Sha'ul’s Letter to the Miqra at Rome
1:1Sha'ul, a servant of
Yeshua the Messiah, called to be an emissary, set apart for the Good News of G-d,
1:2which he promised before through his
prophets in the holy Scriptures, 1:3concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
1:4who was declared to be the Son of G-d with
power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Yeshua the Messiah our Lord,
1:5through whom we received
grace and the office of emissary, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
1:6among whom you are also
called to belong to Yeshua the Messiah; 1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of G-d, called to be holy ones: Grace to you and shalom from G-d our Father
and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
1:8First, I thank my G-d
through Yeshua the Messiah for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
1:9For G-d is my witness, whom I
serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
1:10requesting, if by any means
now at last I may be prospered by the will of G-d to come to you. 1:11For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some
spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
1:12that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's
faith, both yours and mine.
1:13Now I don't desire to
have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some
fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Goyim.
1:14I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the
foolish. 1:15So, as much
as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome. 1:16For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Messiah, for it is
the power of G-d for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Yehudi first, and also for the Greek.
1:17For in it is revealed G-d’s
righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
1:18For the wrath of G-d is
revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
1:19because that which
is known of G-d is revealed in them, for G-d revealed it to them. 1:20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the
world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity;
that they may be without excuse. 1:21Because, knowing G-d, they didn't glorify him as G-d, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their
reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
1:22Professing themselves to
be wise, they became fools, 1:23and traded the glory of the incorruptible G-d for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of
birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
1:24Therefore G-d also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness,
that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
1:25who exchanged the truth of G-d for a lie, and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amein.
1:26For this reason, G-d
gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
1:27Likewise also the
men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is
inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
1:28Even as they refused to have G-d in their
knowledge, G-d gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
1:29being filled with all unrighteousness,
sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits,
secret slanderers, 1:30backbiters,
hateful to G-d, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31without understanding,
covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of G-d, that those who practice
such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
2:1Therefore you are without
excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who
judge practice the same things. 2:2We know that the judgment of G-d is according to truth against those who practice such things.
2:3Do you think this, O man who
judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of G-d?
2:4Or do you despise the riches
of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of G-d leads you to repentance?
2:5But according to your
hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the
righteous judgment of G-d; 2:6who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:" 2:7to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and
honor and incorruptibility, eternal life; 2:8but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and
indignation, 2:9oppression
and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Yehudi first, and also on the Greek.
2:10But glory and honor and
shalom to every man who works good, to the Yehudi first, and also to the Greek.
2:11For there is no partiality with G-d.
2:12For as many as have sinned
without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
2:13For it isn't the hearers of
the law who are righteous before G-d, but the doers of the law will be justified
2:14(for when Goyim who don't have the law do
by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
2:15in that they show the work of the law
written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else
excusing them) 2:16in
the day when G-d will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Yeshua the Messiah.
2:17Indeed you bear the name
of a Yehudi, and rest on the law, and glory in G-d, 2:18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
2:19and are confident that you
yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in
the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. 2:21You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do
you steal? 2:22You who
say a man shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
2:23You who glory in the law,
through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor G-d?
2:24For "the name of G-d is blasphemed among the Goyim because of you," just as
it is written. 2:25For
circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your
circumcision has become uncircumcision. 2:26If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as
circumcision? 2:27Won't
the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a
transgressor of the law? 2:28For he is not a Yehudi who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
2:29but he is a Yehudi
who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not
from men, but from G-d.
3:1Then what advantage does
the Yehudi have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
3:2Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of
G-d. 3:3For what if some
were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of G-d? 3:4May it never be! Yes, let G-d be found true, but every man a
liar. As it is written,
"That you might be justified in your words,
And might prevail when you come into judgment."
3:5But if our unrighteousness
commends the righteousness of G-d, what will we say? Is G-d unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
3:6May it never be! For
then how will G-d judge the world? 3:7For if the truth of G-d through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
3:8Why not (as we are
slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are
justly condemned. 3:9What
then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Yehudim and Greeks, that they are all
under sin. 3:10As it is
written,
"There is no one righteous.
No, not one.
3:11There
is no one who understands.
There is no one who seeks after G-d.
3:12They
have all turned aside.
They have together become unprofitable.
There is no one who does good,
No, not, so much as one."
3:13"Their
throat is an open tomb.
With their tongues they have used deceit."
"The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
3:14"Whose mouth
is full of cursing and bitterness."
3:15"Their
feet are swift to shed blood.
3:16Destruction
and misery are in their ways.
3:17The way of
shalom, they haven't known."
3:18"There
is no fear of G-d before their eyes."
3:19Now we know that
whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the
world may be brought under the judgment of G-d. 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the
knowledge of sin. 3:21But
now apart from the law, a righteousness of G-d has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
3:22even the
righteousness of G-d through faith in Yeshua the Messiah to all and on all those who believe. For there is no
distinction, 3:23for all
have sinned, and fall short of the glory of G-d; 3:24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Messiah Yeshua;
3:25whom G-d set forth to be an
atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of
prior sins, in G-d’s forbearance; 3:26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of
him who has faith in Yeshua.
3:27Where then is the
boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
3:28We maintain therefore that a man is
justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 3:29Or is G-d the G-d of Yehudim only? Isn't he the G-d of Goyim also? Yes, of Goyim also,
3:30since indeed there is one
G-d who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith?
May it never be! No, we establish the law.
4:1What then will we say that
Avraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
4:2For if Avraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but
not toward G-d. 4:3For
what does the Scripture say? "Avraham believed G-d, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
4:4Now to him who works, the
reward is not counted as grace, but as debt. 4:5But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for
righteousness. 4:6Even as
David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom G-d counts righteousness apart from works,
4:7"Blessed
are they whose iniquities are forgiven,
Whose sins are covered.
4:8Blessed
is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."
4:9Is this blessing then
pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Avraham for
righteousness. 4:10How
then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
4:11He received the sign
of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might
be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted
to them. 4:12The father
of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our
father Avraham, which he had in uncircumcision. 4:13For the promise to Avraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but
through the righteousness of faith. 4:14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
4:15For the law works wrath,
for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the
end that the promise may 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 Avraham, who is the father of us all. 4:17As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he
believed: G-d, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
4:18Who in hope believed
against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So
will your seed be." 4:19Without
being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred
years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. 4:20Yet, looking to the promise of G-d, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving
glory to G-d, 4:21and
being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 4:22Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."
4:23Now it was not
written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
4:24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who
raised Yeshua, our Lord, from the dead, 4:25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
5:1Being therefore justified
by faith, we have shalom with G-d through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah; 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this
grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of G-d. 5:3Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings,
knowing that suffering works perseverance; 5:4and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: 5:5and hope doesn't disappoint us, because G-d’s love has been
poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 5:6For while we were yet weak, at the right time Messiah died
for the ungodly. 5:7For
one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
5:8But G-d commends his own love
toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Messiah died for us.
5:9Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we will be saved from G-d’s wrath through him. 5:10For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to G-d
through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
5:11Not only so, but we also
rejoice in G-d through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
5:12Therefore, as sin entered
into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
5:13For until the law, sin was
in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
5:14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moshe, even over those whose
sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
5:15But the free gift isn't like the trespass.
For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of G-d, and the gift by the grace of the
one man, Yeshua the Messiah, abound to the many. 5:16The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift
came of many trespasses to justification. 5:17For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Yeshua the Messiah.
5:18So then as through one
trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
5:19For as through the one
man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
5:20The law came in
besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;
5:21that as sin reigned in
death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Yeshua the Messiah our Lord.
6:1What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
6:3Or don't you know that all we who were
immersed into Messiah Yeshua were immersed into his death?
6:4We were buried therefore with him through immersion to death, that just like
Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
6:5For if we have become united
with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
6:6knowing this, that our old man was crucified
with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
6:7For he who has died has been
freed from sin. 6:8But if
we died with Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him; 6:9knowing that Messiah, being raised from the dead, dies no
more. Death no more has dominion over him! 6:10For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to G-d.
6:11Thus also consider
yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to G-d in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
6:12Therefore don't let sin
reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 6:13Neither present your members to sin as instruments of
unrighteousness, but present yourselves to G-d, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness to G-d. 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
6:15What then? Shall we sin,
because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be! 6:16Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as
servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to
righteousness? 6:17But
thanks be to G-d, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of
teaching whereunto you were delivered. 6:18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
6:19I speak in human terms
because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to
wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
6:20For when you were servants
of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 6:21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those
things is death. 6:22But
now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of G-d, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the
result of eternal life. 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of G-d is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
7:1Or don't you know,
brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
7:2For the woman that has a
husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of
the husband. 7:3So then
if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband
dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
7:4Therefore, my brothers, you
also were made dead to the law through the body of Messiah, that you would be joined to another, to him who was
raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to G-d.
7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the
law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
7:6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which
we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7:7What shall we say then? Is
the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known
coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
7:8But sin, finding occasion through the mitzvah, produced in
me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 7:9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the
mitzvah came, sin revived, and I died.
7:10The mitzvah, which was for life, this I found to be for
death; 7:11for sin,
finding occasion through the mitzvah, deceived me, and through it killed me.
7:12Therefore the law indeed is
holy, and the mitzvah holy, and righteous, and good.
7:13Did then that which is
good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through
that which is good; that through the mitzvah sin might become exceeding sinful.
7:14For we know that the law is
spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 7:15For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
7:16But if what I don't
desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
7:17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
7:18For I know that in me, that
is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
7:19For the good which I
desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. 7:20But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that
do it, but sin which dwells in me. 7:21I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
7:22For I delight in G-d’s law after the inward
man, 7:23but I see a
different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin
which is in my members. 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
7:25I thank G-d through Yeshua the Messiah, our
Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve G-d’s law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
8:1There is therefore now no
condemnation to those who are in Messiah Yeshua, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
8:2For the law of the
Spirit of life in Messiah Yeshua made me free from the law of sin and of death.
8:3For what the law couldn't do, in that it was
weak through the flesh, G-d did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin
in the flesh; 8:4that the
ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
8:5For those who live according
to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of
the Spirit. 8:6For the
mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and shalom; 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards G-d; for it
is not subject to G-d’s law, neither indeed can it be.
8:8Those who are in the flesh can't please G-d.
8:9But you are not in the flesh but in the
Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of G-d dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Messiah, he is
not his. 8:10If Messiah
is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
8:11But if the Spirit of him
who raised up Yeshua from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Messiah Yeshua from the dead will also give life
to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
8:12So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the
flesh. 8:13For if you
live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
8:14For as many as are
led by the Spirit of G-d, these are children of G-d.
8:15For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the
Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
8:16The Spirit himself
testifies with our spirit that we are children of G-d;
8:17and if children, then heirs; heirs of G-d, and joint-heirs with Messiah; if
indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. 8:18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. 8:19For the creation waits with eager expectation for the
children of G-d to be revealed. 8:20For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
8:21that the creation
itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of G-d.
8:22For we know that the whole
creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
8:23Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
8:24For we were saved in hope, but hope that is
seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
8:25But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
8:26In the same way, the Spirit
also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for
us with groanings which can't be uttered. 8:27He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the holy
ones according to G-d.
8:28We know that all things
work together for good for those who love G-d, to those who are called according to his purpose.
8:29For whom he foreknew, he
also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
8:30Whom he predestined, those
he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
8:31What then shall we say
about these things? If G-d is for us, who can be against us?
8:32He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would
he not also with him freely give us all things? 8:33Who could bring a charge against G-d’s chosen ones? It is G-d who justifies.
8:34Who is he who condemns? It is Messiah who
died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of G-d, who also makes intercession for us.
8:35Who shall separate us
from the love of Messiah? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
8:36Even as it is
written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
8:37No, in all these things, we
are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 8:38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor powers, 8:39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of G-d, which
is in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
9:1I tell the truth in
Messiah. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, 9:2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
9:3For I could wish that
I myself were accursed from Messiah for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
9:4who are Yisra'elites; whose
is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
9:5of whom are the fathers, and
from whom is Messiah as concerning the flesh, who is over all, G-d, blessed forever. Amein.
9:6But it is not as though
the word of G-d has come to nothing. For they are not all Yisra'el, that are of Yisra'el.
9:7Neither, because they are Avraham's seed,
are they all children. But, "In Yitzchak will your seed be called." 9:8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are
children of G-d, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed. 9:9For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will
come, and Sarah will have a son." 9:10Not only so, but Rivka also conceived by one, by our father Yitzchak.
9:11For being not yet born, neither having done
anything good or bad, that the purpose of G-d according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
9:12it was said to her,
"The elder will serve the younger." 9:13Even as it is written, "Ya`akov I loved, but Esav I hated."
9:14What shall we say then?
Is there unrighteousness with G-d? May it never be! 9:15For he said to Moshe, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have
compassion." 9:16So then
it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of G-d who has mercy. 9:17For the Scripture says to Par`oh, "For this very purpose I
caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the
earth." 9:18So then, he
has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. 9:19You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For
who withstands his will?" 9:20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against G-d? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did
you make me like this?" 9:21Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and
another for dishonor? 9:22What if G-d, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of
wrath made for destruction, 9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for
glory, 9:24us, whom he
also called, not from the Yehudim only, but also from the Goyim? 9:25As he says also in Hoshea,
"I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people;
And her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."
9:26"It
will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
There they will be called 'children of the living G-d.'"
9:27Yesha`yahu cries
concerning Yisra'el,
"If the number of the children of Yisra'el are as the sand of the sea,
It is the remnant who will be saved;
9:28For
He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
Because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."
9:29As Yesha`yahu has said
before,
"Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed,
We would have become like Sedom,
And would have been made like `Amorah."
9:30What shall we say then?
That the Goyim, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of
faith; 9:31but Yisra'el,
following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.
9:32Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith,
but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; 9:33even as it is written,
"Behold, I lay in Tziyon a stumbling stone and a rock of offense;
And no one who believes in him will be disappointed."
10:1Brothers, my heart's
desire and my prayer to G-d is for Yisra'el, that they may be saved. 10:2For I testify about them that they have a zeal for G-d, but
not according to knowledge. 10:3For being ignorant of G-d’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't
subject themselves to the righteousness of G-d. 10:4For Messiah is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
10:5For Moshe writes about the
righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them." 10:6But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't
say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Messiah down);
10:7or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?'
(that is, to bring Messiah up from the dead.)" 10:8But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith,
which we preach: 10:9that
if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Yeshua, and believe in your heart that G-d raised him from the dead,
you will be saved. 10:10For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
10:11For the Scripture
says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."
10:12For there is no
distinction between Yehudi and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
10:13For, "Whoever will call
on the name of the Lord will be saved." 10:14How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have
not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? 10:15And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of shalom,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
10:16But they didn't all
listen to the glad news. For Yesha`yahu says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
10:17So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
the word of G-d. 10:18But
I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most assuredly,
"Their sound went out into all the earth,
Their words to the ends of the world."
10:19But I ask, didn't
Yisra'el know? First Moshe says,
"I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation,
With a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."
10:20Yesha`yahu is very
bold, and says,
"I was found by those who didn't seek me.
I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."
10:21But as to Yisra'el he
says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
11:1I ask then, Did G-d
reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Yisra'elite, a descendant of Avraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.
11:2God didn't reject
his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Eliyah? How he pleads with G-d
against Yisra'el: 11:3"Lord,
they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."
11:4But how does G-d
answer him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Ba`al."
11:5Even so then at this
present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 11:6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise
grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
11:7What then? That which
Yisra'el seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
11:8According as it is written,
"God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very
day." 11:9David says,
"Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
A stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
11:10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.
Bow down their back always."
11:11I ask then, did they
stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Goyim, to provoke them to
jealousy. 11:12Now if
their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Goyim; how much more their fullness?
11:13For I speak to you who
are Goyim. Since then as I am an emissary to Goyim, I glorify my ministry; 11:14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my
flesh, and may save some of them. 11:15For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from
the dead? 11:16If the
first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:17But if some of the branches were broken
off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the
richness of the olive tree; 11:18don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports
you. 11:19You will say
then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." 11:20True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you
stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
11:21for if G-d didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
11:22See then the goodness and
severity of G-d. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness;
otherwise you also will be cut off. 11:23They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for G-d is able to graft them in
again. 11:24For if you
were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive
tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
11:25For I don't desire,
brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial
hardening has happened to Yisra'el, until the fullness of the Goyim has come in,
11:26and so all Yisra'el will be saved. Even as
it is written,
"There will come out of Tziyon the Deliverer,
And he will turn away ungodliness from Ya`akov.
11:27This is my covenant to them,
When I will take away their sins."
11:28Concerning the Good
News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
11:29For the gifts and the
calling of G-d are irrevocable. 11:30For as you in time past were disobedient to G-d, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
11:31even so these also have
now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
11:32For G-d has shut up all to disobedience,
that he might have mercy on all.
11:33Oh the depth
of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of G-d! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past
tracing out!
11:34"For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?"
11:35"Or who has first given to him,
And it will be repaid to him again?"
11:36For of him, and
through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amein.
12:1Therefore I urge you,
brothers, by the mercies of G-d, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to G-d, which is your
spiritual service. 12:2Don't
be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good,
well-pleasing, and perfect will of G-d. 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more
highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as G-d has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
12:4For even as we have
many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function, 12:5so we, who are many, are one body in Messiah, and
individually members one of another. 12:6Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according
to the proportion of our faith; 12:7or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
12:8or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who
gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
12:9Let love be without
hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. 12:10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to
another; in honor preferring one another; 12:11not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; 12:12rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing
steadfastly in prayer; 12:13contributing to the needs of the holy ones; given to hospitality. 12:14Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.
12:15Rejoice with those
who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble.
Don't be wise in your own conceits. 12:17Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
12:18If it is possible, as much as it is up to
you, be at shalom with all men. 12:19Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to G-d’s wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance
belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord." 12:20Therefore
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him.
If he is thirsty, give him a drink.
For in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."
12:21Don't be overcome by
evil, but overcome evil with good.
13:1Let every soul be in
subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from G-d, and those who exist are ordained by
G-d. 13:2Therefore he
who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of G-d; and those who withstand will receive to themselves
judgment. 13:3For rulers
are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is
good, and you will have praise from the same, 13:4for he is a servant of G-d to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't
bear the sword in vain; for he is a minister of G-d, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
13:5Therefore you need to be in
subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake. 13:6For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are ministers
of G-d’s service, attending continually on this very thing.
13:7Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due;
customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor. 13:8Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who
loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
13:9For the
mitzvot, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give
false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other mitzvot there are, are all summed up
in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 13:10Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the
fulfillment of the law. 13:11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now
nearer to us than when we first believed. 13:12The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put
on the armor of light. 13:13Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful
acts, and not in strife and jealousy. 13:14But put on the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
14:1Now receive one who is
weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. 14:2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
14:3Don't let him who eats despise him who
doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for G-d has received him.
14:4Who are you who judge another's servant? To
his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for G-d has power to make him stand.
14:5One man esteems one day
as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
14:6He who observes the day,
observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats
to the Lord, for he gives G-d thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives G-d thanks.
14:7For none of us lives to
himself, and none dies to himself. 14:8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are
the Lord's. 14:9For to
this end Messiah died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
14:10But you, why do you
judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of
Messiah. 14:11For it is
written,
"'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow.
Every tongue will confess to G-d.'"
14:12So then each one of us
will give account of himself to G-d. 14:13Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in
his brother's way, or an occasion for falling. 14:14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Yeshua, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who
considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
14:15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in
love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Messiah died. 14:16Then don't let your good be slandered,
14:17for the Kingdom of G-d is
not eating and drinking, but righteousness, shalom, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
14:18For he who serves Messiah in these things
is acceptable to G-d and approved by men. 14:19So then, let us follow after things which make for shalom, and things by which we may build one another up.
14:20Don't overthrow
G-d’s work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling
block by eating. 14:21It
is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
14:22Do you have faith?
Have it to yourself before G-d. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
14:23But he who doubts is
condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
14:24Now to him who is able
to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Yeshua the Messiah, according to the revelation of
the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages,
14:25but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to
the mitzvah of the eternal G-d, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;
14:26to the only wise G-d,
through Yeshua the Messiah, to whom be the glory forever! Amein.
15:1Now we who are strong
ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is
good, to be building him up. 15:3For even Messiah didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you
fell on me." 15:4For
whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement
of the Scriptures we might have hope. 15:5Now the G-d of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to
Messiah Yeshua, 15:6that
with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the G-d and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
15:7Therefore receive one
another, even as Messiah also received you, to the glory of G-d. 15:8Now I say that Messiah has been made a minister of the
circumcision for the truth of G-d, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
15:9and that the Goyim might glorify G-d for
his mercy. As it is written,
"Therefore will I give praise to you among the Goyim,
And sing to your name."
15:10Again he says,
"Rejoice, you Goyim, with his people."
15:11Again,
"Praise the Lord, all you Goyim!
Let all the peoples praise him."
15:12Again, Yesha`yahu
says,
"There will be the root of Yishai,
He who arises to rule over the Goyim;
On him will the Goyim hope."
15:13Now may the G-d of
hope fill you with all joy and shalom in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
15:14I myself am also
persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to
admonish others. 15:15But
I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by G-d,
15:16that I should be a
servant of Messiah Yeshua to the Goyim, ministering as a kohen the Good News of G-d, that the
offering up of the Goyim might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
15:17I have therefore my boasting in Messiah
Yeshua in things pertaining to G-d. 15:18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Messiah worked through me, for the obedience
of the Goyim, by word and deed, 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of G-d’s Spirit; so that from Yerushalayim, and around as
far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Messiah; 15:20yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where
Messiah was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation. 15:21But, as it is written,
"They will see, to whom no news of him came.
They who haven't heard will understand."
15:22Therefore also I was
hindered these many times from coming to you, 15:23but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,
15:24whenever I journey
to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first
I may enjoy your company for a while. 15:25But now, I say, I am going to Yerushalayim, serving the holy ones. 15:26For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia
to make a certain contribution for the poor among the holy ones who are at Yerushalayim.
15:27Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and
they are their debtors. For if the Goyim have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them
also to serve them in fleshly things. 15:28When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to
Spain. 15:29I know
that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Messiah.
15:30Now I beg you,
brothers, by our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your
prayers to G-d for me, 15:31that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Yehudah, and that my service which I have for
Yerushalayim may be acceptable to the holy ones; 15:32that I may come to you in joy through the will of G-d, and together with you, find rest.
15:33Now the G-d of shalom be
with you all. Amein.
16:1I commend to you Phoebe,
our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, 16:2that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the
holy ones, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper
of many, and of my own self.
16:3Greet Prisca and Aquila,
my fellow workers in Messiah Yeshua, 16:4who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of
the Goyim. 16:5Greet the
assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Messiah.
16:6Greet Miryam, who labored
much for us. 16:7Greet
Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the emissaries, who also were in
Messiah before me. 16:8Greet
Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. 16:9Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Messiah, and Stachys, my beloved.
16:10Greet Apelles, the approved in Messiah.
Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
16:11Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are
in the Lord. 16:12Greet
Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
16:13Greet Rufus, the chosen
in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 16:14Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.
16:15Greet Philologus and
Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy ones who are with them.
16:16Greet one another with a holy kiss. The
assemblies of Messiah greet you.
16:17Now I beg you,
brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine
which you learned, and turn away from them. 16:18For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, but their own belly; and by their smooth
and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. 16:19For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice
therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
16:20And the G-d of shalom
will quickly crush Hasatan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah be with you.
16:21Timothy, my fellow
worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
