among many brethren: 30 a holy spirit, (my conscience moreover, whom he foreordain-bearing me joint witness) 2 that ed, those he also called; and I have great sorrow and conti. whom he called, those he also nual grief in my heart, S (for justified, and whom he justified, I also formerly boasted myself those he also glorified. to be an alien from Christ,) for 31 What shall we say, there-the sake of my brethren, my fore, to these things? If God be kinsmen according to the flesh; for us, who can be against us? 4 who are Israelites; whose is 32 He who spared not his own the adoption, and the glory, Son, but delivered him up for and the covenants, and the givus all, how will he not, with ing of the law, and the service him, also freely give us all of the temple, and the promises; things? 33 Who shall lay any 5 whose are the fathers, and thing to the charge of God's of whom, by natural descent, chosen people? Shall God who Christ came. God, who is over justifieth? 34 Who is he that all, be blessed to the ages, condemneth? Shall Christ who Amen. died; yea, rather, who is [also] 6 BUT it is not to be suppos risen; who is [also] at the righted that the word of God hath hand of God; who also intercedeth for us; shall he also condemn us? failed. For they who spring from Israel are not all true Is raelites: 7 nor, because they are the offspring of Abraham, are they all the children of promise : shall be called." 8 That is, they who are children of the flesh, they are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the off spring. 9 For this is the word of promise, "At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall affliction, or distress, or perse-but, " In Isaac, thine offspring cution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? 36 (As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.") 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor- powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created being, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. CH. IX. 1 I SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, but I speak in son. 10 And not only this; but Rebecca also had the word of promise, when she had conceived twins by one, even by our father Isaac: 11 for the children being not yet born, nor having. done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to his choice, might stand, (not of works, but of Him who calleth,) 12 it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger." 13 As it is written, "I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau." 14 WHAT shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means. 15 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God who showeth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, "On this account I have preserved thee, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be proclaimed throughout all the earth." 18 So then he hath mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardeneth? 19 Thou wilt therefore say to me; Why doth he still blame us? for who resisteth his will? 20 [Nay, but,] O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, to make of the same lump one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour? 22 What now if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, have endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction 23 and have received us, that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, whom he before designed for glory; 24 even on us whom he hath called, not from among the Jews only, but from among the gentiles also? 25 As he saith also in Hosea, "I will call those my people, who were not my people: and her beloved, who was not beloved : 26 and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'Ye are not my people,' there they shall be called the sons of the living God." 27 Isaiah also crieth out concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant only shall be preserved. 28 For he is closing the account, and cutting it short in righteousness: because the Lord will make a short account in the land," 29 And as Isaiah hath foretold, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and had been made like Gomorrah." 30 WHAT shall we say then? That the nations, who followed not after justification, have attained to justification; that justification, however, which is by faith: 31 but Israel, who followed after a law of justification, hath not attained to the law [of justification.] 32 Why? because they have not sought it by faith, but as if it were by works [of the law: for] they have struck against the stone of stumbling; 33 as it is written, "Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence: and yet [whosoever] believeth in him shall not be ashamed." CH. X. 1 Brethren, the desire indeed of my heart, and my prayer to God for them is, that they may be saved. 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal towards God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For being ignorant of God's method of justification, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted themselves to the justification of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law, for justification, to every one who believeth. 5 For Moses describeth the justification which is by the law, "That the man who doth these things, shall live in them." of all is rich unto all who call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved." 14 How therefore shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 and how shall they preach, unless they be sent? as it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of peace, who bring glad tidings of good [things]!" 16 But all have not hearkened to the good news: for Isaiah saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report ?" 17 (Faith then indeed cometh from hearing; but the report, is through the word of God.) 18 But I say, Have not all heard? Yes, truly; "their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world." 19 But I say, Hath not Israel known this? First, Moses saith, "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a people, and by a nation void of understanding I will vex you." 20 But Isaiah useth great boldness, and saith, "I was found by those who sought me not: I was 6 But the justification which is by faith speaketh thus: "Say not in thy heart, who will ascend into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down from above :) 7 Or, "Who will descend into the abyss ?" (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart :" | (that is, the word of faith which we preach.) 9 For if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 (For with the heart, man believ-made manifest to those who eth to justification; and with the mouth, confession is made to salvation.) 11 For the scripture saith, "Whosoever believeth in him, shall not be ashamed." 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek but the same Lord asked not after me." 21 But to Israel he saith, "All the day long I have stretched forth my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people." CH. XI. 1 I SAY then, Hath God cast off his people? By no means. For I am also an Israelite; of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast off his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith by Elijah? how he addressed God against Israel, say. ing, 3 "Lord, they have killed thy prophets, [and] digged down thine altars; and I only am left, and they seek my life.” 4 But what saith the answer of God to him? "I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 5 In like manner then, at this present time also a part is left, according to the choice of the favour of God. 6 (And if by favour, then it is no more through works; otherwise favour is no more favour.) : riches of the world, and their failure, the riches of nations; how much more their fulness? 13 (For I speak to you gen tiles: and indeed, as I am the apostle of the gentiles, I honeur my ministry; 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.) 15 For if the rejecting of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 Now if the first fruits be holy, so likewise is the lump: and if the root be holy, so likewise are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou, being a wild olive-tree, have been grafted upon them, and with them have become partak 7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeker of the root and the fatness of eth for but the chosen have the olive-tree; boast not against obtained it, and the rest have the branches: 18 For why been blinded: 8 as it is written, shouldst thou boast; thou bearest "God hath given them the spi- not the root, but the root thee. rit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear," even to this day. 9 And David saith, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumb-standest by faith. Be not highling block, aud a recompense to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see; and bow down their back always." 19 Thou wilt say then, "The branches have been broken off, that I might be grafted in." 20 Well: because of unbelief, they have been broken off, and thou minded, but fear. 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, [perhaps] he may not spare thee. 22 Behold therefore the kindness and severity 11 I SAY then, Have they of God: severity indeed, to stumbled so as to fall? By nothose who have fallen; but means: but rather, on occa-kindness towards thee, if thou sion of their falling off, salvation is come to the gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if their falling off be the continue to improve that kindness: otherwise, Thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they continue not in unbelief, shall | ways not to be traced! 34 For be grafted in for God is able who hath known the mind of to graft them in again. 24 For if thou hast been cut out of the olive-tree, which is wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, grafted into a good olive-tree; how much more shall these, that are branches by nature, be grafted into their own olivetree? 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, (lest ye be wise in your own conceits,) that blindness in part hath happened to Israel, until the fulness of the gentiles be come in. 26 And so at length all Israel will be saved: as it is written, "A deliverer shall come out of Sion, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." 27 And, "This is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins." the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? 35 Or who hath first given to him; and it shall be given to him again? 36 For in him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be glory to the ages. Amen. CH. XII. 1 I BESEECH уоu, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living, holy, wellpleasing sacrifice to God, for such is your rational religious service, 2 and be not conformed to this age: but be transformed, by the renewing of [your] mind, so that ye may search out what is the good, and wellpleasing, and perfect will of God. 3 For I say, by the favour bestowed on me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every one his measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office; 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of an. other. 28 In relation to the gospel, they are enemies on your account: but in relation to the choice of God, they are objects of love on account of the fathers. 29 But the free gifts, and the choice of God, are unchanged. 30 For as ye, though formerly without faith in God, have now obtained mercy though their unbelief; 31 so they also now believe not, because of the mercy 6 Now having free gifts, difshown to you, that they like-fering according to the favour wise may be objects of mercy. 32 For God hath included all together in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his bestowed on us, whether prophecy, let us prophecy according to the proportion of our faith; 7 or ministry, let us attend on our ministry; or he who teach. eth, on teaching; 8 [or] he who exhorteth, on exhortation. He who giveth, let him do it with |