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+<!DOCTYPE crossway-bible SYSTEM "schema/crossway.bibles.dtd">
+<crossway-bible translation="English Standard Version" revision="2006-10-26" xmlns="http://www.crosswaybibles.org" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="schema/crossway.bibles.xsd"> 
+<book title="Romans" num="45">
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001001"/>
+  <chapter num="1">
+    <heading>Greeting</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Paul, <crossref let="a" cid="c45001001.1"/>a servant<note nid="n45001001.1"/> of Christ Jesus, <crossref let="b" cid="c45001001.2"/>called to be an apostle, <crossref let="c" cid="c45001001.3"/>set apart for the gospel of God,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001002"/>
+    <verse num="2">which <crossref let="d" cid="c45001002.1"/>he promised beforehand <crossref let="e" cid="c45001002.2"/>through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001003"/>
+    <verse num="3">concerning his Son, <crossref let="f" cid="c45001003.1"/>who was descended from David<note nid="n45001003.1"/> <crossref let="g" cid="c45001003.2"/>according to the flesh</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001004"/>
+    <verse num="4">and <crossref let="h" cid="c45001004.1"/>was declared to be the Son of God <crossref let="i" cid="c45001004.2"/>in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001005"/>
+    <verse num="5">through whom <crossref let="j" cid="c45001005.1"/>we have received grace and <crossref let="k" cid="c45001005.2"/>apostleship <crossref let="l" cid="c45001005.3"/>to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name <crossref let="m" cid="c45001005.4"/>among all the nations,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001006"/>
+    <verse num="6">including you who are <crossref let="n" cid="c45001006.1"/>called to belong to Jesus Christ,</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/><crossref let="o" cid="c45001007.1"/>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001008"/>
+    <heading>Longing to Go to Rome</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">First, <crossref let="p" cid="c45001008.1"/>I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, <crossref let="q" cid="c45001008.2"/>because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="r" cid="c45001009.1"/>For God is my witness, <crossref let="s" cid="c45001009.2"/>whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, <crossref let="t" cid="c45001009.3"/>that without ceasing I mention you</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001010"/>
+    <verse num="10">always in my prayers, asking that somehow <crossref let="u" cid="c45001010.1"/>by God&apos;s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001011"/>
+    <verse num="11">For <crossref let="v" cid="c45001011.1"/>I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001012"/>
+    <verse num="12">that is, that we may be mutually encouraged <crossref let="w" cid="c45001012.1"/>by each other&apos;s faith, both yours and mine.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001013"/>
+    <verse num="13">I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,<note nid="n45001013.1"/> that <crossref let="x" cid="c45001013.1"/>I have often intended to come to you (but <crossref let="y" cid="c45001013.2"/>thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some <crossref let="z" cid="c45001013.3"/>harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="a" cid="c45001014.1"/>I am under obligation both to Greeks and to <crossref let="b" cid="c45001014.2"/>barbarians,<note nid="n45001014.1"/> both to the wise and to the foolish.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001015"/>
+    <verse num="15">So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001016"/>
+    <heading>The Righteous Shall Live by Faith</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">For <crossref let="d" cid="c45001016.1"/>I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is <crossref let="e" cid="c45001016.2"/>the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew <crossref let="f" cid="c45001016.3"/>first and also to <crossref let="g" cid="c45001016.4"/>the Greek.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001017"/>
+    <verse num="17">For in it <crossref let="h" cid="c45001017.1"/>the righteousness of God is revealed <crossref let="i" cid="c45001017.2"/>from faith for faith,<note nid="n45001017.1"/> <crossref let="j" cid="c45001017.3"/><crossref cid="t45001017.1"/>as it is written, <q class="begin-double" qid="45001017.1" from="45001017.1" to="45001017.2"/>The righteous shall live by faith.<q class="end-double" qid="45001017.2" from="45001017.1" to="45001017.2"/><note nid="n45001017.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001018"/>
+    <heading>God&apos;s Wrath on Unrighteousness</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">For <crossref let="k" cid="c45001018.1"/>the wrath of God <crossref let="l" cid="c45001018.2"/>is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001019"/>
+    <verse num="19">For what can be <crossref let="m" cid="c45001019.1"/>known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001020"/>
+    <verse num="20">For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, <crossref let="n" cid="c45001020.1"/>have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,<note nid="n45001020.1"/> in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001021"/>
+    <verse num="21">For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they <crossref let="o" cid="c45001021.1"/>became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="p" cid="c45001022.1"/>Claiming to be wise, they became fools,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001023"/>
+    <verse num="23">and <crossref let="q" cid="c45001023.1"/>exchanged the glory of <crossref let="r" cid="c45001023.2"/>the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">Therefore <crossref let="s" cid="c45001024.1"/>God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to <crossref let="t" cid="c45001024.2"/>the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001025"/>
+    <verse num="25">because they exchanged the truth about God for <crossref let="u" cid="c45001025.1"/>a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, <crossref let="v" cid="c45001025.2"/>who is blessed forever! Amen.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">For this reason <crossref let="w" cid="c45001026.1"/>God gave them up to <crossref let="x" cid="c45001026.2"/>dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001027"/>
+    <verse num="27">and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, <crossref let="y" cid="c45001027.1"/>men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001028"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="28">And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, <crossref let="z" cid="c45001028.1"/>God gave them up to <crossref let="a" cid="c45001028.2"/>a debased mind to do <crossref let="b" cid="c45001028.3"/>what ought not to be done.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001029"/>
+    <verse num="29">They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001030"/>
+    <verse num="30">slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001031"/>
+    <verse num="31">foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45001032"/>
+    <verse num="32">Though they know <crossref let="c" cid="c45001032.1"/>God&apos;s righteous decree that those who practice such things <crossref let="d" cid="c45001032.2"/>deserve to die, they not only do them but <crossref let="e" cid="c45001032.3"/>give approval to those who practice them.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002001"/>
+  <chapter num="2">
+    <heading>God&apos;s Righteous Judgment</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Therefore you have <crossref let="f" cid="c45002001.1"/>no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For <crossref let="g" cid="c45002001.2"/>in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002002"/>
+    <verse num="2">We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Do you suppose, O man&emdash;you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself&emdash;that you will escape the judgment of God?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Or do you presume on <crossref let="h" cid="c45002004.1"/>the riches of his kindness and <crossref let="i" cid="c45002004.2"/>forbearance and <crossref let="j" cid="c45002004.3"/>patience, <crossref let="k" cid="c45002004.4"/>not knowing that God&apos;s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002005"/>
+    <verse num="5">But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are <crossref let="l" cid="c45002005.1"/>storing up <crossref let="m" cid="c45002005.2"/>wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God&apos;s righteous judgment will be revealed.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="n" cid="c45002006.1"/>He will render to each one according to his works:</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002007"/>
+    <verse num="7">to those who <crossref let="o" cid="c45002007.1"/>by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002008"/>
+    <verse num="8">but for those who are self-seeking<note nid="n45002008.1"/> and <crossref let="p" cid="c45002008.1"/>do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002009"/>
+    <verse num="9">There will be tribulation and distress <crossref let="q" cid="c45002009.1"/>for every human being who does evil, the Jew <crossref let="r" cid="c45002009.2"/>first and also the Greek,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002010"/>
+    <verse num="10">but glory and honor and <crossref let="s" cid="c45002010.1"/>peace for everyone who does good, <crossref let="t" cid="c45002010.2"/>the Jew first and also the Greek.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002011"/>
+    <verse num="11">For <crossref let="u" cid="c45002011.1"/>God shows no partiality.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002012"/>
+    <heading>God&apos;s Judgment and the Law</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">For all who have sinned <crossref let="v" cid="c45002012.1"/>without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002013"/>
+    <verse num="13">For <crossref let="w" cid="c45002013.1"/>it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002014"/>
+    <verse num="14">For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, <crossref let="x" cid="c45002014.1"/>by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002015"/>
+    <verse num="15">They show that the work of the law is <crossref let="y" cid="c45002015.1"/>written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="z" cid="c45002016.1"/>on that day when, <crossref let="a" cid="c45002016.2"/>according to my gospel, God judges <crossref let="b" cid="c45002016.3"/>the secrets of men <crossref let="c" cid="c45002016.4"/>by Christ Jesus.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">But if you call yourself a Jew and <crossref let="d" cid="c45002017.1"/>rely on the law and boast in God</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002018"/>
+    <verse num="18">and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002019"/>
+    <verse num="19">and if you are sure that you yourself are <crossref let="e" cid="c45002019.1"/>a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002020"/>
+    <verse num="20">an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law <crossref let="f" cid="c45002020.1"/>the embodiment of <crossref let="g" cid="c45002020.2"/>knowledge and truth&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="h" cid="c45002021.1"/>you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002022"/>
+    <verse num="22">You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you <crossref let="i" cid="c45002022.1"/>rob temples?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002023"/>
+    <verse num="23">You who <crossref let="j" cid="c45002023.1"/>boast in the law <crossref let="k" cid="c45002023.2"/>dishonor God by breaking the law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002024"/>
+    <verse num="24">For, <crossref let="l" cid="c45002024.1"/><crossref cid="t45002024.1"/>as it is written, <q class="begin-double" qid="45002024.1" from="45002024.1" to="45002024.2"/>The name of God is blasphemed <crossref let="m" cid="c45002024.2"/>among the Gentiles because of you.<q class="end-double" qid="45002024.2" from="45002024.1" to="45002024.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002025"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="25">For circumcision indeed is of value <crossref let="n" cid="c45002025.1"/>if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002026"/>
+    <verse num="26">So, if <crossref let="o" cid="c45002026.1"/>a man who is uncircumcised keeps <crossref let="p" cid="c45002026.2"/>the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded<note nid="n45002026.1"/> as circumcision?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002027"/>
+    <verse num="27">Then he who is physically<note nid="n45002027.1"/> uncircumcised but keeps the law <crossref let="q" cid="c45002027.1"/>will condemn you who have <crossref let="r" cid="c45002027.2"/>the written code<note nid="n45002027.2"/> and circumcision but break the law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002028"/>
+    <verse num="28">For <crossref let="s" cid="c45002028.1"/>no one is a Jew <crossref let="t" cid="c45002028.2"/>who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45002029"/>
+    <verse num="29">But a Jew is one <crossref let="u" cid="c45002029.1"/>inwardly, and <crossref let="v" cid="c45002029.2"/>circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. <crossref let="w" cid="c45002029.3"/>His praise is not from man but from God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003001"/>
+  <chapter num="3">
+    <heading>God&apos;s Righteousness Upheld</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Much in every way. To begin with, <crossref let="x" cid="c45003002.1"/>the Jews were entrusted with <crossref let="y" cid="c45003002.2"/>the oracles of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="z" cid="c45003003.1"/>What if some were unfaithful? <crossref let="a" cid="c45003003.2"/>Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003004"/>
+    <verse num="4">By no means! <crossref let="b" cid="c45003004.1"/>Let God be true though <crossref let="c" cid="c45003004.2"/>every one were a liar, as it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="d" cid="c45003004.3"/><crossref cid="t45003004.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45003004.1" from="45003004.1" to="45003004.2"/>That you may be justified in your words,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and prevail when you <crossref let="e" cid="c45003004.4"/>are judged.<q class="end-double" qid="45003004.2" from="45003004.1" to="45003004.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="5">But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict <crossref let="f" cid="c45003005.1"/>wrath on us? (<crossref let="g" cid="c45003005.2"/>I speak in a human way.)</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003006"/>
+    <verse num="6">By no means! For then how could <crossref let="h" cid="c45003006.1"/>God judge the world?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003007"/>
+    <verse num="7">But if through my lie God&apos;s truth abounds to his glory, <crossref let="i" cid="c45003007.1"/>why am I still being condemned as a sinner?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And why not <crossref let="j" cid="c45003008.1"/>do evil that good may come?&emdash;as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003009"/>
+    <heading>No One Is Righteous</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">What then? Are we Jews<note nid="n45003009.1"/> any better off?<note nid="n45003009.2"/> No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both <crossref let="k" cid="c45003009.1"/>Jews and <crossref let="l" cid="c45003009.2"/>Greeks, are <crossref let="m" cid="c45003009.3"/>under sin,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003010"/>
+    <verse num="10">as it is written:
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="n" cid="c45003010.1"/><crossref cid="t45003010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45003010.1" from="45003010.1" to="45003012.1"/>None is righteous, no, not one;<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003011"/>
+    <verse num="11">
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>no one understands;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>no one seeks for God.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003012"/>
+    <verse num="12">
+        <begin-line/>All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>no one does good,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>not even one.<q class="end-double" qid="45003012.1" from="45003010.1" to="45003012.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003013"/>
+    <verse num="13">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="o" cid="c45003013.1"/><crossref cid="t45003013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45003013.1" from="45003013.1" to="45003013.2"/>Their throat is <crossref let="p" cid="c45003013.2"/>an open grave;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>they use their tongues to deceive.<q class="end-double" qid="45003013.2" from="45003013.1" to="45003013.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="q" cid="c45003013.3"/><crossref cid="t45003013.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45003013.3" from="45003013.3" to="45003013.4"/>The venom of asps is under their lips.<q class="end-double" qid="45003013.4" from="45003013.3" to="45003013.4"/><end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003014"/>
+    <verse num="14">
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="r" cid="c45003014.1"/><crossref cid="t45003014.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45003014.1" from="45003014.1" to="45003014.2"/>Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.<q class="end-double" qid="45003014.2" from="45003014.1" to="45003014.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003015"/>
+    <verse num="15">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="s" cid="c45003015.1"/><crossref cid="t45003015.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45003015.1" from="45003015.1" to="45003017.1"/>Their feet are swift to shed blood;<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003016"/>
+    <verse num="16">
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>in their paths are ruin and misery,<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003017"/>
+    <verse num="17">
+        <begin-line/>and <crossref let="t" cid="c45003017.1"/>the way of peace they have not known.<q class="end-double" qid="45003017.1" from="45003015.1" to="45003017.1"/><end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003018"/>
+    <verse num="18">
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="u" cid="c45003018.1"/><crossref cid="t45003018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45003018.1" from="45003018.1" to="45003018.2"/>There is no fear of God before their eyes.<q class="end-double" qid="45003018.2" from="45003018.1" to="45003018.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">Now we know that whatever <crossref let="v" cid="c45003019.1"/>the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, <crossref let="w" cid="c45003019.2"/>so that every mouth may be stopped, and <crossref let="x" cid="c45003019.3"/>the whole world may be held accountable to God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003020"/>
+    <verse num="20">For <crossref let="y" cid="c45003020.1"/>by works of the law no human being<note nid="n45003020.1"/> will be justified in his sight, since <crossref let="z" cid="c45003020.2"/>through the law comes knowledge of sin.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003021"/>
+    <heading>The Righteousness of God Through Faith</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">But now <crossref let="a" cid="c45003021.1"/>the righteousness of God <crossref let="b" cid="c45003021.2"/>has been manifested apart from the law, although <crossref let="c" cid="c45003021.3"/>the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003022"/>
+    <verse num="22">the righteousness of God <crossref let="d" cid="c45003022.1"/>through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. <crossref let="e" cid="c45003022.2"/>For there is no distinction:</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003023"/>
+    <verse num="23">for <crossref let="f" cid="c45003023.1"/>all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003024"/>
+    <verse num="24"><crossref let="g" cid="c45003024.1"/>and are justified <crossref let="h" cid="c45003024.2"/>by his grace as a gift, <crossref let="i" cid="c45003024.3"/>through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003025"/>
+    <verse num="25">whom God <crossref let="j" cid="c45003025.1"/>put forward as <crossref let="k" cid="c45003025.2"/>a propitiation <crossref let="l" cid="c45003025.3"/>by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God&apos;s righteousness, because in <crossref let="m" cid="c45003025.4"/>his divine forbearance he had passed over <crossref let="n" cid="c45003025.5"/>former sins.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003026"/>
+    <verse num="26">It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003027"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27"><crossref let="o" cid="c45003027.1"/>Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003028"/>
+    <verse num="28">For we hold that one is justified by faith <crossref let="p" cid="c45003028.1"/>apart from works of the law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Or <crossref let="q" cid="c45003029.1"/>is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003030"/>
+    <verse num="30">since <crossref let="r" cid="c45003030.1"/>God is one&emdash;who will justify the circumcised by faith and <crossref let="s" cid="c45003030.2"/>the uncircumcised through faith.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45003031"/>
+    <verse num="31">Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004001"/>
+  <chapter num="4">
+    <heading>Abraham Justified by Faith</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, <crossref let="t" cid="c45004001.1"/>our forefather according to the flesh?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004002"/>
+    <verse num="2">For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but <crossref let="u" cid="c45004002.1"/>not before God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004003"/>
+    <verse num="3">For what does the Scripture say? <crossref let="v" cid="c45004003.1"/><crossref cid="t45004003.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45004003.1" from="45004003.1" to="45004003.2"/>Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.<q class="end-double" qid="45004003.2" from="45004003.1" to="45004003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Now <crossref let="w" cid="c45004004.1"/>to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And to the one who does not work but <crossref let="x" cid="c45004005.1"/>believes in<note nid="n45004005.1"/> him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004006"/>
+    <verse num="6">just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004007"/>
+    <begin-block-indent/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="7">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="y" cid="c45004007.1"/><crossref cid="t45004007.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45004007.1" from="45004007.1" to="45004008.1"/>Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and whose sins are covered;<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004008"/>
+    <verse num="8">
+        <begin-line/>blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not <crossref let="z" cid="c45004008.1"/>count his sin.<q class="end-double" qid="45004008.1" from="45004007.1" to="45004008.1"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">Is this blessing then only for <crossref let="a" cid="c45004009.1"/>the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? <crossref let="b" cid="c45004009.2"/>For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004010"/>
+    <verse num="10">How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="c" cid="c45004011.1"/>He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was <crossref let="d" cid="c45004011.2"/>to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004012"/>
+    <verse num="12">and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004013"/>
+    <heading>The Promise Realized Through Faith</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">For <crossref let="e" cid="c45004013.1"/>the promise to Abraham and his offspring <crossref let="f" cid="c45004013.2"/>that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="g" cid="c45004014.1"/>For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004015"/>
+    <verse num="15">For <crossref let="h" cid="c45004015.1"/>the law brings wrath, but <crossref let="i" cid="c45004015.2"/>where there is no law <crossref let="j" cid="c45004015.3"/>there is no transgression.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004016"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">That is why it depends on faith, <crossref let="k" cid="c45004016.1"/>in order that the promise may rest on grace and <crossref let="l" cid="c45004016.2"/>be guaranteed to all his offspring&emdash;not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, <crossref let="m" cid="c45004016.3"/>who is the father of us all,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004017"/>
+    <verse num="17">as it is written, <crossref let="n" cid="c45004017.1"/><crossref cid="t45004017.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45004017.1" from="45004017.1" to="45004017.2"/>I have made you the father of many nations<q class="end-double" qid="45004017.2" from="45004017.1" to="45004017.2"/>&emdash;in the presence of the God in whom he believed, <crossref let="o" cid="c45004017.2"/>who gives life to the dead and calls into existence <crossref let="p" cid="c45004017.3"/>the things that do not exist.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004018"/>
+    <verse num="18">In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, <crossref let="q" cid="c45004018.1"/><crossref cid="t45004018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45004018.1" from="45004018.1" to="45004018.2"/>So shall your offspring be.<q class="end-double" qid="45004018.2" from="45004018.1" to="45004018.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004019"/>
+    <verse num="19">He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was <crossref let="r" cid="c45004019.1"/>as good as dead (<crossref let="s" cid="c45004019.2"/>since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered <crossref let="t" cid="c45004019.3"/>the barrenness<note nid="n45004019.1"/> of Sarah&apos;s womb.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004020"/>
+    <verse num="20">No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004021"/>
+    <verse num="21">fully convinced that <crossref let="u" cid="c45004021.1"/>God was able to do what he had promised.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004022"/>
+    <verse num="22">That is why his faith was <q class="begin-double" qid="45004022.1" from="45004022.1" to="45004022.2"/>counted to him as righteousness.<q class="end-double" qid="45004022.2" from="45004022.1" to="45004022.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004023"/>
+    <verse num="23">But <crossref let="v" cid="c45004023.1"/>the words <q class="begin-double" qid="45004023.1" from="45004023.1" to="45004023.2"/>it was counted to him<q class="end-double" qid="45004023.2" from="45004023.1" to="45004023.2"/> were not written for his sake alone,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004024"/>
+    <verse num="24">but for ours also. It will be counted to us <crossref let="w" cid="c45004024.1"/>who believe in <crossref let="x" cid="c45004024.2"/>him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45004025"/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="y" cid="c45004025.1"/>who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised <crossref let="z" cid="c45004025.2"/>for our justification.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005001"/>
+  <chapter num="5">
+    <heading>Peace with God Through Faith</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="a" cid="c45005001.1"/>Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, <crossref let="b" cid="c45005001.2"/>we<note nid="n45005001.1"/> have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Through him we have also <crossref let="c" cid="c45005002.1"/>obtained access by faith<note nid="n45005002.1"/> into this grace <crossref let="d" cid="c45005002.2"/>in which we stand, and <crossref let="e" cid="c45005002.3"/>we<note nid="n45005002.2"/> rejoice<note nid="n45005002.3"/> in hope of the glory of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Not only that, but we <crossref let="f" cid="c45005003.1"/>rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering <crossref let="g" cid="c45005003.2"/>produces endurance,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005004"/>
+    <verse num="4">and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005005"/>
+    <verse num="5">and <crossref let="h" cid="c45005005.1"/>hope does not put us to shame, because God&apos;s love <crossref let="i" cid="c45005005.2"/>has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">For <crossref let="j" cid="c45005006.1"/>while we were still weak, at the right time <crossref let="k" cid="c45005006.2"/>Christ died for the ungodly.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005007"/>
+    <verse num="7">For one will scarcely die for a righteous person&emdash;though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005008"/>
+    <verse num="8">but <crossref let="l" cid="c45005008.1"/>God shows his love for us in that <crossref let="m" cid="c45005008.2"/>while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005009"/>
+    <verse num="9">Since, therefore, <crossref let="n" cid="c45005009.1"/>we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from <crossref let="o" cid="c45005009.2"/>the wrath of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005010"/>
+    <verse num="10">For if <crossref let="p" cid="c45005010.1"/>while we were enemies <crossref let="q" cid="c45005010.2"/>we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by <crossref let="r" cid="c45005010.3"/>his life.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005011"/>
+    <verse num="11">More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received <crossref let="s" cid="c45005011.1"/>reconciliation.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005012"/>
+    <heading>Death in Adam, Life in Christ</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Therefore, just as <crossref let="t" cid="c45005012.1"/>sin came into the world through one man, and <crossref let="u" cid="c45005012.2"/>death through sin, and <crossref let="v" cid="c45005012.3"/>so death spread to all men<note nid="n45005012.1"/> because <crossref let="w" cid="c45005012.4"/>all sinned&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005013"/>
+    <verse num="13">for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but <crossref let="x" cid="c45005013.1"/>sin is not counted where there is no law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not <crossref let="y" cid="c45005014.1"/>like the transgression of Adam, <crossref let="z" cid="c45005014.2"/>who was a type of <crossref let="a" cid="c45005014.3"/>the one who was to come.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man&apos;s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for <crossref let="b" cid="c45005015.1"/>many.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And the free gift is not like the result of that one man&apos;s sin. For <crossref let="c" cid="c45005016.1"/>the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought <crossref let="d" cid="c45005016.2"/>justification.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005017"/>
+    <verse num="17">For if, because of one man&apos;s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness <crossref let="e" cid="c45005017.1"/>reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">Therefore, as one trespass<note nid="n45005018.1"/> led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness<note nid="n45005018.2"/> leads to justification and life for <crossref let="f" cid="c45005018.1"/>all men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005019"/>
+    <verse num="19">For as by the one man&apos;s <crossref let="g" cid="c45005019.1"/>disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man&apos;s <crossref let="h" cid="c45005019.2"/>obedience the many will be made righteous.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Now <crossref let="i" cid="c45005020.1"/>the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, <crossref let="j" cid="c45005020.2"/>grace abounded all the more,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45005021"/>
+    <verse num="21">so that, <crossref let="k" cid="c45005021.1"/>as sin reigned in death, <crossref let="l" cid="c45005021.2"/>grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006001"/>
+  <chapter num="6">
+    <heading>Dead to Sin, Alive to God</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">What shall we say then? <crossref let="m" cid="c45006001.1"/>Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006002"/>
+    <verse num="2">By no means! How can <crossref let="n" cid="c45006002.1"/>we who died to sin still live in it?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Do you not know that all of us <crossref let="o" cid="c45006003.1"/>who have been baptized <crossref let="p" cid="c45006003.2"/>into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006004"/>
+    <verse num="4">We were <crossref let="q" cid="c45006004.1"/>buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as <crossref let="r" cid="c45006004.2"/>Christ was raised from the dead by <crossref let="s" cid="c45006004.3"/>the glory of the Father, we too might walk in <crossref let="t" cid="c45006004.4"/>newness of life.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">For <crossref let="u" cid="c45006005.1"/>if we have been united with him in <crossref let="v" cid="c45006005.2"/>a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006006"/>
+    <verse num="6">We know that <crossref let="w" cid="c45006006.1"/>our old self<note nid="n45006006.1"/> <crossref let="x" cid="c45006006.2"/>was crucified with him in order that <crossref let="y" cid="c45006006.3"/>the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006007"/>
+    <verse num="7">For <crossref let="z" cid="c45006007.1"/>one who has died <crossref let="a" cid="c45006007.2"/>has been set free<note nid="n45006007.1"/> from sin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Now <crossref let="b" cid="c45006008.1"/>if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006009"/>
+    <verse num="9">We know that <crossref let="c" cid="c45006009.1"/>Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; <crossref let="d" cid="c45006009.2"/>death no longer has dominion over him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006010"/>
+    <verse num="10">For the death he died he died to sin, <crossref let="e" cid="c45006010.1"/>once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006011"/>
+    <verse num="11">So you also must consider yourselves <crossref let="f" cid="c45006011.1"/>dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Let not <crossref let="g" cid="c45006012.1"/>sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="h" cid="c45006013.1"/>Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but <crossref let="i" cid="c45006013.2"/>present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006014"/>
+    <verse num="14">For <crossref let="j" cid="c45006014.1"/>sin <crossref let="k" cid="c45006014.2"/>will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006015"/>
+    <heading>Slaves to Righteousness</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">What then? <crossref let="l" cid="c45006015.1"/>Are we to sin <crossref let="m" cid="c45006015.2"/>because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Do you not know that if you present yourselves <crossref let="n" cid="c45006016.1"/>to anyone as obedient slaves,<note nid="n45006016.1"/> you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006017"/>
+    <verse num="17">But <crossref let="o" cid="c45006017.1"/>thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the <crossref let="p" cid="c45006017.2"/>standard of teaching to which you were committed,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006018"/>
+    <verse num="18">and, <crossref let="q" cid="c45006018.1"/>having been set free from sin, <crossref let="r" cid="c45006018.2"/>have become slaves of righteousness.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006019"/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="s" cid="c45006019.1"/>I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For <crossref let="t" cid="c45006019.2"/>just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members <crossref let="u" cid="c45006019.3"/>as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="v" cid="c45006020.1"/>For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="w" cid="c45006021.1"/>But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things <crossref let="x" cid="c45006021.2"/>of which you are now ashamed? <crossref let="y" cid="c45006021.3"/>For the end of those things is death.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006022"/>
+    <verse num="22">But now that you <crossref let="z" cid="c45006022.1"/>have been set free from sin and <crossref let="a" cid="c45006022.2"/>have become slaves of God, <crossref let="b" cid="c45006022.3"/>the fruit you get leads to sanctification and <crossref let="c" cid="c45006022.4"/>its end, eternal life.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45006023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="d" cid="c45006023.1"/>For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007001"/>
+  <chapter num="7">
+    <heading>Released from the Law</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Or do you not know, brothers<note nid="n45007001.1"/>&emdash;for I am speaking to those who know the law&emdash;that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007002"/>
+    <verse num="2">For <crossref let="e" cid="c45007002.1"/>a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.<note nid="n45007002.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Accordingly, <crossref let="f" cid="c45007003.1"/>she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">Likewise, my brothers, <crossref let="g" cid="c45007004.1"/>you also have died <crossref let="h" cid="c45007004.2"/>to the law <crossref let="i" cid="c45007004.3"/>through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, <crossref let="j" cid="c45007004.4"/>in order that we may bear fruit for God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007005"/>
+    <verse num="5">For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work <crossref let="k" cid="c45007005.1"/>in our members <crossref let="l" cid="c45007005.2"/>to bear fruit for death.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007006"/>
+    <verse num="6">But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the <crossref let="m" cid="c45007006.1"/>new way of <crossref let="n" cid="c45007006.2"/>the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.<note nid="n45007006.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007007"/>
+    <heading>The Law and Sin</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, <crossref let="o" cid="c45007007.1"/>I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if <crossref let="p" cid="c45007007.2"/><crossref cid="t45007007.1"/>the law had not said, <q class="begin-double" qid="45007007.1" from="45007007.1" to="45007007.2"/>You shall not covet.<q class="end-double" qid="45007007.2" from="45007007.1" to="45007007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007008"/>
+    <verse num="8">But sin, <crossref let="q" cid="c45007008.1"/>seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. <crossref let="r" cid="c45007008.2"/>For apart from the law, sin lies dead.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007009"/>
+    <verse num="9">I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007010"/>
+    <verse num="10">The very commandment <crossref let="s" cid="c45007010.1"/>that promised life proved to be death to me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007011"/>
+    <verse num="11">For sin, <crossref let="t" cid="c45007011.1"/>seizing an opportunity through the commandment, <crossref let="u" cid="c45007011.2"/>deceived me and through it killed me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007012"/>
+    <verse num="12">So <crossref let="v" cid="c45007012.1"/>the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007014"/>
+    <verse num="14">For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, <crossref let="w" cid="c45007014.1"/>sold under sin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007015"/>
+    <verse num="15">For I do not understand my own actions. For <crossref let="x" cid="c45007015.1"/>I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with <crossref let="y" cid="c45007016.1"/>the law, that it is good.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007017"/>
+    <verse num="17">So now <crossref let="z" cid="c45007017.1"/>it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007018"/>
+    <verse num="18">For I know that nothing good dwells <crossref let="a" cid="c45007018.1"/>in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007019"/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="b" cid="c45007019.1"/>For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Now if I do what I do not want, <crossref let="c" cid="c45007020.1"/>it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007022"/>
+    <verse num="22">For <crossref let="d" cid="c45007022.1"/>I delight in the law of God, <crossref let="e" cid="c45007022.2"/>in my inner being,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007023"/>
+    <verse num="23">but I see in my members <crossref let="f" cid="c45007023.1"/>another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007024"/>
+    <verse num="24">Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from <crossref let="g" cid="c45007024.1"/>this body of death?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45007025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008001"/>
+  <chapter num="8">
+    <heading>Life in the Spirit</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.<note nid="n45008001.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008002"/>
+    <verse num="2">For the law of <crossref let="h" cid="c45008002.1"/>the Spirit of life <crossref let="i" cid="c45008002.2"/>has set you<note nid="n45008002.1"/> free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008003"/>
+    <verse num="3">For <crossref let="j" cid="c45008003.1"/>God has done what the law, <crossref let="k" cid="c45008003.2"/>weakened by the flesh, <crossref let="l" cid="c45008003.3"/>could not do. <crossref let="m" cid="c45008003.4"/>By sending his own Son <crossref let="n" cid="c45008003.5"/>in the likeness of sinful flesh and <crossref let="o" cid="c45008003.6"/>for sin,<note nid="n45008003.1"/> he condemned sin in the flesh,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008004"/>
+    <verse num="4">in order that <crossref let="p" cid="c45008004.1"/>the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, <crossref let="q" cid="c45008004.2"/>who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008005"/>
+    <verse num="5">For <crossref let="r" cid="c45008005.1"/>those who live according to the flesh set their minds on <crossref let="s" cid="c45008005.2"/>the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on <crossref let="t" cid="c45008005.3"/>the things of the Spirit.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008006"/>
+    <verse num="6">For to set <crossref let="u" cid="c45008006.1"/>the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008007"/>
+    <verse num="7">For the mind that is set on the flesh is <crossref let="v" cid="c45008007.1"/>hostile to God, for it does not submit to God&apos;s law; <crossref let="w" cid="c45008007.2"/>indeed, it cannot.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact <crossref let="x" cid="c45008009.1"/>the Spirit of God dwells in you. <crossref let="y" cid="c45008009.2"/>Anyone who does not have <crossref let="z" cid="c45008009.3"/>the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008011"/>
+    <verse num="11">If the Spirit of <crossref let="a" cid="c45008011.1"/>him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus<note nid="n45008011.1"/> from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies <crossref let="b" cid="c45008011.2"/>through his Spirit who dwells in you.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008012"/>
+    <heading>Heirs with Christ</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">So then, brothers,<note nid="n45008012.1"/> we are debtors, <crossref let="c" cid="c45008012.1"/>not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008013"/>
+    <verse num="13">For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you <crossref let="d" cid="c45008013.1"/>put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008014"/>
+    <verse num="14">For all who are <crossref let="e" cid="c45008014.1"/>led by the Spirit of God are <crossref let="f" cid="c45008014.2"/>sons<note nid="n45008014.1"/> of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008015"/>
+    <verse num="15">For <crossref let="g" cid="c45008015.1"/>you did not receive <crossref let="h" cid="c45008015.2"/>the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of <crossref let="i" cid="c45008015.3"/>adoption as sons, by whom we cry, <crossref let="j" cid="c45008015.4"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45008015.1" from="45008015.1" to="45008015.2"/>Abba! Father!<q class="end-double" qid="45008015.2" from="45008015.1" to="45008015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="k" cid="c45008016.1"/>The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008017"/>
+    <verse num="17">and if children, then <crossref let="l" cid="c45008017.1"/>heirs&emdash;heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, <crossref let="m" cid="c45008017.2"/>provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008018"/>
+    <heading>Future Glory</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">For I consider that the sufferings of this present time <crossref let="n" cid="c45008018.1"/>are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008019"/>
+    <verse num="19">For the creation waits with eager longing for <crossref let="o" cid="c45008019.1"/>the revealing of the sons of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008020"/>
+    <verse num="20">For the creation <crossref let="p" cid="c45008020.1"/>was subjected to futility, not willingly, but <crossref let="q" cid="c45008020.2"/>because of him who subjected it, in hope</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008021"/>
+    <verse num="21">that <crossref let="r" cid="c45008021.1"/>the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008022"/>
+    <verse num="22">For we know that <crossref let="s" cid="c45008022.1"/>the whole creation <crossref let="t" cid="c45008022.2"/>has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have <crossref let="u" cid="c45008023.1"/>the firstfruits of the Spirit, <crossref let="v" cid="c45008023.2"/>groan inwardly as <crossref let="w" cid="c45008023.3"/>we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, <crossref let="x" cid="c45008023.4"/>the redemption of our bodies.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008024"/>
+    <verse num="24">For <crossref let="y" cid="c45008024.1"/>in this hope we were saved. Now <crossref let="z" cid="c45008024.2"/>hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008025"/>
+    <verse num="25">But if we hope for what we do not see, we <crossref let="a" cid="c45008025.1"/>wait for it with patience.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For <crossref let="b" cid="c45008026.1"/>we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but <crossref let="c" cid="c45008026.2"/>the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And <crossref let="d" cid="c45008027.1"/>he who searches hearts knows what is <crossref let="e" cid="c45008027.2"/>the mind of the Spirit, because<note nid="n45008027.1"/> the Spirit <crossref let="f" cid="c45008027.3"/>intercedes for the saints <crossref let="g" cid="c45008027.4"/>according to the will of God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008028"/>
+    <verse num="28">And we know that for those who love God all things work together <crossref let="h" cid="c45008028.1"/>for good,<note nid="n45008028.1"/> for <crossref let="i" cid="c45008028.2"/>those who are called according to his purpose.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008029"/>
+    <verse num="29">For those whom he <crossref let="j" cid="c45008029.1"/>foreknew he also <crossref let="k" cid="c45008029.2"/>predestined <crossref let="l" cid="c45008029.3"/>to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be <crossref let="m" cid="c45008029.4"/>the firstborn among many brothers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008030"/>
+    <verse num="30">And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also <crossref let="n" cid="c45008030.1"/>justified, and those whom he justified he also <crossref let="o" cid="c45008030.2"/>glorified.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008031"/>
+    <heading>God&apos;s Everlasting Love</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="31">What then shall we say to these things? <crossref let="p" cid="c45008031.1"/>If God is for us, who can be<note nid="n45008031.1"/> against us?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008032"/>
+    <verse num="32"><crossref let="q" cid="c45008032.1"/>He who did not spare his own Son but <crossref let="r" cid="c45008032.2"/>gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008033"/>
+    <verse num="33">Who shall bring any charge against God&apos;s elect? <crossref let="s" cid="c45008033.1"/>It is God who justifies.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008034"/>
+    <verse num="34"><crossref let="t" cid="c45008034.1"/>Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died&emdash;more than that, who was raised&emdash;<crossref let="u" cid="c45008034.2"/>who is at the right hand of God, <crossref let="v" cid="c45008034.3"/>who indeed is interceding for us.<note nid="n45008034.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008035"/>
+    <verse num="35">Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008036"/>
+    <verse num="36">As it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="w" cid="c45008036.1"/><crossref cid="t45008036.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45008036.1" from="45008036.1" to="45008036.2"/>For your sake <crossref let="x" cid="c45008036.2"/>we are being killed all the day long;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.<q class="end-double" qid="45008036.2" from="45008036.1" to="45008036.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008037"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="37">No, in all these things we are more than <crossref let="y" cid="c45008037.1"/>conquerors through <crossref let="z" cid="c45008037.2"/>him who loved us.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008038"/>
+    <verse num="38">For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45008039"/>
+    <verse num="39">nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009001"/>
+  <chapter num="9">
+    <heading>God&apos;s Sovereign Choice</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="a" cid="c45009001.1"/>I am speaking the truth in Christ&emdash;I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009002"/>
+    <verse num="2">that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009003"/>
+    <verse num="3">For <crossref let="b" cid="c45009003.1"/>I could wish that I myself were <crossref let="c" cid="c45009003.2"/>accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers,<note nid="n45009003.1"/> my kinsmen <crossref let="d" cid="c45009003.3"/>according to the flesh.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009004"/>
+    <verse num="4">They are <crossref let="e" cid="c45009004.1"/>Israelites, and to them belong <crossref let="f" cid="c45009004.2"/>the adoption, <crossref let="g" cid="c45009004.3"/>the glory, <crossref let="h" cid="c45009004.4"/>the covenants, <crossref let="i" cid="c45009004.5"/>the giving of the law, <crossref let="j" cid="c45009004.6"/>the worship, and <crossref let="k" cid="c45009004.7"/>the promises.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009005"/>
+    <verse num="5">To them belong <crossref let="l" cid="c45009005.1"/>the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, <crossref let="m" cid="c45009005.2"/>who is God over all, <crossref let="n" cid="c45009005.3"/>blessed forever. Amen.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009007"/>
+    <verse num="7">and not all are children of Abraham <crossref let="o" cid="c45009007.1"/>because they are his offspring, but <crossref let="p" cid="c45009007.2"/><crossref cid="t45009007.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009007.1" from="45009007.1" to="45009007.2"/>Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.<q class="end-double" qid="45009007.2" from="45009007.1" to="45009007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009008"/>
+    <verse num="8">This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but <crossref let="q" cid="c45009008.1"/>the children of the promise are counted as offspring.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009009"/>
+    <verse num="9">For this is what the promise said: <crossref let="r" cid="c45009009.1"/><crossref cid="t45009009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009009.1" from="45009009.1" to="45009009.2"/>About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.<q class="end-double" qid="45009009.2" from="45009009.1" to="45009009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And not only so, but <crossref let="s" cid="c45009010.1"/>also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009011"/>
+    <verse num="11">though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad&emdash;in order that God&apos;s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of <crossref let="t" cid="c45009011.1"/>him who calls&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009012"/>
+    <verse num="12">she was told, <crossref let="u" cid="c45009012.1"/><crossref cid="t45009012.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009012.1" from="45009012.1" to="45009012.2"/>The older will serve the younger.<q class="end-double" qid="45009012.2" from="45009012.1" to="45009012.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009013"/>
+    <verse num="13">As it is written, <crossref let="v" cid="c45009013.1"/><crossref cid="t45009013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009013.1" from="45009013.1" to="45009013.2"/>Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.<q class="end-double" qid="45009013.2" from="45009013.1" to="45009013.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">What shall we say then? <crossref let="w" cid="c45009014.1"/>Is there injustice on God&apos;s part? By no means!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009015"/>
+    <verse num="15">For he says to Moses, <crossref let="x" cid="c45009015.1"/><crossref cid="t45009015.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009015.1" from="45009015.1" to="45009015.2"/>I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.<q class="end-double" qid="45009015.2" from="45009015.1" to="45009015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009016"/>
+    <verse num="16">So then it depends not on human will or exertion,<note nid="n45009016.1"/> but on God, who has mercy.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009017"/>
+    <verse num="17">For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, <crossref let="y" cid="c45009017.1"/><crossref cid="t45009017.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009017.1" from="45009017.1" to="45009017.2"/>For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.<q class="end-double" qid="45009017.2" from="45009017.1" to="45009017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009018"/>
+    <verse num="18">So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">You will say to me then, <q class="begin-double" qid="45009019.1" from="45009019.1" to="45009019.2"/>Why does he still find fault? For <crossref let="z" cid="c45009019.1"/>who can resist his will?<q class="end-double" qid="45009019.2" from="45009019.1" to="45009019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009020"/>
+    <verse num="20">But who are you, O man, <crossref let="a" cid="c45009020.1"/>to answer back to God? <crossref let="b" cid="c45009020.2"/>Will what is molded say to its molder, <q class="begin-double" qid="45009020.1" from="45009020.1" to="45009020.2"/>Why have you made me like this?<q class="end-double" qid="45009020.2" from="45009020.1" to="45009020.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="c" cid="c45009021.1"/>Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump <crossref let="d" cid="c45009021.2"/>one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009022"/>
+    <verse num="22">What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience <crossref let="e" cid="c45009022.1"/>vessels of wrath <crossref let="f" cid="c45009022.2"/>prepared for destruction,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009023"/>
+    <verse num="23">in order to make known <crossref let="g" cid="c45009023.1"/>the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he <crossref let="h" cid="c45009023.2"/>has prepared beforehand for glory&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009024"/>
+    <verse num="24">even us whom he <crossref let="i" cid="c45009024.1"/>has called, <crossref let="j" cid="c45009024.2"/>not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009025"/>
+    <verse num="25">As indeed he says in Hosea,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="k" cid="c45009025.1"/><crossref cid="t45009025.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009025.1" from="45009025.1" to="45009025.6"/>Those who were not my people I will call <q class="begin-single" qid="45009025.2" from="45009025.2" to="45009025.3"/>my people,<q class="end-single" qid="45009025.3" from="45009025.2" to="45009025.3"/><end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and her who was not beloved I will call <q class="begin-single" qid="45009025.4" from="45009025.4" to="45009025.5"/>beloved.<q class="end-single" qid="45009025.5" from="45009025.4" to="45009025.5"/><q class="end-double" qid="45009025.6" from="45009025.1" to="45009025.6"/><end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009026"/>
+    <verse num="26">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="l" cid="c45009026.1"/><crossref cid="t45009026.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009026.1" from="45009026.1" to="45009026.6"/>And in the very place where it was said to them, <q class="begin-single" qid="45009026.2" from="45009026.2" to="45009026.3"/>You are not my people,<q class="end-single" qid="45009026.3" from="45009026.2" to="45009026.3"/><end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>there they will be called <crossref let="m" cid="c45009026.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="45009026.4" from="45009026.4" to="45009026.5"/>sons of the living God.<q class="end-single" qid="45009026.5" from="45009026.4" to="45009026.5"/><q class="end-double" qid="45009026.6" from="45009026.1" to="45009026.6"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009027"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27">And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: <crossref let="n" cid="c45009027.1"/><crossref cid="t45009027.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009027.1" from="45009027.1" to="45009028.1"/>Though the number of the sons of Israel<note nid="n45009027.1"/> be as the sand of the sea, <crossref let="o" cid="c45009027.2"/>only a remnant of them will be saved,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009028"/>
+    <verse num="28">for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.<q class="end-double" qid="45009028.1" from="45009027.1" to="45009028.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009029"/>
+    <verse num="29">And as Isaiah predicted,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossrefs><crossref let="p" cid="c45009029.1"/><crossref let="q" cid="c45009029.2"/></crossrefs><crossref cid="t45009029.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009029.1" from="45009029.1" to="45009029.2"/>If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="r" cid="c45009029.3"/>we would have been like Sodom<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and become like Gomorrah.<q class="end-double" qid="45009029.2" from="45009029.1" to="45009029.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009030"/>
+    <heading>Israel&apos;s Unbelief</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="30">What shall we say, then? <crossref let="s" cid="c45009030.1"/>That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, <crossref let="t" cid="c45009030.2"/>a righteousness that is by faith;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009031"/>
+    <verse num="31">but that Israel <crossref let="u" cid="c45009031.1"/>who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness<note nid="n45009031.1"/> <crossref let="v" cid="c45009031.2"/>did not succeed in reaching that law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009032"/>
+    <verse num="32">Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the <crossref let="w" cid="c45009032.1"/>stumbling stone,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45009033"/>
+    <verse num="33">as it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="x" cid="c45009033.1"/><crossref cid="t45009033.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45009033.1" from="45009033.1" to="45009033.2"/>Behold, I am laying in Zion <crossref let="y" cid="c45009033.2"/>a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="z" cid="c45009033.3"/>and whoever believes in him will not be <crossref let="a" cid="c45009033.4"/>put to shame.<q class="end-double" qid="45009033.2" from="45009033.1" to="45009033.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010001"/>
+  <chapter num="10">
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Brothers,<note nid="n45010001.1"/> my heart&apos;s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010002"/>
+    <verse num="2">For I bear them witness that <crossref let="b" cid="c45010002.1"/>they have a zeal for God, <crossref let="c" cid="c45010002.2"/>but not according to knowledge.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010003"/>
+    <verse num="3">For, being ignorant of <crossref let="d" cid="c45010003.1"/>the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God&apos;s righteousness.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010004"/>
+    <verse num="4">For <crossref let="e" cid="c45010004.1"/>Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.<note nid="n45010004.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010005"/>
+    <heading>The Message of Salvation to All</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">For <crossref let="f" cid="c45010005.1"/>Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that <crossref let="g" cid="c45010005.2"/>the person who does the commandments shall live by them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010006"/>
+    <verse num="6">But <crossref let="h" cid="c45010006.1"/>the righteousness based on faith says, <crossref let="i" cid="c45010006.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010006.1" from="45010006.1" to="45010006.4"/>Do not say in your heart, <q class="begin-single" qid="45010006.2" from="45010006.2" to="45010006.3"/>Who will ascend into heaven?<q class="end-single" qid="45010006.3" from="45010006.2" to="45010006.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="45010006.4" from="45010006.1" to="45010006.4"/> (that is, to bring Christ down)</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><q class="begin-double" qid="45010007.1" from="45010007.1" to="45010007.4"/>or <q class="begin-single" qid="45010007.2" from="45010007.2" to="45010007.3"/>Who will descend into the <crossref let="j" cid="c45010007.1"/>abyss?<q class="end-single" qid="45010007.3" from="45010007.2" to="45010007.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="45010007.4" from="45010007.1" to="45010007.4"/> (that is, <crossref let="k" cid="c45010007.2"/>to bring Christ up from the dead).</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010008"/>
+    <verse num="8">But what does it say? <crossref let="l" cid="c45010008.1"/><crossref cid="t45010008.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010008.1" from="45010008.1" to="45010008.2"/>The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart<q class="end-double" qid="45010008.2" from="45010008.1" to="45010008.2"/> (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010009"/>
+    <verse num="9">because, if <crossref let="m" cid="c45010009.1"/>you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and <crossref let="n" cid="c45010009.2"/>believe in your heart <crossref let="o" cid="c45010009.3"/>that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010010"/>
+    <verse num="10">For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010011"/>
+    <verse num="11">For the Scripture says, <crossref let="p" cid="c45010011.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010011.1" from="45010011.1" to="45010011.2"/>Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.<q class="end-double" qid="45010011.2" from="45010011.1" to="45010011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="q" cid="c45010012.1"/>For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; <crossref let="r" cid="c45010012.2"/>for the same Lord is Lord of all, <crossref let="s" cid="c45010012.3"/>bestowing his riches on all who call on him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010013"/>
+    <verse num="13">For <crossref let="t" cid="c45010013.1"/><crossref cid="t45010013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010013.1" from="45010013.1" to="45010013.2"/>everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.<q class="end-double" qid="45010013.2" from="45010013.1" to="45010013.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him <crossref let="u" cid="c45010014.1"/>of whom they have never heard?<note nid="n45010014.1"/> And how are they to hear <crossref let="v" cid="c45010014.2"/>without someone preaching?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, <crossref let="w" cid="c45010015.1"/><crossref cid="t45010015.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010015.1" from="45010015.1" to="45010015.2"/>How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!<q class="end-double" qid="45010015.2" from="45010015.1" to="45010015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010016"/>
+    <verse num="16">But <crossref let="x" cid="c45010016.1"/>they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, <crossref let="y" cid="c45010016.2"/><crossref cid="t45010016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010016.1" from="45010016.1" to="45010016.2"/>Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?<q class="end-double" qid="45010016.2" from="45010016.1" to="45010016.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010017"/>
+    <verse num="17">So <crossref let="z" cid="c45010017.1"/>faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="a" cid="c45010018.1"/><crossref cid="t45010018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010018.1" from="45010018.1" to="45010018.2"/>Their voice has gone out <crossref let="b" cid="c45010018.2"/>to all the earth,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and their words to the ends of the world.<q class="end-double" qid="45010018.2" from="45010018.1" to="45010018.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="19">But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="c" cid="c45010019.1"/><crossref cid="t45010019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010019.1" from="45010019.1" to="45010019.2"/>I will <crossref let="d" cid="c45010019.2"/>make you jealous of those who are not a nation;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>with a <crossref let="e" cid="c45010019.3"/>foolish nation I will make you angry.<q class="end-double" qid="45010019.2" from="45010019.1" to="45010019.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="20">Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="f" cid="c45010020.1"/><crossref cid="t45010020.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010020.1" from="45010020.1" to="45010020.2"/>I have been found by those who did not seek me;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.<q class="end-double" qid="45010020.2" from="45010020.1" to="45010020.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45010021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="21">But of Israel he says, <crossref let="g" cid="c45010021.1"/><crossref cid="t45010021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45010021.1" from="45010021.1" to="45010021.2"/>All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.<q class="end-double" qid="45010021.2" from="45010021.1" to="45010021.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011001"/>
+  <chapter num="11">
+    <heading>The Remnant of Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">I ask, then, <crossref let="h" cid="c45011001.1"/>has God rejected his people? By no means! For <crossref let="i" cid="c45011001.2"/>I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,<note nid="n45011001.1"/> a member of the tribe of Benjamin.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011002"/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="j" cid="c45011002.1"/>God has not rejected his people whom he <crossref let="k" cid="c45011002.2"/>foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="l" cid="c45011003.1"/><crossref cid="t45011003.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45011003.1" from="45011003.1" to="45011003.2"/>Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.<q class="end-double" qid="45011003.2" from="45011003.1" to="45011003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011004"/>
+    <verse num="4">But what is God&apos;s reply to him? <crossref let="m" cid="c45011004.1"/><crossref cid="t45011004.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45011004.1" from="45011004.1" to="45011004.2"/>I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.<q class="end-double" qid="45011004.2" from="45011004.1" to="45011004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011005"/>
+    <verse num="5">So too at the present time there is <crossref let="n" cid="c45011005.1"/>a remnant, chosen by grace.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011006"/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="o" cid="c45011006.1"/>But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">What then? <crossref let="p" cid="c45011007.1"/>Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest <crossref let="q" cid="c45011007.2"/>were hardened,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011008"/>
+    <verse num="8">as it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="r" cid="c45011008.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45011008.1" from="45011008.1" to="45011008.2"/>God gave them a spirit of stupor,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="s" cid="c45011008.2"/>eyes that would not see<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and ears that would not hear,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>down to this very day.<q class="end-double" qid="45011008.2" from="45011008.1" to="45011008.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="9">And David says,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="t" cid="c45011009.1"/><crossref cid="t45011009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45011009.1" from="45011009.1" to="45011010.1"/>Let their table become a snare and a trap,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>a stumbling block and a retribution for them;<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011010"/>
+    <verse num="10">
+        <begin-line/>let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and bend their backs forever.<q class="end-double" qid="45011010.1" from="45011009.1" to="45011010.1"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011011"/>
+    <heading>Gentiles Grafted In</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass <crossref let="u" cid="c45011011.1"/>salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion<note nid="n45011012.1"/> mean!</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as <crossref let="v" cid="c45011013.1"/>I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011014"/>
+    <verse num="14">in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and <crossref let="w" cid="c45011014.1"/>thus save some of them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011015"/>
+    <verse num="15">For if their rejection means <crossref let="x" cid="c45011015.1"/>the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="y" cid="c45011016.1"/>If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">But if <crossref let="z" cid="c45011017.1"/>some of the branches were broken off, and you, <crossref let="a" cid="c45011017.2"/>although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root<note nid="n45011017.1"/> of the olive tree,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011018"/>
+    <verse num="18">do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Then you will say, <q class="begin-double" qid="45011019.1" from="45011019.1" to="45011019.2"/>Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.<q class="end-double" qid="45011019.2" from="45011019.1" to="45011019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011020"/>
+    <verse num="20">That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you <crossref let="b" cid="c45011020.1"/>stand fast through faith. So <crossref let="c" cid="c45011020.2"/>do not become proud, but <crossref let="d" cid="c45011020.3"/>fear.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011021"/>
+    <verse num="21">For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God&apos;s kindness to you, <crossref let="e" cid="c45011022.1"/>provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise <crossref let="f" cid="c45011022.2"/>you too will be cut off.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And <crossref let="g" cid="c45011023.1"/>even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011024"/>
+    <verse num="24">For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011025"/>
+    <heading>The Mystery of Israel&apos;s Salvation</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="h" cid="c45011025.1"/>Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers:<note nid="n45011025.1"/> <crossref let="i" cid="c45011025.2"/>a partial hardening has come upon Israel, <crossref let="j" cid="c45011025.3"/>until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="k" cid="c45011026.1"/><crossref cid="t45011026.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45011026.1" from="45011026.1" to="45011026.2"/>The Deliverer will come <crossref let="l" cid="c45011026.2"/>from Zion,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>he will banish ungodliness from Jacob<q class="end-double" qid="45011026.2" from="45011026.1" to="45011026.2"/>;<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011027"/>
+    <verse num="27">
+        <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="45011027.1" from="45011027.1" to="45011027.2"/>and this will be my <crossref let="m" cid="c45011027.1"/>covenant with them<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="n" cid="c45011027.2"/>when I take away their sins.<q class="end-double" qid="45011027.2" from="45011027.1" to="45011027.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011028"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="28">As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are <crossref let="o" cid="c45011028.1"/>beloved for the sake of their forefathers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011029"/>
+    <verse num="29">For the gifts and <crossref let="p" cid="c45011029.1"/>the calling of God are irrevocable.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011030"/>
+    <verse num="30">For just as <crossref let="q" cid="c45011030.1"/>you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011031"/>
+    <verse num="31">so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now<note nid="n45011031.1"/> receive mercy.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011032"/>
+    <verse num="32">For God <crossref let="r" cid="c45011032.1"/>has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011033"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="33">Oh, the depth of the riches and <crossref let="s" cid="c45011033.1"/>wisdom and knowledge of God! <crossref let="t" cid="c45011033.2"/>How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011034"/>
+    <begin-block-indent/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="34">
+        <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="45011034.1" from="45011034.1" to="45011034.2"/>For <crossref let="u" cid="c45011034.1"/>who has known the mind of the Lord,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>or <crossref let="v" cid="c45011034.2"/>who has been his counselor?<q class="end-double" qid="45011034.2" from="45011034.1" to="45011034.2"/><end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011035"/>
+    <verse num="35">
+        <begin-line/><q class="begin-double" qid="45011035.1" from="45011035.1" to="45011035.2"/>Or <crossref let="w" cid="c45011035.1"/>who has given a gift to him<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>that he might be repaid?<q class="end-double" qid="45011035.2" from="45011035.1" to="45011035.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45011036"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="36">For <crossref let="x" cid="c45011036.1"/>from him and through him and to him are all things. <crossref let="y" cid="c45011036.2"/>To him be glory forever. Amen.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012001"/>
+  <chapter num="12">
+    <heading>A Living Sacrifice</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="z" cid="c45012001.1"/>I appeal to you therefore, brothers,<note nid="n45012001.1"/> by the mercies of God, <crossref let="a" cid="c45012001.2"/>to present your bodies <crossref let="b" cid="c45012001.3"/>as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.<note nid="n45012001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012002"/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="c" cid="c45012002.1"/>Do not be conformed to this world,<note nid="n45012002.1"/> but be transformed by <crossref let="d" cid="c45012002.2"/>the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may <crossref let="e" cid="c45012002.3"/>discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.<note nid="n45012002.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012003"/>
+    <heading>Gifts of Grace</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">For <crossref let="f" cid="c45012003.1"/>by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you <crossref let="g" cid="c45012003.2"/>not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, <crossref let="h" cid="c45012003.3"/>each according to <crossref let="i" cid="c45012003.4"/>the measure of faith that God has assigned.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012004"/>
+    <verse num="4">For <crossref let="j" cid="c45012004.1"/>as in one body we have many members,<note nid="n45012004.1"/> and the members do not all have the same function,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012005"/>
+    <verse num="5">so we, <crossref let="k" cid="c45012005.1"/>though many, <crossref let="l" cid="c45012005.2"/>are one body in Christ, and individually <crossref let="m" cid="c45012005.3"/>members one of another.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012006"/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="n" cid="c45012006.1"/>Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if <crossref let="o" cid="c45012006.2"/>prophecy, <crossref let="p" cid="c45012006.3"/>in proportion to our faith;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012007"/>
+    <verse num="7">if <crossref let="q" cid="c45012007.1"/>service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012008"/>
+    <verse num="8">the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; <crossref let="r" cid="c45012008.1"/>the one who leads,<note nid="n45012008.1"/> with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with <crossref let="s" cid="c45012008.2"/>cheerfulness.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012009"/>
+    <heading>Marks of the True Christian</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="t" cid="c45012009.1"/>Let love be genuine. <crossref let="u" cid="c45012009.2"/>Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="v" cid="c45012010.1"/>Love one another with brotherly affection. <crossref let="w" cid="c45012010.2"/>Outdo one another in showing honor.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Do not be slothful in zeal, <crossref let="x" cid="c45012011.1"/>be fervent in spirit,<note nid="n45012011.1"/> <crossref let="y" cid="c45012011.2"/>serve the Lord.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="z" cid="c45012012.1"/>Rejoice in hope, <crossref let="a" cid="c45012012.2"/>be patient in tribulation, <crossref let="b" cid="c45012012.3"/>be constant in prayer.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="c" cid="c45012013.1"/>Contribute to the needs of the saints and <crossref let="d" cid="c45012013.2"/>seek to show hospitality.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="e" cid="c45012014.1"/>Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012015"/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="f" cid="c45012015.1"/>Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="g" cid="c45012016.1"/>Live in harmony with one another. <crossref let="h" cid="c45012016.2"/>Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.<note nid="n45012016.1"/> <crossref let="i" cid="c45012016.3"/>Never be wise in your own sight.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012017"/>
+    <verse num="17"><crossref let="j" cid="c45012017.1"/>Repay no one evil for evil, but <crossref let="k" cid="c45012017.2"/>give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012018"/>
+    <verse num="18">If possible, so far as it depends on you, <crossref let="l" cid="c45012018.1"/>live peaceably with all.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Beloved, <crossref let="m" cid="c45012019.1"/>never avenge yourselves, but leave it<note nid="n45012019.1"/> to the wrath of God, for it is written, <crossref let="n" cid="c45012019.2"/><crossref cid="t45012019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45012019.1" from="45012019.1" to="45012019.2"/>Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.<q class="end-double" qid="45012019.2" from="45012019.1" to="45012019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012020"/>
+    <verse num="20">To the contrary, <crossref let="o" cid="c45012020.1"/><crossref cid="t45012020.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45012020.1" from="45012020.1" to="45012020.2"/>if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.<q class="end-double" qid="45012020.2" from="45012020.1" to="45012020.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45012021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013001"/>
+  <chapter num="13">
+    <heading>Submission to the Authorities</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Let every person <crossref let="p" cid="c45013001.1"/>be subject to the governing authorities. For <crossref let="q" cid="c45013001.2"/>there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013003"/>
+    <verse num="3">For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you <crossref let="r" cid="c45013003.1"/>will receive his approval,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013004"/>
+    <verse num="4">for <crossref let="s" cid="c45013004.1"/>he is God&apos;s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, <crossref let="t" cid="c45013004.2"/>an avenger who carries out God&apos;s wrath on the wrongdoer.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God&apos;s wrath but also <crossref let="u" cid="c45013005.1"/>for the sake of conscience.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013006"/>
+    <verse num="6">For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="v" cid="c45013007.1"/>Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013008"/>
+    <heading>Fulfilling the Law Through Love</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="w" cid="c45013008.1"/>Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for <crossref let="x" cid="c45013008.2"/>the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013009"/>
+    <verse num="9">For the commandments, <crossref let="y" cid="c45013009.1"/><crossref cid="t45013009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45013009.1" from="45013009.1" to="45013009.2"/>You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,<q class="end-double" qid="45013009.2" from="45013009.1" to="45013009.2"/> and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: <crossref let="z" cid="c45013009.2"/><crossref cid="t45013009.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45013009.3" from="45013009.3" to="45013009.4"/>You shall love your neighbor as yourself.<q class="end-double" qid="45013009.4" from="45013009.3" to="45013009.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore <crossref let="a" cid="c45013010.1"/>love is the fulfilling of the law.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you <crossref let="b" cid="c45013011.1"/>to wake from sleep. <crossref let="c" cid="c45013011.2"/>For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="d" cid="c45013012.1"/>The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us <crossref let="e" cid="c45013012.2"/>cast off <crossref let="f" cid="c45013012.3"/>the works of darkness and <crossref let="g" cid="c45013012.4"/>put on the armor of light.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="h" cid="c45013013.1"/>Let us walk properly as in the daytime, <crossref let="i" cid="c45013013.2"/>not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, <crossref let="j" cid="c45013013.3"/>not in quarreling and jealousy.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45013014"/>
+    <verse num="14">But <crossref let="k" cid="c45013014.1"/>put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, <crossref let="l" cid="c45013014.2"/>to gratify its desires.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014001"/>
+  <chapter num="14">
+    <heading>Do Not Pass Judgment on One Another</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">As for <crossref let="m" cid="c45014001.1"/>the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014002"/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="n" cid="c45014002.1"/>One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and <crossref let="o" cid="c45014003.1"/>let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="p" cid="c45014004.1"/>Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master<note nid="n45014004.1"/> that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5"><crossref let="q" cid="c45014005.1"/>One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. <crossref let="r" cid="c45014005.2"/>Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014006"/>
+    <verse num="6">The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since <crossref let="s" cid="c45014006.1"/>he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014007"/>
+    <verse num="7">For <crossref let="t" cid="c45014007.1"/>none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014008"/>
+    <verse num="8">For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, <crossref let="u" cid="c45014008.1"/>whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord&apos;s.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014009"/>
+    <verse num="9">For to this end Christ <crossref let="v" cid="c45014009.1"/>died and lived again, that he might be Lord both <crossref let="w" cid="c45014009.2"/>of the dead and of the living.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For <crossref let="w" cid="c45014010.1"/>we will all stand before <crossref let="x" cid="c45014010.2"/>the judgment seat of God;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014011"/>
+    <verse num="11">for it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="y" cid="c45014011.1"/><crossref cid="t45014011.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45014011.1" from="45014011.1" to="45014011.2"/>As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and every tongue shall confess<note nid="n45014011.1"/> to God.<q class="end-double" qid="45014011.2" from="45014011.1" to="45014011.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="12">So then <crossref let="z" cid="c45014012.1"/>each of us will give an account of himself to God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014013"/>
+    <heading>Do Not Cause Another to Stumble</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="a" cid="c45014013.1"/>Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide <crossref let="b" cid="c45014013.2"/>never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014014"/>
+    <verse num="14">I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus <crossref let="c" cid="c45014014.1"/>that nothing is unclean in itself, <crossref let="d" cid="c45014014.2"/>but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014015"/>
+    <verse num="15">For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, <crossref let="e" cid="c45014015.1"/>you are no longer walking in love. <crossref let="f" cid="c45014015.2"/>By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="g" cid="c45014016.1"/>So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014017"/>
+    <verse num="17"><crossref let="h" cid="c45014017.1"/>For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but <crossref let="i" cid="c45014017.2"/>of righteousness and <crossref let="j" cid="c45014017.3"/>peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Whoever thus serves Christ is <crossref let="k" cid="c45014018.1"/>acceptable to God and approved by men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014019"/>
+    <verse num="19">So then let us <crossref let="l" cid="c45014019.1"/>pursue what makes for peace and for <crossref let="m" cid="c45014019.2"/>mutual upbuilding.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="n" cid="c45014020.1"/>Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. <crossref let="o" cid="c45014020.2"/>Everything is indeed clean, but <crossref let="p" cid="c45014020.3"/>it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="q" cid="c45014021.1"/>It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.<note nid="n45014021.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014022"/>
+    <verse num="22">The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. <crossref let="r" cid="c45014022.1"/>Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45014023"/>
+    <verse num="23">But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.<note nid="n45014023.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015001"/>
+  <chapter num="15">
+    <heading>The Example of Christ</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="s" cid="c45015001.1"/>We who are strong <crossref let="t" cid="c45015001.2"/>have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015002"/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="u" cid="c45015002.1"/>Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015003"/>
+    <verse num="3">For <crossref let="v" cid="c45015003.1"/>Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, <crossref let="w" cid="c45015003.2"/><crossref cid="t45015003.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45015003.1" from="45015003.1" to="45015003.2"/>The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.<q class="end-double" qid="45015003.2" from="45015003.1" to="45015003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015004"/>
+    <verse num="4">For <crossref let="x" cid="c45015004.1"/>whatever was written in former days was written for our <crossref let="y" cid="c45015004.2"/>instruction, that through endurance and through <crossref let="z" cid="c45015004.3"/>the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015005"/>
+    <verse num="5">May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you <crossref let="a" cid="c45015005.1"/>to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015006"/>
+    <verse num="6">that together you may with one voice glorify <crossref let="b" cid="c45015006.1"/>the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015008"/>
+    <heading>Christ the Hope of Jews and Gentiles</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">For I tell you that Christ <crossref let="c" cid="c45015008.1"/>became a servant to the circumcised to show God&apos;s truthfulness, in order <crossref let="d" cid="c45015008.2"/>to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015009"/>
+    <verse num="9">and in order <crossref let="e" cid="c45015009.1"/>that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="f" cid="c45015009.2"/><crossref cid="t45015009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45015009.1" from="45015009.1" to="45015009.2"/>Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and sing to your name.<q class="end-double" qid="45015009.2" from="45015009.1" to="45015009.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="10">And again it is said,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="g" cid="c45015010.1"/><crossref cid="t45015010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45015010.1" from="45015010.1" to="45015010.2"/>Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.<q class="end-double" qid="45015010.2" from="45015010.1" to="45015010.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="11">And again,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="h" cid="c45015011.1"/><crossref cid="t45015011.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45015011.1" from="45015011.1" to="45015011.2"/>Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and let all the peoples extol him.<q class="end-double" qid="45015011.2" from="45015011.1" to="45015011.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="12">And again Isaiah says,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossrefs><crossref let="i" cid="c45015012.1"/><crossref let="j" cid="c45015012.2"/></crossrefs><crossref cid="t45015012.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45015012.1" from="45015012.1" to="45015012.2"/>The root of Jesse will come,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>even he who arises to rule the Gentiles;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="k" cid="c45015012.3"/>in him will the Gentiles hope.<q class="end-double" qid="45015012.2" from="45015012.1" to="45015012.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="13">May the God of hope fill you with all <crossref let="l" cid="c45015013.1"/>joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015014"/>
+    <heading>Paul the Minister to the Gentiles</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="m" cid="c45015014.1"/>I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers,<note nid="n45015014.1"/> that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with <crossref let="n" cid="c45015014.2"/>all knowledge and able to instruct one another.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015015"/>
+    <verse num="15">But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, <crossref let="o" cid="c45015015.1"/>because of the grace given me by God</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015016"/>
+    <verse num="16">to be <crossref let="p" cid="c45015016.1"/>a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles <crossref let="q" cid="c45015016.2"/>in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that <crossref let="r" cid="c45015016.3"/>the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015017"/>
+    <verse num="17">In Christ Jesus, then, I have <crossref let="s" cid="c45015017.1"/>reason to be proud of <crossref let="t" cid="c45015017.2"/>my work for God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015018"/>
+    <verse num="18">For I will not venture to speak of anything except <crossref let="u" cid="c45015018.1"/>what Christ has accomplished through me <crossref let="v" cid="c45015018.2"/>to bring the Gentiles to obedience&emdash;by word and deed,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015019"/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="w" cid="c45015019.1"/>by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God&emdash;so that <crossref let="x" cid="c45015019.2"/>from Jerusalem and all the way around <crossref let="y" cid="c45015019.3"/>to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015020"/>
+    <verse num="20">and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, <crossref let="z" cid="c45015020.1"/>lest I build on someone else&apos;s foundation,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015021"/>
+    <verse num="21">but as it is written,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="a" cid="c45015021.1"/><crossref cid="t45015021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="45015021.1" from="45015021.1" to="45015021.2"/>Those who have never been told of him will see,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and those who have never heard will understand.<q class="end-double" qid="45015021.2" from="45015021.1" to="45015021.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015022"/>
+    <heading>Paul&apos;s Plan to Visit Rome</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="22">This is the reason why <crossref let="b" cid="c45015022.1"/>I have so often been hindered from coming to you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015023"/>
+    <verse num="23">But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and <crossref let="c" cid="c45015023.1"/>since I have longed for many years to come to you,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015024"/>
+    <verse num="24">I hope to see you in passing as I go <crossref let="d" cid="c45015024.1"/>to Spain, and <crossref let="e" cid="c45015024.2"/>to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015025"/>
+    <verse num="25">At present, however, <crossref let="f" cid="c45015025.1"/>I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015026"/>
+    <verse num="26">For <crossref let="g" cid="c45015026.1"/>Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015027"/>
+    <verse num="27">For they were pleased to do it, and indeed <crossref let="h" cid="c45015027.1"/>they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015028"/>
+    <verse num="28">When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected,<note nid="n45015028.1"/> I will leave <crossref let="i" cid="c45015028.1"/>for Spain by way of you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015029"/>
+    <verse num="29">I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing<note nid="n45015029.1"/> of Christ.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015030"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="30">I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by <crossref let="j" cid="c45015030.1"/>the love of the Spirit, <crossref let="k" cid="c45015030.2"/>to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015031"/>
+    <verse num="31"><crossref let="l" cid="c45015031.1"/>that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that <crossref let="m" cid="c45015031.2"/>my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015032"/>
+    <verse num="32">so that by God&apos;s will I may come to you with joy and <crossref let="n" cid="c45015032.1"/>be refreshed in your company.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45015033"/>
+    <verse num="33">May <crossref let="o" cid="c45015033.1"/>the God of peace be with you all. Amen.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016001"/>
+  <chapter num="16">
+    <heading>Personal Greetings</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant<note nid="n45016001.1"/> of the church at <crossref let="p" cid="c45016001.1"/>Cenchreae,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016002"/>
+    <verse num="2">that you <crossref let="q" cid="c45016002.1"/>may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">Greet <crossref let="r" cid="c45016003.1"/>Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016004"/>
+    <verse num="4">who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Greet also <crossref let="s" cid="c45016005.1"/>the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was <crossref let="t" cid="c45016005.2"/>the first convert<note nid="n45016005.1"/> to Christ in Asia.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Greet Andronicus and Junia,<note nid="n45016007.1"/> my kinsmen and my <crossref let="u" cid="c45016007.1"/>fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles,<note nid="n45016007.2"/> and they were in Christ before me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016009"/>
+    <verse num="9">Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those <crossref let="v" cid="c45016010.1"/>who belong to the family of Aristobulus.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers<note nid="n45016014.1"/> who are with them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="w" cid="c45016016.1"/>Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016017"/>
+    <heading>Final Instructions and Greetings</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles <crossref let="x" cid="c45016017.1"/>contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; <crossref let="y" cid="c45016017.2"/>avoid them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016018"/>
+    <verse num="18">For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but <crossref let="z" cid="c45016018.1"/>their own appetites,<note nid="n45016018.1"/> and <crossref let="a" cid="c45016018.2"/>by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016019"/>
+    <verse num="19">For <crossref let="b" cid="c45016019.1"/>your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you <crossref let="c" cid="c45016019.2"/>to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016020"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="d" cid="c45016020.1"/>The God of peace <crossref let="e" cid="c45016020.2"/>will soon crush Satan under your feet. <crossref let="f" cid="c45016020.3"/>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="g" cid="c45016021.1"/>Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016022"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="22">I Tertius, <crossref let="h" cid="c45016022.1"/>who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016023"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="i" cid="c45016023.1"/>Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.<note nid="n45016023.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016025"/>
+    <heading>Doxology</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="25"><crossref let="j" cid="c45016025.1"/>Now to him who is able to strengthen you <crossref let="k" cid="c45016025.2"/>according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, <crossref let="l" cid="c45016025.3"/>according to the revelation of the mystery <crossref let="m" cid="c45016025.4"/>that was kept secret for <crossref let="n" cid="c45016025.5"/>long ages</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016026"/>
+    <verse num="26">but <crossref let="o" cid="c45016026.1"/>has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, <crossref let="p" cid="c45016026.2"/>to bring about the obedience of faith&emdash;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v45016027"/>
+    <verse num="27">to <crossref let="q" cid="c45016027.1"/>the only wise God <crossref let="r" cid="c45016027.2"/>be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+</book>
+</crossway-bible>