/1-1- PAUL
A SERVANT OF JESUS CHRIST
CALLED TO BE AN APOSTLE
SEPARATED UNTO THE GOSPEL OF GOD
/1-2- (WHICH HE HAD PROMISED AFORE BY HIS PROPHETS IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
)
/1-3- CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD
WHICH WAS MADE OF THE SEED OF DAVID ACCORDING TO THE FLESH
/1-4- AND DECLARED TO BE THE SON OF GOD WITH POWER
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT OF HOLINESS
BY THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD-
/1-5- BY WHOM WE HAVE RECEIVED GRACE AND APOSTLESHIP
FOR OBEDIENCE TO THE FAITH AMONG ALL NATIONS
FOR HIS NAME-
/1-6- AMONG WHOM ARE YE ALSO THE CALLED OF JESUS CHRIST-
/1-7- TO ALL THAT BE IN ROME
BELOVED OF GOD
CALLED TO BE SAINTS- GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR FATHER
AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
/1-8- FIRST
I THANK MY GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST FOR YOU ALL
THAT YOUR FAITH IS SPOKEN OF THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD.
/1-9- FOR GOD IS MY WITNESS
WHOM I SERVE WITH MY SPIRIT IN THE GOSPEL OF HIS SON
THAT WITHOUT CEASING I MAKE MENTION OF YOU ALWAYS IN MY PRAYERS
/1-10- MAKING REQUEST
IF BY ANY MEANS NOW AT LENGTH I MIGHT HAVE A PROSPEROUS JOURNEY BY THE WILL OF GOD TO COME UNTO YOU.
/1-11- FOR I LONG TO SEE YOU
THAT I MAY IMPART UNTO YOU SOME SPIRITUAL GIFT
TO THE END YE MAY BE ESTABLISHED
/1-12- THAT IS
THAT I MAY BE COMFORTED TOGETHER WITH YOU BY THE MUTUAL FAITH BOTH OF YOU AND ME.
/1-13- NOW I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU IGNORANT
BRETHREN
THAT OFTENTIMES I PURPOSED TO COME UNTO YOU
(BUT WAS LET HITHERTO
) THAT I MIGHT HAVE SOME FRUIT AMONG YOU ALSO
EVEN AS AMONG OTHER GENTILES.
/1-14- I AM DEBTOR BOTH TO THE GREEKS
AND TO THE BARBARIANS BOTH TO THE WISE
AND TO THE UNWISE.
/1-15- SO
AS MUCH AS IN ME IS
I AM READY TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO YOU THAT ARE AT ROME ALSO.
/1-16- FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST- FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION TO EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH TO THE JEW FIRST
AND ALSO TO THE GREEK.
/1-17- FOR THEREIN IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH- AS IT IS WRITTEN
THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.
/1-18- FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF MEN
WHO HOLD THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
/1-19- BECAUSE THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN OF GOD IS MANIFEST IN THEM FOR GOD HATH SHEWED IT UNTO THEM.
/1-20- FOR THE INVISIBLE THINGS OF HIM FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD ARE CLEARLY SEEN
BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE
EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER AND GODHEAD SO THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE-
/1-21- BECAUSE THAT
WHEN THEY KNEW GOD
THEY GLORIFIED HIM NOT AS GOD
NEITHER WERE THANKFUL BUT BECAME VAIN IN THEIR IMAGINATIONS
AND THEIR FOOLISH HEART WAS DARKENED.
/1-22- PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE
THEY BECAME FOOLS
/1-23- AND CHANGED THE GLORY OF THE UNCORRUPTIBLE GOD INTO AN IMAGE MADE LIKE TO CORRUPTIBLE MAN
AND TO BIRDS
AND FOURFOOTED BEASTS
AND CREEPING THINGS.
/1-24- WHEREFORE GOD ALSO GAVE THEM UP TO UNCLEANNESS THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THEIR OWN HEARTS
TO DISHONOUR THEIR OWN BODIES BETWEEN THEMSELVES-
/1-25- WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE
AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR
WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER. AMEN.
/1-26- FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP UNTO VILE AFFECTIONS- FOR EVEN THEIR WOMEN DID CHANGE THE NATURAL USE INTO THAT WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE-
/1-27- AND LIKEWISE ALSO THE MEN
LEAVING THE NATURAL USE OF THE WOMAN
BURNED IN THEIR LUST ONE TOWARD ANOTHER MEN WITH MEN WORKING THAT WHICH IS UNSEEMLY
AND RECEIVING IN THEMSELVES THAT RECOMPENCE OF THEIR ERROR WHICH WAS MEET.
/1-28- AND EVEN AS THEY DID NOT LIKE TO RETAIN GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE
GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND
TO DO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT CONVENIENT
/1-29- BEING FILLED WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
FORNICATION
WICKEDNESS
COVETOUSNESS
MALICIOUSNESS FULL OF ENVY
MURDER
DEBATE
DECEIT
MALIGNITY WHISPERERS
/1-30- BACKBITERS
HATERS OF GOD
DESPITEFUL
PROUD
BOASTERS
INVENTORS OF EVIL THINGS
DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS
/1-31- WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING
COVENANTBREAKERS
WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION
IMPLACABLE
UNMERCIFUL-
/1-32- WHO KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD
THAT THEY WHICH COMMIT SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF DEATH
NOT ONLY DO THE SAME
BUT HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM THAT DO THEM.
/2-1- THEREFORE THOU ART INEXCUSABLE
O MAN
WHOSOEVER THOU ART THAT JUDGEST- FOR WHEREIN THOU JUDGEST ANOTHER
THOU CONDEMNEST THYSELF FOR THOU THAT JUDGEST DOEST THE SAME THINGS.
/2-2- BUT WE ARE SURE THAT THE JUDGMENT OF GOD IS ACCORDING TO TRUTH AGAINST THEM WHICH COMMIT SUCH THINGS.
/2-3- AND THINKEST THOU THIS
O MAN
THAT JUDGEST THEM WHICH DO SUCH THINGS
AND DOEST THE SAME
THAT THOU SHALT ESCAPE THE JUDGMENT OF GOD?
/2-4- OR DESPISEST THOU THE RICHES OF HIS GOODNESS AND FORBEARANCE AND LONGSUFFERING NOT KNOWING THAT THE GOODNESS OF GOD LEADETH THEE TO REPENTANCE?
/2-5- BUT AFTER THY HARDNESS AND IMPENITENT HEART TREASUREST UP UNTO THYSELF WRATH AGAINST THE DAY OF WRATH AND REVELATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD
/2-6- WHO WILL RENDER TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS-
/2-7- TO THEM WHO BY PATIENT CONTINUANCE IN WELL DOING SEEK FOR GLORY AND HONOUR AND IMMORTALITY
ETERNAL LIFE-
/2-8- BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE CONTENTIOUS
AND DO NOT OBEY THE TRUTH
BUT OBEY UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
INDIGNATION AND WRATH
/2-9- TRIBULATION AND ANGUISH
UPON EVERY SOUL OF MAN THAT DOETH EVIL
OF THE JEW FIRST
AND ALSO OF THE GENTILE
/2-10- BUT GLORY
HONOUR
AND PEACE
TO EVERY MAN THAT WORKETH GOOD
TO THE JEW FIRST
AND ALSO TO THE GENTILE-
/2-11- FOR THERE IS NO RESPECT OF PERSONS WITH GOD.
/2-12- 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
/2-13- (FOR NOT THE HEARERS OF THE LAW ARE JUST BEFORE GOD
BUT THE DOERS OF THE LAW SHALL BE JUSTIFIED.
/2-14- 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 THEMSELVES-
/2-15- WHICH SHEW THE WORK OF THE LAW WRITTEN IN THEIR HEARTS
THEIR CONSCIENCE ALSO BEARING WITNESS
AND THEIR THOUGHTS THE MEAN WHILE ACCUSING OR ELSE EXCUSING ONE ANOTHER)
/2-16- IN THE DAY WHEN GOD SHALL JUDGE THE SECRETS OF MEN BY JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL.
/2-17- BEHOLD
THOU ART CALLED A JEW
AND RESTEST IN THE LAW
AND MAKEST THY BOAST OF GOD
/2-18- AND KNOWEST HIS WILL
AND APPROVEST THE THINGS THAT ARE MORE EXCELLENT
BEING INSTRUCTED OUT OF THE LAW
/2-19- AND ART CONFIDENT THAT THOU THYSELF ART A GUIDE OF THE BLIND
A LIGHT OF THEM WHICH ARE IN DARKNESS
/2-20- AN INSTRUCTOR OF THE FOOLISH
A TEACHER OF BABES
WHICH HAST THE FORM OF KNOWLEDGE AND OF THE TRUTH IN THE LAW.
/2-21- THOU THEREFORE WHICH TEACHEST ANOTHER
TEACHEST THOU NOT THYSELF? THOU THAT PREACHEST A MAN SHOULD NOT STEAL
DOST THOU STEAL?
/2-22- THOU THAT SAYEST A MAN SHOULD NOT COMMIT ADULTERY
DOST THOU COMMIT ADULTERY? THOU THAT ABHORREST IDOLS
DOST THOU COMMIT SACRILEGE?
/2-23- THOU THAT MAKEST THY BOAST OF THE LAW
THROUGH BREAKING THE LAW DISHONOUREST THOU GOD?
/2-24- FOR THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES THROUGH YOU
AS IT IS WRITTEN.
/2-25- FOR CIRCUMCISION VERILY PROFITETH
IF THOU KEEP THE LAW- BUT IF THOU BE A BREAKER OF THE LAW
THY CIRCUMCISION IS MADE UNCIRCUMCISION.
/2-26- THEREFORE IF THE UNCIRCUMCISION KEEP THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW
SHALL NOT HIS UNCIRCUMCISION BE COUNTED FOR CIRCUMCISION?
/2-27- 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?
/2-28- FOR HE IS NOT A JEW
WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY NEITHER IS THAT CIRCUMCISION
WHICH IS OUTWARD IN THE FLESH-
/2-29- BUT HE IS A JEW
WHICH IS ONE INWARDLY AND CIRCUMCISION IS THAT OF THE HEART
IN THE SPIRIT
AND NOT IN THE LETTER WHOSE PRAISE IS NOT OF MEN
BUT OF GOD.
/3-1- WHAT ADVANTAGE THEN HATH THE JEW? OR WHAT PROFIT IS THERE OF CIRCUMCISION?
/3-2- MUCH EVERY WAY- CHIEFLY
BECAUSE THAT UNTO THEM WERE COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF GOD.
/3-3- FOR WHAT IF SOME DID NOT BELIEVE? SHALL THEIR UNBELIEF MAKE THE FAITH OF GOD WITHOUT EFFECT?
/3-4- GOD FORBID- YEA
LET GOD BE TRUE
BUT EVERY MAN A LIAR AS IT IS WRITTEN
THAT THOU MIGHTEST BE JUSTIFIED IN THY SAYINGS
AND MIGHTEST OVERCOME WHEN THOU ART JUDGED.
/3-5- BUT IF OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS COMMEND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
WHAT SHALL WE SAY? IS GOD UNRIGHTEOUS WHO TAKETH VENGEANCE? (I SPEAK AS A MAN)
/3-6- GOD FORBID- FOR THEN HOW SHALL GOD JUDGE THE WORLD?
/3-7- FOR IF THE TRUTH OF GOD HATH MORE ABOUNDED THROUGH MY LIE UNTO HIS GLORY WHY YET AM I ALSO JUDGED AS A SINNER?
/3-8- AND NOT RATHER
(AS WE BE SLANDEROUSLY REPORTED
AND AS SOME AFFIRM THAT WE SAY
) LET US DO EVIL
THAT GOOD MAY COME? WHOSE DAMNATION IS JUST.
/3-9- 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
/3-10- AS IT IS WRITTEN
THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS
NO
NOT ONE-
/3-11- THERE IS NONE THAT UNDERSTANDETH
THERE IS NONE THAT SEEKETH AFTER GOD.
/3-12- THEY ARE ALL GONE OUT OF THE WAY
THEY ARE TOGETHER BECOME UNPROFITABLE THERE IS NONE THAT DOETH GOOD
NO
NOT ONE.
/3-13- THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY HAVE USED DECEIT THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS-
/3-14- WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS-
/3-15- THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD-
/3-16- DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR WAYS-
/3-17- AND THE WAY OF PEACE HAVE THEY NOT KNOWN-
/3-18- THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES.
/3-19- 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 GUILTY BEFORE GOD.
/3-20- THEREFORE BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW THERE SHALL NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT- FOR BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN.
/3-21- BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED
BEING WITNESSED BY THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS
/3-22- EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE- FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE-
/3-23- FOR ALL HAVE SINNED
AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD
/3-24- BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS-
/3-25- WHOM GOD HATH SET FORTH TO 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
/3-26- TO DECLARE
I SAY
AT THIS TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS- THAT HE MIGHT BE JUST
AND THE JUSTIFIER OF HIM WHICH BELIEVETH IN JESUS.
/3-27- WHERE IS BOASTING THEN? IT IS EXCLUDED. BY WHAT LAW? OF WORKS? NAY- BUT BY THE LAW OF FAITH.
/3-28- THEREFORE WE CONCLUDE THAT A MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH WITHOUT THE DEEDS OF THE LAW.
/3-29- IS HE THE GOD OF THE JEWS ONLY? IS HE NOT ALSO OF THE GENTILES? YES
OF THE GENTILES ALSO-
/3-30- SEEING IT IS ONE GOD
WHICH SHALL JUSTIFY THE CIRCUMCISION BY FAITH
AND UNCIRCUMCISION THROUGH FAITH.
/3-31- DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? GOD FORBID- YEA
WE ESTABLISH THE LAW.
/4-1- WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN THAT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER
AS PERTAINING TO THE FLESH
HATH FOUND?
/4-2- FOR IF ABRAHAM WERE JUSTIFIED BY WORKS
HE HATH WHEREOF TO GLORY BUT NOT BEFORE GOD.
/4-3- FOR WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE? ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD
AND IT WAS COUNTED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
/4-4- NOW TO HIM THAT WORKETH IS THE REWARD NOT RECKONED OF GRACE
BUT OF DEBT.
/4-5- BUT TO HIM THAT WORKETH NOT
BUT BELIEVETH ON HIM THAT JUSTIFIETH THE UNGODLY
HIS FAITH IS COUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
/4-6- EVEN AS DAVID ALSO DESCRIBETH THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE MAN
UNTO WHOM GOD IMPUTETH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT WORKS
/4-7- SAYING
BLESSED ARE THEY WHOSE INIQUITIES ARE FORGIVEN
AND WHOSE SINS ARE COVERED.
/4-8- BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE LORD WILL NOT IMPUTE SIN.
/4-9- COMETH THIS BLESSEDNESS THEN UPON THE CIRCUMCISION ONLY
OR UPON THE UNCIRCUMCISION ALSO? FOR WE SAY THAT FAITH WAS RECKONED TO ABRAHAM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
/4-10- HOW WAS IT THEN RECKONED? WHEN HE WAS IN CIRCUMCISION
OR IN UNCIRCUMCISION? NOT IN CIRCUMCISION
BUT IN UNCIRCUMCISION.
/4-11- AND HE RECEIVED THE SIGN OF CIRCUMCISION
A SEAL OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FAITH WHICH HE HAD YET BEING UNCIRCUMCISED- THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FATHER OF ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE
THOUGH THEY BE NOT CIRCUMCISED THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS MIGHT BE IMPUTED UNTO THEM ALSO-
/4-12- AND THE FATHER OF CIRCUMCISION TO THEM WHO ARE NOT OF THE CIRCUMCISION ONLY
BUT WHO ALSO WALK IN THE STEPS OF THAT FAITH OF OUR FATHER ABRAHAM
WHICH HE HAD BEING YET UNCIRCUMCISED.
/4-13- FOR THE PROMISE
THAT HE SHOULD BE THE HEIR OF THE WORLD
WAS NOT TO ABRAHAM
OR TO HIS SEED
THROUGH THE LAW
BUT THROUGH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.
/4-14- FOR IF THEY WHICH ARE OF THE LAW BE HEIRS
FAITH IS MADE VOID
AND THE PROMISE MADE OF NONE EFFECT-
/4-15- BECAUSE THE LAW WORKETH WRATH- FOR WHERE NO LAW IS
THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION.
/4-16- THEREFORE IT IS OF FAITH
THAT IT MIGHT BE BY GRACE TO THE END THE PROMISE MIGHT BE SURE TO ALL THE SEED NOT TO THAT ONLY WHICH IS OF THE LAW
BUT TO THAT ALSO WHICH IS OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM WHO IS THE FATHER OF US ALL
/4-17- (AS IT IS WRITTEN
I HAVE MADE THEE A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS
) BEFORE HIM WHOM HE BELIEVED
EVEN GOD
WHO QUICKENETH THE DEAD
AND CALLETH THOSE THINGS WHICH BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE.
/4-18- WHO AGAINST HOPE BELIEVED IN HOPE
THAT HE MIGHT BECOME THE FATHER OF MANY NATIONS
ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN
SO SHALL THY SEED BE.
/4-19- AND BEING NOT WEAK IN FAITH
HE CONSIDERED NOT HIS OWN BODY NOW DEAD
WHEN HE WAS ABOUT AN HUNDRED YEARS OLD
NEITHER YET THE DEADNESS OF SARA'S WOMB-
/4-20- HE STAGGERED NOT AT THE PROMISE OF GOD THROUGH UNBELIEF BUT WAS STRONG IN FAITH
GIVING GLORY TO GOD
/4-21- AND BEING FULLY PERSUADED THAT
WHAT HE HAD PROMISED
HE WAS ABLE ALSO TO PERFORM.
/4-22- AND THEREFORE IT WAS IMPUTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
/4-23- NOW IT WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR HIS SAKE ALONE
THAT IT WAS IMPUTED TO HIM
/4-24- BUT FOR US ALSO
TO WHOM IT SHALL BE IMPUTED
IF WE BELIEVE ON HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS OUR LORD FROM THE DEAD
/4-25- WHO WAS DELIVERED FOR OUR OFFENCES
AND WAS RAISED AGAIN FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION.
/5-1- THEREFORE BEING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH
WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST-
/5-2- BY WHOM ALSO WE HAVE ACCESS BY FAITH INTO THIS GRACE WHEREIN WE STAND
AND REJOICE IN HOPE OF THE GLORY OF GOD.
/5-3- AND NOT ONLY SO
BUT WE GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS ALSO- KNOWING THAT TRIBULATION WORKETH PATIENCE
/5-4- AND PATIENCE
EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCE
HOPE-
/5-5- AND HOPE MAKETH NOT ASHAMED BECAUSE THE LOVE OF GOD IS SHED ABROAD IN OUR HEARTS BY THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS GIVEN UNTO US.
/5-6- FOR WHEN WE WERE YET WITHOUT STRENGTH
IN DUE TIME CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY.
/5-7- FOR SCARCELY FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN WILL ONE DIE- YET PERADVENTURE FOR A GOOD MAN SOME WOULD EVEN DARE TO DIE.
/5-8- BUT GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US
IN THAT
WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS
CHRIST DIED FOR US.
/5-9- MUCH MORE THEN
BEING NOW JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD
WE SHALL BE SAVED FROM WRATH THROUGH HIM.
/5-10- FOR IF
WHEN WE WERE ENEMIES
WE WERE RECONCILED TO GOD BY THE DEATH OF HIS SON
MUCH MORE
BEING RECONCILED
WE SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE.
/5-11- AND NOT ONLY SO
BUT WE ALSO JOY IN GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
BY WHOM WE HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE ATONEMENT.
/5-12- 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-
/5-13- (FOR UNTIL THE LAW SIN WAS IN THE WORLD- BUT SIN IS NOT IMPUTED WHEN THERE IS NO LAW.
/5-14- 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.
/5-15- BUT NOT AS THE OFFENCE
SO ALSO IS THE FREE GIFT. FOR IF THROUGH THE OFFENCE OF ONE MANY BE DEAD
MUCH MORE THE GRACE OF GOD
AND THE GIFT BY GRACE
WHICH IS BY ONE MAN
JESUS CHRIST
HATH ABOUNDED UNTO MANY.
/5-16- AND NOT AS IT WAS BY ONE THAT SINNED
SO IS THE GIFT- FOR THE JUDGMENT WAS BY ONE TO CONDEMNATION
BUT THE FREE GIFT IS OF MANY OFFENCES UNTO JUSTIFICATION.
/5-17- FOR IF BY ONE MAN'S OFFENCE DEATH REIGNED BY ONE MUCH MORE THEY WHICH RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE AND OF THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL REIGN IN LIFE BY ONE
JESUS CHRIST.)
/5-18- THEREFORE AS BY THE OFFENCE OF ONE JUDGMENT CAME UPON ALL MEN TO CONDEMNATION EVEN SO BY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF ONE THE FREE GIFT CAME UPON ALL MEN UNTO JUSTIFICATION OF LIFE.
/5-19- FOR AS BY ONE MAN'S DISOBEDIENCE MANY WERE MADE SINNERS
SO BY THE OBEDIENCE OF ONE SHALL MANY BE MADE RIGHTEOUS.
/5-20- MOREOVER THE LAW ENTERED
THAT THE OFFENCE MIGHT ABOUND. BUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDED
GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND-
/5-21- THAT AS SIN HATH REIGNED UNTO DEATH
EVEN SO MIGHT GRACE REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
/6-1- WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN
THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND?
/6-2- GOD FORBID. HOW SHALL WE
THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN
LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN?
/6-3- KNOW YE NOT
THAT SO MANY OF US AS WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH?
/6-4- 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.
/6-5- FOR IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH
WE SHALL BE ALSO IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESURRECTION-
/6-6- KNOWING THIS
THAT OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM
THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DESTROYED
THAT HENCEFORTH WE SHOULD NOT SERVE SIN.
/6-7- FOR HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN.
/6-8- NOW IF WE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST
WE BELIEVE THAT WE SHALL ALSO LIVE WITH HIM-
/6-9- KNOWING THAT CHRIST BEING RAISED FROM THE DEAD DIETH NO MORE DEATH HATH NO MORE DOMINION OVER HIM.
/6-10- FOR IN THAT HE DIED
HE DIED UNTO SIN ONCE- BUT IN THAT HE LIVETH
HE LIVETH UNTO GOD.
/6-11- LIKEWISE RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES TO BE DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN
BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
/6-12- LET NOT SIN THEREFORE REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY
THAT YE SHOULD OBEY IT IN THE LUSTS THEREOF.
/6-13- NEITHER YIELD YE YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO SIN- BUT YIELD YOURSELVES UNTO GOD
AS THOSE THAT ARE ALIVE FROM THE DEAD
AND YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO GOD.
/6-14- FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU- FOR YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW
BUT UNDER GRACE.
/6-15- WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN
BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW
BUT UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID.
/6-16- KNOW YE NOT
THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES SERVANTS TO OBEY
HIS SERVANTS YE ARE TO WHOM YE OBEY WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH
OR OF OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS?
/6-17- BUT GOD BE THANKED
THAT YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN
BUT YE HAVE OBEYED FROM THE HEART THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE WHICH WAS DELIVERED YOU.
/6-18- BEING THEN MADE FREE FROM SIN
YE BECAME THE SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
/6-19- I SPEAK AFTER THE MANNER OF MEN BECAUSE OF THE INFIRMITY OF YOUR FLESH- FOR AS YE HAVE YIELDED YOUR MEMBERS SERVANTS TO UNCLEANNESS AND TO INIQUITY UNTO INIQUITY EVEN SO NOW YIELD YOUR MEMBERS SERVANTS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO HOLINESS.
/6-20- FOR WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN
YE WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS.
/6-21- WHAT FRUIT HAD YE THEN IN THOSE THINGS WHEREOF YE ARE NOW ASHAMED? FOR THE END OF THOSE THINGS IS DEATH.
/6-22- BUT NOW BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN
AND BECOME SERVANTS TO GOD
YE HAVE YOUR FRUIT UNTO HOLINESS
AND THE END EVERLASTING LIFE.
/6-23- FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
/7-1- KNOW YE NOT
BRETHREN
(FOR I SPEAK TO THEM THAT KNOW THE LAW
) HOW THAT THE LAW HATH DOMINION OVER A MAN AS LONG AS HE LIVETH?
/7-2- FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE LIVETH BUT IF THE HUSBAND BE DEAD
SHE IS LOOSED FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND.
/7-3- SO THEN IF
WHILE HER HUSBAND LIVETH
SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN
SHE SHALL BE CALLED AN ADULTERESS- BUT IF HER HUSBAND BE DEAD
SHE IS FREE FROM THAT LAW SO THAT SHE IS NO ADULTERESS
THOUGH SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN.
/7-4- WHEREFORE
MY BRETHREN
YE ALSO ARE BECOME DEAD TO THE LAW BY THE BODY OF CHRIST THAT YE SHOULD BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER
EVEN TO HIM WHO IS RAISED FROM THE DEAD
THAT WE SHOULD BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD.
/7-5- FOR WHEN WE WERE IN THE FLESH
THE MOTIONS OF SINS
WHICH WERE BY THE LAW
DID WORK IN OUR MEMBERS TO BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO DEATH.
/7-6- BUT NOW WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THE LAW
THAT BEING DEAD WHEREIN WE WERE HELD THAT WE SHOULD SERVE IN NEWNESS OF SPIRIT
AND NOT IN THE OLDNESS OF THE LETTER.
/7-7- WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? IS THE LAW SIN? GOD FORBID. NAY
I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN
BUT BY THE LAW- FOR I HAD NOT KNOWN LUST
EXCEPT THE LAW HAD SAID
THOU SHALT NOT COVET.
/7-8- BUT SIN
TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT
WROUGHT IN ME ALL MANNER OF CONCUPISCENCE. FOR WITHOUT THE LAW SIN WAS DEAD.
/7-9- FOR I WAS ALIVE WITHOUT THE LAW ONCE- BUT WHEN THE COMMANDMENT CAME
SIN REVIVED
AND I DIED.
/7-10- AND THE COMMANDMENT
WHICH WAS ORDAINED TO LIFE
I FOUND TO BE UNTO DEATH.
/7-11- FOR SIN
TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT
DECEIVED ME
AND BY IT SLEW ME.
/7-12- WHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY
AND THE COMMANDMENT HOLY
AND JUST
AND GOOD.
/7-13- WAS THEN THAT WHICH IS GOOD MADE DEATH UNTO ME? GOD FORBID. BUT SIN
THAT IT MIGHT APPEAR SIN
WORKING DEATH IN ME BY THAT WHICH IS GOOD THAT SIN BY THE COMMANDMENT MIGHT BECOME EXCEEDING SINFUL.
/7-14- FOR WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL- BUT I AM CARNAL
SOLD UNDER SIN.
/7-15- FOR THAT WHICH I DO I ALLOW NOT- FOR WHAT I WOULD
THAT DO I NOT BUT WHAT I HATE
THAT DO I.
/7-16- IF THEN I DO THAT WHICH I WOULD NOT
I CONSENT UNTO THE LAW THAT IT IS GOOD.
/7-17- NOW THEN IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT
BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME.
/7-18- FOR I KNOW THAT IN ME (THAT IS
IN MY FLESH
) DWELLETH NO GOOD THING- FOR TO WILL IS PRESENT WITH ME BUT HOW TO PERFORM THAT WHICH IS GOOD I FIND NOT.
/7-19- FOR THE GOOD THAT I WOULD I DO NOT- BUT THE EVIL WHICH I WOULD NOT
THAT I DO.
/7-20- NOW IF I DO THAT I WOULD NOT
IT IS NO MORE I THAT DO IT
BUT SIN THAT DWELLETH IN ME.
/7-21- I FIND THEN A LAW
THAT
WHEN I WOULD DO GOOD
EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME.
/7-22- FOR I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD AFTER THE INWARD MAN-
/7-23- BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS
WARRING AGAINST THE LAW OF MY MIND
AND BRINGING ME INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS.
/7-24- O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO SHALL DELIVER ME FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH?
/7-25- I THANK GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. SO THEN WITH THE MIND I MYSELF SERVE THE LAW OF GOD BUT WITH THE FLESH THE LAW OF SIN.
/8-1- THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS
WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH
BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT.
/8-2- FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HATH MADE ME FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH.
/8-3- FOR WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO
IN THAT IT WAS WEAK THROUGH THE FLESH
GOD SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH
AND FOR SIN
CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH-
/8-4- THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US
WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH
BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT.
/8-5- FOR THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE FLESH DO MIND THE THINGS OF THE FLESH BUT THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE SPIRIT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT.
/8-6- FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE.
/8-7- BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD- FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD
NEITHER INDEED CAN BE.
/8-8- SO THEN THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD.
/8-9- BUT YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH
BUT IN THE SPIRIT
IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST
HE IS NONE OF HIS.
/8-10- AND IF CHRIST BE IN YOU
THE BODY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN BUT THE SPIRIT IS LIFE BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
/8-11- BUT IF THE SPIRIT OF HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS FROM THE DEAD DWELL IN YOU
HE THAT RAISED UP CHRIST FROM THE DEAD SHALL ALSO QUICKEN YOUR MORTAL BODIES BY HIS SPIRIT THAT DWELLETH IN YOU.
/8-12- THEREFORE
BRETHREN
WE ARE DEBTORS
NOT TO THE FLESH
TO LIVE AFTER THE FLESH.
/8-13- FOR IF YE LIVE AFTER THE FLESH
YE SHALL DIE- BUT IF YE THROUGH THE SPIRIT DO MORTIFY THE DEEDS OF THE BODY
YE SHALL LIVE.
/8-14- FOR AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD
THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD.
/8-15- FOR YE HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF BONDAGE AGAIN TO FEAR BUT YE HAVE RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION
WHEREBY WE CRY
ABBA
FATHER.
/8-16- THE SPIRIT ITSELF BEARETH WITNESS WITH OUR SPIRIT
THAT WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD-
/8-17- AND IF CHILDREN
THEN HEIRS HEIRS OF GOD
AND JOINT-HEIRS WITH CHRIST IF SO BE THAT WE SUFFER WITH HIM
THAT WE MAY BE ALSO GLORIFIED TOGETHER.
/8-18- FOR I RECKON THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US.
/8-19- FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF THE CREATURE WAITETH FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD.
/8-20- FOR THE CREATURE WAS MADE SUBJECT TO VANITY
NOT WILLINGLY
BUT BY REASON OF HIM WHO HATH SUBJECTED THE SAME IN HOPE
/8-21- BECAUSE THE CREATURE ITSELF ALSO SHALL BE DELIVERED FROM THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION INTO THE GLORIOUS LIBERTY OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD.
/8-22- FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH IN PAIN TOGETHER UNTIL NOW.
/8-23- AND NOT ONLY THEY
BUT OURSELVES ALSO
WHICH HAVE THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
EVEN WE OURSELVES GROAN WITHIN OURSELVES
WAITING FOR THE ADOPTION
TO WIT
THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODY.
/8-24- FOR WE ARE SAVED BY HOPE- BUT HOPE THAT IS SEEN IS NOT HOPE- FOR WHAT A MAN SEETH
WHY DOTH HE YET HOPE FOR?
/8-25- BUT IF WE HOPE FOR THAT WE SEE NOT
THEN DO WE WITH PATIENCE WAIT FOR IT.
/8-26- LIKEWISE THE SPIRIT ALSO HELPETH OUR INFIRMITIES- FOR WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE SHOULD PRAY FOR AS WE OUGHT- BUT THE SPIRIT ITSELF MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US WITH GROANINGS WHICH CANNOT BE UTTERED.
/8-27- AND HE THAT SEARCHETH THE HEARTS KNOWETH WHAT IS THE MIND OF THE SPIRIT
BECAUSE HE MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR THE SAINTS ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD.
/8-28- AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD
TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
/8-29- FOR WHOM HE DID FOREKNOW
HE ALSO DID PREDESTINATE TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON
THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN.
/8-30- MOREOVER WHOM HE DID PREDESTINATE
THEM HE ALSO CALLED- AND WHOM HE CALLED
THEM HE ALSO JUSTIFIED- AND WHOM HE JUSTIFIED
THEM HE ALSO GLORIFIED.
/8-31- WHAT SHALL WE THEN SAY TO THESE THINGS? IF GOD BE FOR US
WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?
/8-32- HE THAT SPARED NOT HIS OWN SON
BUT DELIVERED HIM UP FOR US ALL
HOW SHALL HE NOT WITH HIM ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?
/8-33- WHO SHALL LAY ANY THING TO THE CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT? IT IS GOD THAT JUSTIFIETH.
/8-34- WHO IS HE THAT CONDEMNETH? IT IS CHRIST THAT DIED
YEA RATHER
THAT IS RISEN AGAIN
WHO IS EVEN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD
WHO ALSO MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US.
/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?
/8-36- AS IT IS WRITTEN
FOR THY SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.
/8-37- NAY
IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED US.
/8-38- FOR I AM PERSUADED
THAT NEITHER DEATH
NOR LIFE
NOR ANGELS
NOR PRINCIPALITIES
NOR POWERS
NOR THINGS PRESENT
NOR THINGS TO COME
/8-39- NOR HEIGHT
NOR DEPTH
NOR ANY OTHER CREATURE
SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD
WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.
/9-1- I SAY THE TRUTH IN CHRIST
I LIE NOT
MY CONSCIENCE ALSO BEARING ME WITNESS IN THE HOLY GHOST
/9-2- THAT I HAVE GREAT HEAVINESS AND CONTINUAL SORROW IN MY HEART.
/9-3- FOR I COULD WISH THAT MYSELF WERE ACCURSED FROM CHRIST FOR MY BRETHREN
MY KINSMEN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH-
/9-4- WHO ARE ISRAELITES TO WHOM PERTAINETH THE ADOPTION
AND THE GLORY
AND THE COVENANTS
AND THE GIVING OF THE LAW
AND THE SERVICE OF GOD
AND THE PROMISES
/9-5- WHOSE ARE THE FATHERS
AND OF WHOM AS CONCERNING THE FLESH CHRIST CAME
WHO IS OVER ALL
GOD BLESSED FOR EVER. AMEN.
/9-6- NOT AS THOUGH THE WORD OF GOD HATH TAKEN NONE EFFECT. FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL
WHICH ARE OF ISRAEL-
/9-7- NEITHER
BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SEED OF ABRAHAM
ARE THEY ALL CHILDREN- BUT
IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED.
/9-8- THAT IS
THEY WHICH ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FLESH
THESE ARE NOT THE CHILDREN OF GOD- BUT THE CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE ARE COUNTED FOR THE SEED.
/9-9- FOR THIS IS THE WORD OF PROMISE
AT THIS TIME WILL I COME
AND SARA SHALL HAVE A SON.
/9-10- AND NOT ONLY THIS BUT WHEN REBECCA ALSO HAD CONCEIVED BY ONE
EVEN BY OUR FATHER ISAAC
/9-11- (FOR THE CHILDREN BEING NOT YET BORN
NEITHER HAVING DONE ANY GOOD OR EVIL
THAT THE PURPOSE OF GOD ACCORDING TO ELECTION MIGHT STAND
NOT OF WORKS
BUT OF HIM THAT CALLETH)
/9-12- IT WAS SAID UNTO HER
THE ELDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER.
/9-13- AS IT IS WRITTEN
JACOB HAVE I LOVED
BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED.
/9-14- WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD? GOD FORBID.
/9-15- FOR HE SAITH TO MOSES
I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I WILL HAVE MERCY
AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I WILL HAVE COMPASSION.
/9-16- SO THEN IT IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH
NOR OF HIM THAT RUNNETH
BUT OF GOD THAT SHEWETH MERCY.
/9-17- FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAITH UNTO PHARAOH
EVEN FOR THIS SAME PURPOSE HAVE I RAISED THEE UP
THAT I MIGHT SHEW MY POWER IN THEE
AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE DECLARED THROUGHOUT ALL THE EARTH.
/9-18- THEREFORE HATH HE MERCY ON WHOM HE WILL HAVE MERCY
AND WHOM HE WILL HE HARDENETH.
/9-19- THOU WILT SAY THEN UNTO ME
WHY DOTH HE YET FIND FAULT? FOR WHO HATH RESISTED HIS WILL?
/9-20- NAY BUT
O MAN
WHO ART THOU THAT REPLIEST AGAINST GOD? SHALL THE THING FORMED SAY TO HIM THAT FORMED IT
WHY HAST THOU MADE ME THUS?
/9-21- HATH NOT THE POTTER POWER OVER THE CLAY
OF THE SAME LUMP TO MAKE ONE VESSEL UNTO HONOUR
AND ANOTHER UNTO DISHONOUR?
/9-22- WHAT IF GOD
WILLING TO SHEW HIS WRATH
AND TO MAKE HIS POWER KNOWN
ENDURED WITH MUCH LONGSUFFERING THE VESSELS OF WRATH FITTED TO DESTRUCTION-
/9-23- AND THAT HE MIGHT MAKE KNOWN THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY ON THE VESSELS OF MERCY
WHICH HE HAD AFORE PREPARED UNTO GLORY
/9-24- EVEN US
WHOM HE HATH CALLED
NOT OF THE JEWS ONLY
BUT ALSO OF THE GENTILES?
/9-25- AS HE SAITH ALSO IN OSEE
I WILL CALL THEM MY PEOPLE
WHICH WERE NOT MY PEOPLE AND HER BELOVED
WHICH WAS NOT BELOVED.
/9-26- AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS
THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID UNTO THEM
YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE THERE SHALL THEY BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF THE LIVING GOD.
/9-27- ESAIAS ALSO CRIETH CONCERNING ISRAEL
THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA
A REMNANT SHALL BE SAVED-
/9-28- FOR HE WILL FINISH THE WORK
AND CUT IT SHORT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS- BECAUSE A SHORT WORK WILL THE LORD MAKE UPON THE EARTH.
/9-29- AND AS ESAIAS SAID BEFORE
EXCEPT THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT US A SEED
WE HAD BEEN AS SODOMA
AND BEEN MADE LIKE UNTO GOMORRHA.
/9-30- WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? THAT THE GENTILES
WHICH FOLLOWED NOT AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS
HAVE ATTAINED TO RIGHTEOUSNESS
EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF FAITH.
/9-31- BUT ISRAEL
WHICH FOLLOWED AFTER THE LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
HATH NOT ATTAINED TO THE LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
/9-32- WHEREFORE? BECAUSE THEY SOUGHT IT NOT BY FAITH
BUT AS IT WERE BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW. FOR THEY STUMBLED AT THAT STUMBLINGSTONE
/9-33- AS IT IS WRITTEN
BEHOLD
I LAY IN SION A STUMBLINGSTONE AND ROCK OF OFFENCE- AND WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED.
/10-1- BRETHREN
MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO GOD FOR ISRAEL IS
THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
/10-2- FOR I BEAR THEM RECORD THAT THEY HAVE A ZEAL OF GOD
BUT NOT ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE.
/10-3- FOR THEY BEING IGNORANT OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND GOING ABOUT TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS
HAVE NOT SUBMITTED THEMSELVES UNTO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.
/10-4- FOR CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH.
/10-5- FOR MOSES DESCRIBETH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF THE LAW
THAT THE MAN WHICH DOETH THOSE THINGS SHALL LIVE BY THEM.
/10-6- BUT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF FAITH SPEAKETH ON THIS WISE
SAY NOT IN THINE HEART
WHO SHALL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN? (THAT IS
TO BRING CHRIST DOWN FROM ABOVE-)
/10-7- OR
WHO SHALL DESCEND INTO THE DEEP? (THAT IS
TO BRING UP CHRIST AGAIN FROM THE DEAD.)
/10-8- BUT WHAT SAITH IT? THE WORD IS NIGH THEE
EVEN IN THY MOUTH
AND IN THY HEART- THAT IS
THE WORD OF FAITH
WHICH WE PREACH
/10-9- THAT IF THOU SHALT CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH THE LORD JESUS
AND SHALT BELIEVE IN THINE HEART THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD
THOU SHALT BE SAVED.
/10-10- FOR WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVETH UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION.
/10-11- FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAITH
WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED.
/10-12- FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GREEK- FOR THE SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.
/10-13- FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.
/10-14- HOW THEN 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?
/10-15- AND HOW SHALL THEY PREACH
EXCEPT THEY BE SENT? AS IT IS WRITTEN
HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THEM THAT PREACH THE GOSPEL OF PEACE
AND BRING GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD THINGS!
/10-16- BUT THEY HAVE NOT ALL OBEYED THE GOSPEL. FOR ESAIAS SAITH
LORD
WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT?
/10-17- SO THEN FAITH COMETH BY HEARING
AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD.
/10-18- BUT I SAY
HAVE THEY NOT HEARD? YES VERILY
THEIR SOUND WENT INTO ALL THE EARTH
AND THEIR WORDS UNTO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD.
/10-19- BUT I SAY
DID NOT ISRAEL KNOW? FIRST MOSES SAITH
I WILL PROVOKE YOU TO JEALOUSY BY THEM THAT ARE NO PEOPLE
AND BY A FOOLISH NATION I WILL ANGER YOU.
/10-20- BUT ESAIAS IS VERY BOLD
AND SAITH
I WAS FOUND OF THEM THAT SOUGHT ME NOT I WAS MADE MANIFEST UNTO THEM THAT ASKED NOT AFTER ME.
/10-21- BUT TO ISRAEL HE SAITH
ALL DAY LONG I HAVE STRETCHED FORTH MY HANDS UNTO A DISOBEDIENT AND GAINSAYING PEOPLE.
/11-1- I SAY THEN
HATH GOD CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE? GOD FORBID. FOR I ALSO AM AN ISRAELITE
OF THE SEED OF ABRAHAM
OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN.
/11-2- GOD HATH NOT CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE WHICH HE FOREKNEW. WOT YE NOT WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAITH OF ELIAS? HOW HE MAKETH INTERCESSION TO GOD AGAINST ISRAEL
SAYING
/11-3- LORD
THEY HAVE KILLED THY PROPHETS
AND DIGGED DOWN THINE ALTARS AND I AM LEFT ALONE
AND THEY SEEK MY LIFE.
/11-4- BUT WHAT SAITH THE ANSWER OF GOD UNTO HIM? I HAVE RESERVED TO MYSELF SEVEN THOUSAND MEN
WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO THE IMAGE OF BAAL.
/11-5- EVEN SO THEN AT THIS PRESENT TIME ALSO THERE IS A REMNANT ACCORDING TO THE ELECTION OF GRACE.
/11-6- AND IF BY GRACE
THEN IS IT NO MORE OF WORKS- OTHERWISE GRACE IS NO MORE GRACE. BUT IF IT BE OF WORKS
THEN IS IT NO MORE GRACE- OTHERWISE WORK IS NO MORE WORK.
/11-7- WHAT THEN? ISRAEL HATH NOT OBTAINED THAT WHICH HE SEEKETH FOR BUT THE ELECTION HATH OBTAINED IT
AND THE REST WERE BLINDED
/11-8- (ACCORDING AS IT IS WRITTEN
GOD HATH GIVEN THEM THE SPIRIT OF SLUMBER
EYES THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SEE
AND EARS THAT THEY SHOULD NOT HEAR) UNTO THIS DAY.
/11-9- AND DAVID SAITH
LET THEIR TABLE BE MADE A SNARE
AND A TRAP
AND A STUMBLINGBLOCK
AND A RECOMPENCE UNTO THEM-
/11-10- LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED
THAT THEY MAY NOT SEE
AND BOW DOWN THEIR BACK ALWAY.
/11-11- I SAY THEN
HAVE THEY STUMBLED THAT THEY SHOULD FALL? GOD FORBID- BUT RATHER THROUGH THEIR FALL SALVATION IS COME UNTO THE GENTILES
FOR TO PROVOKE THEM TO JEALOUSY.
/11-12- NOW IF THE FALL OF THEM BE THE RICHES OF THE WORLD
AND THE DIMINISHING OF THEM THE RICHES OF THE GENTILES HOW MUCH MORE THEIR FULNESS?
/11-13- FOR I SPEAK TO YOU GENTILES
INASMUCH AS I AM THE APOSTLE OF THE GENTILES
I MAGNIFY MINE OFFICE-
/11-14- IF BY ANY MEANS I MAY PROVOKE TO EMULATION THEM WHICH ARE MY FLESH
AND MIGHT SAVE SOME OF THEM.
/11-15- FOR IF THE CASTING AWAY OF THEM BE THE RECONCILING OF THE WORLD
WHAT SHALL THE RECEIVING OF THEM BE
BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD?
/11-16- FOR IF THE FIRSTFRUIT BE HOLY
THE LUMP IS ALSO HOLY- AND IF THE ROOT BE HOLY
SO ARE THE BRANCHES.
/11-17- AND IF SOME OF THE BRANCHES BE BROKEN OFF
AND THOU
BEING A WILD OLIVE TREE
WERT GRAFFED IN AMONG THEM
AND WITH THEM PARTAKEST OF THE ROOT AND FATNESS OF THE OLIVE TREE
/11-18- BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES. BUT IF THOU BOAST
THOU BEAREST NOT THE ROOT
BUT THE ROOT THEE.
/11-19- THOU WILT SAY THEN
THE BRANCHES WERE BROKEN OFF
THAT I MIGHT BE GRAFFED IN.
/11-20- WELL BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF THEY WERE BROKEN OFF
AND THOU STANDEST BY FAITH. BE NOT HIGHMINDED
BUT FEAR-
/11-21- FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE NATURAL BRANCHES
TAKE HEED LEST HE ALSO SPARE NOT THEE.
/11-22- BEHOLD THEREFORE THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD- ON THEM WHICH FELL
SEVERITY BUT TOWARD THEE
GOODNESS
IF THOU CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS- OTHERWISE THOU ALSO SHALT BE CUT OFF.
/11-23- AND THEY ALSO
IF THEY ABIDE NOT STILL IN UNBELIEF
SHALL BE GRAFFED IN- FOR GOD IS ABLE TO GRAFF THEM IN AGAIN.
/11-24- FOR IF THOU WERT CUT OUT OF THE OLIVE TREE WHICH IS WILD BY NATURE
AND WERT GRAFFED CONTRARY TO NATURE INTO A GOOD OLIVE TREE- HOW MUCH MORE SHALL THESE
WHICH BE THE NATURAL BRANCHES
BE GRAFFED INTO THEIR OWN OLIVE TREE?
/11-25- FOR I WOULD NOT
BRETHREN
THAT YE SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY
LEST YE SHOULD BE WISE IN YOUR OWN CONCEITS THAT BLINDNESS IN PART IS HAPPENED TO ISRAEL
UNTIL THE FULNESS OF THE GENTILES BE COME IN.
/11-26- AND SO ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED- AS IT IS WRITTEN
THERE SHALL COME OUT OF SION THE DELIVERER
AND SHALL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB-
/11-27- FOR THIS IS MY COVENANT UNTO THEM
WHEN I SHALL TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.
/11-28- AS CONCERNING THE GOSPEL
THEY ARE ENEMIES FOR YOUR SAKES- BUT AS TOUCHING THE ELECTION
THEY ARE BELOVED FOR THE FATHERS' SAKES.
/11-29- FOR THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE.
/11-30- FOR AS YE IN TIMES PAST HAVE NOT BELIEVED GOD
YET HAVE NOW OBTAINED MERCY THROUGH THEIR UNBELIEF-
/11-31- EVEN SO HAVE THESE ALSO NOW NOT BELIEVED
THAT THROUGH YOUR MERCY THEY ALSO MAY OBTAIN MERCY.
/11-32- FOR GOD HATH CONCLUDED THEM ALL IN UNBELIEF
THAT HE MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL.
/11-33- O THE DEPTH OF THE RICHES BOTH OF THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! HOW UNSEARCHABLE ARE HIS JUDGMENTS
AND HIS WAYS PAST FINDING OUT!
/11-34- FOR WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD? OR WHO HATH BEEN HIS COUNSELLOR?
/11-35- OR WHO HATH FIRST GIVEN TO HIM
AND IT SHALL BE RECOMPENSED UNTO HIM AGAIN?
/11-36- FOR OF HIM
AND THROUGH HIM
AND TO HIM
ARE ALL THINGS- TO WHOM BE GLORY FOR EVER. AMEN.
/12-1- I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE
BRETHREN
BY THE MERCIES OF GOD
THAT YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE
HOLY
ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD
WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE.
/12-2- AND BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD- BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND
THAT YE MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD
AND ACCEPTABLE
AND PERFECT
WILL OF GOD.
/12-3- FOR I SAY
THROUGH THE GRACE GIVEN UNTO ME
TO EVERY MAN THAT IS AMONG YOU
NOT TO THINK OF HIMSELF MORE HIGHLY THAN HE OUGHT TO THINK BUT TO THINK SOBERLY
ACCORDING AS GOD HATH DEALT TO EVERY MAN THE MEASURE OF FAITH.
/12-4- FOR AS WE HAVE MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY
AND ALL MEMBERS HAVE NOT THE SAME OFFICE-
/12-5- SO WE
BEING MANY
ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST
AND EVERY ONE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER.
/12-6- HAVING THEN GIFTS DIFFERING ACCORDING TO THE GRACE THAT IS GIVEN TO US
WHETHER PROPHECY
LET US PROPHESY ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF FAITH
/12-7- OR MINISTRY
LET US WAIT ON OUR MINISTERING- OR HE THAT TEACHETH
ON TEACHING
/12-8- OR HE THAT EXHORTETH
ON EXHORTATION- HE THAT GIVETH
LET HIM DO IT WITH SIMPLICITY HE THAT RULETH
WITH DILIGENCE HE THAT SHEWETH MERCY
WITH CHEERFULNESS.
/12-9- LET LOVE BE WITHOUT DISSIMULATION. ABHOR THAT WHICH IS EVIL CLEAVE TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD.
/12-10- BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED ONE TO ANOTHER WITH BROTHERLY LOVE IN HONOUR PREFERRING ONE ANOTHER
/12-11- NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS FERVENT IN SPIRIT SERVING THE LORD
/12-12- REJOICING IN HOPE PATIENT IN TRIBULATION CONTINUING INSTANT IN PRAYER
/12-13- DISTRIBUTING TO THE NECESSITY OF SAINTS GIVEN TO HOSPITALITY.
/12-14- BLESS THEM WHICH PERSECUTE YOU- BLESS
AND CURSE NOT.
/12-15- REJOICE WITH THEM THAT DO REJOICE
AND WEEP WITH THEM THAT WEEP.
/12-16- BE OF THE SAME MIND ONE TOWARD ANOTHER. MIND NOT HIGH THINGS
BUT CONDESCEND TO MEN OF LOW ESTATE. BE NOT WISE IN YOUR OWN CONCEITS.
/12-17- RECOMPENSE TO NO MAN EVIL FOR EVIL. PROVIDE THINGS HONEST IN THE SIGHT OF ALL MEN.
/12-18- IF IT BE POSSIBLE
AS MUCH AS LIETH IN YOU
LIVE PEACEABLY WITH ALL MEN.
/12-19- DEARLY BELOVED
AVENGE NOT YOURSELVES
BUT RATHER GIVE PLACE UNTO WRATH- FOR IT IS WRITTEN
VENGEANCE IS MINE I WILL REPAY
SAITH THE LORD.
/12-20- THEREFORE IF THINE ENEMY HUNGER
FEED HIM IF HE THIRST
GIVE HIM DRINK- FOR IN SO DOING THOU SHALT HEAP COALS OF FIRE ON HIS HEAD.
/12-21- BE NOT OVERCOME OF EVIL
BUT OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD.
/13-1- LET EVERY SOUL BE SUBJECT UNTO THE HIGHER POWERS. FOR THERE IS NO POWER BUT OF GOD- THE POWERS THAT BE ARE ORDAINED OF GOD.
/13-2- WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH THE POWER
RESISTETH THE ORDINANCE OF GOD- AND THEY THAT RESIST SHALL RECEIVE TO THEMSELVES DAMNATION.
/13-3- FOR RULERS ARE NOT A TERROR TO GOOD WORKS
BUT TO THE EVIL. WILT THOU THEN NOT BE AFRAID OF THE POWER? DO THAT WHICH IS GOOD
AND THOU SHALT HAVE PRAISE OF THE SAME-
/13-4- FOR HE IS THE MINISTER OF GOD TO THEE FOR GOOD. BUT IF THOU DO THAT WHICH IS EVIL
BE AFRAID FOR HE BEARETH NOT THE SWORD IN VAIN- FOR HE IS THE MINISTER OF GOD
A REVENGER TO EXECUTE WRATH UPON HIM THAT DOETH EVIL.
/13-5- WHEREFORE YE MUST NEEDS BE SUBJECT
NOT ONLY FOR WRATH
BUT ALSO FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE.
/13-6- FOR FOR THIS CAUSE PAY YE TRIBUTE ALSO- FOR THEY ARE GOD'S MINISTERS
ATTENDING CONTINUALLY UPON THIS VERY THING.
/13-7- RENDER THEREFORE TO ALL THEIR DUES- TRIBUTE TO WHOM TRIBUTE IS DUE CUSTOM TO WHOM CUSTOM FEAR TO WHOM FEAR HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR.
/13-8- OWE NO MAN ANY THING
BUT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER- FOR HE THAT LOVETH ANOTHER HATH FULFILLED THE LAW.
/13-9- FOR THIS
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY
THOU SHALT NOT KILL
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
THOU SHALT NOT COVET AND IF THERE BE ANY OTHER COMMANDMENT
IT IS BRIEFLY COMPREHENDED IN THIS SAYING
NAMELY
THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF.
/13-10- LOVE WORKETH NO ILL TO HIS NEIGHBOUR- THEREFORE LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW.
/13-11- AND THAT
KNOWING THE TIME
THAT NOW IT IS HIGH TIME TO AWAKE OUT OF SLEEP- FOR NOW IS OUR SALVATION NEARER THAN WHEN WE BELIEVED.
/13-12- THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT
THE DAY IS AT HAND- LET US THEREFORE CAST OFF THE WORKS OF DARKNESS
AND LET US PUT ON THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT.
/13-13- LET US WALK HONESTLY
AS IN THE DAY NOT IN RIOTING AND DRUNKENNESS
NOT IN CHAMBERING AND WANTONNESS
NOT IN STRIFE AND ENVYING.
/13-14- BUT PUT YE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
AND MAKE NOT PROVISION FOR THE FLESH
TO FULFIL THE LUSTS THEREOF.
/14-1- HIM THAT IS WEAK IN THE FAITH RECEIVE YE
BUT NOT TO DOUBTFUL DISPUTATIONS.
/14-2- FOR ONE BELIEVETH THAT HE MAY EAT ALL THINGS- ANOTHER
WHO IS WEAK
EATETH HERBS.
/14-3- LET NOT HIM THAT EATETH DESPISE HIM THAT EATETH NOT AND LET NOT HIM WHICH EATETH NOT JUDGE HIM THAT EATETH- FOR GOD HATH RECEIVED HIM.
/14-4- WHO ART THOU THAT JUDGEST ANOTHER MAN'S SERVANT? TO HIS OWN MASTER HE STANDETH OR FALLETH. YEA
HE SHALL BE HOLDEN UP- FOR GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE HIM STAND.
/14-5- ONE MAN ESTEEMETH ONE DAY ABOVE ANOTHER- ANOTHER ESTEEMETH EVERY DAY ALIKE. LET EVERY MAN BE FULLY PERSUADED IN HIS OWN MIND.
/14-6- HE THAT REGARDETH THE DAY
REGARDETH IT UNTO THE LORD AND HE THAT REGARDETH NOT THE DAY
TO THE LORD HE DOTH NOT REGARD IT. HE THAT EATETH
EATETH TO THE LORD
FOR HE GIVETH GOD THANKS AND HE THAT EATETH NOT
TO THE LORD HE EATETH NOT
AND GIVETH GOD THANKS.
/14-7- FOR NONE OF US LIVETH TO HIMSELF
AND NO MAN DIETH TO HIMSELF.
/14-8- FOR WHETHER WE LIVE
WE LIVE UNTO THE LORD AND WHETHER WE DIE
WE DIE UNTO THE LORD- WHETHER WE LIVE THEREFORE
OR DIE
WE ARE THE LORD'S.
/14-9- FOR TO THIS END CHRIST BOTH DIED
AND ROSE
AND REVIVED
THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD BOTH OF THE DEAD AND LIVING.
/14-10- BUT WHY DOST THOU JUDGE THY BROTHER? OR WHY DOST THOU SET AT NOUGHT THY BROTHER? FOR WE SHALL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST.
/14-11- FOR IT IS WRITTEN
AS I LIVE
SAITH THE LORD
EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME
AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD.
/14-12- SO THEN EVERY ONE OF US SHALL GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF TO GOD.
/14-13- LET US NOT THEREFORE JUDGE ONE ANOTHER ANY MORE- BUT JUDGE THIS RATHER
THAT NO MAN PUT A STUMBLINGBLOCK OR AN OCCASION TO FALL IN HIS BROTHER'S WAY.
/14-14- I KNOW
AND AM PERSUADED BY THE LORD JESUS
THAT THERE IS NOTHING UNCLEAN OF ITSELF- BUT TO HIM THAT ESTEEMETH ANY THING TO BE UNCLEAN
TO HIM IT IS UNCLEAN.
/14-15- BUT IF THY BROTHER BE GRIEVED WITH THY MEAT
NOW WALKEST THOU NOT CHARITABLY. DESTROY NOT HIM WITH THY MEAT
FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED.
/14-16- LET NOT THEN YOUR GOOD BE EVIL SPOKEN OF-
/14-17- FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND PEACE
AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST.
/14-18- FOR HE THAT IN THESE THINGS SERVETH CHRIST IS ACCEPTABLE TO GOD
AND APPROVED OF MEN.
/14-19- LET US THEREFORE FOLLOW AFTER THE THINGS WHICH MAKE FOR PEACE
AND THINGS WHEREWITH ONE MAY EDIFY ANOTHER.
/14-20- FOR MEAT DESTROY NOT THE WORK OF GOD. ALL THINGS INDEED ARE PURE BUT IT IS EVIL FOR THAT MAN WHO EATETH WITH OFFENCE.
/14-21- IT IS GOOD NEITHER TO EAT FLESH
NOR TO DRINK WINE
NOR ANY THING WHEREBY THY BROTHER STUMBLETH
OR IS OFFENDED
OR IS MADE WEAK.
/14-22- HAST THOU FAITH? HAVE IT TO THYSELF BEFORE GOD. HAPPY IS HE THAT CONDEMNETH NOT HIMSELF IN THAT THING WHICH HE ALLOWETH.
/14-23- AND HE THAT DOUBTETH IS DAMNED IF HE EAT
BECAUSE HE EATETH NOT OF FAITH- FOR WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN.
/15-1- WE THEN THAT ARE STRONG OUGHT TO BEAR THE INFIRMITIES OF THE WEAK
AND NOT TO PLEASE OURSELVES.
/15-2- LET EVERY ONE OF US PLEASE HIS NEIGHBOUR FOR HIS GOOD TO EDIFICATION.
/15-3- FOR EVEN CHRIST PLEASED NOT HIMSELF BUT
AS IT IS WRITTEN
THE REPROACHES OF THEM THAT REPROACHED THEE FELL ON ME.
/15-4- FOR WHATSOEVER THINGS WERE WRITTEN AFORETIME WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING
THAT WE THROUGH PATIENCE AND COMFORT OF THE SCRIPTURES MIGHT HAVE HOPE.
/15-5- NOW THE GOD OF PATIENCE AND CONSOLATION GRANT YOU TO BE LIKEMINDED ONE TOWARD ANOTHER ACCORDING TO CHRIST JESUS-
/15-6- THAT YE MAY WITH ONE MIND AND ONE MOUTH GLORIFY GOD
EVEN THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
/15-7- WHEREFORE RECEIVE YE ONE ANOTHER
AS CHRIST ALSO RECEIVED US TO THE GLORY OF GOD.
/15-8- NOW I SAY THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS A MINISTER OF THE CIRCUMCISION FOR THE TRUTH OF GOD
TO CONFIRM THE PROMISES MADE UNTO THE FATHERS-
/15-9- AND THAT THE GENTILES MIGHT GLORIFY GOD FOR HIS MERCY AS IT IS WRITTEN
FOR THIS CAUSE I WILL CONFESS TO THEE AMONG THE GENTILES
AND SING UNTO THY NAME.
/15-10- AND AGAIN HE SAITH
REJOICE
YE GENTILES
WITH HIS PEOPLE.
/15-11- AND AGAIN
PRAISE THE LORD
ALL YE GENTILES AND LAUD HIM
ALL YE PEOPLE.
/15-12- AND AGAIN
ESAIAS SAITH
THERE SHALL BE A ROOT OF JESSE
AND HE THAT SHALL RISE TO REIGN OVER THE GENTILES IN HIM SHALL THE GENTILES TRUST.
/15-13- NOW THE GOD OF HOPE FILL YOU WITH ALL JOY AND PEACE IN BELIEVING
THAT YE MAY ABOUND IN HOPE
THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST.
/15-14- AND I MYSELF ALSO AM PERSUADED OF YOU
MY BRETHREN
THAT YE ALSO ARE FULL OF GOODNESS
FILLED WITH ALL KNOWLEDGE
ABLE ALSO TO ADMONISH ONE ANOTHER.
/15-15- NEVERTHELESS
BRETHREN
I HAVE WRITTEN THE MORE BOLDLY UNTO YOU IN SOME SORT
AS PUTTING YOU IN MIND
BECAUSE OF THE GRACE THAT IS GIVEN TO ME OF GOD
/15-16- THAT I SHOULD BE THE MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE GENTILES
MINISTERING THE GOSPEL OF GOD
THAT THE OFFERING UP OF THE GENTILES MIGHT BE ACCEPTABLE
BEING SANCTIFIED BY THE HOLY GHOST.
/15-17- I HAVE THEREFORE WHEREOF I MAY GLORY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST IN THOSE THINGS WHICH PERTAIN TO GOD.
/15-18- FOR I WILL NOT DARE TO SPEAK OF ANY OF THOSE THINGS WHICH CHRIST HATH NOT WROUGHT BY ME
TO MAKE THE GENTILES OBEDIENT
BY WORD AND DEED
/15-19- THROUGH MIGHTY SIGNS AND WONDERS
BY THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD SO THAT FROM JERUSALEM
AND ROUND ABOUT UNTO ILLYRICUM
I HAVE FULLY PREACHED THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
/15-20- YEA
SO HAVE I STRIVED TO PREACH THE GOSPEL
NOT WHERE CHRIST WAS NAMED
LEST I SHOULD BUILD UPON ANOTHER MAN'S FOUNDATION-
/15-21- BUT AS IT IS WRITTEN
TO WHOM HE WAS NOT SPOKEN OF
THEY SHALL SEE- AND THEY THAT HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL UNDERSTAND.
/15-22- FOR WHICH CAUSE ALSO I HAVE BEEN MUCH HINDERED FROM COMING TO YOU.
/15-23- BUT NOW HAVING NO MORE PLACE IN THESE PARTS
AND HAVING A GREAT DESIRE THESE MANY YEARS TO COME UNTO YOU
/15-24- WHENSOEVER I TAKE MY JOURNEY INTO SPAIN
I WILL COME TO YOU- FOR I TRUST TO SEE YOU IN MY JOURNEY
AND TO BE BROUGHT ON MY WAY THITHERWARD BY YOU
IF FIRST I BE SOMEWHAT FILLED WITH YOUR COMPANY.
/15-25- BUT NOW I GO UNTO JERUSALEM TO MINISTER UNTO THE SAINTS.
/15-26- FOR IT HATH PLEASED THEM OF MACEDONIA AND ACHAIA TO MAKE A CERTAIN CONTRIBUTION FOR THE POOR SAINTS WHICH ARE AT JERUSALEM.
/15-27- IT HATH PLEASED THEM VERILY AND THEIR DEBTORS THEY ARE. FOR IF THE GENTILES HAVE BEEN MADE PARTAKERS OF THEIR SPIRITUAL THINGS
THEIR DUTY IS ALSO TO MINISTER UNTO THEM IN CARNAL THINGS.
/15-28- WHEN THEREFORE I HAVE PERFORMED THIS
AND HAVE SEALED TO THEM THIS FRUIT
I WILL COME BY YOU INTO SPAIN.
/15-29- AND I AM SURE THAT
WHEN I COME UNTO YOU
I SHALL COME IN THE FULNESS OF THE BLESSING OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
/15-30- NOW I BESEECH YOU
BRETHREN
FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST'S SAKE
AND FOR THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT
THAT YE STRIVE TOGETHER WITH ME IN YOUR PRAYERS TO GOD FOR ME
/15-31- THAT I MAY BE DELIVERED FROM THEM THAT DO NOT BELIEVE IN JUDAEA AND THAT MY SERVICE WHICH I HAVE FOR JERUSALEM MAY BE ACCEPTED OF THE SAINTS
/15-32- THAT I MAY COME UNTO YOU WITH JOY BY THE WILL OF GOD
AND MAY WITH YOU BE REFRESHED.
/15-33- NOW THE GOD OF PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.
/16-1- I COMMEND UNTO YOU PHEBE OUR SISTER
WHICH IS A SERVANT OF THE CHURCH WHICH IS AT CENCHREA-
/16-2- THAT YE RECEIVE HER IN THE LORD
AS BECOMETH SAINTS
AND THAT YE ASSIST HER IN WHATSOEVER BUSINESS SHE HATH NEED OF YOU- FOR SHE HATH BEEN A SUCCOURER OF MANY
AND OF MYSELF ALSO.
/16-3- GREET PRISCILLA AND AQUILA MY HELPERS IN CHRIST JESUS-
/16-4- WHO HAVE FOR MY LIFE LAID DOWN THEIR OWN NECKS- UNTO WHOM NOT ONLY I GIVE THANKS
BUT ALSO ALL THE CHURCHES OF THE GENTILES.
/16-5- LIKEWISE GREET THE CHURCH THAT IS IN THEIR HOUSE. SALUTE MY WELLBELOVED EPAENETUS
WHO IS THE FIRSTFRUITS OF ACHAIA UNTO CHRIST.
/16-6- GREET MARY
WHO BESTOWED MUCH LABOUR ON US.
/16-7- SALUTE ANDRONICUS AND JUNIA
MY KINSMEN
AND MY FELLOWPRISONERS
WHO ARE OF NOTE AMONG THE APOSTLES
WHO ALSO WERE IN CHRIST BEFORE ME.
/16-8- GREET AMPLIAS MY BELOVED IN THE LORD.
/16-9- SALUTE URBANE
OUR HELPER IN CHRIST
AND STACHYS MY BELOVED.
/16-10- SALUTE APELLES APPROVED IN CHRIST. SALUTE THEM WHICH ARE OF ARISTOBULUS' HOUSEHOLD.
/16-11- SALUTE HERODION MY KINSMAN. GREET THEM THAT BE OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF NARCISSUS
WHICH ARE IN THE LORD.
/16-12- SALUTE TRYPHENA AND TRYPHOSA
WHO LABOUR IN THE LORD. SALUTE THE BELOVED PERSIS
WHICH LABOURED MUCH IN THE LORD.
/16-13- SALUTE RUFUS CHOSEN IN THE LORD
AND HIS MOTHER AND MINE.
/16-14- SALUTE ASYNCRITUS
PHLEGON
HERMAS
PATROBAS
HERMES
AND THE BRETHREN WHICH ARE WITH THEM.
/16-15- SALUTE PHILOLOGUS
AND JULIA
NEREUS
AND HIS SISTER
AND OLYMPAS
AND ALL THE SAINTS WHICH ARE WITH THEM.
/16-16- SALUTE ONE ANOTHER WITH AN HOLY KISS. THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST SALUTE YOU.
/16-17- NOW I BESEECH YOU
BRETHREN
MARK THEM WHICH CAUSE DIVISIONS AND OFFENCES CONTRARY TO THE DOCTRINE WHICH YE HAVE LEARNED AND AVOID THEM.
/16-18- FOR THEY THAT ARE SUCH SERVE NOT OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
BUT THEIR OWN BELLY AND BY GOOD WORDS AND FAIR SPEECHES DECEIVE THE HEARTS OF THE SIMPLE.
/16-19- FOR YOUR OBEDIENCE IS COME ABROAD UNTO ALL MEN. I AM GLAD THEREFORE ON YOUR BEHALF- BUT YET I WOULD HAVE YOU WISE UNTO THAT WHICH IS GOOD
AND SIMPLE CONCERNING EVIL.
/16-20- AND THE GOD OF PEACE SHALL BRUISE SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY. THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU. AMEN.
/16-21- TIMOTHEUS MY WORKFELLOW
AND LUCIUS
AND JASON
AND SOSIPATER
MY KINSMEN
SALUTE YOU.
/16-22- I TERTIUS
WHO WROTE THIS EPISTLE
SALUTE YOU IN THE LORD.
/16-23- GAIUS MINE HOST
AND OF THE WHOLE CHURCH
SALUTETH YOU. ERASTUS THE CHAMBERLAIN OF THE CITY SALUTETH YOU
AND QUARTUS A BROTHER.
/16-24- THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.
/16-25- NOW TO HIM THAT IS OF POWER TO STABLISH YOU ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL
AND THE PREACHING OF JESUS CHRIST
ACCORDING TO THE REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY
WHICH WAS KEPT SECRET SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN
/16-26- BUT NOW IS MADE MANIFEST
AND BY THE SCRIPTURES OF THE PROPHETS
ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF THE EVERLASTING GOD
MADE KNOWN TO ALL NATIONS FOR THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH-
/16-27- TO GOD ONLY WISE
BE GLORY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST FOR EVER. AMEN.
