ROMANS(mugue version)

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2011-10-19 09:20:29

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Briefing the Gospel of the crucified God

The God predestined us, who love Him, to get

the glory of Jesus Christ. Romans 8:28-30, 5:1-11,

Galatians2:19-20, Colossians2:11-13)

We, all of christians who were baptized into Christ Jesus,

were crucified with Christ.

=The God called us who have the faith of Jesus.

And the God buried us, whom He united with the cross

of Christ, with Jesus.=The God forgave our trespasses.

And the God also revived us, whom He buried,

with Christ Jesus.=God justified us.

And the God also ascended(raised up) us, whom He made

alive, with Christ in the heavenly place.

And the God also made us, whom He raised up,

sit on His throne(at His right hand), with Jesus Christ.

=The God glorified us.

Rom.1

[1] Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,

set apart for the gospel of God

[2] which he promised beforehand through his prophets

in the holy scriptures,

[3] the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended

from David according to the flesh

[4] and designated Son of God in power according

to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead,

Jesus Christ our Lord,

[5] through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring

about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

[6] including yourselves who are called to belong to Jesus Christ;

[7] To all God's beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

[8] First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you,

because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.

[9] For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel

of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers,

[10] asking that somehow by God's will

I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

[11] For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift

to strengthen you,

[12] that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith,

both yours and mine.

[13] I want you to know, brethren, that I have often intended to come to you

(but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest

among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.

[14] I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians,

both to the wise and to the foolish:

[15] so it's my debt of love willing to pay to preach the gospel to you also

who are in Rome.

[16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation

to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

[17] For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith

as it is written, "He who has the righteousness of faith (4:13) shall live."

[18] For the rejection of God in heaven is revealed in the Gospel

against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness

suppress the truth.

[19] For it is plain that the truth is in them, because God has shown it to them.

[20] Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely,

his eternal powerand deity, has been clearly perceived in the things

that have been made. So they are without excuse;

[21] for they did not pay God God's due although they honored God

and gave thanks to God (But it is Cain's offering) Sobecame futile

in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.

[22] Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

[23] and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images

resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.

[24] Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity,

to the dishonoring of their bodies themselves,

[25] because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped

and served the creature rather than the Creator,

who is blessed for ever! Amen.

[26] For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions.

Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,

[27] and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women

and were consumed with passion for one another,

one man committing shameless acts and the other receiving the due wages

for his shameless service by themselves.

[28] And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up

to abase mind and to improper conduct.

[29] They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness,

malice.Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips,

[30] slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil,

disobedient to parents,

[31] foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

[32] Though they know God's decree that those who do such things

have the evidence in them that they belong to the Death they not only

do them but judge those who practice them with God's decree.

Rom.2

[1] Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever judges others

you condemn yourself

by the very same God's decree you pass judgment upon them,

because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.

[2] We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those

who do such things.

[3] Do you suppose, O man, who judges those who do such things

and yet do the very same things yourself

that you will escape the judgment of God?

[4] Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness

and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant

to lead you to repentance?

[5] But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself

on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

[6] For he will render to every man according to his works:

[7] to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor

and immortality, he will give eternal life;

[8] but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth,

but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

[9] There will be tribulation and distress for every human being

who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

[10] but glory and honor and peace for every one who does good,

the Jew first and also the Greek.

[11] For God shows no partiality.

[12] All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law,

and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

[13] For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God,

but the doers of the law who will be justified.

[14] When Gentiles who have not the Law do by nature what the law requires,

among them those who show that what the Law requires is written

on their heartsare a law to themselves.

[15]while their conscience also bears witness for their conflicting thoughts

accusing or perhaps excusing them

[16] on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men

by Christ Jesus.

[17] But since you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the law

and boast of your relation to God

[18] and know his will and approve what is excellent,

because you are instructed in the law,

[19] So you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those

who are in darkness,

[20] a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law

the embodiment of knowledge and truth --

[21] you then who teach others, will you not teach yourself?

While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

[22] You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery?

You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

[23] You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

[24] For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed

among the Gentiles because of you."

[25] Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break

the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

[26] So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law,

will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

[27] Then those who are physically uncircumcised but fulfill the Law will

condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.

[28] For he is not a real Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision

something external and physical.

[29] He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter

of the heart, spiritual and not literal.

The praise that he is a real Jew is not from men but from God.

Rom.3

[1] Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

[2] Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted

with the oracles of God.

[3] For What shall we insist then ? Because outward Jews did not believe

Does their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

[4] By no means! Let God be true though every man be false, as it is written,

"That thou mayest be justified in thy words,and prevail when thou art judged."

[5] But what shall we say is that God is unjust If he will inflict wrath on us

although our wickedness serves to show the justice of God ?

[6] Not at all. I can't insist it as humanbeing if it is true

how could God judge the world?

[7] But what shall we say is that even if through my falsehood God's truth

abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

[8] And shall we be slandered as false Jews charge us with saying

that we insist that Let us do evil that good may come?By no means .

It is just that the condemnation is of theirs.

[9]Then is what we shall say that we, real Jews, have any better

than the false Jews physically? No, not at all; for I already accused

all men under the power of Sin,

[10] as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;

[11] no one understands, no one seeks for God.

[12] All have turned aside, together they have gone wrong;

no one does good, not even one."

[13] "Their throat is an open grave,they use their tongues to deceive.

""The venom of asps is under their lips."

[14] "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."

[15] "Their feet are swift to shed blood,

[16] in their paths are ruin and misery,

[17] and the way of peace they do not know."

[18] "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

[19] Now we confirm that whatever the Law says it speaks to those

who are under the curse of the Law(gal 3:3), so that every mouth

under the Law may be stopped, and the whole world under the condemnation

of the Law held accountable to God.

[20] For no human being who has been under the power of the Sin will be

justified in his sight by works of the Law,

For through the Law those under the Law know Sin.

[21] But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law,

although the law and the prophets bear witness to it,

[22] the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.

For there is no distinction;

[23] For all under the curse of the Law sinned and have fallen short

of the glory of God,

[24] they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption

which is in Christ Jesus,

[25] whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith.

This was to show God's righteousness which has been misunderstood ,

because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins;

[26] it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous

and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.

[27] Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. on what principle?

On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith.

[28] For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.

[29] Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also?

Yes, of Gentiles also,

[30] since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground

of their faith and the uncircumcised through their faith.

[31] Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means!

On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Rom.4

[1] Then is what we shall say that Abraham, became our forefather

because he had circumcised himself in his flesh by hands?

[2] For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about

(that made him our forefather), but this assertion that Abraham has justified

by works is not from God.

[3] For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God,

and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."

[4] Now to one who works, his wages that he was judged

as a righteous man are not reckoned as a gift but as his due.

[5] And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly,

his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

[6] So also David pronounces a blessing upon the man to whom

God reckons righteousness apart from works:

[7] "Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven,

and whose sins are covered;

[8] blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin."

[9] Is this blessing pronounced only upon the circumcised, or also upon

the uncircumcised? We say that faith was reckoned

to Abraham as righteousness.

[10] How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been

circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.

[11] He received circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness

which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised

so that he became the father of all who believe without being circumcised

and who thus have  righteousness reckoned to them,

[12] and likewise the father of the circumcised who are not adherents

of circumcision only but also follow the example of the faith

which our father Abraham had before he has circumcised.

[13] The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should

inherit the world, did not come through the law

but through the righteousness of faith.

[14] If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null

and the promise is void.

[15] For the Law brings wrath, but where the Law is of no use

transgression is ineffective all the more

[16] That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest

on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants --

not to the adherents of the law only but also to those who share

the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all,

[17] as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"

-- in the presence of this promise of the God he believed him as the God

who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

[18] In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father

of many nations; as he had been told, "So shall your descendants be."

[19] He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body,

which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old,

or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.

[20] No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God,

but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,

[21] fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

[22] That is why his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness."

[23] But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written

by Moses after death of Abraham not for his sake ,

[24] only but also ours. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him

that raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,

[25] who was put to death for our trespasses

and raised for our justification.

Rom.5

[1] Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ.

[2] Through him we have obtained access to this mercy seat in front of

which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

[3] More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering

produces endurance,

[4] and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

[5] and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured

into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.

[6] While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

[7] Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man --

though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.

[8] But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners

Christ died for us.

[9] Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood,

much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

[10] For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God

by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled,

shall we be saved by his life.

[11] Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom we have now the ministry o freconciling

between sinners and God .

[12] In order that God gives us all these blessings he had allowed that

as Sin came into the world through one man and Death through Sin, and

so Death spread to those who sinned in imitation of him(Adam)

[13] Sin indeed was in the world before the Law was given,

but Sin expose himself where there is no Law.

[14] Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those

whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam,

who was a type of the one who was to come.

[15] But in the point of the free gift of grace it is not like the judgment

upon the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass,

much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace

of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.

[16] And the free gift is not like the effect of  a sin of men.

For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation,

but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification.

[17]If Death through his trespass reigned all men who commit a crime,

much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift

of righteousness reign Death in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

[18] Then as one trespass of all men led him to condemnation,

so one act of righteousness of all men leads them to acquittal and life

[19] For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,

so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous.

[20] The Law came in, as the result of that, the trespass increase

but where Sin was strong , Grace was stronger than Sin,

[21] so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign

through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom.6

[1] Then is what we shall say that we are continue in Sin

that grace may abound?

[2] By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

[3] Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus

were baptized into his death?

[4] We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ

was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,

we too might walk in newness of life.

[5] For if we have been united with him in a death like his,

we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

[6] We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body

might be powerless, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

[7] For he who has died is freed from sin.

[8] But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall

also live with him.

[9] For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will

never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

[10] The death he died he died to sin, once for all,

but the life he lives he lives to God.

[11] So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God

in Christ Jesus.

[12]Therefore Let not Sin in your mortal bodies reign you

to make you obey their passions.

[13] Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness,

but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought

from death to life, and your members to God

as instruments of righteousness.

[14] For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law

but under grace.

[15] Then is what we shall say that we are to Sin because we are not

under Law but under grace?  By no means!

[16] Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one

as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey,

either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience,

which leads to righteousness?

[17] But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of Sin

have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching

to which you were committed,

[18] and, having been set free from sin, have become

slaves of righteousness.

[19] I am speaking an example in human society,

because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded

your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity,

so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.

[20] When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

[21] But then what return did you get from the things of which you are

now ashamed? The end of those things is death.

[22] But now that you have been set free from Sin and have become

slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.

[23] For the wages of Sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life

in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom.7

[1] Do you not know, brethren -- for I am speaking to those who know the law

-- that the law is binding on a person only during his life?

[2] Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives;

but if her husband dies she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.

[3] Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man

while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies she is free from that law,

and even if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

[4] Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ,

so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead

in order that we may bear fruit for God.

[5] While we had been in the flesh, passions of Sin working in our members ,

were aroused by the Law, for our oldself to bear fruit for Death.

[6] But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive,

so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.

[7]Then is what shall we say that the Law is Sin? By no means!

Yet, if it had not been for the Law, I should not have known Sin.

I should not have known what it is to covet if the Law had not said,

"You shall not covet."

[8] But Sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me

all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the Law Sin lies dead (powerless).

[9] I had been alive apart from the Law all the time, but when

the commandment came, Sin revived and I died;

[10] the very commandment which promised life proved

 to lead me to Death .

[11] For Sin finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me

and by it killed me.

[12] So the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

[13] Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means!

It was Sin, working Death in me through what is good,

so that Sin might be shown to be Sin, and through the commandment might

become sinful beyond measure.

[14] We know that the Law isin spirit; but I am in the flesh, sold under Sin.

[15] I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want,

but I do the very thing I hate.

[16] Now even if I do what I do not want, I agree the Law that is good.

[17] So then it is no longer I that do it, but Sin which dwells within me.

[18] For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh.

I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

[19] For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.

[20] Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it,

but Sin which dwells within me (in my flesh).

[21] So I find itthe Law makes me want to do good and know

that evil lies close at hand.

[22] For I delight in the Law of God, in my innerself,

[23] but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind

and making me captive to the law of Sin which dwells in my members.

[24] Wretched man that I ,under the Law, am! Who will deliver me

from this body under the powerof Death?

[25] Thanks be to God who delivered me from Sin through Jesus Christ

our Lord! So then, I , my oldself, serve the Law of God with my innerself ,

but with my flesh (outerself) I serve the Law of Sin.

Rom.8

[1] Therefore now there is not anymore condemnation(questions)

for those who are not in the Law but in Christ Jesus.

[2] For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you,

one of those who are in Christ, Jesus, free from the Law of Sin and Death.

[3] For God has done what he could not do through the Law,

weakened by the flesh, By sending his own Son in the same flesh

under the power of Sin and having him be a sin offering,

at last he condemned Sin in the flesh,

[4] So that the just requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk

not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit(serving the Spirit).

[5] For those who serve the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh,

but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds

on the things of the Spirit.

[6] To set the mind(psyche) on the flesh is death,

but to set the psyche  on the Spirit(Pneuma) is life and peace.

[7] For the psyche  that is set on the flesh(sarco) is hostile to God;

it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot;

[8] and those who are in the flesh(sarco) cannot please God.

[9] But you are not in the flesh(sarco), you are in the Spirit,(Pneuma)

if in fact the Spirit(Pneuma) of God dwells in you. Any one who does not

have the Spirit(Pneuma) of Christ does not belong to him.

[10] But if Christ(the Pneuma of Christ) Is in you, although your bodies are dead

because of Sin(being under the Sin), your spirits are alive because

of righteousness(being under the grace).

[11] If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,

he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies

also through his Spirit which dwells in you.

[12] So then, brethren, we are debtors who must not belong to the sarco

and not live serving the sarco,

[13] for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit

you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

[14] For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

[15] For you did not receive the Pneuma of minister(the Law)

to serve with fear , but you have received the Spirit(pneuma) of sonship.

In whomwe cry, "Abba! Father!"

[16] it is the Spirit(the Pneuma) Beingself bearing witness

with our spirit(pneuma) that we are children of God,

[17] and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs(coheirs)

with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be

glorified with him.

[18] I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth

comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

[19] For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing

of the sons of God;

[20] for the creation was subjected to futility in hope, not of its own will

but by the will of him who subjected it in hope;

[21] because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay

andbe subjected toglorious liberty of the children of God.

[22] We know that the whole creation has been groaning

in travail together until now;

[23] and not only the creation, but also those(saints) who have slept

with the first fruits of the Spirit (the Pneuma), groan inwardly as we wait for

adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

[24] For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope.

For who hopes for what he sees?

[25] But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

[26]the same hope Spirit(the Pneuma being)helps us

in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought,

but the Spirit(the Pneuma Beingself) intercedes for us with sighs

too deep for words.

[27] And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind

of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints

according to the will of God.

[28] We know that God works for those who love him to obtain every good

thing ,as they are according to his purpose.

[29] For his(God's) purpose is that those whom he foreknew

he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son,

in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

[30] And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called

he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.

[31] Then what is something which we say with those gifts?

If God is for us, who is against us?

  [32] He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all,

will he not also give us all things with him?

[33] Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?

God already justified the elect.

[34] who is to condemn? Nobody condemn the elect because Christ Jesus,

who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God,

who indeed intercedes for us?

[35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,

or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

[36] As it is written, "For thy sake we are being killed everyday

we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

[37] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors

through him who loved us.

[38] For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,

nor present, nor to come, nor powers,

[39] nor height, nor depth, nor anybeing else in all creation, will be able

to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom.9

[1] I am speaking the truth in Christ, not speaking the lie in Satan

my conscience in the Holy Spirit (in the Pneuma being) bears me witness ,

[2] that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

[3] For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ

for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race.

[4] They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory,

the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

[5] to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh,

is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen.

[6] But it is not as though the word of God had failed.

For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,

[7] and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants;

but "Through Isaac shall your descendants be named."

[8] This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children

of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

[9] For this is what the promise said, "About this time I will return and

Sarah shall have a son."

[10] And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children

by one man, our forefather Isaac,

[11] though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad,

in order that God's purpose of election not coming from the adherents of

doing of the Law , but coming from his grace calling might accomplished.

[12] she was told, "The elder will serve the younger."

[13] As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

[14] What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part?

By no means!

[15] For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,

and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

[16] So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

[17] For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up

for the very purpose of showing my power in you,

so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

[18] So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens

(rejects) the heart of whomever he wills.

[19] You will say to me then, "Why am I still blamed?

For who can resist his will?"

[20] But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded

say to its molder, "Why have you made me thus?"

[21] Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump

one vessel for beauty and another for menial use?

[22] What if God, desiring to show his wrath(rejection)

and to make known his power, has endured with much patience

the vessels of wrath made for destruction,

[23] in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels

of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory,

[24] even us whom he has called, not only from the Jews

but alsofrom the Gentiles?

[25] As indeed he says in Hose'a, "Those who were not my peopleI

will call `my people,'and her (the nation)was not beloved

I will call `my beloved.'"

[26] "And in the very place where it was said to them, `You are not mypeople,

'they will be called `sons of the living God.'"

[27] And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons

of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved;

[28] for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth

with rigor and dispatch."

[29] And as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us children,

we would have fared like Sodom and been made like Gomor'rah."

[30] What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue

righteousness have attained it (pass the examination of God),

that is, righteousness through faith;

[31] but that Israel who pursued the righteousness of the Law

did not succeed in fulfilling that law.

[32] Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith,

but as if it were based on works (of the Law).

They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,

[33] as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make men

stumble, a rock that will make them fall;

and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

Rom.10

[1] Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is

that they may be saved.

[2] I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God,

but it is not according to the knowledge of the truth.

[3] For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God,

and seeking to establish their own,

they did not submit to God's righteousness.

[4] For Christ is the end (the essence) of the Law,

that every one who has faith may be justified.

[5] Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness

of the Law shall live by doing the Law.

[6] But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in your heart,

"Who will ascend into heaven?" (that means for Christ have come

down from heaven)

[7] or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that means Christ having

been raised from the dead).

[8] In other words does it say? "The word is near you, on your lips

and in your heartThat is the word of faith which we preach

[9]if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe

in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

[10] For man believes with his heart and so is justified,

and he confesses with his lips and so is saved.

[11] The scripture says, "No one who believes in him will be put to shame."

[12] For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is

Lord of all and bestows his riches upon all who call upon him.

[13] For, "every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."

[14] But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed?

And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?

And how are they to hear without a preacher?

[15] And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written,

"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!"

[16] But they have not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says,

"Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?"

[17] So faith is to believe the Gospel what has heard from us ,

preaching is the news about Christ.

[18] But is what I insist they have not heard? No, not at all

I insist it "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words

to the ends of the world.

[18] But is what I insist that Israel did not understand?

First "Moses says, "I will make you jealous of

those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."

[20] Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, "I have been found by those

who did not seek me;I have shown myself to those

who did not ask for me."

[21] But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands

to a disobedient and contrary people."

Rom.11

[1] Do I insist that God has rejected his people? By no means!

I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,

a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

[2] God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.

Do you not know what the scripture says of Eli'jah,

how he pleads with God against Israel?

[3] "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished

thy altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life."

[4] But what is God's reply to him? "I have kept for myself seven

thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Ba'al."

[5] So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

[6] But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works;

otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

[7]what shall we say? Israel failed to obtain what it sought.

The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,

[8] as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that should not

see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day."

[9] And David says,

"Let their table become a snare and a trap,

a pitfall and a retribution for them;

[10] let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,

and bend their backs for ever."

[11] So do I insist that they have so as to fall? By no means!

But through their trespass salvation(privilege) has come to the Gentiles,

so as to make Israel jealous.

[12] Now if their trespass means riches for the world,

and if their failure means riches(opportunity to succeed)the Gentiles,

how much more will theirsuccess mean for them!

[13] Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am

an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

[14] in order to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.

[15] For if the rejection of them the opportunity of reconciliation

of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

[16] If the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so is the whole lump;

and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

[17] But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot,

were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree,

[18] do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is

not you that support the root, but the root that supports you.

[19] You will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."

[20] That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief,

but you stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud,

but stand in awe.

[21] For if God did not spare the natural branches,

neither will he spare you.

[22] Note then mercy and the judge of God :condemnation those

who have been in flesh, but God's Grace to you, provided you continue

in his kindness(mercy); otherwise you too will be cut off.

[23] And even the others, if they do not persist in their unbelief, will be

grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

[24] For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree,

and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more

will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.

[25] Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand

this mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel,

until the full number of the Gentiles come in (are chosen),

[26] and so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, "The Deliverer will come

from Zion,he will banish ungodliness from Jacob";

[27] "and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins."

[28] As regards the gospel for Gentiles'sake( for your sake)

Israel are hatred of God; butelection of Godthe sake of

their forefathers they are beloved.

[29] For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

[30] Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received

mercy because of their disobedience,

[31]disobeyed but they will receive the mercy

that shown to you in the future.

[32] For God hasall men who have sinned to disobedience,

in order that he may have mercy upon all who were disobedient.

[33] O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!

How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

[34] "For who has known the mind of the Lord,or who has been his counselor?"

[35] "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"

[36] For from him and through him and to him are

all things of salvation. To him be glory for ever. Amen.

Rom.12

[1] I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present

your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God,

which is your spiritual worship.

[2] Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of

your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, 

that you become good and joyful and perfect person.
[3] For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think

of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment,

each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.

[4] For as in one body we have many members, and all the members

do not have the same function,
[5] so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members

one of another.
[6] Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them:

if prophecy, in harmony to our faith;
[7] if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching;
[8] he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality;

he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
[9]Love is the essence; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;

[10] love one another with brotherly affection;

outdo one another in showing honor.
[11] Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord.
[12] Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
[13] Contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality.
[14] Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

[15] Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
[16] Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty,

but associate with the lowly; never be conceited.
[17] Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble

in the sight of all.
[18] If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all.
[19] Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the judgment of God;

for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
[20] No, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink;

for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head."
[21] Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. 
  

Rom.13

[1] Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.

For it is no longer authority if it is not from God,among those that exist ,

only that have been instituted by God is real authorities

[2] Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed,

and those who resist will incur judgment.

[3] For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have

no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good,

and you will receive his approval,

[4] for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid,

for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute

God's judgment (denial) on the wrongdoer.

[5] Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's judgment

but also for the sake of conscience.

[6] For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are

ministers of God, attending to this very thing.

[7] Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due,

revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due,

honor to whom honor is due.

[8] Owe no one anything, except to love one another;

for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

[9] The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill,

You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment,

are embodiment of this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

[10] Love does no wrong to a neighbor;

therefore Love is the essence of the Law.

[11] Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you

to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now

than when we first believed;

[12] the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works

of darkness and put on the armor of light;

[13] let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling

and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness,

not in quarreling and jealousy.

[14] But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh,

to gratify its desires.

Rom.14

[1] As for the man who is weak in faith,

welcome that he has faith thatmay eat anything ,

[2] butweak man eats only vegetables

[3] Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him

who abstains pass judgment on him who eats meat

for God has welcomed him.

[4] Who are you to pass judgment on the another servant of your master?

It isthe authority ofown master that he is accepted or rejected,

for the Master has power to make him stand or fall.

[5] one man esteems one day as better than another, while another man

esteems all days alike. Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

[6] He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord(the Master).

He also who eats meats, eats in honor of the Lord(the Master),

since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor

of the Lord(the Master)gives thanks to God.

[7] None of us lives himself, and none of us dies for himself.

[8] If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then,

whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

[9] For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord

both of the dead and of the living.

[10] Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise

your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God;

[11] for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,

and every tongue shall give praise to God."

[12] So each of us shall give praise to God with his own tongue.

[13] Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather

decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

[14] I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself;

but it is unclean for any one who thinks it unclean.

[15] If your brother is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer

walking in love(the Christ's law). Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one

for whom Christ died.

[16] So do not let your goodnews be spoken of as evil.

[17] For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness

and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (the Holy Pneuma);

[18] he who thus serves Christ in spirit and truth is acceptable to God

and approved by men.

[19] Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

[20] Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God.

Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong(unclean)

for anyone to eat which he thinks unclean;

[21] it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything

that makes your brother stumble.

[22] The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God;

happy is he who has no reason to judge himself by what he approves.

[23] But he who has doubts is condemned, by itself he eats meats and

condemns him who eats meats is not act from faith;

for all deeds do not from faith is from Sin.

 Rom.15

[1] We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak,

and not to please ourselves;

[2] let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him.

[3] For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written,

"The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me."

[4] For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction,

that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures

we might have hope.

[5] May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live

in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

[6] that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father

of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[7] Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you,

for the glory of God.

[8] For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised

to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm‎ the promises given

to the patriarchs,

[9] and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,

"Therefore I will praise thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name";

[10] and again it is said, "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people";

[11] and again, "Praise the Lord, all Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him";

[12] and further Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse shall come, he who rises

to rule the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope."

[13] May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,

so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

[14] I myself am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full

of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

[15] But I have written summary of Gospel to you very boldly by way

of reminder, because of the grace given me by God

[16] to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service

of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable,

sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

[17] In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.

[18] For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has wrought

through me to win obedience from the Gentiles, by word and deed,

[19] by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit,

so that from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyr'icum I have fully

preached the gospel of Christ,

[20]according to my ambition to preach the Gospel, Christ has been

named yet, and I never have built it any foundation except Christ,

[21] but as it is written, "They shall see who have never been told of him,

and they shall understand who have never heard of him."

[22] This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.

[23] But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions,

and since I have longed for many years to come to you,

[24] I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be sped

on my journey there by you, once I have some harvest among you.

[25] At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem with aid for the saints.

[26] For Macedo'nia and Acha'ia have been pleased to make some

contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem;

[27] they were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them,

for if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings,

they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.

[28] When therefore I have completed this, and have reported to them

the result that I have done errand, I shall go on by way of you to Spain;

[29] and I know that I come to you and then shall go Spain reaping

the fruit of the blessing of Christ.

[30] I appeal to you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love

of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,

[31] that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea,

and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

[32] so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed

in your company.

[33] The God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Rom. 16

[1] I commend to you our sister Phoebe,

a deaconess of the church at Cen'chre-ae,

[2] that you may receive her in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her

in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many

and of myself as well.

[3] Greet Prisca and Aq'uila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

[4] who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I but also

all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;

[5] greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epae'netus,

who was the first convert in Asia for Christ.

[6] Greet Mary, who has worked hard among you.

[7] Greet Androni'cus and Ju'nias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners;

they are men of note among the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

[8] Greet Amplia'tus, my beloved in the Lord.

[9] Greet Urba'nus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.

[10] Greet Apel'les, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong

to the family of Aristobu'lus.

[11] Greet my kinsman Hero'dion. Greet those in the Lord

who belong to the family of Narcis'sus.

[12] Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphae'na and Trypho'sa.

Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.

[13] Greet Rufus, eminent in the Lord, also his mother

and she is motherly to me.

[14] Greet Asyn'critus, Phlegon, Hermes, Pat'robas, Hermas,

and the brethren who are with them.

[15] Greet Philol'ogus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olym'pas,

and all the saints who are with them.

[16] Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

[17] I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions

and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught;

avoid them.

[18] For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ,

but their own bodily desires, and by fair and flattering words

they deceive the hearts of the innocent-minded.

[19] For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you,

I would have you wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is evil;

[20] then the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

[21] Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason

and Sosip'ater, my kinsmen.

[22] I Tertius, the writer of this letter, greet you in the Lord.

[23] Ga'ius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you.

Eras'tus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.

[25] Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel

and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery

which was kept secret for long ages

[26] but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known

to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God,

to bring about the obedience of faith --

[27] to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

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