\id ROM - The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version 
\h Romans 
\toc1 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans 
\toc2 Romans 
\toc3 Rom 
\mt2 THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE  
\mt3 TO THE  
\mt1 ROMANS.  
\c 1  
\m
\v 1 \sc Paul\sc*, a servant of Jesus Christ, called \add to be\add* an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,  
\v 2 (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)  
\v 3 concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;  
\v 4 \add and\add* declared \add to be\add* the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:  
\v 5 by whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:  
\v 6 among whom are ye also \add the\add* called of Jesus Christ:  
\v 7 to all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called \add to be\add* saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.   
\p
\v 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.  
\v 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,  
\v 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.  
\v 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established;  
\v 12 that is, that \add I\add* may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.  
\v 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.  
\v 14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.  
\v 15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.  
\v 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 \add also\add* to the Greek.  
\v 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.   
\p
\v 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;  
\v 19 because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed \add it\add* unto them.  
\v 20 For the invisible \add things\add* of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, \add even\add* his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:  
\v 21 because that, when they knew God, they glorified \add him\add* not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  
\v 22 Professing \add themselves\add* to be wise, they became fools,  
\v 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.  
\v 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:  
\v 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.   
\p
\v 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:  
\v 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one towards another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves \add that\add* recompence of their error which was meet.  
\v 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in \add their\add* knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those \add things\add* which are not convenient;  
\v 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,  
\v 30 backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil \add things\add*, disobedient to parents,  
\v 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:  
\v 32 who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such \add things\add* are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do \add them\add*.   
\c 2  
\p
\v 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 \add things\add*.  
\v 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such \add things\add*.  
\v 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such \add things\add*, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?  
\v 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?  
\v 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;  
\v 6 who will render to every \add man\add* according to his deeds:  
\v 7 to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:  
\v 8 but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,  
\v 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and \add also\add* of the Gentile;  
\v 10 but glory, honour, and peace, to every \add man\add* that worketh good, to the Jew first, and \add also\add* to the Gentile:  
\v 11 for there is no respect of persons with God.  
\v 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;  
\v 13 (for not the hearers of the law \add are\add* just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.  
\v 14 For when \add the\add* Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the \add things\add* contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:  
\v 15 which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and \add their\add* thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)  
\v 16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.   
\p
\v 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,  
\v 18 and knowest \add his\add* will, and approvest the \add things\add* that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;  
\v 19 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,  
\v 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.  
\v 21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest \add a man\add* should not steal, dost thou steal?  
\v 22 Thou that sayest \add a man\add* should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?  
\v 23 thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?  
\v 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.  
\v 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.  
\v 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?  
\v 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?  
\v 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither \add is that\add* circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:  
\v 29 but he \add is\add* a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision \add is that\add* of the heart, in the spirit, \add and\add* not \add in\add* the letter; whose praise \add is\add* not of men, but of God.   
\c 3  
\p
\v 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit \add is there\add* of circumcision?  
\v 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.  
\v 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?  
\v 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.  
\v 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? \add Is\add* God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)  
\v 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?  
\v 7 For if the truth of God hath \add more\add* abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?  
\v 8 And not \add rather\add*, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.   
\p
\v 9 What then? are we better \add than they?\add* No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that \add they\add* are all under sin;  
\v 10 as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:  
\v 11 there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.  
\v 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.  
\v 13 Their throat \add is\add* an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps \add is\add* under their lips:  
\v 14 whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:  
\v 15 their feet \add are\add* swift to shed blood:  
\v 16 destruction and misery \add are\add* in their ways:  
\v 17 and the way of peace have they not known:  
\v 18 there is no fear of God before their eyes.  
\v 19 Now we know that what \add things\add* 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.  
\v 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law \add is\add* the knowledge of sin.   
\p
\v 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;  
\v 22 even the righteousness of God \add which is\add* by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:  
\v 23 for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;  
\v 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:  
\v 25 whom God hath set forth \add to be\add* a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;  
\v 26 to declare, \add I say\add*, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.  
\v 27 Where \add is\add* boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.  
\v 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  
\v 29 \add Is he\add* the God of the Jews only? \add is he\add* not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:  
\v 30 seeing \add it is\add* one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.  
\v 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.   
\c 4  
\p
\v 1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?  
\v 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.  
\v 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.  
\v 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.  
\v 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.  
\v 6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,  
\v 7 \add saying\add*, Blessed \add are they\add* whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.  
\v 8 Blessed \add is\add* the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.  
\v 9 \add Cometh\add* this blessedness then upon the circumcision \add only\add*, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.  
\v 10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.  
\v 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had \add yet\add* 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:  
\v 12 and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of \add that\add* faith of our father Abraham, which he had being \add yet\add* uncircumcised.  
\v 13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, \add was\add* not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.  
\v 14 For if they which are of the law \add be\add* heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:  
\v 15 because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, \add there is\add* no transgression.  
\v 16 Therefore \add it is\add* of faith, that \add it might be\add* 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,  
\v 17 (as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before \add him\add* whom he believed, \add even\add* God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those \add things\add* which be not as though they were.  
\v 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.  
\v 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred year old, neither \add yet\add* the deadness of Sara’s womb:  
\v 20 he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;  
\v 21 and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.  
\v 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.  
\v 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;  
\v 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;  
\v 25 who was delivered for our offences, and was raised \add again\add* for our justification.   
\c 5  
\p
\v 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:  
\v 2 by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  
\v 3 And not only \add so\add*, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;  
\v 4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope:  
\v 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.  
\v 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.  
\v 7 For scarcely for a righteous \add man\add* will one die: yet peradventure for a good \add man\add* some would even dare to die.  
\v 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  
\v 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.  
\v 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.  
\v 11 And not only \add so\add*, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.   
\p
\v 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:  
\v 13 for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.  
\v 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 \add him\add* that was to come.  
\v 15 But not as the offence, so also \add is\add* 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.  
\v 16 And not as \add it was\add* by one that sinned, \add so is\add* the gift: for the judgment \add was\add* by one to condemnation, but the free gift \add is\add* of many offences unto justification.  
\v 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.  
\v 18 Therefore as by the offence of one \add judgment came\add* upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one \add the free gift came\add* upon all men unto justification of life.  
\v 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.  
\v 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:  
\v 21 that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.   
\c 6  
\p
\v 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?  
\v 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?  
\v 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?  
\v 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, \add even\add* so we also should walk in newness of life.  
\v 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also \add in the likeness\add* of \add his\add* resurrection:  
\v 6 knowing this, that our old man is crucified with \add him\add*, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.  
\v 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.  
\v 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:  
\v 9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.  
\v 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.  
\v 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  
\v 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that \add ye\add* should obey it in the lusts thereof.  
\v 13 Neither yield ye your members \add as\add* instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as \add those that are\add* alive from the dead, and your members \add as\add* instruments of righteousness unto God.  
\v 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.   
\p
\v 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.  
\v 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, \add his\add* servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?  
\v 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart \add that\add* form of doctrine which was delivered you.  
\v 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.  
\v 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; \add even\add* so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.  
\v 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.  
\v 21 What fruit had ye then \add in those things\add* whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those \add things is\add* death.  
\v 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.  
\v 23 For the wages of sin \add is\add* death; but the gift of God \add is\add* eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.   
\c 7  
\p
\v 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?  
\v 2 For the woman which hath a husband is bound by the law to \add her\add* husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of the husband.  
\v 3 So then if, while \add her\add* husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if \add her\add* husband be dead, she is free from \add that\add* law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.  
\v 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, \add even\add* to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.  
\v 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.  
\v 6 But now we are delivered from the law, \add that\add* being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not \add in\add* the oldness of the letter.   
\p
\v 7 What shall we say then? \add Is\add* 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.  
\v 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all \add manner of\add* concupiscence. For without the law sin \add was\add* dead.  
\v 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.  
\v 10 And the commandment, which was \add ordained\add* to life, I found \add to be\add* unto death.  
\v 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew \add me\add*.  
\v 12 Wherefore the law \add is\add* holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.  
\v 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.   
\p
\v 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.  
\v 15 For \add that\add* which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.  
\v 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that \add it is\add* good.  
\v 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  
\v 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good \add thing:\add* for to will is present with me; but \add how\add* to perform that which is good I find not.  
\v 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.  
\v 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  
\v 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.  
\v 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:  
\v 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.  
\v 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?  
\v 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.   
\c 8  
\p
\v 1 \add There is\add* therefore now no condemnation to them \add which are\add* in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  
\v 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.  
\v 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:  
\v 4 that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  
\v 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the \add things\add* of the flesh; but they \add that are\add* after the Spirit the \add things\add* of the Spirit.  
\v 6 For to be carnally minded \add is\add* death; but to be spiritually minded \add is\add* life and peace.  
\v 7 Because the carnal mind \add is\add* enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.  
\v 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.  
\v 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 \add man\add* have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.  
\v 10 And if Christ \add be\add* in you, the body \add is\add* dead because of sin; but the Spirit \add is\add* life because of righteousness.  
\v 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.   
\p
\v 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.  
\v 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.  
\v 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.  
\v 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.  
\v 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:  
\v 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with \add him\add*, that we may be also glorified together.  
\v 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of \add this\add* present time \add are\add* not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.  
\v 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.  
\v 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected \add the same\add*, in hope,  
\v 21 because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.  
\v 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.  
\v 23 And not only \add they\add*, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, \add to wit\add*, the redemption of our body.  
\v 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?  
\v 25 But if we hope for that we see not, \add then\add* do we with patience wait for \add it\add*.  
\v 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.  
\v 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what \add is\add* the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to \add the will of\add* God.  
\v 28 And we know that all \add things\add* work together for good to them that love God, to them who are \add the\add* called according to \add his\add* purpose.  
\v 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate \add to be\add* conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.  
\v 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.  
\v 31 What shall we then say to these \add things?\add* If God \add be\add* for us, who \add can be\add* against us?  
\v 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 \add things?\add*  
\v 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? \add It is\add* God that justifieth:  
\v 34 who \add is\add* he that condemneth? \add It is\add* Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen \add again\add*, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.  
\v 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? \add shall\add* tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  
\v 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  
\v 37 Nay, in all these \add things\add* we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  
\v 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor \add things\add* present, nor \add things\add* to come,  
\v 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.   
\c 9  
\p
\v 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,  
\v 2 that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.  
\v 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:  
\v 4 who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service \add of God\add*, and the promises;  
\v 5 whose \add are\add* the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ \add came\add*, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.  
\v 6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they \add are\add* not all Israel, which are of Israel:  
\v 7 neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, \add are they\add* all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.  
\v 8 That is, \add They which are\add* the children of the flesh, these \add are\add* not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.  
\v 9 For this \add is\add* the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.  
\v 10 And not only \add this;\add* but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, \add even\add* by our father Isaac;  
\v 11 (for \add the children\add* 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;)  
\v 12 it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.  
\v 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.   
\p
\v 14 What shall we say then? \add Is there\add* unrighteousness with God? God forbid.  
\v 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.  
\v 16 So then \add it is\add* not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.  
\v 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same \add purpose\add* have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.  
\v 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will \add have mercy\add*, and whom he will he hardeneth.  
\v 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?  
\v 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed \add it\add*, Why hast thou made me thus?  
\v 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?  
\v 22 What if God, willing to shew \add his\add* wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering \add the\add* vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:  
\v 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,  
\v 24 even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?  
\v 25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call \add them\add* my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.  
\v 26 And it shall come to pass, \add that\add* in the place where it was said unto them, Ye \add are\add* not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.  
\v 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:  
\v 28 for he will finish the work, and cut \add it\add* short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.  
\v 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.  
\v 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not \add after\add* righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.  
\v 31 But Israel, which followed \add after\add* the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.  
\v 32 Wherefore? Because \add they sought it\add* not by faith, but as \add it were\add* by the works of the law. For they stumbled at \add that\add* stumblingstone;  
\v 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.   
\c 10  
\p
\v 1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that \add they\add* might be saved.  
\v 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.  
\v 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.  
\v 4 For Christ \add is\add* the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.  
\v 5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those \add things\add* shall live by them.  
\v 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 \add from above:\add*)  
\v 7 or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)  
\v 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, \add even\add* in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;  
\v 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.  
\v 10 For with the heart \add man\add* believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  
\v 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.  
\v 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all \add is\add* rich unto all that call upon him.  
\v 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.  
\v 14 How then shall they call on \add him\add* in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe \add in him\add* of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?  
\v 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful \add are\add* the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good \add things!\add*  
\v 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?  
\v 17 So then faith \add cometh\add* by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  
\v 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.  
\v 19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by \add them that are\add* no people, \add and\add* by a foolish nation I will anger you.  
\v 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.  
\v 21 But to Israel he saith, All day long have I stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.   
\c 11  
\p
\v 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, \add of\add* the tribe of Benjamin.  
\v 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,  
\v 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.  
\v 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 \add the image of\add* Baal.  
\v 5 \add Even\add* so then at \add this\add* present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.  
\v 6 And if by grace, \add then is it\add* no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if \add it be\add* of works, \add then\add* is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.  
\v 7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained \add it\add*, and the rest were blinded,  
\v 8 (according as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that \add they\add* should not see, and ears that \add they\add* should not hear;) unto this day.  
\v 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:  
\v 10 let their eyes be darkened, that \add they\add* may not see, and bow down their back alway.   
\p
\v 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but \add rather\add* through their fall salvation \add is come\add* unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.  
\v 12 Now if the fall of them \add be\add* the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?  
\v 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:  
\v 14 if by any means I may provoke to emulation \add them which are\add* my flesh, and might save some of them.  
\v 15 For if the casting away of them \add be\add* the reconciling of the world, what \add shall\add* the receiving \add of them be\add*, but life from the dead?  
\v 16 For if the firstfruit \add be\add* holy, the lump \add is\add* also \add holy:\add* and if the root \add be\add* holy, so \add are\add* the branches.  
\v 17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in amongst them, and with \add them\add* partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;  
\v 18 boast not against the branches: but if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.  
\v 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.  
\v 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:  
\v 21 for if God spared not the natural branches, \add take heed\add* lest he also spare not thee.  
\v 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in \add his\add* goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.  
\v 23 And they also, if they bide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.  
\v 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 \add branches\add*, be graffed into their own olive tree?   
\p
\v 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.  
\v 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:  
\v 27 for this \add is\add* my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.  
\v 28 As concerning the gospel, \add they are\add* enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, \add they are\add* beloved for the fathers’ sakes.  
\v 29 For the gifts and calling of God \add are\add* without repentance.  
\v 30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:  
\v 31 \add even\add* so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.  
\v 32 For God hath concluded \add them\add* all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.   
\p
\v 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable \add are\add* his judgments, and his ways past finding out!  
\v 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?  
\v 35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him \add again?\add*  
\v 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, \add are\add* all \add things:\add* to whom \add be\add* glory for ever. Amen.   
\c 12  
\p
\v 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that \add ye\add* present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, \add which is\add* your reasonable service.  
\v 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what \add is that\add* good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.  
\v 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every \add man\add* that is among you, not to think \add of himself\add* more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.  
\v 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:  
\v 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.  
\v 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, \add let us prophesy\add* according to the proportion of faith;  
\v 7 or ministry, \add let us wait\add* on \add our\add* ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;  
\v 8 or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, \add let him do it\add* with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.   
\p
\v 9 \add Let\add* love \add be\add* without dissimulation. Abhor \add that which is\add* evil; cleave to \add that which is\add* good.  
\v 10 \add Be\add* kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;  
\v 11 not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;  
\v 12 rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;  
\v 13 distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.  
\v 14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.  
\v 15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.  
\v 16 \add Be\add* of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high \add things\add*, but condescend to \add men\add* of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.  
\v 17 Recompense to no \add man\add* evil for evil. Provide \add things\add* honest in the sight of all men.  
\v 18 If \add it be\add* possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.  
\v 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but \add rather\add* give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance \add is\add* mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.  
\v 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.  
\v 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.   
\c 13  
\p
\v 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.  
\v 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.  
\v 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do \add that which is\add* good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:  
\v 4 for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do \add that which is\add* evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to \add execute\add* wrath upon him that doeth evil.  
\v 5 Wherefore \add ye\add* must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.  
\v 6 For for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very \add thing\add*.  
\v 7 Render therefore to all \add their\add* dues: tribute to whom tribute \add is due;\add* custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.  
\v 8 Owe no \add man\add* any \add thing\add*, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.  
\v 9 For \add this\add*, 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 \add there be\add* any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  
\v 10 Love worketh no ill to \add his\add* neighbour: therefore love \add is\add* the fulfilling of the law.   
\p
\v 11 And that, knowing the time, that now \add it is\add* high time to awake out of sleep: for now \add is\add* our salvation nearer than when we believed.  
\v 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.  
\v 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.  
\v 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to \add fulfil\add* the lusts \add thereof\add*.   
\c 14  
\p
\v 1 Him that is weak in the faith receive you, \add but\add* not to doubtful disputations.  
\v 2 For one believeth that \add he\add* may eat all \add things:\add* another, who is weak, eateth herbs.  
\v 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.  
\v 4 Who art thou that judgest another \add man’s\add* servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.  
\v 5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day \add alike\add*. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.  
\v 6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth \add it\add* unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard \add it\add*. 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.  
\v 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no \add man\add* dieth to himself.  
\v 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.  
\v 9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.   
\p
\v 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.  
\v 11 For it is written, \add As\add* I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.  
\v 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.  
\v 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no \add man\add* put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in \add his\add* brother’s way.  
\v 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that \add there is\add* nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any \add thing\add* to be unclean, to him \add it is\add* unclean.  
\v 15 But if thy brother be grieved with \add thy\add* meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.  
\v 16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:  
\v 17 for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.  
\v 18 For he that in these \add things\add* serveth Christ \add is\add* acceptable to God, and approved of men.  
\v 19 Let us therefore follow \add after\add* the \add things\add* which make for peace, and \add things\add* wherewith one may edify another.  
\v 20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All \add things\add* indeed \add are\add* pure; but \add it is\add* evil for \add that\add* man who eateth with offence.  
\v 21 \add It is\add* good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor \add any thing\add* whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is \add made\add* weak.  
\v 22 Hast thou faith? have \add it\add* to thyself before God. Happy \add is\add* he that condemneth not himself in \add that thing\add* which he alloweth.  
\v 23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because \add he eateth\add* not of faith: for whatsoever \add is\add* not of faith is sin.   
\c 15  
\p
\v 1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.  
\v 2 Let every one of us please \add his\add* neighbour for \add his\add* good to edification.  
\v 3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.  
\v 4 For whatsoever \add things\add* were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.  
\v 5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one towards another according to Christ Jesus:  
\v 6 that ye may with one mind \add and\add* one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
\v 7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.  
\v 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:  
\v 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for \add his\add* mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.  
\v 10 And again \add he\add* saith, Rejoice, \add ye\add* Gentiles, with his people.  
\v 11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.  
\v 12 And again Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that \add shall\add* rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.  
\v 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.   
\p
\v 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.  
\v 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,  
\v 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.  
\v 17 I have therefore whereof \add I\add* may glory through Jesus Christ \add in those things\add* which pertain to God.  
\v 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of \add those things\add* which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,  
\v 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.  
\v 20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another \add man’s\add* foundation:  
\v 21 but as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.  
\v 22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.  
\v 23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;  
\v 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 \add company\add*.  
\v 25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.  
\v 26 For it hath pleased \add them of\add* Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.  
\v 27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual \add things\add*, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal \add things\add*.  
\v 28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.  
\v 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.  
\v 30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that \add ye\add* strive together with me in \add your\add* prayers to God for me;  
\v 31 that I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;  
\v 32 that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.  
\v 33 Now the God of peace \add be\add* with you all. Amen.   
\c 16  
\p
\v 1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:  
\v 2 that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and \add that\add* ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself \add also\add*.  
\v 3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:  
\v 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.  
\v 5 Likewise \add greet\add* the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.  
\v 6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.  
\v 7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.  
\v 8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.  
\v 9 Salute Urban our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.  
\v 10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus’ \add household\add*.  
\v 11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the \add household\add* of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.  
\v 12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.  
\v 13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.  
\v 14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.  
\v 15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.  
\v 16 Salute one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.   
\p
\v 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.  
\v 18 For \add they that are\add* such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.  
\v 19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all \add men\add*. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but \add yet\add* I would have you wise unto \add that which is\add* good, and simple concerning evil.  
\v 20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ \add be\add* with you. Amen.   
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\v 21 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.  
\v 22 I Tertius, who wrote \add this\add* epistle, salute you in the Lord.  
\v 23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.  
\v 24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ \add be\add* with you all. Amen.   
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\v 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,  
\v 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:  
\v 27 to God only wise, \add be\add* glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.  
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\mi ¶ Written to the Romans from Corinthus, \add and sent\add* by Phebe servant of the church at Cenchrea.