The Epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the ROMANS. PAUL CHAP. I. La servant of a Jesus Christ, called b to be an apostle, separated c 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 f of the seed of David according to the flesh; 4 And declared h to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit i of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: 5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, 2 for obedience I 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 n to be saints: Grace o 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 q is spoken of throughout the whole world. 9 For God is my witness, whom r I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing s I make mention of you always in my prayers; Ꭿ. D. 60. a Ac.27.23. Ac.9.15. i He.9.14. 2 or,to the obe- 10 Making request if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous p Ep.5.12. journey by t the will of God to come un- Jude 10. q c.16.19. 11 For u I long to see you, that v I mayr Ac.27.23. impart unto you some spiritual gift, to 4 or, in. the end you may be established: to you. 12 That is, that I may be comforted to s 1Th.3. 10. 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain d in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened: 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they e became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncor ruptible God into an image g made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave k them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bo dies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God m in to a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more 3 than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile p affections: for even their wo men did change their natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recca pence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like 5 to re tain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to 6 a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteous. ness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, gether with 4 you by the mutual w faith knowledge.debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, both of you and me." t Ja.4.15. 13 Now I would not have you ignorant, 6 a mind void brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to of judgment. come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) u c.15.23,32. that I might have some fruit 4 among v c.15.29. you also, even as among other Gentiles. w 2Pe.1.1. 14 I ain debtor x both to the Greeks and unsociable. to the Barbarians, both to the wise and x 1Co.9.16. to the unwise. 8 or, consent with them. y Mar.8.38. 15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. 2Ti.1.8. 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 8 have pleasure in them that do them. CHAP. II. THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O 16 For I am not ashamed y of the gospel z Je.23.29. Tman, whosoever that at that julgest: for a wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest, 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth, against them which commit such things. 19 Because that which may be known' i Is.30.18. 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that julgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? 4 Or despisest thou the riches g of his goodness and forbearance i and long-suffering, k not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth I thee to repentance? 5 But, after thy hardness and impenite heart, treasurest n up unto thyself wrat against the day of wrath, and o revelati lof the righteous judgment of God: The equity of God. ROMANS, IH. 6 Who a will render to every man ac-1 A. D. 60. cording to his deeds: 7 To them, who, by patient continu- a Pr.24.12. ance in well doing, seek for glory and Mat.16.27. nonour and immortality, eternal life: Re.20.12. S But unto them that are c contentious, b De.4.7,8. and d do not obey the truth, but obey un-c 1Ti.6.3,4. righteousness; indignation and wrath, d 2Th. 1.8. 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every e c. 10.16. soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew He.4.2. first, and also of the Gentile : 1 or, Greck. 10 But glory, g honour, and peace, tof Ps.51.4. every man that worketh good, to the Jewg 1Pe. 1.7. first, and also to the 1 Gentile : h De.10.17. 2Ch.19.7. Ga.6.7,8. 1 Pe. 1.17. 11 For h 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 i Job 8.3. be judged by the law; 13 (For k not the hearers of the law arek Ja.1.22-23. just before God, but the doers of the law. shall be justified. Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. CHAP. III. THAT advantage then hath the Jew? is thereof circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what, if some e 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, f 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 i shall God udge 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? 14 For when the Gentiles, which have 1 c.6.1,15. 8 And not rather (as we be slanderousig not the law, do by nature the things con- 1Co.11.14. reported, and as some affirm that we say) tained in the law, these, having not the 2 or, the con- Let I us do evil, that good may come? Jaw, are a law m unto themselves: science wit-whose damnation is just. 15 Which shew the work of the law nessing with written in their hearts, their 2 conscience them. also bearing witness, and their thoughts 3 charged. the mean while accusing, or else ex-4 or, between cusing, one another;) themselves. 16 In the day when God shall judge the n Ps. 14&55. secrets o of men, by Jesus Christ, accord-o Lu.8.17. ing to my p gospel. p Ro.16.25. ver.28. Ps. 147.19, 20. 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, & restest in the law,and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest r his will, and 5 ap. provests the things that are more excel-5 lent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of thems Ph.1.10. which are in darkness, t Ps.5.9. or, triest the 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher u Ps. 140.3. 21 Thou y therefore which teachest an-x 2Ti.1.13. 22 Thou that sayest a man should not a Ps.107.42. 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law disho- cEz.36.20,23. nourest thou God? d Ac.26.22. 21 For the name of God is blasphemed e Ga.5.3. among the Gentiles through you, as it f c.5.1,&c. g Ac.10.34,35 Ec.7.20. Mat.12.41, written. c is 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but e if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 96 Therefore if g the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall k not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, i judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dos: transgress the law? 42. 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved 3 both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 10 As it is written, n 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 t throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison u of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose moutl. v is full of cursing and bitterness. 15 Their feet w are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and raisery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There z 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 a mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become 6 guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the w there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law d and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith f of Jesus Christ, unto or, fore-or-all and upon all them that believe: for dained. there is no difference; Mat.3.9. Jno.8.39. c.9.6,7. Ga.6.15. Re.2.9. over. 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one I Ac.13.38,39. outwardly; neither is that circumcision m De 10.16. which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart,m in the spirit,and not in the letter; whose praise n is not of men, but of God. 30.6. Je.4.4. Ph.3.3. ICo.2.11. n 2Co. 10.18. 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 8 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 ex 3 For what saith the scripture? o Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. m Is.53.5,6. 2Co.5.21. He.9.28. 1Pe.2.24. Re.1.5. 4 Now to him that worketh q is the re- 1 Pe.1.21. ward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. o Ge.15.6. 5 But to hi that worketh not, but bep Is.32.17. lieveth on him that justifieth the ungodly, Ep.2.14. his faith t is counted for righteousness. Col.1.20. 6 Even as David also describeth the q c.11.6. blessedness of the man unto whom Godr Jno.14.6. imputeth righteousness without works, s He.3.6. 7 Saying, v Blessed are they whose ini-t Ha.2.4. quities are forgiven, and whose sins are uMat.5.11,12. covered. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Ja.1.2.12. v Ps.32.1.2. w Ph.1.20. x Ep.1.13,14. according to the time. y Ga.4.4. z Jno. 15.13. 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 uncircumcis- 1Pe.3.18. ien? Not in circumcision, but in uncir cumcision. 1Jno.3.16. a Ge.17.10,11. 11 And a he received the sign of circum-b He.9.14,22. cision; a seal of the righteousness of the c 1Th.1.10. faith which he had, yet being uncircum-d Lu.19.9. cised; that he might be the father d of all Jno.8.33. them that believe, though they be not cir- Ga.3.7,29. cumcised; that righteousness might be e c.8.32. imputed unto them also: f Jno.14.19. 12 And the father of circumcision to g Ha.3.18. them who are not of the circumcision 2 or, recononly, but who also walk in the steps of ciliation. that faith of our father Abraham, which h Ge.3.6, 19. he had, being yet uncircumcised. i Ge.17.4,&c. 13 For the promise, that i he should be 3 or, in whom the heir of the world, was not to Abra-k c.4.15. ham, or to his seed, through the law, but 1Jno.3.4. through the righteousness of faith. 7 Ga.3.18. 14 For if they which are of the law m He.9.27. be heirs, faith is made void, and then c.5.20. promise made of none effect: o 1Jno.3.4. 15 Because the law n worketh wrath: for p 1Co.15.22, where no o law is, there is no transgression. 45. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it q Ep.2.8. might be by grace; to the end the pro-r Ge.17.4. mise might be sure to all the seed; not to s Is.53.11. that only which is of the law, but to that Mat.20.28. also which is of the faith of Abraham, 26.28. who is the father of us all, 1Jno.2.2. 17 (As it is written, r I have made thee a 4 like unto. father of inany nations,) 4 before him t Ep.2.1,5. whom he believed, even God, who quick- u 1Co.1.28. eneth t the dead, and calleth those u things 1Pe.2.10. which be not as though they were. v Is.1.18. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many 5 or, ly one offence. 22 And therefore it was imputed to hin. for righteousness. 23 Now g it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us i also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe k on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered m for our offences, and was raised n again for our justification. CHAP. V. HEREFOREpbeing justified by faith, Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom r also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice s in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory u in tribulations also knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope; 5 And hope w maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, x which is given unto us. 6For when we were yet without strength, 1 in due y timeChrist died for the ungodly' 7 For scarcely for a righteous man wil one die; yet peradventure for a goo man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while z we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, b we shall be saved from cwrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much e more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by f his life. 11And not only so,but we also joygin God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the 2 atonement. 12 Wherefore, as h by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, 3 for that all have sinned. 13 (For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not k imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death reigned m from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the p 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 q of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 8 16 And not as it was by one that sinne L so is the gift: for the judgment was one to condemnation; but the free git of many v offences unto justification. 17 For if by one man's offence de reigned by one; much more they whic The influence of Grace receive abundance a of grace, and of the A. D. 60. gift b of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ :) ROMANS, VII. Observations respecting the Law, a Jno. 10.10. 18 Therefore, as 1 by the offence of one b c.6.23. judgment came upon all men to condem- or, by one nation; even so 3 by the righteousness of offence. one the free gift came upon all e men c v.16. unto justification of life. 2 to. 19For as by one man's disobedience many d c.7.5. were made sinners, so by the obedience 3 or, by one of one shall many be made righteous. rightecus20 Moreover, g the law entered, that the ness. offence might abound. But where sine Jno. 12.32. abounded, grace did much more i abound:f c.1.32. 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, Ja.1.15. even so might grace m reign, through g Jno.15.22. righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus c.7.8-13. Ga.3.19. Christ our Lord. CHAP. VI. h Ge.2.17. WHAT shall we say then? Shall n wei Jno. 10.10. 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are k c.5.17,21. dead p to sin, live any longer therein? 1 1Pe.1.4. 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as m Jno.1.17. were 4 baptized into Jesus Christ were n c.3.8. baptized into r his death? o 1Co.7.39. 4 Therefore we are buried s with him by p v.6,11. baptism into death; that like t as Christ Co.3.3. was raised up from the dead by the u glory 1Pe.2.24. of the Father, even so we also should 4 or, are. walk in newness of life. 1 Pe.3.21. 9 Mat. 5.32. 5 For if w we have been planted together ICo.15.29. in the likeness of his death, we shall be al-s Col.2.12. 30 in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is cru-t cified with him, that the body z of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. c.8.11. 2Co. 13.4. u Mat.28.2,3. v Ga.6.15. Ep.4 22-24. 1Jno.2.6. 7 For b he that is dead is 6 freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him w Ph.3.10. 9 Knowing that Christ, d being raised x Ga.5.18. from the dead, dieth no more; death y Ga.5.22. hath no more dominion over him. z Col.2.11. 10 For in that he died, he died e unto a Ro.8.8.9. sin once but in that he liveth, he liveth passions. unto God. biРe.4.1. justified. d 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead h indeed unto sin, but alive ic c.6.21. unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. or, being 12 Let A not sin therefore reign in your dead to that. mortal body, that ye should obey it in the Re. 1.18. lust thereof. e He.9.28. 13 Neither yield ye your members 1 as fc.3.20. instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: 8 or, concubut yield m yourselves unto God, as those piscence. that are alive from the dead, and your g Ex.20.17. members as instruments of righteousness h v.2. unto God. i Ga.2.19. 14 For sin shall not have o dominion k Ps. 19.13. over you for ye are not under the law, 119.133. but under grace. 7 Col.3.5. 15 What then? Shall we sin, because we 9 arms or are not under the law, but under grace? weapons. God forbid. m c.12.1. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye q yield n Eze.20.11, yourselves servants to obey, his servants &c. ye are to whom ye obey; whether of o Mi.7.19. sin unto death, or of obedience unto righ-p Ps. 19.7-9. q Jno.8.34. teousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the 2Pe.2.19. 18 Being then made free t from sin, ye 11 whereto ye 19 I speak after the manner of men, be-1 vered. cause of the infirmity of your flesh: for as t Juo.8.32. ve have yielded your members servants u Ge.6.5. 21 What fruit d had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end f 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, ev. erlasting life. 23 For h the wages of sin is death; but the gift k of God is eternal life, I through Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAP. VII. Kto them that know the law, how tak NOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2For othe 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 q 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 x 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 y unto God. 5 For when we were ina the flesh,the motions 5 of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit c 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 suall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not ƒ known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, 8 except the law had said, g Thou shalt not covet. S 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, & by it slew me. 12 Wherefore the law p 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, soid r under sin. 15 For trat which I do, I allow 10 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, 1 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. 15 For I know that in me, (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth uo u good thing: for to The Believer's privileges, will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. ROMANS, IX. 19 For a the good that I would, I do not: a Ga.5.17. but the evil which I would not, that I do. b 2Pe.3. 13. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is c Ps.65.3. 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 c with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the award e man: a Ps. 1.2. creature. 23 But I see another law inf my mem- g Ps.142.7. bers, warring against the law of my h Ps.38.2,10. mind, and bringing me into captivity g to 77.3-9. the law of sin which is in my members. Ep.1.14. 24 Oh wretched man that I am! who shall 2or, this body deliver me from 2 the body of this death?A of death. 25 Im thank God, through Jesus Christ k Ps.88.5. our Lord. So then, with the mind I my-1 2Co.5.2,4. self serve the law of God, but with the m 1Co. 15.57. flesh the law of sin. n Lu.21.28. o 2Co.5.7. p Jno.3.18. CHAP. VIII. THERE is, therefore, now no p con demnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk q not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Ga.5. 16. 2Co.3.6. $ Zec. 12.10. infirmities, and triumph. 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 cor ruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that 1 the whole crea. tion groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits i of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan 7 within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption n of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen, is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doeth he yet hope o 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 s the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which caunot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because 3 he maketh intercession for the or, by a sa-saints according to the will of God. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life r int Ga.2.19.5.1. Christ Jesus hath made me free t from u Ac. 13.39. the law of sin and death. He.7.18,19. 3 For what the law could not u do, in v Je. 17.10. that it was weak through the flesh, God, Re.2.23. sending his own Son w in the likeness of w Ga.3.13. sinful flesh, and 4 for sin condemned sin 3 or, that. in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law crifice for sin. 1Co.15.48. b 1Pe.1.2. c ICo.2.14. theminding 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the e Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God f 1Co.6.11. dwell k in you. Now if any man have Jno.17.22. not the Spirit of Christ, he is noue of his. h Ps. 118.6. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is i c.5.6-10. dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life k 1Co.6.19. because of righteousness. Ga.4.6. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, o Ps.116.16. not o to the flesh, to live after the flesh. p Col.3.5. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall q Fs.44.22. die: but if ye through the Spirit do mor- 1Co.15.30, tify p the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit r Ga.5.18. of God, they are the sons of God. 31. $ 1 Co.15.57. 15 For ye have not received the Spirit of t 2Ti.1.7. bondage t again, to fear; but u ye have u Co.2.12. received the Spirit of adoption, where- o Je.3.19. by we cry, Abba, Father. Ga.4-5,6. 16The Spirit itself beareth witness y with w Jude 24. our spirit, that we are the children of God: x Jno. 10.28. 17 And if children, then heirs; z heirs y 2Co.1.22. of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; a if 1Jno.4. 13. so be that we suffer with him, that we z Ac.26.18. may be also glorified together. 1Pe.1.4. 15 For I reckon, & that the sufferings of a 211.2.1, this present time are net worthy to bel b 200.4.17. 28 And we know y 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, b he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. 30 Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: e and whom he call ed, them he also justified: f and whom he justified, them he also glorified. g 31 What shall we then say to these things? If h 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 I shall lay any thing to the charge of Gol's elect? It m is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It 18 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, q For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are ac counted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in s all these things we are more than conquerors, through him w that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that x neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principal. ities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate from the love of God, which is in Chr Jesus our Lord. CHAP. IX. conscience also bearing me witness SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, |