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CHAPTER I. AUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart unto the gospel of God,

2 Which he promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures,

3 Concerning his Son, which was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

4 Which was with power declared to be the Son of God, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of the dead, even Jesus Christ our Lord;

5 Through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake:

6 Among whom ye also are called by Jesus Christ :

7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is published throughout the whole world.

9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

10 Making request, if by any

means now at length I shall have a way opened by the will of God to come unto you.

II For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end that ye may be established;

12 That is, that I with you may be comforted among you, each by the faith which is in the other, both yours and mine.

13 But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was hindered hitherto,) that I might have some fruit in you too, even as also in the rest of the Gentiles.

14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians; both to wise and to foolish.

15 So, as much as in me lieth, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in

Rome.

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17 For the righteousness of God is therein revealed from faith unto faith: even as it is written, But 'the righteous shall live by faith.

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against 1 Or, the righteous by faith shall live.

all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold down the truth in unrighteousness;

20 For from the creation of the world his invisible things, even his eternal power and divinity, are plainly seen, being perceived by means of the things that are made: so that they are without excuse : 21 Because though they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but were brought to vanity in their reasonings, and their heart being without understanding was darkened.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they were made fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up in the desires of their heart to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves:

25 Inasmuch as they changed the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto shameful passions for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And in like manner the

28 And even as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fit to be done:

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Slanderers, hated of God, insolent, proud, boasters, devisers of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 Men who knowing well the righteous judgment of God, that they which do such things are worthy of death, not only commit the same, but also consent unto them that do them.

do such things, and committest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and his forbearance and his longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God is leading thee to repentance;

14 For when Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, though they have not the law, are the law unto themselves;

15 Inasmuch as they shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness thereto, and their thoughts among one another accusing or else excusing:

6 Who will render to every one according to his works: 7 To them who by patience in well doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life :

8 But to them that seek their own, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall there be] indignation and wrath,

9 Tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

10 But glory, and honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

II For there is no respect of persons with God.

12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the

law;

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13 For not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

1 Not expressed in the original.

17 But if thou art called a Jew, and restest upon the law, and makest thy boast in God,

18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, possessing the model of knowledge and of the truth in the law;

21 Thou then which teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest men should not steal, dost thou steal?

22 Thou that forbiddest to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?

23 Thou that makest thy boast in the law, dost thou by thy transgression of the law dishonour God?

24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gen

when thou art judged.

5 But if our unrighteousness establisheth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicteth his wrath? (I speak as a man.)

6 'God forbid for then how shall God judge the world?

7 For if by my lie the truth of God abounded unto his glory; why am I still to be judged as a sinner?

8 And why should we] not 2[say], as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say, Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

9 What then? do we excel them? No, in no wise for we before brought the charge against both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

IO As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one :

II There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one.

13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

2 Not expressed in the original.