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Book 45 Romans

45:001:001 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,
separated unto the gospel of God,

45:001:002 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy
scriptures,)

45:001:003 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of
the seed of David according to the flesh;

45:001:004 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the
spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

45:001:005 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience
to the faith among all nations, for his name:

45:001:006 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

45:001:007 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

45:001:008 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

45:001:009 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

45:001:010 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a
prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

45:001:011 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some
spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

45:001:012 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the
mutual faith both of you and me.

45:001:013 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

45:001:014 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to
the wise, and to the unwise.

45:001:015 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to
you that are at Rome also.

45:001:016 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

45:001:017 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

45:001:018 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

45:001:019 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

45:001:020 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

45:001:021 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

45:001:022 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

45:001:023 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image
made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
beasts, and creeping things.

45:001:024 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies
between themselves:

45:001:025 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for
ever. Amen.

45:001:026 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even
their women did change the natural use into that which is
against nature:

45:001:027 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

45:001:028 And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those
things which are not convenient;

45:001:029 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

45:001:030 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

45:001:031 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural
affection, implacable, unmerciful:

45:001:032 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such
things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them.

45:002:001 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that
judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

45:002:002 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

45:002:003 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such
things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the
judgment of God?

45:002:004 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God
leadeth thee to repentance?

45:002:005 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto
thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God;

45:002:006 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

45:002:007 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for
glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

45:002:008 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth,
but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

45:002:009 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth
evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

45:002:010 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good,
to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

45:002:011 For there is no respect of persons with God.

45:002:012 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

45:002:013 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

45:002:014 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature
the things contained in the law, these, having not the law,
are a law unto themselves:

45:002:015 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean
while accusing or else excusing one another;)

45:002:016 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christ according to my gospel.

45:002:017 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and
makest thy boast of God,

45:002:018 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more
excellent, being instructed out of the law;

45:002:019 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind,
a light of them which are in darkness,

45:002:020 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast
the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

45:002:021 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not
thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou
steal?

45:002:022 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou
commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit
sacrilege?

45:002:023 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the
law dishonourest thou God?

45:002:024 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through
you, as it is written.

45:002:025 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

45:002:026 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

45:002:027 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

45:002:028 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

45:002:029 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

45:003:001 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision?

45:003:002 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed
the oracles of God.

45:003:003 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make
the faith of God without effect?

45:003:004 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it
is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings,
and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

45:003:005 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God,
what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I
speak as a man)

45:003:006 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

45:003:007 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

45:003:008 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some
affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose
damnation is just.

45:003:009 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we
have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all
under sin;

45:003:010 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

45:003:011 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
after God.

45:003:012 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

45:003:013 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they
have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

45:003:014 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

45:003:015 Their feet are swift to shed blood:

45:003:016 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

45:003:017 And the way of peace have they not known:

45:003:018 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

45:003:019 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to
them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become guilty before God.

45:003:020 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of
sin.

45:003:021 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

45:003:022 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

45:003:023 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

45:003:024 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

45:003:025 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in
his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of
sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

45:003:026 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he
might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in
Jesus.

45:003:027 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith.

45:003:028 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without
the deeds of the law.

45:003:029 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the
Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

45:003:030 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by
faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

45:003:031 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,
we establish the law.

45:004:001 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining
to the flesh, hath found?

45:004:002 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to
glory; but not before God.

45:004:003 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was
counted unto him for righteousness.

45:004:004 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace,
but of debt.

45:004:005 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

45:004:006 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto
whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

45:004:007 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and
whose sins are covered.

45:004:008 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

45:004:009 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

45:004:010 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

45:004:011 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

45:004:012 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

45:004:013 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

45:004:014 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void,
and the promise made of none effect:

45:004:015 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is
no transgression.

45:004:016 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the
end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that
only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the
faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

45:004:017 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the
dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they
were.

45:004:018 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So
shall thy seed be.

45:004:019 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body
now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet
the deadness of Sarah's womb:

45:004:020 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but
was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

45:004:021 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was
able also to perform.

45:004:022 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

45:004:023 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed
to him;

45:004:024 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on
him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

45:004:025 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for
our justification.

45:005:001 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ:

45:005:002 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein
we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

45:005:003 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing
that tribulation worketh patience;

45:005:004 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

45:005:005 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

45:005:006 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died
for the ungodly.

45:005:007 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet
peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

45:005:008 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us.

45:005:009 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through him.

45:005:010 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

45:005:011 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

45:005:012 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

45:005:013 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

45:005:014 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

45:005:015 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

45:005:016 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the
judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of
many offences unto justification.

45:005:017 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more
they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

45:005:018 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men
to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free
gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

45:005:019 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by
the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

45:005:020 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

45:005:021 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

45:006:001 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace
may abound?

45:006:002 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any
longer therein?

45:006:003 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus
Christ were baptized into his death?

45:006:004 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

45:006:005 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

45:006:006 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

45:006:007 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

45:006:008 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with him:

45:006:009 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over him.

45:006:010 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he
liveth, he liveth unto God.

45:006:011 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,
but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

45:006:012 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye
should obey it in the lusts thereof.

45:006:013 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

45:006:014 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under
the law, but under grace.

45:006:015 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but
under grace? God forbid.

45:006:016 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto
death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

45:006:017 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye
have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was
delivered you.

45:006:018 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

45:006:019 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

45:006:020 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from
righteousness.

45:006:021 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now
ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

45:006:022 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

45:006:023 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

45:007:001 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the
law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he
liveth?

45:007:002 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she
is loosed from the law of her husband.

45:007:003 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to
another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her
husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no
adulteress, though she be married to another man.

45:007:004 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by
the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even
to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth
fruit unto God.

45:007:005 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were
by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto
death.

45:007:006 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein
we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and
not in the oldness of the letter.

45:007:007 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had
not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust,
except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

45:007:008 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all
manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

45:007:009 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died.

45:007:010 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be
unto death.

45:007:011 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and
by it slew me.

45:007:012 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just,
and good.

45:007:013 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

45:007:014 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold
under sin.

45:007:015 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I
not; but what I hate, that do I.

45:007:016 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law
that it is good.

45:007:017 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in
me.

45:007:018 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

45:007:019 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would
not, that I do.

45:007:020 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but
sin that dwelleth in me.

45:007:021 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present
with me.

45:007:022 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

45:007:023 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

45:007:024 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

45:007:025 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the
mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law
of sin.

45:008:001 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in
Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit.

45:008:002 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

45:008:003 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

45:008:004 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

45:008:005 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

45:008:006 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually
minded is life and peace.

45:008:007 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

45:008:008 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

45:008:009 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

45:008:010 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

45:008:011 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

45:008:012 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

45:008:013 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

45:008:014 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

45:008:015 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

45:008:016 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

45:008:017 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs
with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be
also glorified together.

45:008:018 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed
in us.

45:008:019 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God.

45:008:020 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly,
but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

45:008:021 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

45:008:022 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

45:008:023 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

45:008:024 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:
for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

45:008:025 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience
wait for it.

45:008:026 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

45:008:027 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of
the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints
according to the will of God.

45:008:028 And we know that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose.

45:008:029 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.

45:008:030 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and
whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified,
them he also glorified.

45:008:031 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who
can be against us?

45:008:032 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

45:008:033 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is
God that justifieth.

45:008:034 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather,
that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who
also maketh intercession for us.

45:008:035 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?

45:008:036 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

45:008:037 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him that loved us.

45:008:038 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
to come,

45:008:039 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able
to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.

45:009:001 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

45:009:002 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

45:009:003 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

45:009:004 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

45:009:005 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh
Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

45:009:006 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they
are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

45:009:007 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all
children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

45:009:008 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

45:009:009 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and
Sarah shall have a son.

45:009:010 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,
even by our father Isaac;

45:009:011 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

45:009:012 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

45:009:013 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

45:009:014 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

45:009:015 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

45:009:016 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

45:009:017 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

45:009:018 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom
he will he hardeneth.

45:009:019 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For
who hath resisted his will?

45:009:020 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

45:009:021 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

45:009:022 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

45:009:023 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the
vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

45:009:024 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also
of the Gentiles?

45:009:025 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which
were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

45:009:026 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said
unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called
the children of the living God.

45:009:027 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the
children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall
be saved:

45:009:028 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in
righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon
the earth.

45:009:029 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left
us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto
Gomorrha.

45:009:030 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not
after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the
righteousness which is of faith.

45:009:031 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

45:009:032 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were
by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that
stumblingstone;

45:009:033 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and
rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed.

45:010:001 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is,
that they might be saved.

45:010:002 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge.

45:010:003 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

45:010:004 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every
one that believeth.

45:010:005 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law,
That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

45:010:006 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

45:010:007 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up
Christ again from the dead.)

45:010:008 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth,
and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

45:010:009 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

45:010:010 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with
the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

45:010:011 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not
be ashamed.

45:010:012 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for
the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

45:010:013 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved.

45:010:014 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?

45:010:015 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is
written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

45:010:016 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith,
Lord, who hath believed our report?

45:010:017 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of
God.

45:010:018 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went
into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the
world.

45:010:019 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will
provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a
foolish nation I will anger you.

45:010:020 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that
sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not
after me.

45:010:021 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

45:011:001 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I
also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin.

45:011:002 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye
not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh
intercession to God against Israel saying,

45:011:003 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

45:011:004 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

45:011:005 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

45:011:006 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

45:011:007 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

45:011:008 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

45:011:009 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:

45:011:010 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow
down their back alway.

45:011:011 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God
forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto
the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

45:011:012 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the
diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more
their fulness?

45:011:013 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of
the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

45:011:014 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my
flesh, and might save some of them.

45:011:015 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

45:011:016 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

45:011:017 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

45:011:018 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou
bearest not the root, but the root thee.