7:1Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to those knowing law,) that law rules over a man as long as he lives? 7:2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband: 7:3so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man. 7:4So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. 7:5For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death; 7:6but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter. 7:7What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust; 7:8but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead. 7:9But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died. 7:10And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death: 7:11for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me]. 7:12So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 7:13Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin. 7:15For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise. 7:16But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that [it is] right. 7:17Now then [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me. 7:18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right [I find] not. 7:19For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do. 7:20But if what *I* do not will, this I practise, [it is] no longer *I* [that] do it, but the sin that dwells in me. 7:21I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there. 7:22For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man: 7:23but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members. 7:24O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death? 7:25I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then *I* *myself* with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law.
8:1[There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus. 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death. 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh, 8:4in order that the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh but according to Spirit. 8:5For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 8:6For the mind of the flesh [is] death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace. 8:7Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be: 8:8and they that are in flesh cannot please God. 8:9But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not [the] Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him: 8:10but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness. 8:11But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among [the] dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you. 8:12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh; 8:13for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live: 8:14for as many as are led by [the] Spirit of God, *these* are sons of God. 8:15For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 8:16The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God. 8:17And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with [him], that we may also be glorified with [him]. 8:18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the coming glory to be revealed to us. 8:19For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God: 8:20for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected [the same], in hope 8:21that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 8:22For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now. 8:23And not only [that], but even *we* ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, [that is] the redemption of our body. 8:24For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope? 8:25But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience. 8:26And in like manner the Spirit joins also its help to our weakness; for we do not know what we should pray for as is fitting, but the Spirit itself makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered. 8:27But he who searches the hearts knows what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for saints according to God. 8:28But we *do* know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose. 8:29Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be [the] firstborn among many brethren. 8:30But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified. 8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who against us? 8:32He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things? 8:33Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? [It is] God who justifies: 8:34who is he that condemns? [It is] Christ who has died, but rather has been [also] raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us. 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 8:36According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter. 8:37But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us. 8:38For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39nor 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.
9:1I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit, 9:2that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart, 9:3for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh; 9:4who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises; 9:5whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 9:6Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel; 9:7nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee. 9:8That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed. 9:9For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah. 9:10And not only [that], but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father, 9:11[the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls), 9:12it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less: 9:13according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau. 9:14What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought. 9:15For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion. 9:16So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy. 9:17For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men], that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth. 9:18So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens. 9:19Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose? 9:20Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 9:21Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour? 9:22And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction; 9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory, 9:24us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst [the] Jews, but also from amongst [the] nations? 9:25As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved. 9:26And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, *Ye* [are] not my people, there shall they be called Sons of [the] living God. 9:27But Esaias cries concerning Israel, Should the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved: 9:28for [he] is bringing the matter to an end, and [cutting [it] short in righteousness; because] a cutting short of the matter will [the] Lord accomplish upon the earth. 9:29And according as Esaias said before, Unless [the] Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha. 9:30What then shall we say? That [they of the] nations, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, but [the] righteousness that is on the principle of faith. 9:31But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law. 9:32Wherefore? Because [it was] not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone, 9:33according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.
10:1Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which [I address] to God for them is for salvation. 10:2For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 10:3For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 10:4For Christ is [the] end of law for righteousness to every one that believes. 10:5For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them. 10:6But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down; 10:7or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring up Christ from among [the] dead. 10:8But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: 10:9that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved. 10:10For with [the] heart is believed to righteousness; and with [the] mouth confession made to salvation. 10:11For the scripture says, No one believing on him shall be ashamed. 10:12For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all [is] rich towards all that call upon him. 10:13For every one whosoever, who shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved. 10:14How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without one who preaches? 10:15and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? according as it is written, How beautiful the feet of them that announce glad tidings of peace, of them that announce glad tidings of good things! 10:16But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report? 10:17So faith then [is] by a report, but the report by God's word. 10:18But I say, Have they not heard? Yea, surely, Their voice has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the extremities of the habitable world. 10:19But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, *I* will provoke you to jealousy through [them that are] not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you. 10:20But Esaias is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me. 10:21But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.
11:1I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin. 11:2God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in [the history of] Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel? 11:3Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and *I* have been left alone, and they seek my life. 11:4But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal. 11:5Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace. 11:6But if by grace, no longer of works: since [otherwise] grace is no more grace. 11:7What [is it] then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded, 11:8according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day. 11:9And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them: 11:10let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway. 11:11I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is] salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy. 11:12But if their fall [be the] world's wealth, and their loss [the] wealth of [the] nations, how much rather their fulness? 11:13For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as *I* am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry; 11:14if by any means I shall provoke to jealousy [them which are] my flesh, and shall save some from among them. 11:15For if their casting away [be the] world's reconciliation, what [their] reception but life from among [the] dead? 11:16Now if the first-fruit [be] holy, the lump also; and if the root [be] holy, the branches also. 11:17Now if some of the branches have been broken out, and *thou*, being a wild olive tree, hast been grafted in amongst them, and hast become a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree, 11:18boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, [it is] not *thou* bearest the root, but the root thee. 11:19Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that *I* might be grafted in. 11:20Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and *thou* standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear: 11:21if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either. 11:22Behold then [the] goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since [otherwise] *thou* also wilt be cut away. 11:23And *they* too, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in; for God is able again to graft them in. 11:24For if *thou* hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree? 11:25For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in; 11:26and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 11:27And this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall have taken away their sins. 11:28As regards the glad tidings, [they are] enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers. 11:29For the gifts and the calling of God [are] not subject to repentance. 11:30For as indeed *ye* [also] once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*; 11:31so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that *they* also may be objects of mercy. 11:32For God hath shut up together all in unbelief, in order that he might shew mercy to all. 11:33O depth of riches both of [the] wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways! 11:34For who has known [the] mind of [the] Lord, or who has been his counsellor? 11:35or who has first given to him, and it shall be rendered to him? 11:36For of him, and through him, and for him [are] all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.
12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your intelligent service. 12:2And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of [your] mind, that ye may prove what [is] the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 12:3For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith. 12:4For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office; 12:5thus we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and each one members one of the other. 12:6But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether [it be] prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith; 12:7or service, [let us occupy ourselves] in service; or he that teaches, in teaching; 12:8or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness. 12:9Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good: 12:10as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other: 12:11as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord. 12:12As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering: 12:13distributing to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality. 12:14Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not. 12:15Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep. 12:16Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes: 12:17recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men: 12:18if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men; 12:19not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance [belongs] to me, *I* will recompense, saith the Lord. 12:20If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. 12:21Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
13:1Let every soul be subject to the authorities that are above [him]. For there is no authority except from God; and those that exist are set up by God. 13:2So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority resists the ordinance of God; and they who [thus] resist shall bring sentence of guilt on themselves. 13:3For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil [one]. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority? practise [what is] good, and thou shalt have praise from it; 13:4for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil. 13:5Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience. 13:6For on this account ye pay tribute also; for they are God's officers, attending continually on this very thing. 13:7Render to all their dues: to whom tribute [is due], tribute; to whom custom, custom; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour. 13:8Owe no one anything, unless to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. 13:9For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 13:10Love works no ill to its neighbour; love therefore [is the] whole law. 13:11This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that *we* should be aroused out of sleep; for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed. 13:12The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13:13As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation. 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to [fulfil its] lusts.
14:1Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to [the] determining of questions of reasoning. 14:2One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs. 14:3Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him. 14:4Who art *thou* that judgest the servant of another? to his own master he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand. 14:5One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day [alike]. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind. 14:6He that regards the day, regards it to [the] Lord. And he that eats, eats to [the] Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, [it is] to [the] Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks. 14:7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 14:8For both if we should live, [it is] to the Lord we live; and if we should die, [it is] to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's. 14:9For to this [end] Christ has died and lived [again], that he might rule over both dead and living. 14:10But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God. 14:11For it is written, *I* live, saith [the] Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God. 14:12So then each of us shall give an account concerning himself to God. 14:13Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother. 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him who reckons anything to be unclean, to that man [it is] unclean. 14:15For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died. 14:16Let not then your good be evil spoken of; 14:17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in [the] Holy Spirit. 14:18For he that in this serves the Christ [is] acceptable to God and approved of men. 14:19So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another. 14:20For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil to that man who eats while stumbling [in doing so]. 14:21[It is] right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor [do anything] in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak. 14:22Hast *thou* faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Blessed [is] he who does not judge himself in what he allows. 14:23But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because [it is] not of faith; but whatever [is] not of faith is sin.
15:1But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification. 15:3For the Christ also did not please himself; but according as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me. 15:4For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. 15:5Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus; 15:6that ye may with one accord, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15:7Wherefore receive ye one another, according as the Christ also has received you to [the] glory of God. 15:8For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of [the] circumcision for [the] truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers; 15:9and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among [the] nations, and will sing to thy name. 15:10And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people. 15:11And again, Praise the Lord, all [ye] nations, and let all the peoples laud him. 15:12And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over [the] nations: in him shall [the] nations hope. 15:13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by [the] power of [the] Holy Spirit. 15:14But I am persuaded, my brethren, I myself also, concerning you, that yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. 15:15But I have written to you the more boldly, [brethren,] in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me by God, 15:16for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the [message of] glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by [the] Holy Spirit. 15:17I have therefore [whereof to] boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God. 15:18For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for [the] obedience of [the] nations, by word and deed, 15:19in [the] power of signs and wonders, in [the] power of [the] Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ; 15:20and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation; 15:21but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand. 15:22Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you. 15:23But now, having no longer place in these regions, and having great desire to come to you these many years, 15:24whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;) 15:25but now I go to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints; 15:26for Macedonia and Achaia have been well pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints who [are] in Jerusalem. 15:27They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them. 15:28Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain. 15:29But I know that, coming to you, I shall come in [the] fulness of [the] blessing of Christ. 15:30But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God; 15:31that I may be saved from those that do not believe in Judaea; and that my ministry which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints; 15:32in order that I may come to you in joy by God's will, and that I may be refreshed with you. 15:33And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
16:1But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea; 16:2that ye may receive her in [the] Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for *she* also has been a helper of many, and of myself. 16:3Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workmen in Christ Jesus, 16:4(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not *I* only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,) 16:5and the assembly at their house. Salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is [the] first-fruits of Asia for Christ. 16:6Salute Maria, who laboured much for you. 16:7Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me. 16:8Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. 16:9Salute Urbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved. 16:10Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute those who belong to Aristobulus. 16:11Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those who belong to Narcissus, who are in [the] Lord. 16:12Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in [the] Lord. Salute Persis, the beloved, who has laboured much in [the] Lord. 16:13Salute Rufus, chosen in [the] Lord; and his mother and mine. 16:14Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren with them. 16:15Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them. 16:16Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of Christ salute you. 16:17But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which *ye* have learnt, and turn away from them. 16:18For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. 16:19For your obedience has reached to all. I rejoice therefore as it regards you; but I wish you to be wise [as] to that which is good, and simple [as] to evil. 16:20But the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. 16:21Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. 16:22I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in [the] Lord. 16:23Gaius, my host and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the steward of the city, salutes you, and the brother Quartus. 16:24The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen. 16:25Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to [the] revelation of [the] mystery, as to which silence has been kept in [the] times of the ages, 16:26but [which] has now been made manifest, and by prophetic scriptures, according to commandment of the eternal God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations 16:27[the] only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians
1:1Paul, [a] called apostle of Jesus Christ, by God's will, and Sosthenes the brother, 1:2to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to [those] sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours: 1:3Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord Jesus Christ. 1:4I thank my God always about you, in respect of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus; 1:5that in everything ye have been enriched in him, in all word [of doctrine], and all knowledge, 1:6(according as the testimony of the Christ has been confirmed in you,) 1:7so that ye come short in no gift, awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ; 1:8who shall also confirm you to [the] end, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:9God [is] faithful, by whom ye have been called into [the] fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 1:10Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion. 1:11For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of [the house of] Chloe, that there are strifes among you. 1:12But I speak of this, that each of you says, *I* am of Paul, and *I* of Apollos, and *I* of Cephas, and *I* of Christ. 1:13Is the Christ divided? has Paul been crucified for you? or have ye been baptised unto the name of Paul? 1:14I thank God that I have baptised none of you, unless Crispus and Gaius, 1:15that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name. 1:16Yes, I baptised also the house of Stephanas; for the rest I know not if I have baptised any other. 1:17For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain. 1:18For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power. 1:19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones. 1:20Where [is the] wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 1:21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom has not known God, God has been pleased by the foolishness of the preaching to save those that believe. 1:22Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom; 1:23but *we* preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations foolishness; 1:24but to those that [are] called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ God's power and God's wisdom. 1:25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1:26For consider your calling, brethren, that [there are] not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born. 1:27But God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may put to shame the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world, that he may put to shame the strong things; 1:28and the ignoble things of the world, and the despised, has God chosen, [and] things that are not, that he may annul the things that are; 1:29so that no flesh should boast before God. 1:30But of him are *ye* in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption; 1:31that according as it is written, He that boasts, let him boast in [the] Lord.
2:1And *I*, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God. 2:2For I did not judge [it well] to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and *him* crucified. 2:3And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling; 2:4and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power; 2:5that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power. 2:6But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought. 2:7But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: 2:8which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;) 2:9but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him, 2:10but God has revealed to us by [his] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 2:11For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God. 2:12But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which [is] of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God: 2:13which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual [things] by spiritual [means]. 2:14But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned; 2:15but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one. 2:16For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.
3:1And *I*, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ. 3:2I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able; 3:3for ye are yet carnal. For whereas [there are] among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? 3:4For when one says, *I* am of Paul, and another, *I* of Apollos, are ye not men? 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each. 3:6*I* have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase. 3:7So that neither the planter is anything, nor the waterer; but God the giver of the increase. 3:8But the planter and the waterer are one; but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 3:9For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building. 3:10According to the grace of God which has been given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it. 3:11For other foundation can no man lay besides that which [is] laid, which is Jesus Christ. 3:12Now if any one build upon [this] foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw, 3:13the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare [it], because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is. 3:14If the work of any one which he has built upon [the foundation] shall abide, he shall receive a reward. 3:15If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but *he* shall be saved, but so as through [the] fire. 3:16Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you? 3:17If any one corrupt the temple of God, *him* shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are *ye*. 3:18Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise. 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He who takes the wise in their craftiness. 3:20And again, [The] Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain. 3:21So that let no one boast in men; for all things are yours. 3:22Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or [the] world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours; 3:23and *ye* [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's.
4:1Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of [the] mysteries of God. 4:2Here, further, it is sought in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 4:3But for me it is the very smallest matter that I be examined of you or of man's day. Nor do I even examine myself. 4:4For I am conscious of nothing in myself; but I am not justified by this: but he that examines me is the Lord. 4:5So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise from God. 4:6Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the [lesson of] not [letting your thoughts go] above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for [such a] one against another. 4:7For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving? 4:8Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that *we* also might reign with you. 4:9For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men. 4:10*We* [are] fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour. 4:11To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home, 4:12and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer [it]; 4:13insulted, we entreat: we are become as [the] offscouring of the world, [the] refuse of all, until now. 4:14Not [as] chiding do I write these things to you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you]. 4:15For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus *I* have begotten you through the glad tidings. 4:16I entreat you therefore, be my imitators. 4:17For this reason I have sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved and faithful child in [the] Lord, who shall put you in mind of my ways [as] they [are] in Christ, according as I teach everywhere in every assembly. 4:18But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you; 4:19but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power. 4:20For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power. 4:21What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and [in] a spirit of meekness?
5:1It is universally reported [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife. 5:2And *ye* are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you. 5:3For *I*, [as] absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged as present, 5:4[to deliver,] in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (ye and my spirit being gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ), him that has so wrought this: 5:5to deliver him, [I say,] [being] such, to Satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 5:6Your boasting [is] not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 5:7Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed; 5:8so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth. 5:9I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators; 5:10not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since [then] ye should go out of the world. 5:11But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him]; with such a one not even to eat. 5:12For what have *I* [to do] with judging those outside also? *ye*, do not ye judge them that are within? 5:13But those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves.
6:1Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints? 6:2Do ye not then know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of [the] smallest judgments? 6:3Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life? 6:4If then ye have judgments as to things of this life, set those [to judge] who are little esteemed in the assembly. 6:5I speak to you [to put you] to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren! 6:6But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers. 6:7Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded? 6:8But *ye* do wrong, and defraud, and this [your] brethren. 6:9Do ye not know that unrighteous [persons] shall not inherit [the] kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men, 6:10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor [the] rapacious, shall inherit [the] kingdom of God. 6:11And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 6:12All things are lawful to me, but all things do not profit; all things are lawful to me, but *I* will not be brought under the power of any. 6:13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 6:14And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among [the dead] by his power. 6:15Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make [them] members of a harlot? Far be the thought. 6:16Do ye not know that he [that is] joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh. 6:17But he that [is] joined to the Lord is one Spirit. 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. 6:19Do ye not know that your body is [the] temple of the Holy Spirit which [is] in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own? 6:20for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.
7:1But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman; 7:2but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband. 7:3Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband. 7:4The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife. 7:5Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency. 7:6But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it]. 7:7Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus. 7:8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I. 7:9But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn. 7:10But to the married I enjoin, not *I*, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband; 7:11(but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife. 7:12But as to the rest, *I* say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and *she* consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her. 7:13And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave [her] husband. 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since [otherwise] indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy. 7:15But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such [cases], but God has called us in peace. 7:16For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife? 7:17However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies. 7:18Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God's commandments. 7:20Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called. 7:21Hast thou been called [being] a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use [it] rather. 7:22For the bondman that is called in [the] Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner [also] the freeman being called is Christ's bondman. 7:23Ye have been bought with a price; do not be the bondmen of men. 7:24Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God. 7:25But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of [the] Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of [the] Lord to be faithful. 7:26I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man to remain so as he is. 7:27Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife. 7:28But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you. 7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having [any]: 7:30and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing; 7:31and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes. 7:32But I wish you to be without care. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; 7:33but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife. 7:34There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband. 7:35But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what [is] seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction. 7:36But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry. 7:37But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well. 7:38So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better. 7:39A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in [the] Lord. 7:40But she is happier if she so remain, according to my judgment; but I think that *I* also have God's Spirit.
8:1But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 8:2If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it]. 8:3But if any one love God, *he* is known of him): 8:4concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save one. 8:5For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,) 8:6yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, of whom all things, and *we* for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and *we* by him. 8:7But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8:8But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage. 8:9But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak. 8:10For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol? 8:11and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge. 8:12Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 8:13Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.
9:1Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not *ye* my work in [the] Lord? 9:2If I am not an apostle to others, yet at any rate I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are *ye* in [the] Lord. 9:3My defence to those who examine me is this: 9:4Have we not a right to eat and to drink? 9:5have we not a right to take round a sister [as] wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 9:6Or *I* alone and Barnabas, have we not a right not to work? 9:7Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock? 9:8Do I speak these things as a man, or does not the law also say these things? 9:9For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen, 9:10or does he say [it] altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of [it]. 9:11If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it a] great [thing] if *we* shall reap your carnal things? 9:12If others partake of this right over you, should not rather *we*? But we have not used this right, but we bear all things, that we may put no hindrance in the way of the glad tidings of the Christ. 9:13Do ye not know that they who labour [at] sacred things eat of the [offerings offered in the] temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar? 9:14So also the Lord has ordained to those that announce the glad tidings to live of the glad tidings. 9:15But *I* have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast. 9:16For if I announce the glad tidings, I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for it is woe to me if I should not announce the glad tidings. 9:17For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration. 9:18What is the reward then that I have? That in announcing the glad tidings I make the glad tidings costless [to others], so as not to have made use, as belonging to me, of my right in [announcing] the glad tidings. 9:19For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible]. 9:20And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law: 9:21to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain [those] without law. 9:22I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some. 9:23And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them. 9:24Know ye not that they who run in [the] race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain. 9:25But every one that contends [for a prize] is temperate in all things: *they* then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but *we* an incorruptible. 9:26*I* therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air. 9:27But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest [after] having preached to others I should be myself rejected.