The Epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the ROMANS. Son Jesus Christ ourt Gr deter- of g Ac. 13. 33. i1 Co. 15.10. Ga. 1. 15. God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that P your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. 9 For a God is my witness, whom I Serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, thats without ceasing I make mention of you al ways in my prayers; 10 Making request, 4 And + declared Or, to the if by any means now to be the Son of God obedience of at length 1 might with power, accord faith. have a prosperous ing to the spirit of Ac. 6. 7. 1 Ac. 9. 15. journey by the will holiness, by the re-m1 Co. 1. 2. of God to come unto surrection from the n 1 Co. 1. 3. you. dead: o 1 Th. 1. 2. 5 By whom i wep 1 Th. 1. 8. have received grace q 2 Co. 1. 23. and apostleship, 1 for Ph. 1. 8. obedience k to the r Ac. 27. 23. faith among all na 9 in my tions, I for his name:"pirit, t Jno. 4 23. x ch. 15. 29. 6 Among whom are Ph. 3. 3. ye also the called ofs i Th. 3. 10. Jesus Christ: ch. 15. 23. 7 To all that be in Ja. 4. 15. Rome, beloved of God, m called to be saints: D Grace you and peace from to in you. y 2 Pe. I. 1. 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; 12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by y the mutual faith both of you and me. 13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes 2 I pur ROMANS I. of the Gentiles. A. D. 60. hath shewed it unto a Ac. 16. 7. Awful state posed to come unto you, (but a was let hitherto,) that I might have some b fruit tab Ph. 4. 17. mong you also, even † Or, in you. as among other Gen-c Co.9. 16. tiles. d Ps. 40. 9. 14 c I am debtor Mar. 8. 38. both to the Greeks, e1Co. 1. 18. and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. 15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for eit is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth ; fto f & 15. 2. Lu. 24. 47. Ac. 3. 26. g ch. 3. 21. h Ga. 3. 11. He. 10.38. i Ac. 17. 30. Ep. 5. 6. k tor, to them. 1 Jno. 1.9. Ac. 14. 17. $ Or, that the Jew first, and also they may be. to the Greek. 17 For 8 therein is the righteousness of of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. n2 Ki.17.15. Ep. 4. 17. Je. 2. 11. Ps. 81. 12. Ac. 7. 42. 18 For the wrath of God is revealed a from heaven against all ungodliness and Ep. 4. 18. unrighteousness men, who hold the truth in unrighteous ness; 2Th. 2. 11. of r1 Co. 6. 18. 19 Because k that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God t 1 Th. 1. 9. u Is. 44. 20. them. 20 For visible things of him m the infrom the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead; so that they are without ex cuse : that, and heart 21 Because when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were came vain in their thankful; but n beimaginations, their foolish was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible P God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 9 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies & between themselves: 25 Who Je. 10. 14. into a lie, and worshipped and served 22, 23. unto vile affections: y Wis. 14. tural ture: na likewise Or, a mind void of judg ment. z Ep. 5. 4. a ch. 2. 2. b ch. 6. 21. 27 And also the men, leaving ++ Or, unsothe natural use of the ciable. woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that Or,consent which is unseemly, with them. and receiving in Ho. 7. 3. themselves that re- Ps. 50. 18. compence of their a ch. 1. 20. error which meet. was b 2 Sa. 12. 5. Ma. 7. 1, 2. Jno, S. 9. c ch. 9. 23. Ep. 1. 7. 28 y And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a re-ver. 32probate mind, to do Profane those things z which writers also are not convenient; add their testimony, 29 Being filled with that the heaall unrighteousness, then lawfornication, wicked-givers sancness, covetousness; vices by their 32 Who a knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things bare worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.* CHAP. II. 1 THEREFORE thou art a inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: "for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. that 3 And thinkest thou tioned these this, O man, maliciousness; full public insti- judgest thein which of envy, murder, de- tutions of re- do such things, and bate, deceit, maligni- ligion, by ty; whisperers, their avowed 30 Backbiters, hat- doctrine, & by their own. ers of God, despite-practice. ful, proud, boasters, doest the same, that The testimony d ch. 3. 25. ROMANS II. goodness and d for- A. D. 60. bearance and longsuffering; fnot knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? Ex. 34. 6. f Is. 30. 18. 2 Pe. 3.9. 5 But after thy hard-g Ja. 5. 3. ness and impenitenth heart s treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judg-+ Gr. Greek. ment of God; i 2 Th. 1. 8. k 1 Pe. 4. 17. 6b Who will render 11 Pe. 1.7. to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, e-t ternal life : Gr. Greek. mAc. 10. 34. Col. 3. 25. 1 Pe.1.17. Ma. 7. 21. Ja.1.22.25. 1 Jno. 3.7. $ Or, the conscience 8 But unto them witnessing that are contentious, with them. and i do not obey the ft Or, betruth, but obey un-tween themrighteousness, indig-selves. nation and wrath, o Jno. 12. 48. 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every P soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, k and also of the Gentile; 1 Co. 4. 5. Jno. 5. 22. 2 Ti. 4. 1 Pe. 4. 5. r Jno. S. 33. 2 Co. 11. 22. 10 But glory, honour, and peace, tos Mi. 3. 11. every man that work-t Is. 45. 25. eth good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile; t u De. 4. 8. Or, triest the things that differ. 11 Form there is no respect of personsx Ph. 1. 10. with God. of conscience. 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For n not the hearers of the law are Just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. Gentiles, which have 14 For when the not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16 • In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by P Jesus Christ a according to my gospel. 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restests in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And u knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excel of hast Jno. 9. 34. 40, 41. z ch. 6. 17. 2 Ti. 1. 13. & 3. 5. babes, z which a Ps. 50. 16. the form of Ma. 23. 3. not available. made sion. thy circumcision is uncircumci 26 Therefore fif the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which knowledge and of b Mal. 3. 8. is by nature, if it e ver. 17. d 2 Sa. 12. fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the 14. the truth in the law. 21 a Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest should not steal, dost e Ga. 5. 3. thou steal? a man 22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery thou that abhorrest idols, b dost thou commit sacrilege? 23. f Ac. 10. 34, 35. 23 Thou that mak-i 1 Pe. 3. 4. est thy boast of the law, through break. ing the law dishonourest thou God? Ph. 3. 3. 1 ch. 7. 6. 2 Co. 3. 6. 24 For the name of God is blasphemed m1 Co. 4. 5. among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.d 2 Co. 10. 18. 1 Th. 2. 4. 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one neither outwardly; is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and k circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; m whose praise is not of men, but of God. CHAP. III. 1 WHAT advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto a them were committed the oracles of God. |