CODEX
SINAITICUS: The New Testament translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript
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Copyright ©2004 Jackson H.
Snyder II
PAUL TO
THE ROMANS
Romans 1
1 Paul, a servant of
Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,
2 which he announced
beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
3 concerning his Son,
who was born of the posterity of David according to the flesh,
4 who was constituted
Son of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness, from the resurrection
of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
5 through whom we
received grace and apostleship in order to the obedience of faith among all the
nations for his name’s sake,
6 among whom are you
also the called, of Jesus Christ:
7 to all that are in
8 First, I thank my God
through Jesus Christ concerning you all, that your faith is spoken of in all
the world.
9 For God is my witness,
whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make
mention of you,
10 always in my prayers
making request if by any means now at last I may be prospered in the will of
God to come to you.
11 For I greatly desire
to see you, that I may share with you some spiritual gift, in order that you
may be strengthened;
12 that is, that I may
be comforted together among you through the faith that is in each other, both
yours and mine.
13 But I desire that you
be not ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, and have been
hindered to the present time, that I might have some fruit also among you, even
as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14 Both to Greeks and to
Barbarians, both to wise and to unwise, am I debtor:
15 so as far as I am
able, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in
16 For I am not ashamed
of the gospel; for it is the power of God in order to salvation to every one
that believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For in it is revealed
God’s righteousness by faith for faith; as it is written: He that is righteous
by faith shall live.
18 For the wrath of God
is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men that
repress the truth in unrighteousness;
19 because that which is
known of God is manifest in them, for God has manifested it to them.
20 For his attributes
which are invisible, since the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being
perceived by the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, so
that they are without excuse;
21 because, though they
knew God, they did not glorify him as God, or give him thanks, but became vain
in their reasonings, and their heart, void of understanding, was darkened.
22 Professing to be
wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the
glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man,
and of birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God
delivered them up in the desires of their hearts to uncleanness, so that their
bodies were dishonored among no them;
25 and these exchanged
the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blessed for ever: Amen.
26 For this reason God
delivered them up to dishonorable passions; for their females exchanged the
natural use for that against nature,
27 and in like manner
also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their
lust one for another, males with males working the indecency, and receiving in
themselves the due reward of their error.
28 And as they did not
approve of holding God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a mind
incapable of approving, that they might do things unbecoming,
29 having been filled
with all unrighteousness, wickedness malice, covetousness; full of envy murder,
strife, deceit, malignity
30 whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boasters: inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents,
31 without
understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:
32 who, acknowledging
the just decree of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of
death, not only do them, but approve those that practice them.
Romans 2
1 Wherefore thou art
inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art that judges! For in what thou judgest the
other, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2 For we know that the
judgment of God is according to truth, against those that practice such things.
3 But thinkest thou
this, O man that judgest those who practice such things, and doest the same,
that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4 Or dost thou despise
the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not understanding
that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?
5 But, according to thy
hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up for thyself wrath in a day
of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6 who will render to
each one according to his works;
7 to those that, by
perseverance in good work, seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility,
eternal life;
8 but to those that are
of party-spirit, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and
indignation shall be rendered.
9 Affliction and anguish
shall be on every soul of man that works out that which is evil, of the Jew
first, and also of the Greek;
10 but glory and honor
and peace to every one that works that which is good, to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek.
11 For there is no
acceptance of persons with God.
12 For as many as sinned
without law shall also perish without law; and as many as sinned under the law
shall be judged by the law;
13 for not the hearers
of law are righteous before God, but the doers of law shall be declared
righteous.
14 For whenever
Gentiles, that have no law, do by nature the things of the law, these, not
having law, are a law to themselves:
15 who show the work of
the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing testimony, and
their reasonings between one another bringing accusation, or also making excuse
16 in the day when God shall
judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17 But if thou art named
Jew, and restest on the law, and makest thy boast in God,
18 and knowest his will,
and provest things that differ, being instructed out of the law;
19 and art confident
that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light to those that are in
darkness,
20 an instructor of the
foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the
law:
21 thou, then, that
teachest another, teachest not thou thyself? Thou that preachest that men
should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest that
men should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest
idols, dost thou rob temples?
23 Thou that makest thy
boast in the law, through transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
24 For the name of God
is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision
indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of law, thy
circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 If, then, the
uncircumcision keep the judgments of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be
counted for circumcision?
27 And that which is by
birth uncircumcision, if it keep the law, will judge thee, who with letter and
circumcision art a transgressor of law.
28 For he is not a Jew
that is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the
flesh;
29 but he is a Jew who
is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in spirit, not in
letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Romans 3
1 What, then, the
pre-eminence of the Jew, or what the profit of circumcision?
2 Much in every way.
First, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
3 What then? if some
were unfaithful, will their unfaithfulness make null the faithfulness of God?
4 Let it not be; but let
God become true, but every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be
declared just in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness
renders God’s righteousness conspicuous, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous
who brings on us the punishment? I speak as a man.
6 Let it not be; since
how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of
God has, through my lie, become more abundant for his glory, why am I also
still judged as a sinner?
8 And why not say (as we
are blasphemously reported, and as some affirm that we do say): Let us do the
evil, that the good may come? whose condemnation is just.
9 What then? Do we
excel? Not at all; for we have before accused both Jews and Greeks all of being
under sin,
10 as it is written:
There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 there is none that
understands, there is none that seeks after God:
12 they have all gone
out of the way, they have together become unprofitable: there is none that does
good, there is not even one.
13 Their throat is an
open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is
under their lips.
14 Whose mouth is full of
cursing and bitterness.
15 Swift are their feet
to shed blood,
16 destruction and
misery are in their ways,
17 and the way of peace
have they not known.
18 There is no fear of
God before their eyes.
19 But we know that
whatever things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God.
20 Because by works of
law shall no flesh be declared righteous in his sight; for through law is the
knowledge of sin.
21 But now without law the
righteousness of God has been made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the
prophets:
22 I say, the
righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all that believe. For
there is no difference;
23 for all sinned and do
come short of the glory of God,
24 being justified
freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God set forth as
a propitiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a manifestation of his
righteousness, because of the passing by of past sins
26 in the forbearance of
God, with a view to the manifestation of his righteousness in the present time,
in order that he might be righteous, and declare righteous him that is of the
faith of Jesus.
27 Where, then, is the
boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No; but through the law
of faith.
28 We conclude, then,
that a man is declared righteous by faith, without works of law.
29 Is he the God of the
Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.
30 Seeing there is one
God who will declare the circumcision righteous by faith and the uncircumcision
through the faith.
31 Do we, then, make law
void through faith? Let it not be: on the other hand, we establish law.
Romans 4
1 What, then, shall we
say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
2 For, if Abraham was
justified by works, he has cause for boasting, but not before God.
3 For what says the
Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
4 But to him that works,
the reward is not counted as a favor, but as a debt:
5 to him, however, that
works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly man, his faith is
counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also
speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God counts righteousness without
works:
7 Blessed are they whose
transgressions are forgiven, and whose sins are covered:
8 blessed is the man
whose sin the Lord will not count.
9 Is this blessedness, then,
upon the circumcision only, or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say: Faith
was counted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How, then, was it
counted? While he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in
circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received a
sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had
while in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all that believe while
yet in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be counted to them,
12 and the father of
circumcision to them that are not of the circumcision only, but that also walk
in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had while in
uncircumcision.
13 For not through law
was the promise to Abraham, or to his posterity, that he should be heir of the
world, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they that are
of law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is rendered powerless;
15 for the law works
wrath; for where no law is, neither is there transgression.
16 Therefore it is of
faith, that it might be according to grace, in order that the promise may be
sure to all the posterity; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the
faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
17 As it is written: A
father of many nations have I made thee before him whom he believed, even God,
who makes the dead alive and calls things that are not as if they are:
18 who against hope on
hope believed, in order that he might become a father of many nations,
according to that which was spoken: So shall thy posterity be;
19 and not being weak in
faith, he considered his own body that had become dead, being about a hundred
years old and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;
20 but in regard to the
promise of God he doubted not through unbelief, but grew strong in faith,
giving glory to God,
21 and being fully
persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform.
22 Wherefore also it was
counted to him for righteousness.
23 It was not written,
however, for his sake, only that it was counted to him,
24 but also for the sake
of us. to whom it shall be counted if we believe on him that raised Jesus our
Lord from the dead,
25 who was delivered up
because of our offenses, and raised because of our justification.
Romans 5
1 Therefore, being
justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom, also, we
have had the access, by faith, into this grace in which we stand, and we boast
in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but
we also boast in afflictions, knowing that affliction works endurance,
4 and endurance
approval, and approval, hope;
5 and hope makes not
ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the
Holy Spirit that was given to us.
6 Furthermore, we being
yet without strength, at the proper time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a
righteous man will one die; though for the good man perhaps some one would even
dare to die;
8 but God renders his
love for us conspicuous in this, that, we being yet sinners, Christ died for
us.
9 Much more, then, being
now justified in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath.
10 For if being enemies
we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been
reconciled we shall be saved in his life;
11 and not only so, but
also glorying in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation.
12 Therefore, as through
one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death passed
through upon all men, inasmuch as all sinned;
13 for till the law sin
was in the world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law;
14 yet, death reigned
from Adam to Moses, even over those that did not sin after the likeness of the
transgression of Adam, who is a type of the coming one.
15 Yet, not as the
offense, so also the gracious gift; for if through the offense of the one the
many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift in the grace of the one
man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16 And not as through
one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment passed from one offense to
condemnation, but the gracious gift from many offenses to the righteous decree.
17 For if, in the
offense of one, death reigned through the one, much more shall they that
receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life
through the one, Jesus Christ.
18 Therefore, as through
one offense judgment came upon all men to condemnation, so also through one
righteous deed, judgment came upon all men to justification of life.
19 For as through the
disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through
the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous.
20 But law came in
beside, that the offense might abound; but where sin abounded, grace
exceedingly abounded,
21 that, as sin reigned
in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6
1 What, then, shall we
say? Let us continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 Let it not be. How
shall we that died to sin live any longer in it?
3 Know you not that as
many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into his death?
4 We were, therefore,
buried with him through baptism into death, that as Christ was raised from the
dead through the glory of the Father, so we, also, might walk in newness of
life.
5 For if we have grown
together with the likeness of his death, we shall grow together also with the
likeness of his resurrection,
6 knowing this, that our
old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be made powerless,
that we should no longer serve sin;
7 for he that has died
has been acquitted of sin.
8 But if we died with
Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,
9 knowing that Christ,
having been raised from the dead, dies no more: death no longer has dominion
over him.
10 For in that he died,
to sin he died once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
11 Thus do you also
count yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore let not sin
reign in your mortal body, in order to obey its desires;
13 neither present your
members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God
as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness
to God.
14 For sin shall not
have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we
sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Let it not be.
16 Know you not that to
whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom
you obey, either of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 But thanks to God
that you were servants of sin, but you obeyed from the heart the form of
teaching into which you were delivered,
18 and having been made
free from sin, you became servants to righteousness.
19 I speak as a man,
because of the weakness of your flesh. For as you present your members servants
to uncleanness and to lawlessness in order to lawlessness, so now present your
members servants to righteousness in order to sanctification.
20 For when you were
servants of sin you were free in respect to righteousness.
21 What fruit,
therefore, had you then? Of which things you are now ashamed; for the end of
those things is death.
22 But now, having been
made free from sin, and having become servants to God, you have your fruit to
sanctification, and the end, life eternal.
23 For the wages of sin
is death; but the gracious gift of God is life eternal in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
Romans 7
1 Know you not,
brethren, for I speak to those that know law, that the law has dominion over
the man as long as he lives?
2 For the married woman
is bound by the law to the living husband; but if the husband shall have died,
she is loosed from the law of the husband.
3 So then, if, while her
husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress;
but if her husband shall have died, she is free from his law, so that she is
not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 So then, my brethren,
you also became dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that you
should be married to another, him that was raised from the dead, that we should
bring forth fruit to God.
5 For when we were in
the flesh, the passions of sins which were through the law wrought in our
members to bring forth fruit to death;
6 but now we have been
delivered from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we
serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
7 What, then, shall we
say? Is the law sin? Let it not be; but I had not known sin except through law;
for I had not known desire unless the law had said: Thou shalt not desire.
8 But sin, taking
occasion, through the commandment wrought in me all manner of desire; for
without law sin is dead.
9 Now, I was alive
without law once; but when the commandment came, sin became alive,
10 and I died; and the
commandment which was for life, this was found by me to be for death.
11 For sin, taking
occasion, through the commandment deceived me, and through it slew me.
12 So, then, the law is
holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
13 Did, then, that which
is good become death to me? Let it not be; but sin, that it might appear sin,
working out death to me through that which is good, that sin through the
commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
14 For we know that the
law is spiritual: but I am flesh, sold under sin.
15 For what I work I
know not; for I practice not what I wish, but what I hate this I do.
16 But if I do this that
I wish not, I agree with the law that it is good;
17 and now I no longer
do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18 For I know that there
dwells in me, that is, in my flesh, no good. For to will is present with me,
but to work out the beautiful, not;
19 for the good that I
wish I do not, but the evil that I hate, this I practice.
20 But if I do this that
I wish not, I no longer do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find, then, the
law, to me wishing to do the good, —That evil is present with me;
22 for I delight in the
law of God according to the inward man,
23 but I see a different
law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me a captive
in the law of sin that is in my members.
24 Wretched man that I
am: who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 Thanks to God,
through Jesus Christ our Lord: so, then, I myself with the mind indeed serve
the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 8
1 There is, therefore,
now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made thee free from the law of sin and of death.
3 For what the law could
not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the
likeness of the flesh of sin, and on account of sin, condemned sin in the
flesh,
4 that the righteous
demand of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the
flesh, but according to the Spirit.
5 For those that are
according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but those that are
according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 For the mind of the
flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.
7 Because the mind of
the flesh is enmity towards God; for it is not subjected to the law of God,
neither indeed can it be.
8 And they that li are
in the flesh can not please God.
9 You, however, are not
in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you.
And if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 But if Christ is in
you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 And if the Spirit of
him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus
from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit that
dwells in you.
12 Therefore, brethren,
we are debtors, not to the flesh, that we should live according to the flesh.
13 For if you live
according to the flesh, you shall die; but if through the Spirit you put to
death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
14 For as many as are
led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
15 For you did not
receive the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you received the Spirit of
adoption, in which we cry: Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself
bears testimony with our spirit that we are children of God.
17 But if children, also
heirs: heirs, indeed, of God, but joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we
suffer with him. that we may also be glorified with him.
18 For I reckon that the
sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
that shall be revealed for us.
19 For the earnest
expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was
subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who subjected it,
21 in hope that the
creation itself shall be freed from the bondage of corruption into the liberty
of the glory of the children of God.
22 For we know that the
whole creation groans together and is in pain together till now;
23 and not only so, but ourselves
also, having the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, awaiting the adoption, the redemption of our body.
24 For by hope were we
saved; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope
for it?
25 But if we hope for
that which we see not, we with patience wait for it.
26 And in like manner
the Spirit also helps our weakness. For we know not what we shall pray for as
we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes with groanings unutterable:
27 he, however, who
searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, that he intercedes
for the saints according to the will of God.
28 But we know that to
those who love God all things work together for good, to those who are called
according to his purpose.
29 For whom he foreknew,
he also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be
firstborn among many brethren;
30 and whom he
predestinated, these he also called; and whom he called, these he also declared
righteous; and whom he declared righteous, these he also made glorious.*
* By conferring on them the doxa—glory
of the New Covenant.
31 What shall we then
say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
32 He indeed that spared
not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also with him
freely give us all things?
33 Who shall bring a i
charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is he that
condemns? It is Christ Jesus who died; yes, more, who has risen, who is at the
right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.
35 Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? Shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or
hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?
36 as it is written: For
thy sake we are killed all the day; we are counted as; sheep for slaughter.
37 But in all these
things we do more than conquer through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded
that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present
nor things to come, nor powers
39 nor height nor depth,
nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 9
1 I speak the truth in
Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
2 that I have great
grief and unceasing sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that
I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the
flesh,
4 who are Israelites, to
whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of
the law, and the religious service, and the promises;
5 whose are the fathers,
and from whom is Christ according to the flesh: who is over all, God blessed
for ever, Amen.
6 But I do not say such
a thing as: The word of God has failed. For these are not all
7 neither, because they
are the posterity of Abraham, are all children; but; In Isaac shall thy
posterity be called:
8 that is, the children
of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children of the promise
are counted as the posterity.
9 For the word of
promise was this: According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a
son.
10 And not only this,
but also Rebecca, having conceived by one, our father Isaac, —
11 for the children not yet
having been born, neither having done any good or ill, that the purpose of God
according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calls, —
12 it was said to her:
The elder shall serve the younger,
13 as it is written:
Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
14 What, then, shall we
say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Let it not be.
15 For he says to Moses:
I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I
have compassion.
16 So, then, not of him
that wills nor of him that runs, but of God who has mercy.
17 For the Scripture
says to Pharaoh: For this same purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show
in thee my power, and that my name might be published in all the earth.
18 Therefore, on whom he
wills he has mercy, and whom he wills he hardens.
19 Thou wilt say to me
therefore: Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20 Yes, rather, O man,
who art thou that replies against God? Shall the thing moulded say to him that
moulded it: Why didst thou make me thus?
21 Has not the potter
right over the clay to make of the same lump one vessel for honor and another
for dishonor?
22 But if God—willing to
show his wrath, and to make known his power, endured in much longsuffering
vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
23 also that he might
make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he before
prepared for glory?
24 whom he also called,
us not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles,
25 as he also says in
Hosea: I will call that my people which was not my people, and her beloved,
that was not beloved;
26 and it shall come to
pass in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall
they be called sons of the living God.
27 But Isaiah cries concerning
28 For a fulfilling and
cutting short of the word will the Lord make on the earth.
29 And as Isaiah
predicted: Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us posterity, we had become as
30 What, then, shall we
say? that the Gentiles, that were not following after righteousness, attained
to righteousness, the righteousness that is of faith;
31 but
32 Why? because they
sought it not by faith, but as by works: for they stumbled at the stone of
stumbling,
33 as it is written:
Behold, I lay in
Romans 10
1 Brethren, the good
pleasure of my heart, and my prayer to God for them, is for their salvation;
2 For I bear them
testimony that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For, being ignorant of
God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they
have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.
5 For Moses writes that
the man that does the righteousness of the law shall live in it.
6 But the righteousness
that is of faith speaks thus: Say not in thy heart: Who shall ascend into
heaven? that is, to bring Christ down:
7 or, Who shall descend
into the abyss? that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.
8 But what says it? The
word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith
which we preach.
9 Because, if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth that Jesus is Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that
God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved;
10 for with the heart
faith is exercised in order to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is
made in order to salvation.
11 For the Scripture
says: Whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no
difference between Jew and Greek; for the same is Lord of all, rich toward all
that call upon him.
13 For every one that
calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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?
15 And how shall they
preach unless they be sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of
them that bring glad tidings of good things.
16 But they have not all
obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says: Lord, who has believed that which was heard
by us?
17 So, then, faith comes
from what is heard, and that which is heard comes through the word of God.
18 But I say, have they
not heard? Yes, verily, Their sound went forth into all the earth, and their
words to the end of the world.
19 But I say, did not
20 But Isaiah is very
bold, and says: I was found by them that sought me not, I became manifest to
them that asked not after me.
21 But of
Romans 11
1 I say, then, Did God
cast away his people? It can not be; for I am an Israelite, of the posterity of
Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God did not cast away
his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in speaking
of Elijah, how he complains to God against
3 Lord, thy prophets
they have killed, thy altars they have dug down, and I am left the only one,
and they seek my life.
4 But what says the
answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have
not bowed the knee to Baal.
5 So, then, even in the
present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace;
6 now if by grace, no
longer of works, since grace no longer becomes grace.
7 What then? That which
8 as it is written: God
gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they
should not hear, till this day.
9 And David says: Let
their table become a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense
to them:
10 let their eyes be
darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
11 I say, then, did they
stumble that they should fall? It can not be; but by their fall salvation has
come to the Gentiles, in order to excite them to emulation,
12 But if their fall is
the riches of the world and their worse estate the riches of the Gentiles, how
much more their fulness.
13 But I speak to you,
the Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my
office,
14 if in any way I may
excite to emulation my own flesh and save some of them.
15 For, if the casting
away of them is the reconciliation of the world, what shall their reception be
but life from the dead?
16 But if the firstfruit
is holy, so also the lump; and if the root is holy, so also the branches.
17 But if some of the
branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wert grafted in among
them, and made a joint-partaker of the root and the fatness of the olive,
18 boast not against the
branches; but if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then:
The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
20 Well: because of
unbelief they were broken off, but thou standest by faith. Be not highminded,
but fear;
21 for if God spared not
the natural branches, neither will he spare thee.
22 Behold, then, the
goodness and severity of God: towards those that fell severity, but towards
thee the goodness of God, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou also
shalt be cut off.
23 And these, moreover,
if they continue not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able to graft
them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut
out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to
nature into a good olive tree, how much more shall these the natural be grafted
into their own olive tree.
25 For I do not wish
you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your
own conceits, that hardness, in part, has come upon Israel till the fulness of
the Gentiles shall have come in;
26 and so all
27 And this is the
covenant which they shall have from me, when I take away their sins.
28 As to the gospel they
are enemies for your sake, but as to the election they are beloved for the
fathers’ sakes:
29 for the gifts and the
calling of God are irrevocable.
30 For as you in time
past believed not God, but now have obtained mercy through the unbelief of
these,
31 so also have these
now believed not, that through your mercy they also may now obtain mercy;
32 for God has shut up
all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the
riches and wisdom and knowledge of God: how unsearchable are his judgments and
his ways past finding out.
34 For who has known the
mind of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor?
35 or who has first
given to him, and a recompense shall be made him?
36 For of him, and
through him, and for him, are all things: to him be glory through the ages.
Amen.
Romans 12
1 I beseech you therefore,
brethren, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice
living, holy, acceptable to God, which is your rational service.
2 And be not conformed
to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may
prove what the will of God is, the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
3 For I say, through the
grace that was given to me, to every one that is among you, that he think not
of himself more highly than he ought to think, but that he think soberly, as
God distributed to each a measure of faith.
4 For as in one body we
have many members, but all the members have not the same office,
5 so we the many are one
body in Christ, and every one members one of another,
6 but having gifts
differing according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy, let us
prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
7 or ministry, let us
wait on our ministry; or he that teaches, on his teaching;
8 or he that exhorts, on
his exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity: he that rules,
with diligence: he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
9 Let love be unfeigned.
Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good:
10 in brotherly love, be
affectionate one toward another: in honor, preferring one another:
11 in diligence, not
slothful: in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;
12 in hope, rejoicing:
in affliction, patient: in prayer, persevering;
13 communicating to the
necessities of the saints; following hospitality:
14 bless them that
persecute you; bless, and curse not.
15 Rejoice with them
that rejoice, weep with them that weep.
16 Be of the same mind
one toward another; mind not high things, but condescend to things that are
lowly: be not wise in your own conceits.
17 Render to no one evil
for evil; provide for things honorable in the sight of all men;
18 if possible, as far
as it is of you, be at peace with all men;
19 avenge not
yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath; for it is written: Vengeance
is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
20 If, then, thy enemy
hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in doing this thou shalt
heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome by
evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 13
1 Let every soul submit
himself to the authorities that are over him. For there is no authority except
of God, and those that are have been appointed by God.
2 So, then, he that sets
himself against the authority resists the appointment of God: and they that
resist shall receive to themselves condemnation.
3 For rulers are not a
terror to the good work, but to the evil. And dost thou desire not to be afraid
of the authority? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the
same;
4 for he is the minister
of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he
wears not the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, an avenger to
execute wrath on him that practices that which is evil.
5 Wherefore it is
needful that you submit yourselves, not only because of wrath, but also because
of conscience.
6 For, for this reason
you pay tribute also; for they are the ministers of God attending continually
to this very thing.
7 Render to all their
dues: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear,
honor to whom honor.
8 Owe no one any thing,
except to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt
not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
desire, and, if there is any other commandment, it is briefly summed up in this
saying, in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
10 Love works no evil to
the neighbor: love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.
11 And this, knowing the
time, that it is the hour, at which we should have already awaked out of sleep;
for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far
spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore put off the works of darkness, and
let us put on the armor of light.
13 Let us walk becomingly
as in the day, not in riotings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness,
not in contention and envy;
14 but put on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
Romans 14
1 Now, him that is weak
in the faith receive, not to judgments of thoughts.
2 One believes that he
may eat all things, another who is weak eats herbs.
3 Let not him that eats
despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats;
for God has received him.
4 Who art thou that
judgest another man’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls; but he
shall stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5 One esteems one day
better than another; another esteems every day alike: let each one be fully
persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regards the
day, to the Lord he regards it. And he that eats, to the Lord he eats, for he
gives thanks to God; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives
thanks to God.
7 For no one of us lives
to himself, and no one dies to himself;
8 for if we live, to the
Lord we live, and if we die, to the Lord we die. If, then, we live, and if we
die, the Lord’s are we.
9 For, for this purpose
Christ died and lived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.
10 But why judgest thou
thy brother? And why dost thou despise thy brother? For we must all stand
before the judgment-seat of God.
11 For it is written: As
I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall
confess to God.
12 So, then, each one of
us shall give an account of himself to God.
13 No longer, therefore,
let us judge one another; but judge this rather, to put no stumbling-block or
occasion of falling in your brother’s way.
14 I know and am
persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself, but to him that
thinks that anything is unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 For if on account of
meat thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest according to love. Do not
by thy meat destroy him for whom Christ died.
16 Let not, then, your
good be evil spoken of.
17 For the
18 for he that in this
serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
19 So, then, let us
pursue the things of peace, and things by which we may edify one another.
20 Do not for the sake
of meat overthrow the work of God. All things, indeed, are clean; but it is
evil for the man that eats so as to give offense:
21 it is good not to eat
flesh, neither to drink wine, nor anything by which thy brother stumbles.
22 The faith that thou
hast, have thou to thyself in the sight of God. Blessed is he that judges not
himself in that which he allows;
23 he that doubts is
condemned if he eat, because he eats not from faith; and everything that is not
from faith is sin.
Romans 15
1 Now we the strong
ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2 Let each one of us
please his neighbor, for his good with a view to edification;
3 for Christ pleased not
himself, but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee
fell on me.
4 For whatever things
were formerly written, were written for our instruction, that we, through the
patience and the comfort of the Scripture, might have hope.
5 Now may the God of
patience and of comfort grant to you to be of the same mind one toward another
according to Christ Jesus,
6 that with one mind you
may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 Wherefore, receive one
another, as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.
8 For I say that Christ
became a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might
confirm the promises made to the fathers,
9 and that the Gentiles
might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: For this cause will I give
thanks to thee among the Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing.
10 And again he says:
Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.
11 And again: Praise the
Lord, all you Gentiles, and applaud him, all you peoples.
12 And again Isaiah
says: There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that rises to rule the Gentiles;
in him shall Gentiles hope.
13 Now may the God of
hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, in order that you may abound
in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 Now, my brethren, I
am persuaded, even I myself, concerning you, that you also yourselves are full
of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one
another.
15 I have, however,
written more boldly to you, brethren, in some measure, as putting you in mind
because of the grace that is given to me by God,
16 that I should be a
minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest in the gospel
of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being
sanctified in the Holy Spirit.
17 I have, therefore, my
boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God;
18 for I will not dare
to speak of any of the things that Christ did not work through me for the
obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
19 in the power of signs
and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so that from
20 But so making it a
point of honor, I have preached the gospel not where Christ was named, that I
might not build on another’s foundation,
21 but as it is written:
They to whom no message came concerning him, shall see, and they who have not
heard, shall understand.
22 For which cause also I
have been hindered many times from coming to you;
23 but now, no longer
having a place in these parts, and having for many years a strong desire to
come to you,
24 whenever I take my journey
into Spain; for I hope, in passing through, to see you, and by you to be sent
forward thither, if first I may be in some measure filled with you.
25 But now I am going to
26 For
27 For they have been
pleased, and their debtors they are; for if the Gentiles have shared in their
spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things.
28 Having, therefore,
performed this, and having secured to them this fruit, I will return through
you into
29 but I know that in
coming to you I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
30 But I beseech you,
brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit,
that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me,
31 that I may be
delivered from the disobedient in Judea, and that my service which is for
32 that, coming to you,
in joy through the will of God, I may with you be refreshed.
33 The God of peace be
with you all. Amen.
Romans 16
1 I commend to you
Phebe, our sister, who is a deaconess of the church that is in Cenchrea,
2 that you receive her
in the Lord in a manner worthy of saints, and that you aid her in whatever
matter she may have need of you; for she has been a helper of many, of myself
also.
3 Salute Prisca and
4 who for my life laid
down their own necks, to whom not I only give thanks, but all the churches of
the Gentiles:
5 salute also the church
that is in their house. Salute Epenetus, my beloved, who is the firstfruits of
6 Salute Mary, who
labored much for us.
7 Salute Andronicus and
Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow-prisoners, who are well known among the
apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
8 Salute Amplias, my
beloved in the Lord.
9 Salute Urbanus, my
fellow-laborer in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
10 Salute Apelles,
approved in Christ. Salute those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
11 Salute Herodion my
kinsman. Salute those who are of the household of Narcissus, who are in the
Lord.
12 Salute Tryphsena and
Tryphosa, who labored in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much
in the Lord.
13 Salute Rufus, the
chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
14 Salute Asyncritus,
Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren that are with them.
15 Salute Philologus and
Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints that are with
them.
16 Salute one another
with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.
17 Now I beseech you,
brethren, to mark those that cause divisions and offenses contrary to the
teaching that you learned, and turn away from them;
18 for such serve not
our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and through good words and fair speeches
deceive the hearts of the simple.
19 For your obedience has
come abroad to all; I therefore rejoice over you: I desire, however, that you
be wise in regard to that which is good, but harmless in regard to that which
is evil.
20 And the God of peace
will bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you.
21 Timothy my
fellow-laborer salutes you: Lucius also, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsman.
22 I Tertius, who wrote
the letter, salute you in the Lord.
23 Gaius my host, and
the host of the whole church, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city,
salutes you; and Quartus, our brother.
25 Now to him who is
able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ,
according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept in silence during
eternal times,
26 but is now made
manifest, and through the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the
commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith among all
nations,
27 to the only wise God,
through Jesus Christ: to whom be glory through the ages. Amen.