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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans
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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
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God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
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Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
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Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also
in the likeness of his
resurrection:
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Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with
him,
that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
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For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
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Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
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For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
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Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13
Neither yield ye your members
as
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members
as
instruments of righteousness unto God.
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For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
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What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
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Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
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Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
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I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
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For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
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What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things
is
death.
22
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
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For the wages of sin
is
death; but the gift of God
is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
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For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to
her
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of
her
husband.
3
So then if, while
her
husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another,
even
to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
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For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
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But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not
in
the oldness of the letter.
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What shall we say then?
Is
the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin
was
dead.
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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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And the commandment, which
was ordained
to life, I found
to be
unto death.
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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew
me.
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Wherefore the law
is
holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
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For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
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For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
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If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that
it is
good.
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Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
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For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but
how
to perform that which is good I find not.
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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
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Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
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I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
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For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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There is
therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
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For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
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That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
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For to be carnally minded
is
death; but to be spiritually minded
is
life and peace.
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Because the carnal mind
is
enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
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So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
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But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
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And if Christ
be
in you, the body
is
dead because of sin; but the Spirit
is
life because of righteousness.
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But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
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Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
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For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
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And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with
him,
that we may be also glorified together.
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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time
are
not worthy
to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
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For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected
the same
in hope,
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Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
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And not only
they,
but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption,
to wit,
the redemption of our body.
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For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
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But if we hope for that we see not,
then
do we with patience wait for
it.
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Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what
is
the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to
the will of
God.
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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to
his
purpose.
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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate
to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
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What shall we then say to these things? If God
be
for us, who
can be
against us?
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He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
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Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect?
It is
God that justifieth.
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Who
is
he that condemneth?
It is
Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
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Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
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That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
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For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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Who are Israelites; to whom
pertaineth
the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service
of God,
and the promises;
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Whose
are
the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ
came,
who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
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Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they
are
not all Israel, which are of Israel:
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Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham,
are they
all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
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That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these
are
not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
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For this
is
the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
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And not only
this;
but when Rebecca also had conceived by one,
even
by our father Isaac;
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(For
the children
being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
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It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
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As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
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What shall we say then?
Is there
unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
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For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
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So then
it is
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
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For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will
have mercy,
and whom he will he hardeneth.
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Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
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Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed
it,
Why hast thou made me thus?
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Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
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What
if God, willing to shew
his
wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
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And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
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Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
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And it shall come to pass,
that
in the place where it was said unto them, Ye
are
not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
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Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
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For he will finish the work, and cut
it
short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
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And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
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But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
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Wherefore? Because
they sought it
not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
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As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
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Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
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For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
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For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
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For Christ
is
the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
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For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
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But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down
from above:
)
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Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
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But what saith it? The word is nigh thee,
even
in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
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That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
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For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
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For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
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For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
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And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
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But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
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So then faith
cometh
by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
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But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by
them that are
no people,
and
by a foolish nation I will anger you.
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But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
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But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
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I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham,
of
the tribe of Benjamin.
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God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
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Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
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But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to
the image of
Baal.
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Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
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And if by grace, then
is it
no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if
it be
of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
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What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
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(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
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And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
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Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
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I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but
rather
through their fall salvation
is come
unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
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Now if the fall of them
be
the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
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For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
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If by any means I may provoke to emulation
them which are
my flesh, and might save some of them.
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For if the casting away of them
be
the reconciling of the world, what
shall
the receiving
of them be,
but life from the dead?
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For if the firstfruit
be
holy, the lump
is
also
holy:
and if the root
be
holy, so
are
the branches.
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And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
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Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
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Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
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Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
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For if God spared not the natural branches,
take heed
lest he also spare not thee.
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Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in
his
goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
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And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
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For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural
branches,
be graffed into their own olive tree?
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For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
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And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
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For this
is
my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
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As concerning the gospel,
they are
enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election,
they are
beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
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For the gifts and calling of God
are
without repentance.
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For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
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Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
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For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
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O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable
are
his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
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For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
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Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
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For of him, and through him, and to him,
are
all things: to whom
be
glory for ever. Amen.
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