Bible in 90 Days

¹⁷ And three days later, Paul called the chief of the Jews together. And when they had come, he said to them, “Men! Brothers! Though I have committed nothing against the people or Laws of the Fathers, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

¹⁸ “After they examined me, they wanted to let me go because there was no reason to put me to death.

¹⁹ “But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar (not because I had anything of which to accuse my people).

²⁰ “For this reason, therefore, I have called for you (to see you and to speak with you): for the hope of Israel’s sake, I am bound with this chain.”

²¹ Then they said to him, “We neither received letters out of Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who came showed or spoken any evil of you.

²² “But we will hear what you think. For as concerning this sect, we know that it is contradicted everywhere.”

²³ And when they had arranged a day, many came to him at his lodging. And he explained to them, testifying of the Kingdom of God and persuading them of those things that concern Jesus (both out of the Law of Moses and out of the Prophets) from morning to night.

²⁴ And some were persuaded by the things which were spoken. And some did not believe.

²⁵ Therefore, not being in agreement among themselves, they left after Paul had spoken one word: “The Holy Ghost spoke well to our Fathers by Isaiah the Prophet,

²⁶ “saying, ‘Go to this people, and say, “By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing you shall see, and not perceive.

²⁷ “For the heart of this people has grown fat. And their ears are dull of hearing. And their eyes they have closed, or else they would see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and would return so that I might heal them.”’

²⁸ “Therefore, be it known to you that this salvation by God is sent to the Gentiles. And they shall hear it.”

²⁹ And when he had said these things, the Jews departed, and had great disputes among themselves.

³⁰ And Paul remained a full two years in a house he rented for himself. And he welcomed all who came in to him,

³¹ boldly preaching the Kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, without hindrance.

1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set apart to preach the Gospel of God

² (which He had promised before by his Prophets in the Holy Scriptures);

³ concerning his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord (Who was made from the seed of David, according to the flesh,

⁴ and declared mightily to be the Son of God, touching the Spirit of sanctification by the resurrection from the dead);

⁵ by Whom we have received grace and Apostleship (that obedience might be given unto the faith) for His Name, among all the Gentiles,

⁶ among whom you are also called by Jesus Christ.

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

⁸ First, I thank my God (through Jesus Christ) for you all, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

⁹ For God is my witness (whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of His Son) that without ceasing I make mention of you,

¹⁰ always imploring in my prayers that by some means, at one time or other, I might have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come to you.

¹¹ For I long to see you, that I might bestow among you some spiritual gift, that you might be strengthened.

¹² That is to say that I might also be comforted with you, through our mutual faith, both yours and mine.

¹³ Now, my brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant of how often I have intended to come to you (but have been hindered) that I might also have some fruit among you, as I have among the other Gentiles.

¹⁴ I am debtor, both to the Greeks and to the barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise.

¹⁵ Therefore, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you also who are in Rome.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

¹⁷ For by it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who withhold the truth in unrighteousness.

¹⁹ Because that which may be known of God is visible among them, for God has shown it to them.

²⁰ For the invisible things of Him - that is, His eternal power and Godhead - are seen by the creation of the world; being perceived in His works, so that they are without excuse.

²¹ Because when they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were they thankful; but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was full of darkness.

²² When they professed themselves to be wise, they became fools.

²³ For they turned the Glory of the incorruptible God to the likeness of the image of a corruptible man; and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and of creeping things.

²⁴ Therefore, God also gave them up to the lusts of their hearts—unto uncleanness—to defile their own bodies among themselves.

²⁵ They turned the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature, forsaking the Creator, Who is blessed forever. Amen.

²⁶ For this reason, God gave them up to vile affections. For even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.

²⁷ And likewise the men left the natural use of the woman and burned in their lust one toward another. And man committed indecency with man and received in themselves such recompense as was proper for their error.

²⁸ For as they decided not to acknowledge God, so God delivered them up to a reprobate mind—to do those things which are not proper—

²⁹ being full of all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, malice, full of envy, of murder, of strife, of deceit, maliciousness, gossips,

³⁰ slanderers, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

³¹ without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, merciless.

³² Those who, though they knew the Law of God (how that those who commit such things are worthy of death) not only do the same, but also favor those who do them.

2 Therefore, you are without excuse, O man. Whoever you are who judges! For in whatever you judge another, you judge yourself. For you who judge do the same things.

² But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth, against those who commit such things.

³ And do you think, O man - who judges those who do such things and yet does the same - that you shall escape the judgment of God?

⁴ Or do you think so little of the riches of His bountifulness and patience and long suffering, not knowing that the bountifulness of God leads you to repentance?

⁵ But you, because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, are laying up a treasure of wrath for yourself on the Day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God,

⁶ Who will reward everyone according to his works

⁷ (indeed, everlasting life to those who, through patience in well-doing, seek glory and honor and immortality,

⁸ but to those who are contentious and disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath).

⁹ Tribulation and anguish shall be upon the soul of every man who does evil –the Jew first and also the Greek.

¹⁰ But glory and honor and peace shall be to everyone who does good - to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

¹¹ For there is no partiality with God.

¹² For as many as have sinned without the Law, shall also perish without the Law. And as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be judged by the Law,

¹³ (For the hearers of the Law are not righteous before God. But the doers of the Law shall be justified.

¹⁴ For when the Gentiles, who do not have the Law, instinctively do the things contained in the Law, then they - not having the Law - are a Law unto themselves,

¹⁵ who show the effect of the Law written on their hearts; their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing)

¹⁶ on the day when God shall judge the secrets of man by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.

¹⁷ Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the Law, and glory in God.

¹⁸ And you know His will, and test the things which dissent from it, being instructed by the Law.

¹⁹ And you persuade yourself that you are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

²⁰ an instructor of those who lack discretion; a teacher of the unlearned, who has the semblance of knowledge and truth in the Law.

²¹ You therefore, who teaches another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

²² You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

²³ You who glory in the Law, through breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

²⁴ For “the Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you”, as it is written.

²⁵ For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the Law. But if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶ Therefore, if the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

²⁷ And shall not the naturally uncircumcised (if he keeps the Law) condemn those who, being under the letter and circumcision, are transgressors of the Law?

²⁸ For no one is a Jew outwardly. Nor is circumcision outward, in the flesh.

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is one within. And circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit (not in the letter) whose praise is not from man, but from God.

3 What, then, is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

² Much in every way! Firstly, because indeed the oracles of God were entrusted to them.

³ For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

⁴ Absolutely not! Indeed, let God be true, and every man a liar! As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and overcome when you are judged.”

⁵ Now, if our unrighteousness exhibits the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous in punishing? (I speak as a man.)

⁶ Absolutely not! Or else, how shall God judge the world?

⁷ For if the truth of God has abounded more through my lie, unto His Glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

⁸ Rather, why not say (as we are slanderously accused of saying, and as some affirm that we say) “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Their damnation is just.

⁹ What then? Are we more excellent? No, in no way! For we have already proved that all, both Jews and Gentiles, are under sin.

¹⁰ As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

¹¹ “There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God.

¹² “They have all turned away. They have all been made useless. There is no one that does good; no, not one.

¹³ “Their throat is an open grave. They use their tongues to deceive. 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 path;

¹⁷ “and the way of peace they have not known.

¹⁸ “The fear of God is not before their eyes.”

¹⁹ Now, we know that whatever the Law says, it says it to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be subject to the judgment of God.

²⁰ Therefore, no flesh shall be justified in His sight by the works of the Law. For by the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

²¹ But now, the righteousness of God has been made manifest without the Law, having been witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;

²² that is, the righteousness of God by the faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all who believe. For there is no difference.

²³ For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God;

²⁴ and are justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

²⁵ Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation, (through faith in His blood) to declare His righteousness, by the forgiveness of previous sins through God’s forbearance;

²⁶ to show His righteousness at this present time, that He might be just, and a justifier of the one who believes in Jesus.

²⁷ Where, then, is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the Law of faith.

²⁸ Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith, apart from the works of the Law.

²⁹ Or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles? Yes, even of the Gentiles also.

³⁰ For indeed it is one God Who shall justify circumcision of faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

³¹ Do we then make the Law of no effect through faith? Absolutely not! Rather, we establish the Law.

4 What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our Father, has found according to the flesh?

² For if Abraham were justified by works, he has grounds to boast. But not with God.

³ For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

⁴ Now, to one who works, the wages are not counted by grace, but by debt.

⁵ But to one who does not work, but believes in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness;

⁶ even as David declares the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness without works, saying,

⁷ “Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

⁸ “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute sin.”

⁹ Did, then, this blessedness come upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness.

¹⁰ How, then, was it counted - when he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Not when he was circumcised, but when he was uncircumcised.

¹¹ Afterward, he received the sign of circumcision, as the seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had when he was uncircumcised. So that he should be the Father of all those who believe (not being circumcised), that righteousness might be counted to them also;

¹² and that he be the Father of circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but also to those who walk in the steps of the faith our Father Abraham had when he was uncircumcised.

¹³ For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not given to Abraham, or to his seed, through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴ For if those who are of the Law are heirs, then faith is made void, and the promise is made to no effect.

¹⁵ For the Law causes wrath. For where there is no Law, there is no transgression.

¹⁶ Therefore, it is by faith, so that it might come by grace (and the promise might be a surety) to all the seed; not only to that which is of the Law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the Father of us all,

¹⁷ (as it is written: “I have made you a Father of many nations.”) before God, Whom he believed, Who quickens the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were;

¹⁸ which Abraham, hoping against all hope, believed. So that he should be the Father of many nations, according to that which was spoken to him, “So shall your seed be.”

¹⁹ And he, not being weak in the faith, did not consider his own body, which was now dead (being almost a hundred years old), nor the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

²⁰ Nor did he, through unbelief, doubt the promise of God. But he was strengthened in the faith. And gave glory to God,

²¹ being fully assured that He Who had promised, was also able to do it.

²² And therefore, it was counted to him as righteousness.

²³ Now, it is not only written for him that it was counted to him as righteousness,

²⁴ but it shall also be reckoned as righteousness for us who believe in Him Who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

²⁵ Who was delivered for our sins. And is risen again for our justification.

5 Then, being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

² by Whom, through faith, we also have access into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in the hope of the Glory of God.

³ Not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings forth patience

⁴ and patience, experience; and experience, hope.

⁵ And hope does not humiliate. Because the Holy Ghost, Who is given to us, drenches our hearts with the love of God.

⁶ For Christ, when we were still without strength, at His time, died for the ungodly.

⁷ Doubtless, one will scarcely die for a righteous man. Although, for a good man it may be that one dare die.

⁸ But God exhibits his love towards us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

⁹ Much more, then, being justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

¹⁰ For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more so (being reconciled) shall we be saved by his life.

¹¹ And not only that, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now received reconciliation.

¹² Therefore, just as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, so also death spread to all mankind. For all mankind has sinned.

¹³ For until the time of the Law, sin was in the world. But sin was not taken into account while there was no Law.

¹⁴ But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in a similar way to the transgression of Adam, who was the model of Him Who was to come.

¹⁵ But still, the gift is not like the offense. For if, through the offense of the one, many died, much more so has the grace of God, and the gift (by grace) of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

¹⁶ Nor is the gift as if it were from one who sinned. Indeed, judgment unto condemnation came from one. But the gift unto justification came from many offenses.

¹⁷ For if, by the offense of one, death reigned through one, much more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and the gift of righteousness, reign in life through One - Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ Likewise then, as by the offense of one, judgment unto condemnation came to all mankind, so also by the righteousness of One, the benefit abounded toward all mankind, to the justification of life.

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

²⁰ Moreover, there the Law entered, so that offense might abound. Nevertheless, where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.

²¹ So that, as sin had reigned unto death, so also might grace reign by righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

6 What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, so that grace may abound? Absolutely not!

² How shall we, who are dead to sin, still live in it?

³ Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death?

⁴ We are then buried with Him, through baptism, into His death; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead, to the glory of the Father, we also should walk in newness of life.

⁵ For if we are united with Him in the likeness of His death, we shall also be so in the likeness of His resurrection,

⁶ knowing this: that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be made useless and that henceforth we should not serve sin.

⁷ For whoever has died is freed from sin.

⁸ Therefore, if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

⁹ knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death has no more dominion over Him.

¹⁰ For, in that He died, He died once to sin. But in that He lives, He lives to God.

¹¹ Likewise, you also consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹² Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts;

¹³ nor give the parts of your body to sin, as weapons of unrighteousness. But give yourselves to God, as those who are alive from the dead. And give the parts of your body to God, as weapons of righteousness.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you. For you are not under the Law, but under grace.

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? Absolutely not!

¹⁶ Do you not know that to whomever you give yourselves as servants, to obey, you are his servants whom you obey; whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷ Thanks be to God that, although you had been the servants of sin, you have obeyed (from the heart) the type of doctrine by which you were delivered.

¹⁸ Being then made free from sin, you are made the servants of righteousness.

¹⁹ I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. For as you have given the parts of your body over as servants to impurity and lawlessness, to commit lawlessness, so now give the parts of your body over as servants to righteousness in holiness.

²⁰ For when you were the servants of sin, you were freed from righteousness.

²¹ What fruit did you then have in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

²² But now, being freed from sin, and made servants to God, you have your fruit in holiness; and in the end, everlasting life.

²³ For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

7 Do you not know, brothers, (for I speak to those who know the Law) that the Law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

² For the woman who is in subjection to a man, is bound by the Law to the man, while he lives. But if the man is dead, she is released from the Law of the man.

³ So then, if while the man lives, she takes another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But, if the man is dead, she is free from the Law; so that she is not an adulteress, even though she takes another man.

⁴ So you, my brothers, are also dead to the Law, by the body of Christ; so that you should belong to Another (that is, to Him Who was raised up from the dead) so that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the sufferings of sins (which were by the Law) were at work in our limbs, bringing forth fruit unto death.

⁶ But now, we are delivered from the Law (that being dead in which we were held), so that we should serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of letter.

⁷ What shall we then say? Is the Law sin? Absolutely not! No, I did not know sin, except through the Law. For I had not known lust until the Law had said, “You shall not lust”.

⁸ But sin, taking opportunity through the Commandment, wrought in me all manner of lusts. For without the Law, sin is dead.

⁹ For I was once alive apart from the Law. But when the Commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

¹⁰ And this Commandment, which was life to me, was found to be death.

¹¹ For sin, taking opportunity through the Commandment, deceived me; and thereby killed me.

¹² Therefore, the Law is holy. And the Commandment is holy, and just, and good.

¹³ Was, then, that which is good made death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it might appear sin, wrought death in me by that which is good, so that sin (through the Commandment) might be excessively sinful.

¹⁴ For we know that the Law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under sin.

¹⁵ For I do not understand that which I do. For what I will to do, that do I not do. But what I hate, that I do.

¹⁶ If, then, I do that which I do not want to do, I consent to the Law, that it is good.

¹⁷ So, then, it is no more me who does it, but sin which dwells in me.

¹⁸ For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) no good thing dwells. For to will is present with me. But I find no means to perform that which is good.

¹⁹ For I do not do the good thing which I want to do. But the evil, which I do not want to do, that I do.

²⁰ Now, if I do that which I do not want, it is no more I who do it, but the sin which dwells in me.

²¹ I find, therefore, a law that when I would like to do good, evil is present with me.

²² For I delight in the Law of God, concerning the inner man.

²³ But I see another law in my limbs, rebelling against the law of my mind, and leading me captive to the law of sin, which is in my limbs.

²⁴ O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

²⁵ I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I, myself, serve the Law of God in my mind, but the law of sin in my flesh.

8 Now, then, there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus; who do not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

² For the Law of the Spirit of life, Who is in Christ Jesus, has freed me from the Law of sin and of death.

³ For what the Law could not do (since it was weak because of the flesh) God did; having sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

⁴ that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us; who do not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

⁵ For those who are after the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

⁶ For the wisdom of the flesh is death. But the wisdom of the Spirit is life and peace.

⁷ Because the wisdom of the flesh is hostility toward God. For it is not subject to the Law of God, nor indeed can it be.

⁸ So, then, those who are in the flesh, cannot please God.

⁹ Now, you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Because the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, the same is not His.

¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin. But the Spirit is life, for righteousness’ sake.

¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He Who raised up Christ from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies by His Spirit, Who dwells in you.

¹² Therefore brothers, we are debtors; not to the flesh (to live after the flesh),

¹³ for if you live after the flesh you shall die. But if you mortify the deeds of the body, by the Spirit, you shall live.

¹⁴ For, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

¹⁵ For you have not received the spirit of bondage, to fear again. But you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, “Abba, Father!”

¹⁶ The same Spirit bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

¹⁷ If we are children, we are also heirs (even the heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ), if indeed we suffer with Him. So that we also may be glorified with Him.

¹⁸ For I consider the afflictions of this present time unworthy of the Glory which shall be shown to us.

¹⁹ For the eager expectation of the creation awaits the revealing of the sons of God.

²⁰ Because the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by reason of Him Who has subdued it, under hope.

²¹ Because the creation shall also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

²² For we know that the whole creation also groans with us and suffers birth pains together until now.

²³ And not only the creation; but also, we who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we sigh in ourselves (awaiting the adoption, the redemption of our body).

²⁴ For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for that which he sees?

²⁵ But if we hope for that which we do not see, we await it with patience.

²⁶ Likewise, the Spirit also helps our weakness. For we do not know what to pray as we should. But the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unutterable sighs.

²⁷ But He Who searches the hearts, knows the meaning of the Spirit. For He intercedes for the Saints according to the will of God.

²⁸ But we know that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.

²⁹ For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.

³⁰ Moreover, those whom He predestined, He also called. And those whom He called, He also justified. And those whom He justified, He also glorified.

³¹ What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

³² He Who did not spare His own Son - but gave Him up for us all - how shall He not, with Him, also give us all things?

³³ Who shall bring a charge against God’s chosen? God is the One who justifies.

³⁴ Who shall condemn? It is Christ, Who died - indeed, or rather, Who is risen again - and Who is also at the right hand of God, interceding for us.

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ; shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

³⁶ As it is written: “For your sake we are killed all day long. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”

³⁷ Nevertheless, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through Him Who loved us.

³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

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.

9 I say the truth in Christ. I do not lie; my conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost,

² so that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

³ For I could wish myself to be accursed, to be separated from Christ, for my brothers who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,

⁴ (who are the Israelites), to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises;

⁵ from whom are the Fathers, and from whom, concerning the flesh, Christ - Who is God over all, blessed forever – came. Amen.

⁶ Notwithstanding, it cannot be that the Word of God should take no effect. For not all are Israel who are of Israel.

⁷ Nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham. But: “In Isaac shall your seed be called.”

⁸ That is, those who are the children of the flesh are not the children of God. But the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

⁹ For this is a Word of Promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son”;

¹⁰ and not only her, but Rebecca also, when she had conceived by one, even by our Father, Isaac.

¹¹ For before the children were born - and when they had done neither good nor evil (so that the purpose of God might remain according to election; not by works, but by Him Who calls) -

¹² it was said to her: “The Elder shall serve the younger.”

¹³ As it is written: “I have loved Jacob and have hated Esau.”

¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Absolutely not!

¹⁵ For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy and will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”

¹⁶ So then it is not in him who wills, nor in him who runs, but in God, Who shows mercy.

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “For this same purpose I have raised you up, so that I might show My power in you; and that My Name might be declared throughout all the Earth.”

¹⁸ Therefore, He has mercy on whom He will. And whom He will, He hardens.

¹⁹ You will then say to me: “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”

²⁰ But who are you, O man, to contradict God? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, “Why have you made me this way”?

²¹ Does not indeed the potter have authority over the clay to make, from the same lump, one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?

²² What if God – though willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known - endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

²³ That in so doing, He might declare the riches of His Glory upon the vessels of mercy, which He has prepared unto Glory -

²⁴ even we whom He has called - not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.

²⁵ As He also says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My people’ who were not my people; and her ‘Beloved’ who was not beloved.

²⁶ “And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people’. There they shall be called ‘The sons of the living God’.”

²⁷ Also, Isaiah cries concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved.

²⁸ “For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the Earth.”

²⁹ And as Isaiah said before: “Except that the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom, and had been like Gomorrah.”

³⁰ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow righteousness, have attained righteousness, even the righteousness that is by faith;

³¹ but Israel, which followed the Law of righteousness, could not attain the Law of righteousness.

³² Why? Because they did not not seek it by faith, but by the works of the Law. For they have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

³³ As it is written: “Behold, I lay a stumbling stone in Zion; an ensnaring rock. And everyone who believes in Him, shall not be ashamed.”

10 Brothers, my heart’s desire - and my prayer to God for Israel - is that they might be saved.

² For I testify about them that they have the zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

³ For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

⁴ For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness, for everyone who believes.

⁵ For Moses writes of the righteousness which is of the Law: “The man who does these things, shall live thereby.”

⁶ But the righteousness which is of faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who shall ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down)

⁷ or, ‘Who shall descend into the deep?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)”.

⁸ So, what does it say? “The Word is near you; your mouth, and in your heart.” This is the Word of faith which we preach.

⁹ For if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you shall be saved.

¹⁰ For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.

¹¹ For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him, shall not be ashamed.”

¹² For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek. For He Who is Lord Over All is rich unto all who call on Him.

¹³ For “Whoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord, shall be saved.”

¹⁴ But how shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

¹⁵ And how shall they preach, unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of peace; and bring glad tidings of good things!”

¹⁶ But they have not all obeyed the Gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

¹⁷ Then faith is by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

¹⁸ But I say, have they not heard? No doubt. Their sound went out through all the Earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

¹⁹ But I say, did not Israel know? First Moses says: “I will provoke you to envy by a nation that is not my nation. And by a foolish nation I will anger you.”

²⁰ And Isaiah is bold and says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me, and have been made manifest to those who did not ask for me.”

²¹ And to Israel he says, “All day long I have stretched forth My hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.”

11 I say then, has not God thrust away His people? Absolutely not! For I am also an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

² God has not thrust away His people, whom He knew before. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah; how he intercedes with God against Israel, saying,

³ “Lord, they have killed your Prophets, and dug down Your altars. And I am left alone. And they seek my life”?

⁴ But what does God say in response to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal”.

⁵ Even so then, at this present time, there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

⁶ And if it is of grace, it is no more of works. Or else grace would no longer be grace. And if it is of works, it is no longer grace. Or else work would no longer be work.

⁷ What then? Israel has not obtained what it sought. But the Elect have obtained it. And the rest have been hardened.

⁸ Just as it is written, “God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear until this day”.

⁹ And David says, “Let their table be made a snare, and a net, and a stumbling block, and a recompense to them.

¹⁰ “Let their eyes be darkened that they do not see and bow down their back continually.”

¹¹ I say then, have they stumbled so that they should fall? Absolutely not! But through their fall, salvation comes to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

¹² Yet, if their fall is the riches of the world - and their diminishing the riches of the Gentiles - how much more shall their fulfillment be?

¹³ For in speaking to you Gentiles (inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles) I magnify my office,

¹⁴ if, somehow, I might provoke those of my flesh to follow them and save some of them.

¹⁵ For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what shall their acceptance be if not life from the dead?

¹⁶ For if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole lump. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷ And though some of the branches are broken off, and you (being a wild olive tree) were grafted in among them, and made a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁸ do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

¹⁹ You will say then, “The branches have been broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

²⁰ Well said. Through unbelief they have been broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear.

²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.

²² Behold, therefore, the kindness and severity of God - severity toward those who have fallen, but kindness toward you - if you continue in His kindness. Or else you shall also be cut off.

²³ And they also, if they do not still remain in unbelief, shall be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.

²⁴ For if you were cut out of the olive tree (which is wild by nature) and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more shall those who are natural be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁵ For I do not wish you to be ignorant of this secret, brothers (lest you be wise in your own eyes), that partial blindness has come to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

²⁶ And so all Israel shall be saved. As it is written, “The Deliverer shall come out of Zion, and shall turn away the ungodliness from Jacob.

²⁷ And this is My covenant to them, When I shall take away their sins.”

²⁸ Concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the Fathers’ sakes.

²⁹ For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

³⁰ For even as you, in times past, had not believed God and yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief,

³¹ so now have they not believed by the mercy shown to you, so that they may also obtain mercy.

³² For God has shut up all in unbelief, so that He might have mercy on all.

³³ O the depth of the riches of both the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!

³⁴ For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who was His counselor?

³⁵ Or who has given to Him first, that he shall be recompensed?

³⁶ For of Him, and through Him, and for Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.

12 Therefore, I urge you brothers, by the mercies of God, to give up your bodies - a living sacrifice; holy and acceptable to God – as your reasonable service.

² And do not conform yourselves to this world. But be changed, by the renewing of your mind. So that you may test what the good and acceptable and perfect will of God is.

³ For I say (through the grace that is given to me) to everyone who is among you, that no one think of himself more highly than he ought. But that he judges himself soberly, according to the measure of faith God has dealt him.

⁴ For as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same office,

⁵ so we (being many) are one body in Christ, and each other’s members.

⁶ Seeing then that we have diverse gifts, according to the grace given to us—if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the portion of faith,

⁷ or service, let us serve, or one who teaches, in teaching,

⁸ or encouragement, in encouraging, in giving, let him do so with simplicity, in leadership, with diligence, in mercy, with cheerfulness—

⁹ love without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil, and cling to that which is good.

¹⁰ Be kindly affectionate toward one another with brotherly love. Lead one another toward honor,

¹¹ not slothful to do service, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,

¹² rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing in prayer,

¹³ distributing to the needs of the saints, giving yourselves to the loving of strangers.

¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you; bless, I say, and do not curse.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

¹⁶ Be like-minded toward one another. Do not be high-minded; but align yourselves with the humble. Do not be wise in your own eyes.

¹⁷ Repay no one evil for evil. Provide honorably in the sight of all mankind.

¹⁸ If it is possible, as much as you can, be at peace with all mankind.

¹⁹ Dearly beloved, do not avenge yourselves; but give Wrath its opportunity. For it is written, “Vengeance is Mine. I will repay”, says the Lord.

²⁰ Therefore, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing, you shall heap coals of fire on his head.”

²¹ Be not overcome by evil. But, overcome evil with good.

13 Let every soul be subject to the superior authorities. For there is no authority except from God. And the existing authority is ordained by God.

² Therefore, whoever resists that authority, resists the ordinance of God. And those who resist, shall receive condemnation upon themselves.

³ For rulers are not to be feared for good works, but for evil. Do you, then, wish to be without fear of authority? Do well, and you shall have of the same.

⁴ For he is the minister of God for your good. But if you do evil, fear. For he does not bear the sword for nothing. For he is the minister of God to take vengeance on evildoers.

⁵ Therefore, you must be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

⁶ For because of this you also pay tribute. For they are God’s ministers, persisting continually in this very thing.

⁷ Therefore, give all their due - tribute to whom you owe tribute, custom to whom custom: fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

⁸ Owe nothing to anyone, except to be loving one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the Law.

⁹ For these: ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet’ - as well as any other Commandment - are summed up in this saying, namely, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’.

¹⁰ Love does no evil to his neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.

¹¹ And this also we know (considering the season): that now is the time that we should arise from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we believed it.

¹² The night is past, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast away the works of darkness. And let us put on the armor of light,

¹³ so that we walk honestly (as in the day), not in gluttony and drunkenness, nor in promiscuity and lewdness, nor in strife and envying.

¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ. And take no thought for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.

14 Receive the one who is weak in the faith, but not for passing judgment on his reasoning.

² One believes that he may eat all things. And another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

³ Do not let the one who eats treat the one who does not eat with contempt. And do not let the one who does not eat judge the one who eats. For God has received him.

⁴ Who are you to judge another man’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he shall be upheld. For God is able to make him stand.

⁵ One esteems one day above another day, and another counts every day alike. Let everyone be fully persuaded in his own mind.

⁶ Whoever observes the day, observes it to the Lord. And whoever does not observe the day, does not observe it to the Lord. Whoever eats, eats to the Lord. For he gives God thanks. And whoever does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

⁷ For none of us lives to himself. Nor does anyone die to himself.

⁸ For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord: Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

⁹ For to this end Christ died and rose again, and revived, so that He might be Lord, both of the dead and the living.

¹⁰ But why do you condemn your brother? Or why do you contemn your brother? For we shall all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.

¹¹ For it is written, “I live, says the Lord. And every knee shall bow to Me. And all tongues shall confess unto God”.

¹² So then everyone of us shall give accounts of himself to God.

¹³ Therefore, let us not judge one another anymore. But rather, determine to do this: that no one put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall, before his brother.

¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded through the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean in itself. But to the one who judges something to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵ But if your brother is distressed because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food someone for whom Christ died.

¹⁶ Therefore, do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food or drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁸ For whoever serves Christ in these things, is well-pleasing to God, and is approved by man.

¹⁹ Let us then follow those things which concern peace, and with which one may edify another.

²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. Indeed, all things are clean, but evil for the man who eats in offense.

²¹ It is not good to eat flesh or to drink wine or to do anything whereby your brother stumbles or is offended or made weak.

²² Do you have faith? Have your own before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in that thing which he allows.

²³ For the one who doubts is condemned if he eats because he does not eat of faith. And whatever is not of faith is sin.