English Translation of the Bible
also called Mace New Testament
1729 by Daniel Mace
Rom 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, chosen to declare the gospel dispensation,
Rom 1:2 which God had promised by his prophets in the holy scriptures,
Rom 1:3 with relation to his son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was of the lineage of David as to his body,
Rom 1:4 but as to his holy spirit miraculously declared to be the son of God, by his resurrection from the dead:
Rom 1:5 by whose favour I have received the office of an apostle to bring the Gentiles every where to the obedience of faith preached in his name:
Rom 1:6 among whom Jesus Christ has also called you:
Rom 1:7 to all the beloved of God, the saints by this vocation, who are in Rome, grace to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is celebrated through the whole world.
Rom 1:9 for God is my witness, to whom I am entirely devoted, in preaching the gospel of his son, that I constantly make mention of you, in my prayers, requesting,
Rom 1:10 if it be God's will, that I might now at length have the happiness of coming to you.
Rom 1:11 for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, in order to establish you:
Rom 1:12 or indeed that we may have mutual consolation from the faith which is in common to you and to me.
Rom 1:13 now I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, tho' I have been hindered hitherto, that I might be useful among you as well as among other Gentiles.
Rom 1:14 I owe what service I can do to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians, to the learned, and to the illiterate.
Rom 1:15 so, that as far as it depends upon me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also, who are at Rome.
Rom 1:16 for I am not ashamed of the gospel, since it is divinely effectual to salvation, to everyone that believes, to the Jew first, and then to the Gentile.
Rom 1:17 There it is that divine justification is revealed to be wholly by faith: as it is written, " the just shall live by faith."
Rom 1:18 there the divine wrath is revealed from heaven against all impiety, and injustice of men, who wickedly suppress the truth.
Rom 1:19 because what should be known of God they are acquainted with; for God hath manifested it unto them.
Rom 1:20 for ever since the creation of the world, his eternal power and divinity, things in themselves invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 because when they knew God, they did not with gratitude glorify him as God, but their reasoning became extravagance, and their minds, void of judgment, were involv'd in darkness.
Rom 1:22 pretending to be wise, they became fools:
Rom 1:23 the honour due to God, who is immortal, they transferr'd to idols representing men, who are mortal, to birds, and beasts, and insects.
Rom 1:24 wherefore God abandon'd them to the impure passions of their own hearts, so that they themselves dishonour'd their own bodies;
Rom 1:25 they changed the true God for an idol, and adored and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed for ever.
Rom 1:26 amen. for this cause God gave them up to infamous passions: for even the sex perverted the instinct of nature:
Rom 1:27 and the men unnaturally leaving the sex, were inflamed with mutual passions, which they shamefully indulged, and received in their own persons, the retribution that was justly due to such enormities.
Rom 1:28 As they did not seek the favour of God, by worshipping him, God gave them over to a depraved sense, to act unworthy of human nature;
Rom 1:29 they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity;
Rom 1:30 whisperers, backbiters, enemies of God, injurious, proud, vain, inventers of vices, disobedient to parents, void of judgment,
Rom 1:31 fidelity, and natural affection; implacable, and unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 who knowing the divine rule of right, did not perceive that they who commit such things are worthy of death, and not only they who do the same, but they who give countenance to those that do them.
Rom 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art, that condemnest another, for by condemning them, you condemn yourself; since you that condemn them, do the same things.
Rom 2:2 but we know that the judgment of God against those who commit such crimes, is just.
Rom 2:3 do you think then, O man, who do what you condemn in others, that you shall escape the judgment of God?
Rom 2:4 or do you despise the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not considering that the kindness of God invites you to repentance?
Rom 2:5 however by your impenitence, and the insensibility of your heart, you treasure up for yourself wrath against the day of wrath, and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
Rom 2:6 who will render to every man according to his actions: eternal life to those,
Rom 2:7 who by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, honour, and immortality;
Rom 2:8 but unto those who are contentious, and do not yield to the truth, but give way to injustice, indignation and wrath,
Rom 2:9 tribulation and anguish to every one that doth evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.
Rom 2:10 but glory, honour, and peace, to every man that acts right, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Rom 2:11 since with God there is no respect of persons.
Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without the law, shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law, shall be condemned by the law,
Rom 2:13 for not the bare hearers of the law, but they who observe the law, are such as shall be justified, before God.
Rom 2:14 when the Gentiles who have not the law, do by nature what the law prescribes, tho' these have not the law, they are a law to themselves:
Rom 2:15 for they shew that the duties prescrib'd by the law, are written in their hearts, their consciences bearing witness to it, by their own reasonings alternately accusing and excusing them.
Rom 2:16 in the day, when according to my gospel, God shall judge the secret actions of men by Jesus Christ.
Rom 2:17 'Tis true, you bear the name of a Jew, you depend upon the law, and boast of your worship:
Rom 2:18 you know the divine will, and what is contrary thereto, having been educated in the law:
Rom 2:19 you think you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Rom 2:20 an instructer of the ignorant, a teacher to the weak, because you have a clear view of the true meaning of the law.
Rom 2:21 you therefore who instruct others don't you instruct yourself?
Rom 2:22 you who preach against stealing, do you steal? you who declaim against adultery, do you commit adultery? you who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
Rom 2:23 and you, who glory in the law, do you dishonour God by the violation of the law?
Rom 2:24 for (as it is written) the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles by your miscarriages.
Rom 2:25 Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen.
Rom 2:26 if therefore an uncircumcised Gentile keep the moral precepts contained in the law, shall not he be reckon'd, as if he were circumcised?
Rom 2:27 and shall not a Gentile, tho' he is not actually circumcised, if he fulfil the law, condemn thee, who, tho' literally circumcised, dost yet transgress the law?
Rom 2:28 for it is not the Jew in outward appearance, neither is it the external mark of circumcision:
Rom 2:29 but it is the Jew, who is so inwardly, and it is the circumcision of the heart, according to the spiritual, not the literal sense, which have the approbation, I do not say of men, but of God.
Rom 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what benefit is there from circumcision?
Rom 3:2 much every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
Rom 3:3 for what if some betrayed their trust? shall their unfaithfulness render
Rom 3:4 the faithfulness of God of no effect? by no means; yea, let God be acknowledged to be true, tho' men should be all deceivers; as it is written, " that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged."
Rom 3:5 but say you, "if our unfaithfulness displays the veracity of God, what shall we say? is it not injustice in God to inflict punishment?"
Rom 3:6 not at all: for then how could God judge the world?
Rom 3:7 "but, say you, if the veracity of God hath appeared more illustrious thro' my unfaithfulness, why then am I condemned as a sinner?
Rom 3:8 and why may we not do evil, that good may come?" which is slanderously reported to be our maxim, by some, whose condemnation is just.
Rom 3:9 "how then are we better than they?" why, not at all: for we have already convicted both Jews and Gentiles, of being all under the guilt of sin.
Rom 3:10 as it is written, " there is none righteous, no not one:
Rom 3:11 there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Rom 3:12 they are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one.
Rom 3:13 their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Rom 3:14 whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Rom 3:15 their feet are swift to shed blood.
Rom 3:16 destruction and misery are in their ways:
Rom 3:17 and the way of peace have they not known.
Rom 3:18 there is no fear of God before their eyes."
Rom 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every one may be silenc'd, and all the world plead guilty before God.
Rom 3:20 for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin.
Rom 3:21 but the divine justification certified by the law and the prophets, is now clearly proposed independently of the law:
Rom 3:22 that divine justification, which by faith in Jesus Christ is extended to all, that believe; for there is no distinction:
Rom 3:23 for all having sinned, all have forfeited eternal glory:
Rom 3:24 being justified by his unmerited favour through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ:
Rom 3:25 whom God had ordained, thro' faith, to be the propitiatory victim by his blood, for the manifestation of his goodness, by patiently passing over their past transgressions: to manifest,
Rom 3:26 I say, his goodness at this time: that he might appear to be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.
Rom 3:27 what reason then is there for boasting? it is excluded. what, by the ceremonial law? no: but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28 for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites.
Rom 3:29 is God the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? surely he is of the Gentiles too;
Rom 3:30 since it is one God, who will justify both the Jews and the Gentiles, through faith.
Rom 3:31 do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.
Rom 4:1 How then can we assert, "that Abraham our father obtained this from circumcision?"
Rom 4:2 for if Abraham was justified by works, he had matter of pretension, whereas he had no such claim from God.
Rom 4:3 for what saith the scripture? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."
Rom 4:4 the reward is not counted as a favour to him that has done good actions, but as a debt:
Rom 4:5 whereas he that trusts in God to be made righteous, tho' he has not done such actions, shall find his faith accounted as righteousness.
Rom 4:6 even as David also speaks of the happiness of the man whom God accounted righteous independently of his works,
Rom 4:7 " happy are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Rom 4:8 happy is the man to whom the Lord will not account sin."
Rom 4:9 Is this happiness then for the circumcised only, or for the uncircumcised also? for we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
Rom 4:10 how was it then accounted? whilst he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? he was not then circumcised, but uncircumcised:
Rom 4:11 and he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the justification by that faith, which the uncircumcised have: that he might be the father of all those who believe, tho' they are uncircumcised, that it might be accounted to them also for righteousness:
Rom 4:12 and the father of the circumcised, that is of those who are not barely circumcised, but who imitate that faith which our father Abraham had, being yet uncircumcised.
Rom 4:13 Besides, the promise that he should possess the world, was not made to Abraham, or to his posterity in consideration of the law, but with regard to the righteousness by faith.
Rom 4:14 for if they only who are of the law have right of possession, faith is made useless, and the promise becomes of no effect.
Rom 4:15 because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.
Rom 4:16 therefore the inheritance is of faith, that it might be meerly of favour, to the end the promise might be assured to all his posterity, not to that part only who have the law, but to that also who have the faith of Abraham, the father of us all, as it is written,
Rom 4:17 " I have made thee a father of many nations," then existing in the sight of God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls forth things that are not, as if they were:
Rom 4:18 he it was who against hope believed in hope, that he should become the father of many nations, according to what was told him, "so shall thy posterity be:"
Rom 4:19 far from being weak in faith, unconcern'd at his own bodily decay, being then about an hundred years old, and at Sarah's incapacity of child-bearing,
Rom 4:20 he was not incredulously diffident of the divine promise; but was strong in faith, and did honour to God,
Rom 4:21 by the full persuasion he had, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Rom 4:22 and therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Rom 4:23 now this saying, "that it was accounted to him," was not written for his sake alone,
Rom 4:24 but for us also, to whom it shall be accounted, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Rom 4:25 who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Rom 5:2 who has given us access by faith to that degree of favour, we are in, by which we triumph in the hopes of divine glory.
Rom 5:3 and not only so, but we triumph in tribulation also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, probation;
Rom 5:4 and probation, hope:
Rom 5:5 now hope will not deceive us, because the love of God is diffused thro' our hearts, by the holy spirit which is given to us;
Rom 5:6 for at the appointed time Christ died for us, when we were in a helpless, sinful state.
Rom 5:7 now for a wicked man no one would willingly die; but for a benefactor some have readily offer'd to die.
Rom 5:8 but herein hath God displayed his love towards us, in that Christ died for us, even while we were yet sinners.
Rom 5:9 much more then being now justified by his blood, shall we thro' him be delivered from the wrath to come.
Rom 5:10 for if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son: much more being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Rom 5:11 and not only so, but we have present joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now obtained the reconciliation.
Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, so death by this sin; and thereby death passed upon all men, who all by his means became mortal.
Rom 5:13 sin indeed was in the world all the time before the law: but then sin is not punished when there is no law.
Rom 5:14 nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned by violating a positive law, as did Adam, who is
Rom 5:15 the type of him that was to come: but yet the damage of the fall does not exactly correspond to the advantages of the divine favour: for tho' through the fall of one, mankind became mortal, yet this is greatly over-ballanced by the favour and bounty of God, in the benevolence of one man, Jesus Christ, to all mankind.
Rom 5:16 neither is the gift, as was the fall by one sin: for the sentence of condemnation, was for one offence; but the divine favour extends to justification from a multitude of sins.
Rom 5:17 for tho' death reigned thro' the single offence of one, they who receive the most valuable favour, even the gift of righteousness, shall much more easily reign by the life of one, even Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:18 Therefore as by one offence all men fell under condemnation: even so by one act of righteousness, all men are restored to life.
Rom 5:19 for as by one man's disobedience many receiv'd the punishment of sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many receive the reward of the righteous.
Rom 5:20 the law was introduc'd, that the greatness of the fall might fully appear; but the more sin display'd its enormity, the divine favour was so much the more transcendent.
Rom 5:21 that as sin prevailed unto death, even so might the divine favour prevail by righteousness unto eternal life, thro' Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:1 Do we then conclude thus, let us continue in sin, that the divine favour may be more fully display'd?
Rom 6:2 God forbid, that we who have died to sin should live any longer therein.
Rom 6:3 don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death.
Rom 6:4 therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life.
Rom 6:5 for if we resembled him with regard to death, certainly we shall likewise do so with regard to his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 considering this, that our vicious passions were crucified with him, that the body of sin being destroyed, we might not any longer be vassals to sin.
Rom 6:7 for by its being dead, we are set free from sin.
Rom 6:8 since then we died with Christ, we are persuaded that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, is to die no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Rom 6:10 for as to his death, he died upon the account of sin once for all; but as to his being alive, he lives to the glory of God for ever.
Rom 6:11 in like manner consider your selves as dead to sin; but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.
Rom 6:13 neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness.
Rom 6:14 for then sin shall have no dominion over you: because you are not under the legal, but under the gospel dispensation.
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under the gospel?
Rom 6:16 by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?
Rom 6:17 but God be thanked, that you, who were the vassals of sin, have sincerely obeyed in the manner the gospel prescribed.
Rom 6:18 being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Rom 6:19 (I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness.
Rom 6:20 for when ye were the vassals of sin, ye were not in the service of virtue.
Rom 6:21 what benefit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? since they terminated all in death.
Rom 6:22 but now being set free from sin, and actually in the service of God, the present advantage you reap is holiness, and the future everlasting life.
Rom 6:23 for the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to Jews acquainted with the law) that the law hath authority over a man, till it be abrogated?
Rom 7:2 now a married woman is bound by the law to her living husband: but if her husband dieth, she is released from the marriage-contract.
Rom 7:3 wherefore she will be reputed an adulteress if she become another man's during her husband's life: but if her husband dies, she is clear from that law, from the imputation of being an adulteress, though she become another man's.
Rom 7:4 thus, my brethren, the law is become dead with respect to you by the body of Christ; that you might be subject to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.
Rom 7:6 but now we are delivered by the death of the law, which held us in bondage: that we might serve according to the living spirit, and not in the dead letter of the law.
Rom 7:7 Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, "thou shalt not covet."
Rom 7:8 but sin receiving strength by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. for before the law sin appear'd dead.
Rom 7:9 then it was I once liv'd secure; but when the prohibition came, sin exerted it self, and I was in a dying condition:
Rom 7:10 and the commandment which leads to life was instrumental to my ruin.
Rom 7:11 for sin getting power by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Rom 7:12 wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:13 was it then good that brought death upon me? no, but it was sin, that sin might show it self by being able to bring death upon me by means of that which is good; that sin, I say, by the commandment might appear to be exceedingly destructive.
Rom 7:14 for we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold a slave to sin.
Rom 7:15 what I do I allow not: for what my mind leads me to, that do I not; but what I have an aversion to, that I do.
Rom 7:16 if then I do what I in my mind am against, the consent of my mind is, that the law is right.
Rom 7:17 now then, it is not wholly I that do it, but the sinful passions that dwell in me.
Rom 7:18 for I experience, that in the carnal part of me dwells no good: for it is familiar to me, to will, but not to execute that which is good.
Rom 7:19 for the good that I purpose to do, I do not: but the evil which I resolve against, that I do.
Rom 7:20 now if I do that which my mind is against, it is not meerly I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then a settled custom, that evil is objected in my way whenever I have a mind to act well:
Rom 7:22 for my mind takes delight in the law of God,
Rom 7:23 but I perceive in the animal part of me another law warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my animal part.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am, what shall deliver me from this body of death?
Rom 7:25 the divine grace thro' Jesus Christ our Lord. so then, with the mind I my self am devoted to the law of God; tho' my carnal inclinations are enslaved to the law of sin.
Rom 8:1 Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life.
Rom 8:2 for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.
Rom 8:4 so that the moral obligations of the law might be fulfilled by us, in living according to the spiritual, and not the carnal tenor thereof:
Rom 8:5 for they that are sensually affected, abandon themselves to sensuality, but the spiritual pursue their spiritual entertainments.
Rom 8:6 now sensual inclinations lead to death; but spiritual affections to a life of tranquillity.
Rom 8:7 because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.
Rom 8:8 so that they who are in a carnal state, cannot be acceptable to the divine being. as for you,
Rom 8:9 you are not in such a state, but in a spiritual one, provided the divine spirit dwell in you. now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 and if Christ be in you, tho' the body is mortal in consequence of sin; the spirit gives life by justification.
Rom 8:11 for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:12 You are, therefore, brethren oblig'd to oppose your sensual passions;
Rom 8:13 for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.
Rom 8:14 as many as are actuated by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15 for the spirit you have received is not servile to keep you still in fear; but it is the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, that is, father.
Rom 8:16 the same spirit testifies to our spirit, that we are the children of God.
Rom 8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; although we now suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Rom 8:18 for I consider, that the sufferings of this present life are infinitely over-ballanc'd by that glory which shall hereafter be discovered to us.
Rom 8:19 mankind impatiently desire that the divine being would display himself to his creatures,
Rom 8:20 who were not, by their own choice, expos'd to this uncertain state, but by virtue of him, who subjected them thereto:
Rom 8:21 and therefore hope to be removed from this slavish condition of mortality to the free inheritance of divine glory.
Rom 8:22 for we know that the whole creation groans, and labours with general pain even to this day.
Rom 8:23 and not only they, but even those who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we our selves do inwardly groan for the fruit of our adoption, by the deliverance of our body from corruption.
Rom 8:24 for we are saved but by hope: but hope supposes things not yet present; for how can a man hope for what he has now in possession?
Rom 8:25 but if we hope for what is yet to come, our patience does necessarily intervene.
Rom 8:26 The spirit likewise softens our afflictions: for being at a loss to apply for the most proper relief; the spirit it self affects us with those pious ejaculations, which we can't well express.
Rom 8:27 and he that penetrates into the heart approves what the spirit desires, because what he demands for the saints is agreeable to the divine will.
Rom 8:28 We know too, that all things co-operate for the good of those who love God, who, pursuant to his purpose, has now called them:
Rom 8:29 for whom he before approv'd, he predispos'd to follow the example of his son, who was to conduct them all as their elder brother;
Rom 8:30 but whom he predispos'd, he calls: and whom he has call'd, he justifies: and whom he has justified, he glorifies.
Rom 8:31 What shall we conclude then from this? if God be for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32 he that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him likewise freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33 who shall plead against God's elect? shall God who justifieth them?
Rom 8:34 who shall condemn them? shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us?
Rom 8:35 what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or penury, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 for as it is written , "for thy sake we are sacrificed every day; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter:"
Rom 8:37 yet after all we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 for I am fully persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 neither the high, nor the low, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God by Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 9:1 I call Christ, and the holy spirit to witness with my conscience, that I speak the truth without guile, when I say,
Rom 9:2 that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart.
Rom 9:3 for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self,
Rom 9:4 who are Israelites; who had the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the law, the form of divine worship, and the promises;
Rom 9:5 who are the offspring of the patriarchs, and of whom as to the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom 9:6 However, the divine promise cannot but have its effect. for they are not the whole of Israel, who are descended from Israel:
Rom 9:7 neither are they who are the race of Abraham, all children: but 'tis said, "in Isaac shall thy posterity be called."
Rom 9:8 that is, the children by natural descent are not thereby the children of God: but the children of the promise are alone considered as his posterity.
Rom 9:9 for the words of the promise run thus, "at this time I will come, and Sara shall have a son."
Rom 9:10 this appears too from the case of Rebecca, who conceived twins by our father Isaac.
Rom 9:11 for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,
Rom 9:12 it was said to her, "the elder shall serve the younger."
Rom 9:13 as it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau I have discarded."
Rom 9:14 What do we say then? is there injustice in God?
Rom 9:15 God forbid. for he saith to Moses, "I will show favour to whom I will show favour, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
Rom 9:16 so that this is a matter not dependent on him that wills or runs, but on God, who shews mercy.
Rom 9:17 for 'tis said in scripture to 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."
Rom 9:18 thus some he pursues with his favours, and abandons others to their obduracy, according as he thinks fit.
Rom 9:19 But you will object, why does he then find fault? for "who can resist his will?"
Rom 9:20 nay, but, O man, who art thou, to raise a dust against heaven? shall the pitcher say to him that formed it, "why hast thou made me thus?"
Rom 9:21 is not the potter the master of his own clay, of the same mass to make one vessel for use and ornament, and another for a meaner purpose?
Rom 9:22 if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,
Rom 9:23 and display his infinite goodness to such objects of mercy, as he had prepared for glory?
Rom 9:24 to such as we, whom he has called, both from among the Jews, and from among the Gentiles.
Rom 9:25 as he saith himself in Osee, "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her, beloved, which was not beloved.
Rom 9:26 and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called, the children of the living God."
Rom 9:27 Esaias also breaks out concerning Israel, " tho' the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant only shall be saved.
Rom 9:28 for in ballancing the account, the Lord will leave a small remainder upon the land."
Rom 9:29 and as Esaias said before , "except the God of heaven had left us a remnant, we had been as Sodoma, and brought to the state of Gomorrha."
Rom 9:30 What shall we hence conclude? that the Gentiles who sought not after justice, have obtained justice, even to that which is by faith:
Rom 9:31 but Israel, who followed the law of justice, hath not attained to the law of justice.
Rom 9:32 why? because they sought it not by faith, but indeed by the works of the law: for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;
Rom 9:33 as it is written , "behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone, and a rock of offence: and whosoever believeth in him, shall not be ashamed."
Rom 10:1 Brethren, my hearty desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.
Rom 10:2 for I bear them witness, that they have a zeal for God, but not guided by true knowledge.
Rom 10:3 because being ignorant of the justice which is of God, and going about to establish a justification of their own, they have not submitted themselves to that which is of God.
Rom 10:4 for the end of the law was to bring men to Christ, that every one who believeth, might be justified.
Rom 10:5 For Moses describes the justice that was to be had by the law, thus : "the man who performeth the things here required, shall have life thereby."
Rom 10:6 but the justification which is by faith, speaks in this manner; "say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven, in order to bring Christ down from above?
Rom 10:7 or, who shall descend into the deep, in order to bring up Christ again from the dead?"
Rom 10:8 what does it say "more? the word is nigh thee, let it be in thy mouth and in thy heart:" that is the word of faith which we preach.
Rom 10:9 for if you openly confess, that Jesus is the Lord, and sincerely believe, that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.
Rom 10:10 for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Rom 10:11 for the scripture saith , "whosoever believeth on him, shall not be ashamed."
Rom 10:12 In reality there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile: they have all the same Lord, who is bountiful to all that call upon him.
Rom 10:13 "whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved."
Rom 10:14 But how, say you, shall they call on him on whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
Rom 10:15 and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach except they be sent? as it is written , "how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"
Rom 10:16 'tis true, faith comes by preaching, and preaching is by the divine appointment.
Rom 10:17 but all do not obey the gospel. for Esaias saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"
Rom 10:18 I reply, have they not heard? on the contrary, "their voice spread thro' all the earth, and their words to the remotest inhabitants thereof ."
Rom 10:19 but still I ask, did not Israel know this? first, Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy, by those that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you."
Rom 10:20 but Esaias is more express, and says, "I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest to them that asked not after me.
Rom 10:21 and to Israel he says, "all day long I have stretched forth my hands to an incredulous and rebellious people."
Rom 11:1 You will say then, hath God discarded his people? by no means. for I my self am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Rom 11:2 God hath not discarded his people whom he formerly approv'd. don't you know what the scripture says of Elias? how he complain'd to God against Israel,
Rom 11:3 in these words, "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life also."
Rom 11:4 but what said the oracle to him? "I have reserved to my self seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
Rom 11:5 in like manner at this time there is also a remnant chosen by the divine favour;
Rom 11:6 and if it be by favour, it is not upon the account of merit. for then mercy would not be mercy.
Rom 11:7 "What then, hath not Israel obtained what he sought for?" no, but the chosen remnant have obtained it, and the rest are obdurate to this day,
Rom 11:8 as it is written , "God hath given them up to a state of insensibility, so that their eyes could not see, and their ears could not hear."
Rom 11:9 and David says , "let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a gin, and a recompence for their iniquity.
Rom 11:10 let their eyes be darkned, so as not to see, and let their back be continually bowed down."
Rom 11:11 You will say then, "were they suffer'd to stumble meerly for their ruin?" no: but that thro' their fall, salvation might be offer'd to the Gentiles, in order to provoke their emulation.
Rom 11:12 now if their fall be to the advancement of the world, and the few converts among them bring in whole numbers of the Gentiles: how much more so will it be, when the Jewish body recover?
Rom 11:13 this concerns you Gentiles. for as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I should do honour to my character,
Rom 11:14 if I could by any means excite the emulation of my dear countrymen, in order to save some.
Rom 11:15 for, if by rejecting them, the world may be reconciled; what shall their restoration be, but a general resurrection?
Rom 11:16 Now if the first-fruits be holy, so is the whole product: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Rom 11:17 if then, some of the branches are broken off, and thou like a wild olive, were grafted in their place to partake of the root and sap of the olivestock;
Rom 11:18 don't triumph over the branches: or if you do, remember the root is not dependent upon you, but you upon the root.
Rom 11:19 you will say then, "the branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."
Rom 11:20 well, be it so, for their incredulity they were broken off, and you by faith stand firm: be not then elated, but let this be your fear,
Rom 11:21 lest God should not spare you, since he did not spare even the natural branches.
Rom 11:22 consider then the divine benignity, and his severity: his severity to those who fell, and his benignity to you, provided you adhere thereto; otherwise you likewise will be lopt off.
Rom 11:23 nay, even the Jews, if they don't continue still incredulous, shall be grafted in: since divine power can graft them in again.
Rom 11:24 for if you were taken from the wild olive, which was natural to you, to be grafted into a good olive-stock of a different nature, with how much greater reason shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?
Rom 11:25 I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this secret, (for fear you should presume too much on your selves) that blindness has fallen upon a part of Israel, until the time when the Gentiles shall be fully come in.
Rom 11:26 and then all Israel shall be saved: as it is written , "there shall come out of Sion the deliverer, and shall turn away Jacob from his impiety.
Rom 11:27 for this is my covenant with them, that I shall take away their sins."
Rom 11:28 Though they are violently prejudiced against the gospel upon your account: yet they are objects of favour upon the account of their having been chosen out of respect to your fore-fathers.
Rom 11:29 for the divine gifts and vocation are irrevocable.
Rom 11:30 as you in times past did not obey God, yet have now obtained mercy upon the occasion of their disobedience:
Rom 11:31 so the Jews are at present incredulous, by reason of the mercy shown to you; so that they themselves are now to be pitied.
Rom 11:32 for God hath manifested to all the disobedient, that he would have mercy upon all.
Rom 11:33 O the depth of the divine goodness, wisdom, and contrivance! how impenetrable are his decrees, and his ways past finding out!
Rom 11:34 for who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor?
Rom 11:35 who hath given any thing to him, and he will repay it?
Rom 11:36 for of him, and through him, and in him are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being.
Rom 12:2 and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.
Rom 12:3 Now it is by virtue of my apostolical commission, that I charge every man among you, not to entertain too high an opinion of himself; but modestly consider, that 'tis God who has dealt to every man his proportion of spiritual gifts.
Rom 12:4 for as there are many members in one and the same body, but all the members have not the same office:
Rom 12:5 so we who are many, make all but one body in Christ, and every member subservient to one another.
Rom 12:6 having then different gifts, according to the respective favour bestowed upon us; if it be prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his gift.
Rom 12:7 if it be the ministry, let him attend on that ministry; and he that teacheth, on teaching; he that exhorteth,
Rom 12:8 on exhortation: he that giveth, let him be disinterested; he that presideth, let him be diligent; he that sheweth mercy, let him do it with cheerfulness.
Rom 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.
Rom 12:10 in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:
Rom 12:11 in business be not slothful, but of an active mind, making the best use of every incident.
Rom 12:12 be joyful in hope; be patient under affliction; persevere in prayer;
Rom 12:13 distribute to the necessity of the saints; cultivate hospitality.
Rom 12:14 bless them who persecute you:
Rom 12:15 bless them, but curse not. rejoice with those that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep.
Rom 12:16 have the same respect for one another. let not your behaviour be haughty, but soften'd to the condition of those below you. be not wise in your own conceits.
Rom 12:17 Render no man evil for evil. mind such things as are approved not only by God, but by men.
Rom 12:18 do all you can to live peaceably, if it be possible, with all mankind.
Rom 12:19 dear brethren, avenge not yourselves, but leave that to the resentment of another: for it is written , "vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
Rom 12:20 therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing, you will heap coals of fire on his head .
Rom 12:21 be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.
Rom 13:1 Be every one of you subject to the ruling powers. for every ruler holds of God: the rulers in being are constituted by God.
Rom 13:2 so that he who opposes the ruler, disobeys the orders of God: and will be punished too for resisting, by those very powers.
Rom 13:3 rulers are not a terror to virtue, but to vice. would you then live without any dread of the civil power? do what is right, and you shall have his commendation.
Rom 13:4 for his administration is appointed by God for your good. but if you do wrong, you have reason to be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: he being the minister of God, to execute punishment upon malefactors.
Rom 13:5 wherefore you ought to submit not only from an apprehension of punishment, but
Rom 13:6 from a principle of conscience. for this is the reason why you also pay tribute, because under God, they are continually
Rom 13:7 attending upon the publick administration. render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, reverence to whom reverence, honour to whom honour.
Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that
Rom 13:9 loves others hath fulfilled the law. for this, "thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet;" and whatever social precept there be, it is reduced to this single head,
Rom 13:10 thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self." the benevolent never does wrong to his neighbour: therefore benevolence is the fulfilling of the law.
Rom 13:11 Consider likewise the present season, that now it is high time to rouse out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.
Rom 13:12 the night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore throw off the habits of darkness, and be invested with the ornaments of light.
Rom 13:13 let us behave with decency as in open view; not with rioting and drunkenness, not with lewdness and brutality, not with strife and envy.
Rom 13:14 but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires.
Rom 14:1 A weak convert receive as a friend without regard to any difference of opinion.
Rom 14:2 for one makes no difficulty of eating all sorts of food: another is so scrupulous, he lives upon herbs.
Rom 14:3 let not him that eateth, despise him that does not; and let not him that refrains, pass censure on him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Rom 14:4 who art thou that judgest the domestick of another? his staying or removal depends solely upon his master: yea, he shall be fixed: for God is able to establish him.
Rom 14:5 one man thinks one day fitter for religious worship than another: another thinks every day alike. let every man follow the persuasion of his own mind.
Rom 14:6 he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty. he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest.
Rom 14:7 for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.
Rom 14:8 if we live, our life is appropriated to the Lord; and if we die, we die as his servants: whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lord's.
Rom 14:9 for to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Rom 14:10 why then dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou think contemptibly of thy brother? since we shall all of us be brought before the judgment-seat of Christ.
Rom 14:11 for it is written , "as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God."
Rom 14:12 Since then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God;
Rom 14:13 let us not judge one another any more: but rather come to this determination, not to put a stumbling-block, or any thing in a brother's way, that may make him fall.
Rom 14:14 I know, being fully assured by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: it is only so to him that thinks it is unclean.
Rom 14:15 now if your brother be endanger'd by your eating, you violate the obligations of love: for such a matter as eating, will you risk his life, for whom Christ died?
Rom 14:16 Don't let our religion then be expos'd to reproach.
Rom 14:17 for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy.
Rom 14:18 for he that thus pays his allegiance to Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Rom 14:19 Let us therefore pursue those things which tend to peace, and mutual edification.
Rom 14:20 do not for such a thing as meat, pull down what God has been raising. all things indeed are pure; but they become evil to him who by eating giveth offence.
Rom 14:21 it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off.
Rom 14:22 keep the persuasion you have, to your own conscience. blessed is he that approves himself to God, without making any difference about meats:
Rom 14:23 for he that makes a difference, is self-condemn'd, if he eats against his own persuasion: for every action of that kind is sin .
Rom 15:1 I add, we that are better inform'd ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not study our own pleasure.
Rom 15:2 let every one of us consult the good of his neighbour to his edification.
Rom 15:3 for even Christ did not consult his own satisfaction; but as it is written , "the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me."
Rom 15:4 now whatever was heretofore writ, was writ for our instruction; that we through patience and the comfortable promises of the scriptures might have hope.
Rom 15:5 May the God of patience and consolation, make you equally concern'd for one another, according to the example of Christ Jesus,
Rom 15:6 that ye may unanimously with one voice glorify God, even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:7 wherefore be kindly affected to one another, as Christ was to you, that you might glorify God.
Rom 15:8 for I tell you, that Jesus Christ was a minister to the Jews, to manifest the veracity of God in fulfilling the promises made to the fathers:
Rom 15:9 and you Gentiles ought to glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, "for this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name ."
Rom 15:10 and again the scripture saith , "rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people."
Rom 15:11 and elsewhere , praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and laud him, all ye people."
Rom 15:12 besides Esaias saith, "there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles hope."
Rom 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy spirit.
Rom 15:14 As to myself, I am persuaded, my brethren, that you abound in goodness, and in variety of knowledge, and are able to instruct one another.
Rom 15:15 nevertheless, brethren, I have writ to the Gentile part of you, and admonish'd you with the greater freedom by virtue of the commission that God has given me,
Rom 15:16 to be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating the gospel of God, that the Gentiles might be made an acceptable offering, being sanctified by the holy spirit.
Rom 15:17 I have therefore matter of glorying thro' Jesus Christ, with respect to divine service.
Rom 15:18 for I will not offer to mention any thing, but what Christ has wrought by me, to make the Gentiles christians, both in profession and practice:
Rom 15:19 by virtue of the miracles and prodigies wrought by the power of the divine spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and the neighbouring country, quite to Illyricum,
Rom 15:20 I have effectually preached the gospel of Christ: yet so as studiously to avoid preaching it where Christ was owned, lest I should build upon another man's foundation; for,
Rom 15:21 as it is written, "they to whom he was not mentioned, shall see: and they that have not heard, shall understand."
Rom 15:22 This has chiefly hindred me from coming to you.
Rom 15:23 but now there being no further occasion for me in these parts, and having had a great desire these many years to visit you;
Rom 15:24 when I take my journey into Spain, I hope to see you in my way, and be forwarded by you to that place, after having for some time enjoy'd the pleasure of your company.
Rom 15:25 but now I am going to Jerusalem, to distribute charity to the converts.
Rom 15:26 for those of Macedonia and Achaia, have thought fit to make a contribution for the poor converts at Jerusalem.
Rom 15:27 they have thought fit, I say, and they owed them as much. for if the Gentiles have participated of their spirituals, they are bound on their side to minister to them in their temporals.
Rom 15:28 when I have dispatch'd this affair, and have secur'd to them this collection, I will come to you in my way to Spain.
Rom 15:29 and I know that when I do come, I shall come charged with the blessings of Christ.
Rom 15:30 in the mean time, I conjure you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the spirit, that you join with me in earnest prayers to God for me;
Rom 15:31 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that the charitable service which I am employed about, for the converts at Jerusalem, may be acceptable to them:
Rom 15:32 that by the will of God we may meet with joy, and rest together in peace.
Rom 15:33 now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Rom 16:1 I recommend to you Phebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church at Kenchrea; receive her for Christ's sake,
Rom 16:2 as becometh christians, and assist her in every thing her business requires: for she hath assisted many besides my self.
Rom 16:3 salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-labourers in the gospel of Christ Jesus:
Rom 16:4 who have for my life readily exposed their own: to whom not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles too give thanks.
Rom 16:5 salute the church that is in their house. salute my dear Epenetus, who is the first christian convert of Asia.
Rom 16:6 salute Mary, who spared no trouble upon our account.
Rom 16:7 salute Andronicus and Junias my relations, and fellow-prisoners, who are distinguish'd among the apostles,
Rom 16:8 and were christians before me. salute Amplias, whom
Rom 16:9 I value as a good christian. salute Urbane my assistant in the cause of Christ,
Rom 16:10 and my dear Stachys. salute Apelles, an approved christian. salute the family of Aristobulus.
Rom 16:11 salute Herodion my kinsman. salute the family of Narcissus, who have embraced the gospel.
Rom 16:12 salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour for the Lord. salute my dear Persis, who laboured much in the gospel.
Rom 16:13 salute Rufus chosen by the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Rom 16:14 salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them.
Rom 16:15 salute Philologus, Julia, Nereas, his sister, Olympas, and all the converts who are with them.
Rom 16:16 salute one anther with an holy kiss. all the churches of Christ here, salute you.
Rom 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause divisions and revolts against the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.
Rom 16:18 for such as these serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own selfishness; and by flourish and flattery, deceive the open-hearted simple.
Rom 16:19 your christianity is very well known in the world. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you as expert in that which is good, as unpractis'd in what is evil.
Rom 16:20 the God of peace will soon bruise Satan under your feet. the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Rom 16:21 Timotheus my collegue, Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
Rom 16:22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
Rom 16:23 Gaius, with whom I lodge, who purveys for the church in general, salutes you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city salutes you; and Quartus a brother.
Rom 16:24 [the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.]
Rom 16:25 Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret from antient times, but now is laid open,
Rom 16:26 and by the writings of the prophets (according to the commandment of the eternal God) made known to all the Gentiles, to induce them to obey the faith:
Rom 16:27 to God, I say, who is only wise, be glory thro' Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
