Privileges of believers. CHAP. V, VI. Reign of Sin and Grace of many nations, according to that in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, which was spoken,So shall thy seed be, by whom we have now received the 19 And being not weak in faith, he atonement. considered not his own body now 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin endead, when he was about a hundred tered into the world, and death by sin; years old, neither yet the deadness ofjand so death passed upon all men, foi Sara's womb : 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God: 21 And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised he was able also to perform, 22 And therefore it was imputed to nim for righteousness. 23 Now, it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to hin; 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; 25 Who was delivered for our of fences, and was raised again for our justification. CHAP. V. that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not simed after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the fig ure of him that was to come. 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. 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 justilication. THEREFORE, being justified by 17 For if by one man's offence death faith, we have peace with God, reigned by one; much more they through our Lord Jesus Christ : which receive abundance of grace, 2 By whom also we bave access by and of the gift of righteousness, shall faith into this grace wherein we stand, reign in life by one, Jesus Christ :) nd rejoice in hope of the glory of 18 Therefore, as by the offence of God. one judgment came upon all men to 3 Aud not only so, but we glory in condemnation; even so by the righttribulation also: knowing that tribu-eousness of one the free gift came lation worketh patience; upon all men unto justification of life 4 And patience, experience; and ex- 19 For as by one man's disobedience. perience, hope: many were made sinners; so by the obedience of one shall many be made 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad | righteous. in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 20 Moreover, the law entered, that the offence might abound: but where 6 For when we were yet without sin abounded, grace did much more strength, in due time Christ died for abound; the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure_for a good man some would even dare to die. S But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justi-| fed by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness uuto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord, CHAP. VI. W HAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound ? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ,were baptized into his death? 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being 4 Therefore we are buried with him reconciled, we shall be saved by hislite, [by baptism into death; that like as 11. And not only so, but we also joy]Christ was raised up from the dead by Christian sanctification. ROMANS. Law inefficacious the glory of the Father, even so we things whereof ye are now asnamed also should walk in newness of life. for the end of those things is death. 5 For if we have been planted 22 But now, being made free from together in the likeness of his death, sin, and become servants to God, ye we shall be also in the likeness of his have your fruit unto holiness, and the resurrection. end everlasting life. 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. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAP. VII. KNOW ve not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) now that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 3 So then if, while her husband liv 2 For the woman which bath a husband is bound by the law to her hus band so long as he liveth: but if the 10 For in that he died, he died unto husband be dead, she is loosed from sin once: but in that he liveth,he liv-the law of her husband. eth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also your-eth, she be married to another man, selves to be dead indeed unto sin, but she shall be called an adulteress: but alive unto God through Jesus Christ if her husband be dead, she is free our Lord. from that law; so that she is no adul teress, though she be married to another man. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof: Wherefore, my brethren, ye also 13 Neither yield ye your members as are become dead to the law by the Instruments of unrighteousness unto body of Christ; that ye should be sin: but yield yourselves unto God,as married to another, even to him who those that are alive from the dead,and is raised from the dead,that we should your members as instruments of right- bring forth fruit unto God. eousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion ver you. for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 6 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. 15 What then? shall we sin,because 6 But now we are delivered from the we are not under the law, but under law, that being dead wherein we grace? God forbid. were held; that we should serve iu 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye newness of spirit, and not in the oldyield yourselves servants to obey, hisness of the letter. servants ye are to whom ye obey; 7 What shall we say then? Is the whether of sin unto death, or of obe-law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not dience unto righteousness? known sin but by the law: for I had 17 But God be thanked, that ye were not known lust, except the law had the servants of sin: but ye have obey-said, Thou shalt not covet. ed from the heart that form of doc 8 But sin, taking occasion by the trine which was delivered you. commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 18 Being then made free from sin,ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manuer of men,] 9 For I was alive without the law because of the infirmity of your flesh; once; but when the commandinent for as ye have yielded your members came, sin revived, and I died. servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, 10 And the commandment which unto iniquity; even so now yield your was ordained to life, 1 found to be members servants to righteousness, unto death. unto holiness. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandinent, deceived me and by it 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. slew me. 21 What fruit had ye then in those 12 Wherefore the low is holy, and Efficacy of the gospel. CHAP. VIII. the commandment boly, and just, and good. 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 inight become exceeding sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I bate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would aot, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 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. 19 For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now, if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 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. 24 () wretched man that I am! who aball deliver me from the body of this death? 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. CHAP. VIII. THERE is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Agency of the spirit. might be fulfilled in us, who walk not 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace : 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 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. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 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 inortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are dest ors, not to the flesh, to live after the desh. 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. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the soirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, where · by we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 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. 18 For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time arɛ not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the like ness of sinful flesh, and for sin con-in hope; demned sin in the flesh ; 21 Because, the creature itself also 4 That the righteousness of the law Ishall be delivered from the bondage of Grounds of assurance. the children of God. corruption into the glorious liberty of jare killed all the day long; we ar accounted as sheep for the slaughter) 37 Nay, m all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now: 23 And not only they, but ourselves 38 For I am persuaded, that neither also, which have the first-fruits of the death, nor life, nor angele, nor princiSpirit; even we ourselves groan with-palities, nor powers, nor things presin ourselves, waiting for the adoption, ent, nor things to come, to wit, the redemption of our body. 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 ? 25 But if we hope for that we see 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. CHAP. IX. not, then do we with patience witI SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, for it. 26 Likewise also the Spirit 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. my conscience also bearing me wit ness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom per 27 And he that searcheth the hearts taineth the adoption, and the glory, knoweth what is the mind of the Spir-and the covenants, and the giving of it, because he maketh intercession for the law, and the service of "God, and the saints according to the will of God. the promises; 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. 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he 6 Not as though the word of God also did predestinate to be conformed | hath taken none effect. For they are to the image of his Son, that he might not all Israel, which are of Israel: be the first born among many brethren. 7 Neither because they are the seed 30 Moreover, whom he did predes-of Abraham, are they all children · tinate, them he also called; and whom but, In Isaac shall thy seed be caller: he called, them he also justified; and 8 That is, They which are the chil whom he justified, them be also glori-dren of the flesh, these are not the fied. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 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? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?. It is God that justifieth. children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. 9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shali have a son. 10. And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, 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,) 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right 12 It was said unto her, The elder hand of God, who also maketh inter-shall serve the younger. cession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword P 36 (As it is written, For thy sake we 13 As it is written, Jacob hare I loved, but Esau bave 1 hated. 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?God forbid 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, Comfort in God's sovereignty. CHAP. X. Why sinners perish, and I will have compassion on whom eousness,even the righteousnesswhich 1 will have compassion. is of faith; 16 So then, it is not of lum that will eth, nor of him that rummeth, but of God that showeth mercy. 17 For the scriptures 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. 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law: for they stuinbled at that stumbling-stone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and rock of 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom offence: aud whosoever believeth on be will have mercy, and whom he will him shall not be ashamed. be bardeneth. CHAP. X. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why resisted his will? desireand prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For 1 bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 20 Nay but, Oman, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus ? 3 For they, being ignorant of God's 21 Hath not the potter power over righteousness, and going about to esthe clay, of the same lump to make tablish their own righteousness, one vessel unto honour, and another not submitted themselves unto unto dishonour? righteousness of God. have the 22 What if God, willing to show his 4 For Christ is the end of the law wrath, and to make his power known, for righteousness to every one that beendured with much long-suffering the lieveth. vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; 5 For Moses describeth the right23 And that he might make known cousness which is of the law, That the riches of his glory on the vessels the man which doeth those things of mercy, which he had afore prepar-shall live by them. ed unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 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. 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into beaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above ;) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 26 And it shall come to pass, that in 8 But what saith it? The word is the place where it was said unto them, nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in Ye are not my people; there shall thy heart: that is, the word of faith they be called the children of the liv-which we preach; fag God. 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Is-mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt berael, Though the number of the chil- lieve in thy heart that God hath raised dren of Israel be as the sand of the him from the dead,thou shalt be saved. sea, a remnant shall be saved: 10 For with the heart man believ 28 For he will finish the work, and eth unto righteousness; and with the cut it short in righteousness; because mouth confession is made unto salvaa short work will the Lord make upon|tion. the earth. 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 Gomorrla. 11 For the scripture saith, Whoso ever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek; for the saine 30 What shall we say then? That Lord over all is rich unto all that call the Gentiles, which followed not after upon him. righteousness, have attained to right-13 For whosoever shall call upon |