³For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.

⁴That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

⁵For they that are according to the flesh mind the things that are of the flesh: but they that are according to the spirit mind the things that are of the spirit.

⁶For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.

⁷Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be.

⁸And they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

¹⁰And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

¹¹And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you; he that raised up Jesus Christ, from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

¹²Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.

¹³For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

¹⁴For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

¹⁵For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear: but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father).

¹⁶For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.

¹⁷And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

¹⁸For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come that shall be revealed in us.

¹⁹For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

²⁰For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope.

²¹Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

²²For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now.

²³And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.

²⁴For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?

²⁵But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

²⁶Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity. For, we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself asketh for us with unspeakable groanings,

²⁷And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what the Spirit desireth: because he asketh for the saints according to God.

²⁸And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

²⁹For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

³⁰And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also glorified.

³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

³²He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

³³Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

³⁴Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

³⁵Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?

³⁶(As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

³⁷But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.

³⁸For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,

³⁹Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Chapter 9

I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:

²That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.

³For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:

⁴Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

⁵Whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all things, God blessed for ever. Amen.

⁶Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.

⁷Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

⁸That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are the children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

⁹For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come. And Sara shall have a son.

¹⁰And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of Isaac our father.

¹¹For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand):

¹²Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.

¹³As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated.

¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid!

¹⁵For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.

¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

¹⁷For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

¹⁸Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he hardeneth.

¹⁹Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?

²⁰O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

²¹Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?

²²What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

²³That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?

²⁴Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles.

²⁵As in Osee he saith: I will call that which was not my people, my people; and her that was not beloved, beloved; and her that had not obtained mercy; one that hath obtained mercy.

²⁶And it shalt be in the place where it was said unto them: you are not my people; there they shall be called the sons of the living God.

²⁷And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

²⁸For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

²⁹And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.

³⁰What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith.

³¹But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

³²Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.

³³As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

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