9 So when this was done, others also who had diseases in the isle, came, and were healed: 10 Who also honored us with many honors; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were neces sary. 11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. 12 And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days. 13 And from thence we made a circuit, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli: 14 Where we found brethren, and] were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went towards Rome. 15 And from thence when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii-forum, and the Three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage. 16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself, with a soldier that kept him. 17 And it came to pass, that after three days, Paul called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them, Men, brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. 18 Who when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me. 19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Cesar; not that I had aught to accuse my nation of. 20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. 21 And they said to him, We have neither received letters from Judea concerning thee, neither have any of the brethren that came shown or spoken any harm of thee. 22 But we desire to hear from thee, what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against. 23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. 24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. 25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after Paul had spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit by Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, 26 Saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive. 27 For the heart of this people is become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 28 Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it. 29 And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves. 30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in to him, 31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him. The Epistle of Paul to the ROMANS. CHAP. I. 1 Paul commendeth his calling to the Romans, A. D. 60. 2 (Which he had promised before by his prophets in the holy scriptures) 3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our gospel is, and the righteousness which it Acts 13. 2. Lord, who was born of the seed of David 9 and his desire to come to them: 16 what his showeth. 18 God is angry with all manner of sin. 21 What were the sins of the Gentiles. to the gospel of God, mined. according to the flesh. 4 And i 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 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; 12 That is, that I may be comforted together 5 with you, by the mutual faith both of you and me. 13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come to you (but have been hitherto hindered) that I might have some fruit 6 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. : knowledge. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gos-9 or, to acpel of Christ for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For in this 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 7 in them; for God hath shown it to 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; 8 so that they are without ex cuse: 21 Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither void of judgment, 10 or, a mind or, an un approving mind. 11 or, unsociable. 12 or, con sent with them. < Matt. 7.2. a lie, and worshiped and served the ereature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up to vile affections. For even their wo men 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 towards another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not likes to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to 10 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; whisper ers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death; not only do the same, but 12 have pleasure in them that do them. CHAP. II. I They that sin, though they condemn it in others, cannot excuse themselves, 6 and much less escape the judgment of God, 9 whether they are Jews or Gentiles. 14 The Gentiles cannot escape, 17 nor yet the Jews, whom their circumcision will not profit, if they keep not the law. HEREFORE thou art inexcusable, Toman, whoever thou art, that judg est: a 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 who commit such things. 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who 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 1 hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself were thankful, but became vain in their 1or, obdura wrath against the day of wrath, and revimaginations, and their foolish heart was • darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools: 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible & God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping animals. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into cy. b James 5. 3. Ps. 62. 12. Matt. 16. 27. Rev. 22. 12. elation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man aecording to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life: 8 But to 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 2 Gr. Greek. first, and also of the 2 Gentile; 10 But glory, honor, and peace, to ev ery man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the 3 Gentile; 11 For a there is no respect of persons. with God. 12 For as many as have sinned with out 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, who have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law to themselves. 15 Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, 4 their conscience also bearing testimony, and their thoughts 5 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, 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? 1 will their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 By no means: verily let God be Matt. 7. 20.true, but a every man a liar; as it is writJames 1. 22. ten, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou art judged. 4 or, the conscience witnessing with them. 5 or, between themselves. 6 or, triest 5 But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.) 6 By no means: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more the things abounded through my lie to his glory; that differ.why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And not rather (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. 18 And knowest his will, and 6 approvest the things that are more excel-7 or, reviled. lent, being instructed out of the law, Ezek.36.20. 19 And art confident that thou thyselff Isa. 52. 5. art a guide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who hast the form of knowledge, and of the truth in the law: 21 Thou therefore who 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 dishonorest thou God? 24 For the name of God is 7 blasphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it is written. 23. 1 or, will not, Macknight. a Ps. 116. 11. b Ps. 51. 4. 2 Gr. charged. Ps. 14.1.2.3. 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, a Ps. 5. 9. if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision keepeth the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfilleth the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? Ps. 140. 3. ƒ Ps. 10. 7. Prov. 1. 16. Isa. 59. 7. 8. 28 For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, Ps. 36. 1. which is outward in the flesh : 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. CHAP. III. 1 The Jews' prerogative; 3 which they have 3 or, subject to the judg ment of God. 17 And the way of peace have they not known. 18 h There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become 3 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 testified by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come not lost. 9 Yet the law convicteth them also Gal. 2. 16. short of the glory of God; of sin: 20 therefore no flesh is justified by 24 Being justified freely by his grace, 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law of works? No; 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 who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law. CHAP. IV. 1 Abraham's faith was imputed to him for righteousness, 10 before he was circumcised. 13 By faith only he and his seed received the promise. 16 Abraham is the father of all that believe. 24 Our faith also will be imputed to us for righteousness. WHAT shall we then say that Abra- Ps. 32. 1. ham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath 1 found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abra faith of our father Abraham which 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, 2 through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of no 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) s before him whom he believed, eren God, who reviveth the dead, and calleth those things which are not, as though they were. 18 Who against hope believed with hope, that he should 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 a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah'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 al ham believed God, and it was counted 2or, through so to perform. to 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. law. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake Gen. 17. 5. alone, that it was imputed to him; him. 6 Even as David also describeth the 3or, like to blessedness of the man to whom God imputeth righteousness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose 24 But for us also, to whom it will be imputed, if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 Who was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. CHAP. V. iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins & Gen. 15. 5. 1 Being justified by faith, we have peace with are covered. God, 2 and joy in our hope; 8 that since we were reconciled by his blood, when we were enemies, 10 we shall much more be saved being reconciled. 12 As sin and death came by Adam, 17 so much more righteousness and life by Jesus Christ. 20 Where sin abound. ed, grace superabounded, Twe have peace with God, through HEREFORE being justified by faith, our Lord Jesus Christ: 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the 3 atone-15 or, died. ment. 12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; 6 or, by one and so death passed upon all men, 4 for offense. that all have sinned. 13 For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there 7 or, by one offense. is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's 8 or, by one transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 15 But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many are 5 dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded to many. 3 Know ye not, that a 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 as Christ was raised 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 may be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is a freed from sin. 8 Now if we are 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 to sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your neghteous-mortal body, that ye should obey it in the a Gal. 3. 27. 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 | 1 or, are. is of many offenses to justification. 17 For if 6 by one man's offense death lusts 3 of it. 13 Neither yield ye your members as 4 instruments of unrighteousness to sin : but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to 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 reigned by one; much more they who b Col. 2. 12. grace? By no means. receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; 18 Therefore, as 7 by the offense of 2 Gr. justifi- whether of sin to death, or of obedience one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so s by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men to justification of life. ed. 3 or, of the 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made right- 4 Gr. arms, eous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: or, weapons. < John 8. 34. to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin; but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine 5 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, to 21 That as sin hath reigned to death, 2 Pet. 2. 19. (work) iniquity; even so now yield your even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord. |