¹Paul, a  ²slave of  ³Christ  ⁴Jesus, a  ⁵called  ⁶apostle,  ⁷separated  ⁸unto the  ⁹gospel of God,

 ¹Which He promised  ²beforehand through His prophets in the  ³holy Scriptures,

Concerning  ¹His Son, who  ²came  ³out of the  ⁴seed of David according to the  ⁵flesh,

Who was  ¹designated the  ²Son of God in  ³power according to the  ⁴Spirit of  ⁵holiness  ⁶out of the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;

Through whom we have received  ¹grace and  ²apostleship unto the  ³obedience of  ⁴faith among all the Gentiles  ⁵on behalf of His name,

Among whom you also are the  ¹called ones of Jesus Christ;

To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, the called  ¹saints:  ²Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I  ¹serve in my  ²spirit in the gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

Beseeching if by any means now at last I may be prospered in the will of God to come to you.

For I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift so that you may be established;

That is, that I with you may be  ¹encouraged among you through the faith which is in one another, both yours and mine.

And I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I purposed to come to you (yet was hindered until the present), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to  ¹barbarians, both to wise and to foolish;

So, for my part, I am ready to announce the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the  ¹power of God unto  ²salvation to everyone who believes, both to Jew first and to Greek.

For the  ¹righteousness of God is revealed in it  ²out of faith to faith, as it is written, “But the righteous shall  ³have life and live by  ⁴faith.”

 ¹For the  ²wrath of God is revealed from heaven  ³upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who  ⁴hold down  ⁵the truth in unrighteousness,

Because that which is known of God is manifest  ¹within them, for God manifested it to them.

For the invisible things of Him, both His eternal power and  ¹divine characteristics, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world,  ²being perceived by the things made, so that they would be without excuse;

Because though  ¹they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or thank Him, but rather became  ²vain in their reasonings, and their heart, lacking understanding, was darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became fools

And  ¹changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.

Therefore God  ¹gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, so that they dishonor their bodies among themselves,

Who exchanged the  ¹truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Therefore God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature;

And likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their craving toward one another, males with males committing unseemliness and fully receiving in themselves the retribution of their error which was due.

And even as they did not approve of holding God in their full knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things which are not fitting,

Being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

Whisperers, slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Senseless, faithless, affectionless, merciless;

Who, though fully knowing the  ¹righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also have fellow delight in those who practice them.

Therefore you are without excuse, O every man who  ¹judges, for in what you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

But we know that the  ¹judgment of God is according to  ²truth upon those who practice such things.

And do you consider this, O man, who judge those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the  ¹judgment of God?

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that God's kindness is leading you to repentance?

But, according to your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Who will render to each according to his works:

 ¹To those who by endurance in good work seek glory and honor and incorruptibility, life eternal;

But to those who are selfishly contentious and disobedient to the  ¹truth and obey unrighteousness, wrath and fury.

Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who commits evil, both of Jew first and of Greek;

But glory and honor and peace to everyone who works good, both to Jew first and to Greek.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned  ¹under the law shall be judged by the law

(For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For when Gentiles, who have no law, do  ¹by nature the things of the law, these, though they have no law, are a law to themselves,

Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their  ¹conscience bearing witness with it and their reasonings, one with the other, accusing or even excusing them.)

In the day when God judges the secrets of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

 ¹But if you bear the name of Jew, and rest upon the law, and  ²boast in God,

And know the will, and  ¹approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,

And have confidence that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,

One who disciplines the foolish, a teacher of  ¹babes, having the proper form of the knowledge and truth in the law;

 ¹You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?

You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob their temples?

You who boast in the law, do you by transgression of the law dishonor God?

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” even as it is written.

For circumcision profits if you practice the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the  ¹ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

And the uncircumcision by nature, if he fulfills the law, will judge you who through the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

 ¹For he is not a Jew who is one  ²outwardly; neither is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.

 ¹But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart,  ²in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not  ³from men, but  ³from God.

What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

Much in every way. First, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For what if some disbelieved? Shall their unbelief annul the faithfulness of God?

 ¹Absolutely not! But let God be true and every man a liar, as it is written, “That You may be  ²declared righteous in Your words and may overcome when You are judged.”

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is the God who inflicts wrath unrighteous? I speak according to man.

Absolutely not! Otherwise how shall God judge the world?

But if the  ¹truthfulness of God has abounded in my lie unto His glory, why still am I also being judged as a sinner?

And why not say (as we are slanderously charged and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil that good may come? whose  ¹judgment is just.

What then? Are we better? Not at all! For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin,

Even as it is written, "There is none righteous, not even one;

There is none who understands, there is none who seeks out God.

All have turned aside; together they have become useless; there is none who does  ¹good; there is not so much as one.

Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Swift are their feet to shed blood,

Destruction and misery are in their ways,

And the  ¹way of peace they have not known.

There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law,  ¹that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may fall under the judgment of God;

Because out of the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him; for through the law is the clear knowledge of sin.

But now,  ¹apart from the law, the  ²righteousness of God has been  ³manifested, witness being borne to it by the Law and the Prophets;

Even the righteousness of God through the  ¹faith of Jesus Christ to all those who believe, for there is no distinction;

For all have sinned and fall short of the  ¹glory of God,

Being  ¹justified  ²freely by His grace through the  ³redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

Whom God  ¹set forth as a  ²propitiation place through faith in His blood, for the demonstrating of His righteousness, in that in His forbearance God  ³passed over the sins that had previously occurred,

With a view to the demonstrating of His righteousness in the present time, so that He might be righteous and the One who  ¹justifies him who is of the  ²faith of Jesus.

Where then is boasting?  ¹It is excluded. Through what kind of law? That of works? No, but through the law of faith.

For we account that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not of the Gentiles also? Yes, of the Gentiles also,

If indeed God is one, who will justify the circumcision  ¹out of faith and the uncircumcision  ¹through faith.

Do we then make the law of no effect through faith? Absolutely not! Rather, we establish the law.