  Title: The Bible, King James version, Book 45: Romans Edition: 10 Language: English This eBook was produced by David Widger with the help of Derek Andrew's text from January 1992 and the work of Bryan Taylor in November 2002. Book 45 Romans45:001:001 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, 45:001:002 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy 45:001:003 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of 45:001:004 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the 45:001:005 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience 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: 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 45:001:011 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some 45:001:012 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the 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 45:001:015 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to 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 45:001:024 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the 45:001:025 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and 45:001:026 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even 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 45:001:029 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, 45:001:030 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, 45:001:031 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural 45:001:032 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such 45:002:001 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that 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 45:002:004 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance 45:002:005 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto 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 45:002:008 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, 45:002:009 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth 45:002:010 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, 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 45:002:015 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their 45:002:016 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus 45:002:017 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and 45:002:018 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more 45:002:019 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, 45:002:020 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast 45:002:021 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not 45:002:022 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou 45:002:023 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the 45:002:024 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through 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 45:003:002 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed 45:003:003 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make 45:003:004 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it 45:003:005 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, 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 45:003:009 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we 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 45:003:012 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become 45:003:013 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they 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 45:003:020 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be 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 45:003:026 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he 45:003:027 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? 45:003:028 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without 45:003:029 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the 45:003:030 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by 45:003:031 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, 45:004:001 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining 45:004:002 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to 45:004:003 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was 45:004:004 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, 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 45:004:007 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and 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, 45:004:015 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is 45:004:016 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the 45:004:017 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) 45:004:018 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the 45:004:019 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body 45:004:020 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but 45:004:021 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was 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 45:004:024 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on 45:004:025 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for 45:005:001 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God 45:005:002 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein 45:005:003 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing 45:005:004 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 45:005:005 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed 45:005:006 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died 45:005:007 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet 45:005:008 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were 45:005:009 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be 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 45:005:017 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more 45:005:018 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men 45:005:019 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by 45:005:020 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But 45:005:021 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign 45:006:001 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace 45:006:002 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any 45:006:003 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus 45:006:004 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that 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 45:006:009 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; 45:006:010 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he 45:006:011 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, 45:006:012 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye 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 45:006:015 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but 45:006:016 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to 45:006:017 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye 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 45:006:021 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now 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 45:007:002 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her 45:007:003 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to 45:007:004 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by 45:007:005 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were 45:007:006 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein 45:007:007 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had 45:007:008 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all 45:007:009 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment 45:007:010 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be 45:007:011 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and 45:007:012 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, 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 45:007:015 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I 45:007:016 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law 45:007:017 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in 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 45:007:020 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but 45:007:021 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present 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 45:008:001 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in 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 45:008:007 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not 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 45:008:018 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not 45:008:019 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the 45:008:020 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, 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: 45:008:025 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience 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 45:008:028 And we know that all things work together for good to them 45:008:029 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be 45:008:030 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and 45:008:031 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who 45:008:032 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us 45:008:033 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is 45:008:034 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, 45:008:035 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall 45:008:036 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; 45:008:037 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through 45:008:038 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, 45:008:039 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able 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 45:009:006 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they 45:009:007 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all 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 45:009:010 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, 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 45:009:019 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For 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 45:009:024 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also 45:009:025 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which 45:009:026 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said 45:009:027 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the 45:009:028 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in 45:009:029 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left 45:009:030 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not 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 45:009:033 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and 45:010:001 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, 45:010:002 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not 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 45:010:005 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, 45:010:006 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, 45:010:007 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up 45:010:008 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, 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 45:010:011 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not 45:010:012 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for 45:010:013 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be 45:010:014 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not 45:010:015 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is 45:010:016 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, 45:010:017 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of 45:010:018 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went 45:010:019 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will 45:010:020 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that 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 45:011:002 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye 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, 45:011:010 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow 45:011:011 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God 45:011:012 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the 45:011:013 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of 45:011:014 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my 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 45:011:019 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might 45:011:020 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou 45:011:021 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he 45:011:022 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 45:011:023 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. 45:011:024 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by 45:011:025 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this 45:011:026 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 45:011:027 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. 45:011:028 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes. 45:011:029 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 45:011:030 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now 45:011:031 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your 45:011:032 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might 45:011:033 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of 45:011:034 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his 45:011:035 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed 45:011:036 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to 45:012:001 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that 45:012:002 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by 45:012:003 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. 45:012:004 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have 45:012:005 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one 45:012:006 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; 45:012:007 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; 45:012:008 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. 45:012:009 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; 45:012:010 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in 45:012:011 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; 45:012:012 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; 45:012:013 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. 45:012:014 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. 45:012:015 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. 45:012:016 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. 45:012:017 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in 45:012:018 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably 45:012:019 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place 45:012:020 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give 45:012:021 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. 45:013:001 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 45:013:002 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the 45:013:003 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. 45:013:004 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. 45:013:005 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but 45:013:006 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's 45:013:007 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. |
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