The Bible, King James version, Book 45: Romans
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This eBook was produced by David Widger [widger@cecomet.net]
with the help of Derek Andrew's text from January 1992
and the work of Bryan Taylor in November 2002.
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.
