THE BOOK OF ROMANS
King James Version
1 ¶ Paul, a servant of Jesus
Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised afore by
his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
4 And declared to be the Son of
God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from
the dead:
5 By whom we have received grace
and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all that be in Rome, beloved
of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and
the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 ¶ First, I thank my God
through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the
whole world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I
serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make
mention of you always in my prayers;
10 Making request, if by any means
now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto
you.
11 For I long to see you, that I
may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
12 That is, that I may be
comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
13 Now I would not have you
ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let
hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other
Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to the Greeks,
and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
15 So, as much as in me is, I am
ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
16 ¶ For I am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the
Greek.
17 For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who
hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 ¶ Because that which may be
known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without
excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew
God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in
their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be
wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and
fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up
to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour
their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God
into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who
is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up
unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that
which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another;
men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that
recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do
those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of
envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of
God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the
same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
1 ¶ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou
art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
thyself; for thou that judgest doest
the same things.
2
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to
truth against them which commit such things.
3
And thinkest thou this, O man,
that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4
Or despisest thou the riches of
his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness
of God leadeth thee to repentance?
5
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath
and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
7 To them who by patient
continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour
and immortality, eternal life:
8
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the
truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth
evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10
But glory, honour, and peace, to
every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11
For there is no respect of persons with God.
12
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish
without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but
the doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For
when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in
the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15
Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts,
their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while
accusing or else excusing one another;)
16
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by
Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17 ¶ Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest
thy boast of God,
18
And knowest his will, and approvest
the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the
blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which
hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou
not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not
steal, dost thou steal?
22
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost
thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost
thou commit sacrilege?
23
Thou that makest thy boast of
the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou
God?
24
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles
through you, as it is written.
25
For circumcision verily profiteth,
if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is
made uncircumcision.
26
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep
the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for
circumcision?
27
And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and
circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is
one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision
is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not
of men, but of God.
1 ¶ What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is
there of circumcision?
2
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were
committed the oracles of God.
3
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief
make the faith of God without effect?
4
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as
it is written, That thou mightest
be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome
when thou art judged.
5
But if our unrighteousness commend
the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh
vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God hath
more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a
sinner?
8
And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as
some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation
is just.
9
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we
have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10
As it is written, There is none
righteous, no, not one:
11
There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God.
12
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13
Their throat is an open sepulchre;
with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their
lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing
and bitterness:
15
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17
And the way of peace have they not known:
18
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 ¶ Now we know that what things soever the law saith,
it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and
all the world may become guilty before God.
20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God
without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus:
25
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith
in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are
past, through the forbearance of God;
26
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he
might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of
works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man
is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the
Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision
by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid:
yea, we establish the law.
1 ¶ What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as
pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to
glory; but not before God.
3
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it
was counted unto him for righteousness.
4
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of
grace, but of debt.
5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for
righteousness.
6
Even as David also describeth
the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth
righteousness without works,
7 Saying, Blessed are they whose
iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
9 ¶ Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision
only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to
Abraham for righteousness.
10
How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or
in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might
be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that
righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
12
And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the
circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father
Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world,
was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the
law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there
is no transgression.
16
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to
the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of
the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father
of us all,
17 ¶ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many
nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth
the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become
the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own
body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old,
neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
20
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief;
but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that,
what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 ¶ Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it
was imputed to him;
24
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we
believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again
for our justification.
1 ¶ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also:
knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6 ¶ For when we were yet without strength, in due time
Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous
man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8
But God commendeth his love
toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall
be saved from wrath through him.
10
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by
the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his
life.
11
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for
that all have sinned:
13
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not
imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of
Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
15
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if
through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the
gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for
the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences
unto justification.
17
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much
more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all
men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came
upon all men unto justification of life.
19
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.
But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace
reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin,
that grace may abound?
2
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any
longer therein?
3
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into
Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of
his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that
the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For
he that is dead is freed from sin.
8
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall
also live with him:
9
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he
liveth, he liveth unto God.
11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto
sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye
should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are
alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion
over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law,
but under grace? God forbid.
16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness?
17
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but
ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness.
19
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity
of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and
to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to
righteousness unto holiness.
20
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from
righteousness.
21 What fruit
had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those
things is death.
22
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to
God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 ¶ Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know
the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to
her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband
be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3
So then if, while her husband liveth,
she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her
husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married to another man.
4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law
by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is
raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which
were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead
wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the
oldness of the letter.
7 ¶ What shall we say then?
Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had
not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt
not covet.
8
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me
all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9
For I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found
to be unto death.
11
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me,
and by it slew me.
12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and
just, and good.
13
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God
forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is
good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 ¶ For we know that the
law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do
I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the
law that it is good.
17
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth
in me.
18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no
good thing: for to will is present with me; but how
to perform that which is good I find not.
19
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I
would not, that I do.
20
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it,
but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I
would do good, evil is present with me.
22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23
But I see another law in my members, warring against the
law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members.
24
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the
body of this death?
25
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with
the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
1 ¶ There is therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
made me free from the law of sin and death.
3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through
the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for
sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in
us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of
the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually
minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is
enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can
be.
8
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be
that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have
not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 ¶ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of
sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the
dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken
your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to
live after the flesh.
13
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to
fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father.
16
The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified together.
18
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not
willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself
also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children of God.
22
For we know that the whole creation groaneth
and travaileth in pain together until now.
23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not
hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with
patience wait for it.
26 ¶ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth
our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the
Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered.
27
And he that searcheth the hearts
knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he
maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose.
29 ¶ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brethren.
30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called:
and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also
glorified.
31 ¶ What shall we then say to these things? If God be
for us, who can be against us?
32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for
us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33
Who shall lay any thing to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34
Who is he that condemneth? It is
Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36
As it is written, For thy sake we
are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us.
38
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.