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                        ROMANS 1
 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 showed [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 recompense 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.

                        ROMANS 2
 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 show 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.

                        ROMANS 3
 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.

                        ROMANS 4
 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 Sarah'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.

                        ROMANS 5
 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.

                        ROMANS 6
 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.

                        ROMANS 7
 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.

                        ROMANS 8
 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.

                        ROMANS 9
 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 Sarah 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 showeth mercy.
 9:17  For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same
purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show 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 show [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.

                        ROMANS 10
 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.

                        ROMANS 11
 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 recompense 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 grafted 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 grafted 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 grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
 11:24  For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is
wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good
olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural
[branches], be grafted 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.

                        ROMANS 12
 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 showeth 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.

                        ROMANS 13
 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].

                        ROMANS 14
 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.

                        ROMANS 15
 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.

                        ROMANS 16
 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.