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ready to preach the gospel to you leaving the natural use of the that are at Rome also. woman, burned in their lust one d 16 For I am not ashamed of the toward another; men with men gospel of Christ: for it is the pow-working that which is unseemly, er of God unto salvation to every and receiving in themselves that one that believeth; to the Jew recompense of their error which first, and also to the Greek.

was meet.

t17 For therein is the righteous-t 28 And even as they did no ness of God revealed from faith to like to retain God in their know faith: as it is written, The just ledge, God gave them over to a shall live by faith. reprobate mind, to do those things

t 18 For the wrath of God is re- which are not convenient: vealed from heaven against all c 29 Being filled with all unrightungodliness, and unrighteousness cousness, fornication, wickedness, of men, who hold the truth in un-covetousness, maliciousness; full righteousness. of envy, murder, debate, deceit,

19 Because that which may be malignity; whisperers, known of God, is manifest in them; c 30 Backbiters, haters of God, for God hath shewed it unto them. despiteful, proud, boasters, inventt 20 For the invisible things of ors of evil things, disobedient to him from the creation of the world parents,

are clearly seen, being understood c 31 Without understanding, coby the things that are made, even venant-breakers, without natural his eternal power and Godhead; affection, implacable, unmerciful: so that they are without excuse: c 32 Who, knowing the judgment c 21 Because that when they knew of God, that they which commit God, they glorified him not as God, such things are worthy of death; neither were thankful, but became not only do the same, but have vain in their imaginations, and their pleasure in them that do them. foolish heart was darkened.

22 Professing themselves to be

wise, they became fools;

THE

CHAP. II.

THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou 23 And changed the glory of art, that judgest: for wherein thou the incorruptible God into an judgest another, thou condemnest image made like to corruptible thyself; for thou that judgest, doest man, and to birds, and fourfooted the same things.

beasts, and creeping things. t 2 But we are sure that the judgc24 Wherefore God also gave ment of God, is according to truth, them up to uncleanness, through against them which commit such the lusts of their own hearts, to things.

dishonour their own bodies be- w 3 And thinkest thou this, Oman, tween themselves: that judgest them which do such 25 Who changed the truth of things, and doest the same, that God into a lie, and worshipped thou shalt escape the judgment of and served the creature more than God? the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and 26 For this cause God gave long-suffering; not knowing that them up unto vile affections. For the goodness of God leadeth thee even their women did change the to repentance ?

natural use unto that which is w 5 But after thy hardness and against nature: impenitent heart, treasurest up 27 And likewise also the men, unto thyself wrath against the

day of wrath, and revelation of light of them which are in darkness, the righteous judgment of God;

6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge, and of the truth in the law:

b7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing, seek for p 21 Thou therefore which teach glory, and honour, and immortali-est another, teachest thou not thyty; eternal life: self? thou that preachest, a man

w 8 But unto them that are con- should not steal, dost thou steal? tentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath,

9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil; of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ;

b 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good; to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile ;

11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

t12 For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law,

p 22 Thou that sayest, a man
should not commit adultery, dost
thou commit adultery? thou that
abhorrest idols, dost thou comini:
sacrilege?

p 23 Thou that makest thy boast
of the law, through breaking the
law, dishonourest thou God?"
p 24 For the name of God is
blasphemed among the Gentiles,
through you, as it is written.

25 For circumcision verily prefiteth, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy cir cumcision is made uncircumcision.

26 Therefore if the uncircum cision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law unto t 28 For he is not a Jew, which themselves. is one outwardly; neither is that 15 Which shew the work of the circumcision, which is outward in law written in their hearts, their the flesh:

conscience also bearing witness, t 29 But he is a Jew which is one and their thoughts the mean while inwardly; and circumcision is that accusing, or else excusing one of the heart, in the spirit, and not another ;) in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

t 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

CHAP. III.

WH HAT advantage then hath

the Jew? or what profit is

17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and there of circumcision? makest thy boast of 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

b 2 Much every way: chiefly, be-
cause that unto them were com
mitted the oracles of God.
t 3 For what if some did not be.
lieve? shall their unbelief make
the faith of God without effect?

4 God forbid: yea, let God be

true, but every man a liar; as it is, t 20 Therefore by the deeds of the written, That thou mightest be jus- law, there shall no flesh be justitified in thy sayings, and mightest fied in his sight: for by the law is overcome when thou art judged. the knowledge of sin.

t 5 But if our unrighteousness 21 But now the righteousness of commend the righteousness of God, God without the law is manifested, what shall we say? Is God un-being witnessed by the law and righteous who taketh vengeance? the prophets; (I speak as a man.)

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

t 22 Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no dif

7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie ference: unto his glory; why yet am I also t* 23 For all have sinned, and judged as a sinner? come short of the glory of God;

8 And not rather (as we be slan-t 24 Being justified freely by his derously reported, and as some grace, through the redemption that affirm that we say) Let us do evil, is in Christ Jesus:

that good may come? whose dam-t 25 Whom God hath set forth to nation is just.

t* 9 What then? are we better than they? No in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: t 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seekéth after God.

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

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

be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

t 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that ne might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. t 28 Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

29 Is he the God of the Jews

only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

14 Whose mouth is full of curs-t 30 Seeing it is one God which ing and bitterness. shall justify the circumcision by

15 Their feet are swift to shed faith, and uncircumcision through blood.

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

17 And the way of peace have they not known.

t* 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

faith.

31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

CHAP. IV.

W Abraham our father, as per

HAT shall we then say that

taining to the flesh, hath found?

2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become t 3 For what saith the scripture? guilty before God. Abraham believed God, and it was

counted unto him for righteousness. the promise might be sure to all 4 Now to him that worketh, is the seed: not to that only which is the reward not reckoned of grace, of the law, but to that also which but of debt. is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

t 5 But to him that worketh not,

but believeth on him that justifieth a 17 (As it is written, I have made the ungodly, his faith is counted thee a father of many nations) be for righteousness. fore him whom he believed, eres

6 Even as David also describeth God, who quickeneth the dead, the blessedness of the man unto and calleth those things which be whom God imputeth righteousness not, as though they were. without works.

b 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shal thy seed be.

b 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 19 And being not weak in faith t 9 Cometh this blessedness then he considered not his own body upon the circumcision only, or up- now dead, when he was about a on the uncircumcision also? For hundred years old, neither yet the we say that faith was reckoned to deadness of Sarah's womb. Abraham for righteousness. d 20 He staggered not at the p 10 How was it then reckoned? mise of God through unbelief; but when he was in circumcision, or in was strong in faith, giving glory t uncircumcision? Not in circumci- God; sion, but in uncircumcision. 21 And being fully persuaded t 11 And he received the sign of that what he had promised, circumcision, a seal of the right- was able also to perform. eousness of the faith which he had 22 And therefore it was imputed yet being uncircumcised: that he to him for righteousness. might be the father of all them 23 Now, it was not written fr that believe, though they be not his sake alone, that it was imputed circumcised, that righteousness to him;

might be imputed unto them also; d 24 But for us also, to whom it 12 And the father of circumcision shall be imputed, if we believe to them who are not of the cir-him that raised up Jesus our Lord cumcision only, but who also walk from the dead,

in the steps of that faith of our fa-t 25 Who was delivered for our ther Abraham, which he had being offences, and was raised again for yet uncircumcised. our justification.

should be the heir of the world t13 For the promise that he

was not to Abraham, or to his seed,

by faith, we have peace with CHAP. V. THEREFORE being justified

through the law, but through the God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: righteousness of faith. e 2 By whom also we have access 14 For if they which are of the by faith into this grace wherein law be heirs, faith is made void, and we stand, and rejoice in hope of the promise made of none effect. the glory of God.

15 Because the law worketh c 3 And not only so, but we glory wrath: for where no law is, there in tribulations also; knowing that is no transgression. tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

t* 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end

5 And hope maketh not asha- they which receive abundance of med; because the love of God is grace, and of the gift of righteousshed abroad in our hearts by the ness, shall reign in life by one, Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Jesus Christ.) 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

D 18 Therefore, as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the 7 For scarcely for a righteous righteousness of one the free gift man will one die: yet peradven- came upon all men unto justificature for a good man some would tion of life. even dare to die.

h 8 But God commendeth his love
toward us, in that while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us.
t 9 Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through him.

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous,

20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace

10 For if when we were ene- did much more abound: mies, we were reconciled to God t 21 That as sin hath reigned by the death of his son; much unto death, even so might grace more, being reconciled, we shall reign through righteousness unto be saved by his life. eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

c 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now re-p ceived the atonement.

t 12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

13 (For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

t 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was

to come.

W

CHAP. VI. "HAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein ?

3 Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? d 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

t 15 But not as the offence, so also 5 For if we have been planted is the free gift. For if through the together in the likeness of his offence of one many be dead, much death, we shall be also in the likemore the grace of God, and the ness of his resurrection: gift by grace, which is by one man, d 6 Knowing this, that our old Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto man is crucified with him, that the many. body of sin might be destroyed t 16 And not as it was by one that that henceforth we should not sinned, so is the gift. For the judg-serve sin.

ment was by one to condemnation, 7 For he that is dead is freed but the free gift is of many offences from sin.

unto justification.

e 8 Now, if we be dead with Christ, 17 For if by one man's offence we believe that we shall also live death reigned by one, much more with him.

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