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+<book name='Romans' permalink='romans' id='45'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,  separated unto the gospel of God,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy  scriptures,)</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of  the seed of David according to the flesh;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to  the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for  obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints:  Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that  your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the  gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in  my prayers;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a  prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some  spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the  mutual faith both of you and me.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes  I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have  some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both  to the wise, and to the unwise.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to  you that are at Rome also.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the  power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew  first, and also to the Greek.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith  to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all  ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in  unrighteousness;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;  for God hath shewed it unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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; so that they are without excuse:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as  God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and  their foolish heart was darkened.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image  made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and  creeping things.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the  lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between  themselves:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and  served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.  Amen.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for  even their women did change the natural use into that which is against  nature:</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the  woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working  that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of  their error which was meet.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And even as they did not like to retain God in their  knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things  which are not convenient;</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,  wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate,  deceit, malignity; whisperers,</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters,  inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural  affection, implacable, unmerciful:</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such  things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in  them that do them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art  that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest  thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to  truth against them which commit such things.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do  such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of  God?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance  and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to  repentance?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up  unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the  righteous judgment of God;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Who will render to every man according to his deeds:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for  glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the  truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth  evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh  good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For there is no respect of persons with God.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the  doers of the law shall be justified.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature  the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law  unto themselves:</verse>
+    <verse no='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;)</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus  Christ according to my gospel.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and  makest thy boast of God,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more  excellent, being instructed out of the law;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the  blind, a light of them which are in darkness,</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast  the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not  thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou  commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the  law dishonourest thou God?</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through  you, as it is written.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but  if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made  uncircumcision.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of  the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it  fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost  transgress the law?</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that  circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is  that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise  is not of men, but of God.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='1'>What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of  circumcision?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were  committed the oracles of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make  the faith of God without effect?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as  it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and  mightest overcome when thou art judged.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God,  what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as  a man)</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie  unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some  affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose  damnation is just.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we  have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh  after God.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>They are all gone out of the way, they are together become  unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they  have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Their feet are swift to shed blood:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Destruction and misery are in their ways:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the way of peace have they not known:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>There is no fear of God before their eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith  to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all  the world may become guilty before God.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But now the righteousness of God without the law is  manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus  Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no  difference:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption  that is in Christ Jesus:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith  in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins  that are past, through the forbearance of God;</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he  might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of  works? Nay: but by the law of faith.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith  without the deeds of the law.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the  Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision  by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,  we establish the law.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as  pertaining to the flesh, hath found?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to  glory; but not before God.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it  was counted unto him for righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace,  but of debt.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that  justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man,  unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and  whose sins are covered.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or  upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to  Abraham for righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in  uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the  righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that  he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not  circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the  circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our  father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world,  was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the  righteousness of faith.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made  void, and the promise made of none effect:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is  no transgression.</verse>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many  nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the  dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the  father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall  thy seed be.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body  now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the  deadness of Sarah's womb:</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but  was strong in faith, giving glory to God;</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was  able also to perform.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was  imputed to him;</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe  on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for  our justification.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God  through our Lord Jesus Christ:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein  we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing  that tribulation worketh patience;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And patience, experience; and experience, hope:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed  abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ  died for the ungodly.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet  peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we  were yet sinners, Christ died for us.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall  be saved from wrath through him.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by  the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by  his life.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord  Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and  death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have  sinned:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not  imputed when there is no law.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over  them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,  who is the figure of him that was to come.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if  through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God,  and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded  unto many.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 is of many  offences unto justification.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more  they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness  shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all  men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift  came upon all men unto justification of life.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so  by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But  where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace  reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='1'>What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace  may abound?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any  longer therein?</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus  Christ were baptized into his death?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that  like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,  even so we also should walk in newness of life.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his  death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that  the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve  sin.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For he that is dead is freed from sin.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also  live with him:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no  more; death hath no more dominion over him.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he  liveth, he liveth unto God.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto  sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye  should obey it in the lusts thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Neither yield ye your members as instruments of  unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that  are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of  righteousness unto God.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not  under the law, but under grace.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law,  but under grace? God forbid.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to  obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death,  or of obedience unto righteousness?</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye  have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered  you.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of  righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants  to righteousness unto holiness.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from  righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now  ashamed? for the end of those things is death.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But now being made free from sin, and become servants to  God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is  eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the  law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to  her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is  loosed from the law of her husband.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to  another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be  dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though  she be married to another man.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law  by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to  him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto  God.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which  were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto  death.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead  wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and  not in the oldness of the letter.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I  had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the  law had said, Thou shalt not covet.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me  all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For I was alive without the law once: but when the  commandment came, sin revived, and I died.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to  be unto death.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me,  and by it slew me.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and  just, and good.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid.  But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is  good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold  under sin.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I  not; but what I hate, that do I.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law  that it is good.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth  in me.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no  good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that  which is good I find not.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I  would not, that I do.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it,  but sin that dwelleth in me.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is  present with me.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But I see another law in my members, warring against the law  of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is  in my members.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body  of this death?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the  mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='1'>There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in  Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made  me free from the law of sin and death.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For 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  for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,  who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the  flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually  minded is life and peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not  subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But ye are not in the flesh, but in 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin;  but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead  dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken  your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to  live after the flesh.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye  through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the  sons of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to  fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,  Abba, Father.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we  are the children of God:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs  with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also  glorified together.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are  not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the  manifestation of the sons of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly,  but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the  bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth  in pain together until now.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the  firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,  waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:  for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience  wait for it.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we  know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself  maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of  the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to  the will of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And we know that all things work together for good to them  that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be  conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among  many brethren.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and  whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he  also glorified.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us,  who can be against us?</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us  all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is  God that justifieth.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea  rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who  also maketh intercession for us.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall  tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or  peril, or sword?</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day  long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through  him that loved us.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor  angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things  to come,</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>Nor 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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='1'>I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also  bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my  heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for  my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the  glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of  God, and the promises;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh  Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For  they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all  children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are  not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted  for the seed.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come,  and Sarah shall have a son.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by  one, even by our father Isaac;</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>(For the children being not yet born, neither having done  any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might  stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?  God forbid.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have  mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that  runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same  purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and  that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom  he will he hardeneth.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For  who hath resisted his will?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?  Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me  thus?</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to  make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his  power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath  fitted to destruction:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the  vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also  of the Gentiles?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which  were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was  said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the  children of the living God.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of  the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be  saved:</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>For he will finish the work, and cut it short in  righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had  left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto  Gomorrha.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed  not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the  righteousness which is of faith.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,  hath not attained to the law of righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it  were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and  rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='1'>Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is,  that they might be saved.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not  according to knowledge.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going  about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted  themselves unto the righteousness of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every  one that believeth.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law,  That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this  wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is,  to bring Christ down from above:)</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up  Christ again from the dead.)</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,  and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the  dead, thou shalt be saved.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and  with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall  not be ashamed.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:  for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be  saved.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>How then 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?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is  written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of  peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith,  Lord, who hath believed our report?</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of  God.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went  into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will  provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish  nation I will anger you.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that  sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth  my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='11'>
+    <verse no='1'>I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I  also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye  not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to  God against Israel saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine  altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved  to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image  of Baal.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant  according to the election of grace.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise  grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more  grace: otherwise work is no more work.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh  for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit  of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should  not hear;) unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a  trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow  down their back alway.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God  forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the  Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the  diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their  fulness?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of  the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my  flesh, and might save some of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the  world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if  the root be holy, so are the branches.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a  wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of  the root and fatness of the olive tree;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou  bearest not the root, but the root thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I  might be graffed in.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou  standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest  he also spare not thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them  which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in  his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be  graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by  nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how  much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into  their own olive tree?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of  this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that  blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the  Gentiles be come in.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There  shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness  from Jacob:</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away  their sins.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes:  but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now  obtained mercy through their unbelief:</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Even so have these also now not believed, that through your  mercy they also may obtain mercy.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might  have mercy upon all.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge  of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding  out!</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been  his counsellor?</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed  unto him again?</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to  whom be glory for ever. Amen.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='12'>
+    <verse no='1'>I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,  that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto  God, which is your reasonable service.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by  the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and  acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man  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 man  the measure of faith.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For as we have many members in one body, and all members  have not the same office:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one  members one of another.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is  given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the  proportion of faith;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that  teacheth, on teaching;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let  him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that  sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil;  cleave to that which is good.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in  honour preferring one another;</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the  Lord;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing  instant in prayer;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to  hospitality.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that  weep.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high  things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own  conceits.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in  the sight of all men.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably  with all men.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place  unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith  the Lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst,  give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his  head.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='13'>
+    <verse no='1'>Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there  is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the  ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves  damnation.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.  Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and  thou shalt have praise of the same:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou  do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain:  for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him  that doeth evil.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but  also for conscience sake.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's  ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute  is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom  honour.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that  loveth another hath fulfilled the law.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not  kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou  shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly  comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as  thyself.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the  fulfilling of the law.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to  awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we  believed.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore  cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and  drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and  envying.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision  for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='14'>
+    <verse no='1'>Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to  doubtful disputations.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who  is weak, eateth herbs.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let  not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own  master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is  able to make him stand.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth  every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and  he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He  that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that  eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to  himself.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we  die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are  the Lord's.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived,  that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at  nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of  Christ.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee  shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>So then every one of us shall give account of himself to  God.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge  this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in  his brother's way.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is  nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be  unclean, to him it is unclean.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest  thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ  died.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Let not then your good be evil spoken of:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but  righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to  God, and approved of men.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Let us therefore follow after the things which make for  peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are  pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any  thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he  that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth  not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='15'>
+    <verse no='1'>We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the  weak, and not to please ourselves.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to  edification.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written,  The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written  for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the  scriptures might have hope.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be  likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even  the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us  to the glory of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the  circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto  the fathers:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it  is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles,  and sing unto thy name.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him,  all ye people.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and  he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the  Gentiles trust.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in  believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy  Ghost.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye  also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to  admonish one another.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto  you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is  given to me of God,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the  Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the  Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in  those things which pertain to God.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which  Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word  and deed,</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit  of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have  fully preached the gospel of Christ.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where  Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they  shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming  to you.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But now having no more place in these parts, and having a  great desire these many years to come unto you;</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you:  for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way  thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a  certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For  if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things,  their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to  them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in  the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's  sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me  in your prayers to God for me;</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in  Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted  of the saints;</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and  may with you be refreshed.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='16'>
+    <verse no='1'>I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of  the church which is at Cenchrea:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and  that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she  hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom  not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my  well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my  fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in  Christ before me.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of  Aristobulus' household.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the  household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute  the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and  the brethren which are with them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and  Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ  salute you.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions  and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but  their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts  of the simple.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad  therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which  is good, and simple concerning evil.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet  shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and  Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you.  Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a  brother.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my  gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation  of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the  prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made  known to all nations for the obedience of faith:</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever.  Amen.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>