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chapter 1 paul servant of christ jesus called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of god the gospel that he promised beforehand through his prophets in the

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scriptures about his son who in his earthly life was a descendant of david and who by the spirit of holiness was made the son of God with power by his resurrection from the dead Jesus Christ our Lord, through him we received grace and apostleship to call all Gentiles to the obedience that is by faith for the sake of his name and you are also among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ to all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his

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people grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ first of all I thank my god through jesus christ for all of you because your faith is being reported throughout the world god whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of his son is my witness of how constantly I remember you and my prayers at all times and I pray that now finally by the will of God the way can be opened so that I can come to you.

I long to see you so that I can impart to you some spiritual gift that will make you strong, that is, that you and I can encourage each other by each other's faith. I do not do it. I want you to know, brothers, that many times I planned to come to you, but until now I have been prevented so that I could have a harvest among you, as I have had among the other Gentiles. I am a debtor. both to the Greeks and to the non-Greeks, both to the wise and to the foolish, that is why I so want to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome because I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everything.

He who believes first the Jew then the Gentile because in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from the beginning to the end just as it is written the righteous will live by faith the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the impiety and evil of people who suppress the truth with their evil, since what can be known about God is clear to them because God has made it clear to them, since the creation of the world, the qualities invisible powers of God, his eternal power. and the divine nature has been clearly understood from what has been made, so that the people have no excuse because, although they knew god, they neither glorified him as god nor gave thanks to him, but their thoughts became useless and Their foolish hearts were darkened though they affirmed.

To be wise they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal god for images made in the appearance of a mortal human being and of birds, animals and reptiles, so God handed them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity to They degraded their bodies with each other, exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things instead of the Creator, who is always praised. Amen, that is why God gave them over to shameful lusts, even his wives changed natural sexual relations for unnatural ones in the same way men also abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another; men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due punishment for their error, moreover, just as they did not consider it worth while to retain the knowledge of God. that is why god gave them to a depraved mind to do what should not be done they have been filled with all kinds of evil evil greed and depravity they are full of envy murder strife deceit and malice they are gossips slanderers who hate god insolent arrogant and boastful they invent ways of doing evil they disobey their parents they have no understanding or fidelity or love or mercy although they know the just decree of God that those who do such things deserve death not only continue to do these same things but also those who approve of them The Romans practice them chapter 2 therefore you have no excuse, you who judge another because at any moment you judge another you are condemning yourself because you who judge do the same things now we know that God's judgment against those who do that Things are based on truth, so when you, a mere human being, judge them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment or do you show contempt for the riches of His kindness, tolerance and patience? , not realizing that God's goodness is intended to lead you to repentance, but because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath when his righteous judgment will be revealed.

God will repay each person according to what they have done to those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory honor and immortality he will give eternal life but for those who are selfish and who reject the truth and follow evil there will be wrath and anger there will be problems and anguish for every human being who does evil first for the Jew then for the Gentile but glory honor and peace for everyone who does good first for the Jew then for the Gentile for God does not show favoritism all who sin outside the law too They will perish outside the law and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law because it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in the eyes of God, but those who obey the law who will be declared righteous in truth when Gentiles who do not have the Lord do the things required by nature. by the law they are a law for themselves although they do not have the law they demonstrate that the demands of the law are written in their hearts their consciences also bear witness and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and other times even defending them this will will take place on the day when god judge the secrets of the people through Jesus Christ as my gospel now declares you if you call yourself a Jew if you rely on the law and boast in God if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law if you are convinced that you are a guide to the blind a light to those who are in darkness an instructor of fools a teacher of little children because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth you then who teach others are not taught you who preach against theft you steal you who say that people should not commit adultery you commit adultery you who are poor idols you rob temples you who boast about the law dishonor God by violating the law as it is written, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles by It is your fault, circumcision has value if you keep the law, but if you break the law you become as if you had not been circumcised, then if those who are not circumcised keep the requirements of the law.

Will not the one who is not physically circumcised and yet obeys the law be considered circumcised? Will it condemn you who, although you have the written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law, a person who is not a Jew who is one only externally? Nor is circumcision merely external and physical, no, a person is a Jew who is Jewish internally and circumcision is the circumcision of the heart by the spirit, not by the written code. The praise of such a person does not come from other people but from God. Romans Chapter 3 what advantage then?

What is it about being Jewish or what value does circumcision have? In every sense. First, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God. What would happen if some were unfaithful? Your unfaithfulness will nullify God's faithfulness. There is no way he will allow God to be true. every human being is a liar as it is written so that you may be right when you speak and prevail when you judge, but if our injustice brings out God's justice more clearly, what shall we say that God is unjust in bringing his wrath upon us? I am using a human argument, certainly not, if that were so, how could God judge the world?

One might argue whether my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and therefore increases his glory. Why am I still condemned as a sinner? Why not say as some slanderously claim we say? We do evil so that good may result. His condemnation is exactly what we will conclude. So do we have any advantage? We do not have any advantage because we have already made the accusation, both the Jews and the Gentiles are all under the power of sin, as it is written, there is not a single righteous person, nor one, there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God, they have all turned away, they have turned. useless, there is no one who does good, not a single one, their throats are open graves, their tongues practice deceit, the venom of vipers is on their lips, their mouths are full of curses and bitterness, their feet are quick to shed blood, ruin and misery mark their ways and the way of peace they do not know there is no fear of god before their eyes now we know that whatever the law says says to those who are under the law so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable before god for Therefore no one will be declared righteous in the sight of God by the works of the law but through the law we become aware of our sin but now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known of which the law and The prophets testify this justice is given by faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came through Christ Jesus God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement through the shedding of his blood to be received by faith.

He did this to demonstrate his justice because in his patience he had left unpunished sins committed beforehand. He did this to demonstrate his justice in the present time to be righteous and he who justifies those who have faith in Jesus where he then boasts is excluded by what law the law that requires works not by the law that requires faith because we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law or is God the god of the Jews only? Is he not the god of the Gentiles also, yes, of the Gentiles also, since there is only one god who will justify those circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith, then do we annul the law by this faith at all but we maintain the law romans chapter 4 what will we say then that abraham our ancestor according to the flesh discovered in this matter if in reality abraham was justified by works he had something to boast about but not before god what the scripture says abraham He believed God and it was counted as justice.

Now to those who work, the salary is not counted as a gift but as an obligation. However, for those who do not work but trust in God who justifies the wicked, their faith is credited as justice. David says it. even when he speaks of the blessedness of him to whom God credits righteousness without works blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven whose sins are covered blessed is he who sins the Lord will never count against him is this blessedness only for the circumcised or also for the uncircumcised we have been saying that abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness under what circumstances it was accredited was it after he was circumcised or before it was not after but before and he received circumcision as a sign a seal of righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised then he is the father of all those who believe but have not been circumcised so that righteousness may be credited to them and he is then also the father of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but also follow the footprints of the faith that our father Abraham had Before being circumcised it was not by the law that Abraham and his descendants received the promise that he would be heir of the world but by the justice that comes through faith because if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise It is worth nothing because the law brings wrath and where there is no law there is no transgression, therefore the promise comes by faith so that it is by grace and can be guaranteed to all of Abraham's descendants, not only those who are of the law but also To those who have the faith of Abraham, he is the father of us all, as it is written, I have made you the father of many nations, he is our father in the eyes of God, in whom the God who gives life to the dead and calls into existence believed. to the things that were not against all hope abraham believed in hope and thus became the father of many nations just as he had been told this is what your descendants will be without weakening in his faith he faced the fact that his body was already as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old and Sarah's womb was also dead, but he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised for that reason it was credited to him as justice the words that were credited to him were written not only for him but also for us to whom God will credit justice for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our lord from among the dead, was handed over to death for our sins and was raised again for our justification romans chapter 5 therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with god through our lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access by faith to this grace in which we now stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of god not only that but we also rejoice in our sufferings because we know that thesuffering produces perseverance perseverance character and character hope and hope does not shame us because the love of god has been poured into our hearts through the holy spirit that has been given to us you see at the right time when we were still powerless christ died for the wicked very Rarely will someone die for a righteous person, although for a good person someone may possibly dare to die, but God demonstrates his own love.

For us in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, since now we have been justified in his blood, How much more will we be saved from the wrath of God through him? For if, being enemies of God, we were reconciled to him by the death of his son, how much more being reconciled will we be saved by his life? now he received reconciliation therefore just as sin entered the world through one man and through sin death and in this way death came to all people because everyone sinned surely sin was in the world before it was given the law but sin is not charged to anyone's account where there is no law however death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses even over those who did not sin by breaking a commandment as did Adam who is a model of him who is to come but the gift is not like the transgression for if the many died for the transgression of one man, how much more the grace of God and the gift that came by the grace of one man Jesus Christ overflowed on the many Nor can the gift of God be compared to the result of one man's sin.

The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation but the gift followed many transgressions and brought justification because if by the transgression of one man death reigned through that man, how much more do those who receive the abundant provision of grace and gift of God's justice. reigns in life through one man Jesus Christ, consequently, just as one transgression resulted in condemnation for all, so also an act of justice resulted in justification and life for all, because just as through the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners, so also by the obedience of one man the many will be made righteous the law was introduced so that transgression would increase but where sin increased grace increased even more so that just as sin reigned in death so also Grace reigns through justice to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Romans Chapter 6.

What will we say then we will continue to sin so that grace increases in no way are we the ones who have died to sin and how can we live longer in it or you don't know what All of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death, so we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too might live a new life. life because if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his, because we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body governed by sin could be eliminated. that we should no longer be slaves to sin because anyone who has died has been freed from sin now if we die with Christ we believe that we will also live with him because we know that since Christ rose from the dead he cannot die again death no longer has dominion over him death died died to sin once and for all but the life he lives lives for god in the same way consider yourselves dead to sin but alive for god in christ jesus therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body to that you obey their evil desires, do not offer any part of yourselves to sin as an instrument of evil, but offer yourselves to god as those who have been brought from death to life and offer him every part of yourselves as an instrument of evil. instrument of justice for sin will no longer be your master because you are not under the law but under grace.

What then will we sin because we are not under the law but under grace in no way do you not know that when you offer yourselves? someone as an obedient slave you are a slave to the one you obey whether you are a slave to sin that leads to death or obedience that leads to justice thank God that although you used to be a slave to sin you have come to obey from your heart the teaching pattern that has now claimed your loyalty you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of righteousness. I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations, just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity where evil is increasing, so now offer yourselves slaves to righteousness that leads to holiness when you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of justice, what benefit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed?

Those things result in death, but now that they have been freed from sin and have become slaves of god the benefit they reap leads to holiness and the result is eternal life because the wages of sin is death but the gift of god is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord Romans Chapter 7 You do not know brothers because I speak to those who know the law that the law has authority over someone only while that person lives. For example, by law, a married woman is obligated to her husband while he is alive but If her husband dies she is free from the law that binds her to him then if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive she is called an adulteress but if her husband dies she is free from the law and is not an adulteress if she marry another man so my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God for when we were in the kingdom of the flesh , the sinful passions aroused by the law were working in us so that we bore fruit for death, but now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been freed from the law to serve in the new. way of the spirit and not in the ancient way of the written code what will we say then is the law sinful certainly not however I would not have known what sin was if it had not been for the law because I would not have known what greed really is it would be if the law I would not have said you will not covet.

But sin, taking advantage of the opportunity that the commandment gives me, produced in me all kinds of greed because, apart from the law, sin was dead once I was alive without the law, but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died, I discovered that the same commandment. which was intended to give life in reality it brought death through sin taking advantage of the opportunity that the commandment offers me it deceived me and through the commandment it killed me then the law is holy and the commandment is holy just and good it did what was good then it became death to me in no way, however, so that sin would be recognized as sin, he used good to cause my death, so that through the commandment sin would become

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ly sinful, we know that the law is spiritual, that I am not spiritual, sold as a slave. to sin I do not understand what I do because of what I want to do I do not do but what I hate I do and if I do what I do not want to do I agree that the law is good as it is it is no longer me who do it but it is the sin that lives in me because I know that good itself does not live in me, that it is in my sinful nature because I have the desire to do good but I cannot do it because I do not do it.

I want to do good but I do not want to do evil. I still do it now if I do what I don't want to do it is no longer me who does it but it is the sin that lives in me that does it. I find this law in action, although I want to do good, evil is there with me because in me Inner being I delight in the law of God, but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner. of the law of sin working within me how miserable I am who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death or thanks to God who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord then I myself in my mind am a slave to the law of God but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin romans chapter 8 therefore now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because through Christ Jesus the law of the life-giving spirit has made you free from the law of sin and death for which the law was incapable of doing because it was weakened by the flesh, God did it by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering and therefore he condemned sin in the flesh to that the righteous The requirement of the law could be fully fulfilled in us who do not live according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

Those of us who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires, but those of us who live according to the spirit have their own desires. the mind fixed on what the spirit desires the mind governed by the flesh is death but the mind governed by the spirit is life and peace the mind governed by the flesh is hostile to god it does not submit to the law of god nor can those Those who are in the kingdom of the flesh cannot please God, however, they are not in the kingdom of the flesh but are in the kingdom of the spirit, if truly the spirit of God lives in you and if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not have it.

They belong to Christ, but if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death through sin, the spirit gives life through righteousness, and if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, he who raised Christ from among the dead the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of their spirit that lives in you, that is why, brothers, we have the obligation but it is not up to the flesh to live according to it because if you live according to the flesh you will die but if by the spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body you will live for those who are guided by the spirit of God are children of God the spirit that you received does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again but the spirit that you received caused your adoption into sonship and for him we cry abba father the spirit itself testifies with our spirit that we are children of god now if we are children then we are heirs heirs of god and co-heirs with christ if we truly share his sufferings so that we can also participate in his glory I consider that our present sufferings are not worthy of comparison with the glory that will be revealed in us because the creation eagerly awaits the children of god to be revealed because the creation was subjected to frustration not by its own choice but by the will of the one who subjected it in the hope that the creation itself will be freed from its slavery to decay and brought to the freedom and glory of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been Groaning as in labor pains until the present, not only we, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption to affiliate the redemption of our bodies, because in This hope we were saved. but the hope that is seen is not hope at all who hopes for what he already has but if we hope for what we do not yet have we wait for it patiently in the same way the spirit helps us in our weakness because we do not know what we should pray for but the spirit itself intercedes for us through wordless groanings and he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the spirit because the spirit intercedes for the people of God according to the will of God and we know that in all things God works for the good of the people. who love him and who have been called according to his purpose for those whom God knew, he also predestinated them to be conformed to the image of his son, to be the firstborn among many brothers and those whom he predestined he also called those he called also He justified those he justified He also glorified.

What then will we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us, the one who did not spare his own son but gave him up for all of us, how will he do it? do not also give us along with him all the things that can bring charges against those whom god has chosen it is god who justifies who then is the one who condemns no one christ jesus who died more than the one who rose is at the right hand of god and also intercedes for us that will separate us from the love of Christ there will be problems or difficulties or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword as it is written for the love of you we face death all day long we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered now in all these things we are more that conquerors through him who loved us because I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor demons nor the present nor the future nor any power nor high nor deep nor anything else in all creation will be able separate us from the love of god which is in christ jesus our lord romans chapter nine I speak the truth in christ I do not lie my conscience confirms it to me through the holy spirit I have great pain and incessant anguish in my heart because I could wish that I myself were cursed and separated from Christ for the good of my people those of my own race the people of Israel theirs is the adoption to the sonship there is the divine glory the covenants the reception of the law the temple the worship and the promises of them are the patriarchs and of themtraces the human ancestry of the messiah who is god above all praised forever amen it is not as if the word of god had failed because not all those who descend from israel are israel not because they are his descendants they are all children of abraham on the contrary it is through of Isaac that his descendants will be counted in other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are children of God but rather it is the children of the promise who were considered Abraham's descendants for this is how the promise was expressed at the appointed time I will return and Sarah will have a son not only that but Rebecca's children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac even before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad in so that God's purpose in the election is sustained Not by the works but by the one who calls, they told him that the elder will serve the younger as it is written to Jacob I loved but to Esau I hated.

What shall we say then that God is unfair to him at all? He tells Moses I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion therefore it does not depend on human desire or effort but on the mercy of God because the scriptures say to Pharaoh I raised you for this very purpose that I may show my power in you and may my name be proclaimed throughout the earth that is why God has mercy on those who want to have mercy and hardens those who want to harden one of you will tell me then why God still blames us who is able to resist his will but who is You, a human being, to respond to God what is formed will say to the one who formed it: Why did you make me like this?

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same piece of clay some vessels for special purposes and others for common use? What if God, although he chose to show his wrath and make his power known, were to bore with great patience the objects of his wrath prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make known the riches of his glory to the objects of his mercy? whom he prepared beforehand for glory even us whom he also called not only of the Jews but also of the Jews? Gentiles as it says in Hosea I will call them my people who are not my people and I will call them my beloved who is not my beloved in the same place where it was told them you are not my people there they will be called children of the living god Isaiah cries concerning Israel although the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea only the remnant will be saved because the lord will execute his sentence on the earth with speed and finality it is just as Isaiah said previously if the almighty lord had not left us descendants we would have been like sodom we would have been like Gomorrah that then we will say that the Gentiles who did not seek justice have obtained a justice that is by faith but the people of Israel who pursued the law as the path of justice have not reached their goal why not because they followed it not by faith but as if by works they stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, look, I am placing in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that causes them to fall, and whoever believes in him will never be ashamed Romans chapter 10 brothers and sisters My heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they be saved because I can testify of them that they are zealous for God but their zeal is not based on knowledge since they did not know God's justice and sought to establish their own they did not submit to the justice of god christ is the culmination of the law so that there is justice for all who believe moses writes this about the justice that is by the law the person who does these things will live by them but the justice that is by Faith says do not say in your heart who will ascend to heaven, that is to say, to bring Christ down or who descends to the depths that it is to raise Christ from the dead, but what does it say?

The word is close to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart that is the message concerning the faith that we proclaim if you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved because it is with your heart that you believe and you are justified and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and you are saved as the scripture says, everyone who believes in him will never be ashamed because there is no difference between Jew and Gentile the same Lord is lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him because everyone who calls the name of the lord will be saved how then can they call on him whom they have not believed in and how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how can they hear without someone preaching to them and how can anyone preach unless he is sent as it is written How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news but not all the Israelites accepted the good news for Isaiah says Lord who has believed in our message consequently faith comes by hearing the message and the message is heard through the word about of Christ but I ask if they didn't listen, of course they did. his voice has gone out throughout the earth his words to the ends of the world again I ask if Israel did not understand first Moses says I will make you envious of those who are not a nation I will make you angry for a nation that has no understanding and Isaiah says boldly I was found by those who did not seek me I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me but regarding Israel it says all day I have lifted up my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people romans chapter 11 i Ask then, did God reject his people at all? manner?

I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew, don't you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah? How did he appeal to God against Israel Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars I am the only one left and they are trying to kill me and what was God's response to him I have reserved seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to defecate like this Also today there is a remnant chosen by grace and if by grace then it cannot be based on works if it were grace it would no longer be grace what then what the people of Israel sought so hard the elect among them did not obtain but the others were hardened as it is written god gave them a spirit of stupor eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear until this day and david says let his table become a snare and a snare a stumbling block and a a punishment for them that their eyes are darkened so that they cannot see and their backs are bowed forever again I wonder if they stumbled so as not to be able to recover at all rather because of their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to cause envy to Israel but If its transgression means riches for the world and its loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will its full inclusion bring?

I speak to you Gentiles, to the extent that I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry in hope. that I may somehow arouse the envy of my own people and save some of them, for if his rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will his acceptance be but life from the dead? If the part of the mass offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole mass is holy, if the root is holy, so are the branches, if some of the branches have been broken, and you, even if you have grafted a wild olive cane among the others and now you share the nourishing sap of the root of the olive tree, do not consider yourself be superior to those other branches if you consider this, you do not support the root, but the root supports you, you will say, then the branches were broken so that I could be grafted , but they broke because of their disbelief and you stand firm. by faith do not be arrogant but tremble because if God did not forgive the natural branches he will not forgive you either therefore do not consider the goodness and severity of God severe severity with those who fell but kindness towards you as long as you continue in his goodness of what Otherwise they will also be cut off and if they do not persist in disbelief they will be grafted because God can graft them back if you were cut from a wild olive tree by nature and against nature you were grafted into a cultivated olive tree the more easily these will be the natural branches grafted onto their own olive tree.

I do not want you to ignore this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be vain. Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the entire number of the Gentiles has entered and in this way all Israel will be saved as it is written. The deliverer will come from Zion. He will remove ungodliness from jacob and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins to where As for the gospel, they are enemies because of you, but as for the election, they are loved by the patriarchs, because the gifts of God and his call are irrevocable, just as you, who were once disobedient to God, have now received mercy for it. of their disobedience, so now they too have become disobedient so that they too may receive mercy as a result of God's mercy toward you, for God has forced everyone to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all, oh depth of riches. of the wisdom and knowledge of God how inscrutable his judgments and his ways beyond tracing who has known the mind of the lord or who has been his counselor who has ever given to God so that God will repay them for him and for him and to him are all things to him be glory forever amen romans chapter 12 therefore I beg you brothers and sisters in view of the mercy of God to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to God this is your worship true and proper do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, then you will be able to test and approve what is the will of God, his good and perfect will, because by the grace that has been given to me, I tell each of you not to think of more good than you should, but think of yourselves with sober judgment, according to the faith that God has distributed to each of you, for just as each of us has one body with many members and not all these members have the same function, so in Christ although many of us form a single body and each member belongs to all the others we have different gifts according to the grace given to each of us if your gift is prophesy then prophesy according to your faith if it is to serve then serve if it is to teach then teach if it is to encourage then give encouragement if it is to give then give generously if it is to lead do it with diligence if it is to show mercy do it with joy love must be sincere hate what is evil cling to what is good be devoted to one another in love honor one another above yourselves never lack zeal to maintain your spiritual more serving the lord be joyful in hope patient in affliction faithful in prayer share with the Lord's people who are in need practice hospitality bless those who persecute you bless and do not curse rejoice with those who rejoice weep with those who weep live in harmony with each other do not be proud but be willing to associate with people of low position do not be vain do not repay anyone evil for evil be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone if possible to the extent it depends on you live in peace with everyone do not take revenge my dears Friends, but leave room for the wrath of God because it is written that it is mine to take revenge, I will pay, says the Lord.

On the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him if he is thirsty, give him a drink. When you do this, you will pile hot coals on his head. Don't be defeated by him. evil but overcome evil with good romans chapter 13. let everyone be subject to the governing authorities because there is no authority except that which god has established the authorities that exist have been established by god consequently whoever rebels against authority is rebelling against what god has instituted and those who do it will judge themselves because rulers have no terror for those who do good but for those who do evil you want to be free from the fear of the one in authority so do what is right and You will be praised because the one who has authority is a servant of God for your good, but if you do wrong, be afraid because rulers do not carry the sword without reason.

They are servants of God, agents of wrath to punish the evildoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the rules. authorities not only for possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience this is also why you pay taxes for the authorities of the servants of god who dedicate all their time to governing give everyone what you owe them if you owe taxes pay taxes if income then income if respect then respect if honor then honor let no debt remain outstanding except the continuing debt of loving one another for whoever loves has fulfilled the law the commandments you shall not commit adultery you shall not kill you shall not steal you shall not covet and any other commandments that may be It is summarized in this one commandment, love your neighbor as yourself, love does not harm your neighbor, that is why love is the fulfillment of the law and do this understanding the present time, the time has come for you to wake up from your sleep because our salvation is closer now than when we believed the night is almost over the day is almost here so let us put aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light let us behave decently as during the day not in revelry and drunkenness not in sexual immorality and debaucheryin dissensions and jealousy let us rather dress with the Lord Jesus Christ and do not think about how to satisfy the desires of the flesh Romans chapter 14.

Accept the one of weak faith without fighting over debatable matters one's faith allows him to eat anything but another whose faith He is weak, eats only vegetables, he who eats everything should not treat with contempt those who do not eat, and he who does not eat everything should not judge those who do. For God has accepted them, who are you to judge the servant who is not his own? master servant they stand or fall and they will stand because the lord is able to make them stand one person considers one day more sacred than another another considers that all days are equal each of them must be fully convinced in their own mind whoever considers that a day is special does it for the lord, whoever eats meat does it to the lord because he gives thanks to god and whoever abstains does it to the lord and thanks to god because none of us lives alone for us and no one dies only for us because if we live we live for the lord and if we die we die for the lord so if we live or die we belong to the lord that is why Christ died and came back to life so that he may be lord of both the dead and the the living you then why do you judge your brother or sister or why do you treat them with contempt because we will all be before the court of God?

It is written as surely as I live, says the Lord. Every knee will bow before me. Every tongue will recognize God. So, each one. of us we will give an account of ourselves to God therefore let us stop judging one another instead of deciding not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the path of a brother or sister I am convinced being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but if someone considers something as unclean then for that person it is unclean if your brother or sister is distressed by what you eat you are no longer acting with love do not destroy with your food someone for whom Christ died therefore do not let Whether what you know is good or evil is spoken of for the kingdom of God, it is not a matter of eating and drinking but of justice, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit because anyone who serves Christ in this way pleases God and receives approval. human, let us therefore do everything possible to do what leads to peace and mutual edification do not destroy the work of god for the sake of food all food is clean but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes others to stumble.

Another is better not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything else that would make your brother or sister fall, so whatever you believe about these things keep it between you and God. Blessed is he who is not condemned for what he approves of, but he who has doubts he is condemned if he eats because his food is not of faith and everything that does not come from faith is sin romans chapter 15 we who are strong must endure the weaknesses of the weak and not please ourselves each of us must please our neighbor for their good to build them up forever christ did not please himself but as it is written the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me because everything that was written in the past was written to teach us so that through the patience that is taught in the scriptures and the encouragement that they give us, we can have hope that the god who gives patience and comfort will give them the same attitude of encouragement toward each other that Christ Jesus had so that with one mind and one voice glorify the god and father of our lord Jesus Christ let us accept one another then just as Christ accepted you to praise God for I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews in the name of the truth of God so that the promises made to the patriarchs be confirmed and also the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy as it is written therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles I will sing again the praises of your name he says rejoice Gentiles with his people and again praise the Lord all the Gentiles that all the peoples exalt and again Isaiah says the root of Jesus one will arise who will arise to rule over the nations in him the Gentiles will wait for the god of hope to fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him so that you may overflow with hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

I myself am convinced, brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, full of knowledge, and competent to instruct one another; However, I have written to you quite boldly on some points to remind you again because of the grace God gave me to be so. minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering to God sanctified by the Holy Spirit, that is why I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God I will not do it venture to speak of anything except what christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey god by what I have said and done by the power of signs and wonders through the power of the spirit of god from jerusalem until illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where christ was not known so as not to be building on someone else's foundation, but as it is written, those who were not told of him will see and those. Anyone who has not heard will understand that this is why they have often prevented me from going to see them, but now there is no place to work in these regions and since I have been wanting to visit them for many years, I plan to do so. When I go to Spain I hope to see you in passing and that you will help me on my trip there after having enjoyed your company for a while, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem serving the Lord's people there through Macedonia and Ikea were pleased to make a contribution to the poor among the Lord's people in Jerusalem, they were pleased to do so and in fact they owe it because if the Gentiles have shared in the spiritual blessings of the Jews, they owe it to the Jews. with them your material blessings, so after I have

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d this task and made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit them on the way.

I know that when I come to you I will do it to the full measure of the blessing of Christ I urge you brothers and sisters for our Lord Jesus Christ and for the love of the spirit to join me in my fight praying to God for me pray that I may be safe from the unbelievers in Judea and that the contribution taking me to Jerusalem may be received favorably by the people of the Lord there so that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and in your company may the god of peace be refreshed with all of you amen romans chapter 16.

I recommend to our sister Phoebe a deacon of the church in centria I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of her people and to give her all the help she may need from you because she She has been a benefactor of many people, including me. Greet Priscila and Aquila. My co-workers in Christ Jesus risked their lives for me. Not only me but all the churches of the Gentiles. I thank you. Also greet the church that meets in your house. Greet. to my dear friend epenitus who was the first convert to christ in the province of asia say hello to mary who worked very hard for you say hello to andronicus and junior my fellow jews have been imprisoned with me they are prominent among the apostles and were in christ before I out Greet Amplatius my dear friend in the Lord Greet Barnes our co-worker in Christ and my dear friends Starkis Greet Appelleys whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test Greet those who belong to the house of Aristobals Greet Herodian my Jewish brothers greet those from the house of Narcissus who are in the Lord greet Triphena and Triphose to those women who work hard in the Lord Greetings to my dear friend Persis another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord Greetings to Rufus chosen in The Lord and his mother who has been a mother to me also greet Syncretis Flagon Hermes Petrobas Hermas and the other brothers and sisters with them greet Lolaco Julia and Nereo and his sister and Olympus and all the gentlemen who are with them greet each other with a kiss holy all the churches of christ send greetings I urge you brothers and sisters to be careful with those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your path that are contrary to the teaching you have learned stay away from them because such people do not serve our lord christ but to their own appetites with soft words and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people everyone has heard of your obedience so I rejoice for you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

The god of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. Timoteo, my co-worker, sends you his greetings. you, like lucius jason and susie peter, my fellow jews i tertius, who wrote this letter, we salute you in the lord gaius, whose hospitality I and the entire church here enjoy, sends you his greetings erastus, director of public works of the city, and our brother quartus. They now send their greetings to him who can establish for you according to my gospel the message that I proclaim about Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for many centuries but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings of the commandments of the eternal god so that all Gentiles may reach the obedience that comes by faith to the only wise god be glory forever through Jesus Christ amen