of the
Lord, or who became His counselor?
ROM 11:35 Or who has first given to Him that
it might be paid back to him again?
ROM 11:36 For from Him and through Him and to
Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever.
Amen.
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ROM 12:1 I urge
you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to
present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice,
acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service
of worship.
ROM 12:2 And do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that you may prove what the will of God is,
that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
ROM 12:3 For through the grace given to me I
say to every man among you not to think more highly
of himself than he ought to think; but to think so
as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to
each a measure of faith.
ROM 12:4 For just as we have many members in
one body and all the members do not have the same
function,
ROM 12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in
Christ, and individually members one of another.
ROM 12:6 And since we have gifts that differ
according to the grace given to us, let each
exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to
the proportion of his faith;
ROM 12:7 if service, in his serving; or he
who teaches, in his teaching;
ROM 12:8 or he who exhorts, in his
exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who
leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with
cheerfulness.
ROM 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor
what is evil; cling to what is good.
ROM 12:10 Be devoted to one another in
brotherly love; give preference to one another in
honor;
ROM 12:11 not lagging behind in diligence,
fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
ROM 12:12 rejoicing in hope, persevering in
tribulation, devoted to prayer,
ROM 12:13 contributing to the needs of the
saints, practicing hospitality.
ROM 12:14 Bless those who persecute you;
bless and curse not.
ROM 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and
weep with those who weep.
ROM 12:16 Be of the same mind toward one
another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate
with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own
estimation.
ROM 12:17 Never pay back evil for evil to
anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all
men.
ROM 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends
on you, be at peace with all men.
ROM 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.
ROM 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 upon his head."
ROM 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but
overcome evil with good.
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ROM 13:1 Let
every person be in subjection to the governing
authorities. For there is no authority except from
God, and those which exist are established by God.
ROM 13:2 Therefore he who resists authority
has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have
opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
ROM 13:3 For rulers are not a cause of fear
for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have
no fear of authority? Do what is good, and you will
have praise from the same;
ROM 13:4 for it is a minister 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
minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath upon
the one who practices evil.
ROM 13:5 Wherefore it is necessary to be in
subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for
conscience' sake.
ROM 13:6 For because of this you also pay
taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting
themselves to this very thing.
ROM 13:7 Render to all what is due them: tax
to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to
whom fear; honor to whom honor.
ROM 13:8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love
one another; for he who loves his neighbor has
fulfilled the law.
ROM 13:9 For this, "You shall not commit
adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal,
You shall not covet," and if there is any other
commandment, it is summed up in this saying, "You
shall love your neighbor as yourself."
ROM 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor;
love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
ROM 13:11 And this do, 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
believed.
ROM 13:12 The night is almost gone, and the
day is at hand. Let us therefore lay aside the deeds
of darkness and put on the armor of light.
ROM 13:13 Let us behave properly as in the
day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual
promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and
jealousy.
ROM 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its
lusts.
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ROM 14:1 Now
accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the
purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.
ROM 14:2 One man has faith that he may eat
all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.
ROM 14:3 Let not him who eats regard with
contempt him who does not eat, and let not him who
does not eat judge him who eats, for God has
accepted him.
ROM 14:4 Who are you to judge the servant of
another? To his own master he stands or falls; and
stand he will, for the Lord is able to make him
stand.
ROM 14:5 One man regards one day above
another, another regards every day alike. Let each
man be fully convinced in his own mind.
ROM 14:6 He who observes the day, observes it
for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord,
for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for
the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.
ROM 14:7 For not one of us lives for himself,
and not one dies for himself;
ROM 14:8 for if we live, we live for the
Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore
whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
ROM 14:9 For to this end Christ died and
lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead
and of the living.
ROM 14:10 But you, why do you judge your
brother? Or you again, why do you regard your
brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before
the judgment seat of God.
ROM 14:11 For it is written, "As I live, says
the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, And every
tongue shall give praise to God."
ROM 14:12 So then each one of us shall give
account of himself to God.
ROM 14:13 Therefore let us not judge one
another anymore, but rather determine this - - not
to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a
brother's way.
ROM 14:14 I know and am convinced in the Lord
Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him
who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is
unclean.
ROM 14:15 For if because of food your brother
is hurt, you are no longer walking according to
love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom
Christ died.
ROM 14:16 Therefore do not let what is for
you a good thing be spoken of as evil;
ROM 14:17 for the kingdom of God is not
eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and
joy in the Holy Spirit.
ROM 14:18 For he who in this way serves
Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
ROM 14:19 So then let us pursue the things
which make for peace and the building up of one
another.
ROM 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 man who eats and gives
offense.
ROM 14:21 It is good not to eat meat or to
drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother
stumbles.
ROM 14:22 The faith which you have, have as
your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does
not condemn himself in what he approves.
ROM 14:23 But he who doubts is condemned if
he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and
whatever is not from faith is sin.
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ROM 15:1 Now we
who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those
without strength and not just please ourselves.
ROM 15:2 Let each of us please his neighbor
for his good, to his edification.
ROM 15:3 For even Christ did not please
Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of
those who reproached Thee fell upon Me."
ROM 15:4 For whatever was written in earlier
times was written for our instruction, that through
perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures
we might have hope.
ROM 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;
ROM 15:6 that with one accord you may with
one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
ROM 15:7 Wherefore, accept one another, just
as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.
ROM 15:8 For I say that Christ has become a
servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth
of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers,
ROM 15:9 and for the Gentiles to glorify God
for His mercy; as it is written, "Therefore I will
give praise to Thee among the Gentiles, And I will
sing to Thy name."
ROM 15:10 And again he says, "Rejoice, O
Gentiles, with His people."
ROM 15:11 And again, "Praise the Lord all you
Gentiles, And let all the peoples praise Him."
ROM 15:12 And again Isaiah says, "There shall
come the root of Jesse, And He who arises to rule
over the Gentiles, In Him shall the Gentiles hope."
ROM 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace in believing, that you may
abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
ROM 15:14 And concerning you, my brethren, I
myself also am convinced that you yourselves are
full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and
able also to admonish one another.
ROM 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 me from God,
ROM 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to
the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of
God, that my offering of the Gentiles might become
acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
ROM 15:17 Therefore in Christ Jesus I have
found reason for boasting in things pertaining to
God.
ROM 15:18 For I will not presume to speak of
anything except what Christ has accomplished through
me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by
word and deed,
ROM 15:19 in the power of signs and wonders,
in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem
and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully
preached the gospel of Christ.
ROM 15:20 And thus I aspired to preach the
gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I
might not build upon another man's foundation;
ROM 15:21 but as it is written, "They who had
no news of Him shall see, And they who have not
heard shall understand."
ROM 15:22 For this reason I have often been
hindered from coming to you;
ROM 15:23 but now, with no further place for
me in these regions, and since I have had for many
years a longing to come to you
ROM 15:24 whenever I go to Spain - - for I
hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on my
way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your
company for a while - -
ROM 15:25 but now, I am going to Jerusalem
serving the saints.
ROM 15:26 For Macedonia and Achaia have been
pleased to make a contribution for the poor among
the saints in Jerusalem.
ROM 15:27 Yes, 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 minister to them also in material
things.
ROM 15:28 Therefore, when I have finished
this, and have put my seal on this fruit of theirs,
I will go on by way of you to Spain.
ROM 15:29 And I know that when I come to you,
I will come in the fulness of the blessing of
Christ.
ROM 15:30 Now I urge you, brethren, by our
Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to
strive together with me in your prayers to God for
me,
ROM 15:31 that I may be delivered from those
who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service
for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints;
ROM 15:32 so that I may come to you in joy by
the will of God and find refreshing rest in your
company.
ROM 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you
all. Amen.
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ROM 16:1 I
commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant
of the church which is at Cenchrea;
ROM 16:2 that you receive her in the Lord in
a manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her
in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she
herself has also been a helper of many, and of
myself as well.
ROM 16:3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow
workers in Christ Jesus,
ROM 16:4 who for my life risked their own
necks, to whom not only do I give thanks, but also
all the churches of the Gentiles;
ROM 16:5 also greet the church that is in
their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the
first convert to Christ from Asia.
ROM 16:6 Greet Mary, who has worked hard for
you.
ROM 16:7 Greet Andronicus and Junias, my
kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are
outstanding among the apostles, who also were in
Christ before me.
ROM 16:8 Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the
Lord.
ROM 16:9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in
Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
ROM 16:10 Greet Apelles, the approved in
Christ. Greet those who are of the household of
Aristobulus.
ROM 16:11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet
those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the
Lord.
ROM 16:12 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa,
workers in the Lord. Greet Persis the beloved, who
has worked hard in the Lord.
ROM 16:13 Greet Rufus, a choice man in the
Lord, also his mother and mine.
ROM 16:14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes,
Patrobas, Hermas and the brethren with them.
ROM 16:15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus
and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who
are with them.
ROM 16:16 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
All the churches of Christ greet you.
ROM 16:17 Now I urge you, brethren, keep your
eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances
contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn
away from them.
ROM 16:18 For such men 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.
ROM 16:19 For the report of your obedience
has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over
you, but I want you to be wise in what is good, and
innocent in what is evil.
ROM 16:20 And the God of peace will soon
crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord
Jesus be with you.
ROM 16:21 Timothy my fellow worker greets
you, and so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my
kinsmen.
ROM 16:22 I, Tertius, who write this letter,
greet you in the Lord.
ROM 16:23 Gaius, host to me and to the whole
church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer
greets you, and Quartus, the brother.
ROM 16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen.
ROM 16:25 Now to Him who is able to establish
you according to my gospel and the preaching of
Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the
mystery which has been kept secret for long ages
past,
ROM 16:26 but now is manifested, and by the
Scriptures of the prophets, according to the
commandment of the eternal God, has been made known
to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;
ROM 16:27 to the only wise God, through Jesus
Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.
