The apostolic letter is addressed to the Christian communities of Rome. The Christians of Rome are entirely pagan converts. Unable to communicate directly with the Romans, Paul in his letter conveys in an abbreviated form all the theses of his teaching. The Epistle to the Romans of the Apostle Paul is rightfully considered one of the best examples of ancient literature in general.
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On our website you can read or listen to the Epistle to the Romans. The message consists of 16 chapters.
Authorship and time of writing.
The Epistle to the Romans has the first place among all the epistles of the Apostle, although in time it is not the earliest. Biblical scholars date the writing of the Epistle of St. Apostle Paul to the Romans to the year 58. The probable place of writing is Corinth. The book of Romans was probably written towards the end of Paul's third missionary journey.
The authenticity of the message is beyond doubt. The Epistle to the Romans has always enjoyed great authority among the Fathers of the Church. At the beginning of the letter, Paul identifies himself by name. The last chapter of the Epistle says that it was written down by the Apostle’s disciple, Tertius, from the words of Paul himself. Other evidence in the text also favors Pauline authorship.
The main themes of Paul's letter to the Romans.
In his Message, the author raised many topics that were important for Christian theology on the path of its formation. Paul paid special attention to one of the sources of the main disagreements in the Church of that time - the Mosaic Law for the Gentiles who entered the Church.
The second most important theme that the Apostle Paul raises in his letter to the Romans is Israel's response to the spread of the Good News.
The final chapters of the Epistle provide instructions to the Christians of the Roman community.
Commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
In his letter, Paul addresses the Christians of Rome, who for the most part were formerly pagans, only a small part of Roman Christians were Jews. Paul himself calls himself “the apostle of the Gentiles.” In the last chapter of the Epistle, the author sends personal greetings to the leaders of the Roman Church (he names 28 names in total), from which we can conclude that the Apostle Paul had a great influence on the Christian community. Many of the leading figures in this community were converted to faith through Paul's work.
One of the purposes of writing Romans was to inform the community of his intention to visit Rome and to prepare Christians for his arrival. Paul always had a great desire to visit the Roman community and wanted the believers of Rome to pray for the fulfillment of these plans. Paul wanted to personally preach the gospel of universal salvation to the Romans. In the letter, Paul introduces the Romans to the triune God's plan for the salvation of mankind. Paul was also concerned about the contradictions that arose in the Roman Christian community between Jews and pagans. Paul spoke of the privilege of “being a Jew,” but he emphasized the “accessibility” of faith and God to other nations.
The Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans talks a lot about the “righteousness of God”, which is accepted by faith. This truth is inherent in God and is manifested in all His actions. God gives this truth to man through faith.
Summary of the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans.
Chapter 1. Introduction, greeting, presentation of the theme of the Message. Reasoning that in the wrath of God His righteousness is revealed.
Chapter 2. About human courts and the Judgment of God. Jesus Christ. Condemnation of the unbelief and hypocrisy of the Jews.
Chapter 3. About sinfulness and unbelief. Everyone is aware of their sinfulness. About the righteousness of God.
Chapter 4. Examples of the Righteousness of God. Righteousness is measured by faith.
Chapter 5. Sinfulness and righteousness in contrast.
Chapter 6. About sanctification. About the service of righteousness.
Chapter 7. Triad Faith-Sin-Law.
Chapter 8. The Power and Confidence of the Sanctified
Chapter 9. About the right of God to make election. Explanation of the principle of election. Israel is the chosen people. Election results.
Chapter 10. The relationship between God and God's Chosen People.
Chapter 11. The Immutability of God's Election. About the relationship of pagans with God.
Chapter 12. God's righteousness manifested in the lives of the Gentiles. About Christian service and relationships.
Chapter 13. About the attitude towards the authorities, about life and the approaching salvation.
Chapter 14. About the relationship between believers.
Chapter 15. About the imitation of Christ. About the personal plans of the Apostle Paul to visit the Romans.
Chapter 16. Greetings to members of the Roman community.
The purpose of the law is Christ (1–4). Salvation by grace (5–11). Israel is to blame for its own rejection (12–21).
. Brethren! The desire of my heart and to God is for Israel for salvation.
The Apostle now begins to develop and deepen the thought expressed in verses 30-33 of chapter 9. Israel, blinded by its own thoughts of achieving righteousness, did not understand that the goal to which the law led the Jews was Christ and the righteousness of faith that He brought.
“Desire” is more correct: benevolence (ευδοκία).
. For I testify to them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to reason.
. For not understanding the righteousness of God and trying to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God,
“Deliver”, i.e. make something obligatory (Cf. ;). – "Own righteousness", i.e., such as could have resulted from the accomplishment of known deeds and exploits by the people themselves (cf. Phil 3i). – "The Righteousness of God", that is, the divine order of life, to which people must express obedience through faith.
. for the end of the law is Christ, for righteousness to everyone who believes.
"Because…" . The Apostle proves by this that the disobedience of the Jews to Christ stemmed from their lack of understanding of the Divine righteousness to which the law testified. The law pointed to Christ; in Christ the righteousness appeared before us, to which the law pointed as an ideal, and it is given to everyone who believes in Christ. A correctly understood law should serve as a guide for Jews to Christ, so that they could be justified through faith in him. – Thus, it is more correct to replace the expression “end of the law” with another expression: the purpose of the law, as other interpreters understood this place (I. Zlat., Theodorit, Theophylact). This translation also corresponds to the meaning of the Greek. text of the expression (τέλος νόμου). But how could the law point to Christ as its own end? The law contains the ideal of righteousness. Since this ideal was outlined by God Himself, it must certainly be realized. Meanwhile, people have become convinced from their own experience that none of them is able to realize this ideal on their own (). Therefore, Christ appeared and fulfilled it. Already on the basis of this, the Apostle could say that Christ is the goal of the law. But this is not enough. The law has not yet fully achieved its purpose when one person carried out its instructions - the law is given for everyone. And so Christ’s righteousness, emanating from Christ, passes on to all who believe in Him. Thus, Christ is the goal of the law in the full sense of the word, and at the same time, perhaps, the end of it, because he finally realizes the goal of the law - the justification of man.
. Moses writes about the righteousness of the law: the man who does it will live by it,
The Lawgiver himself, Moses, recognized the attainment of righteousness as an unattainable task, because for this a person had to fulfill all the various requirements of the law. Meanwhile, receiving justification now, with the coming of Christ, seems quite possible, because it requires from a person only firm faith in Christ.
Wanting to show the foolishness of the Jews, who stubbornly stood for the previous method of justification - through fulfilling the law, the Apostle says that Moses himself considered such a path not leading to the goal, since, according to his statement, life or justification can be obtained only by the person who fulfills all, without exception, the requirements of the law (). And that such fulfillment is beyond the strength of any mortal - this was already shown by the Apostle in the Epistle to the Romans ().
. But the righteousness of faith says this: Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend to heaven? that is, to bring Christ together.
. Or who will go down into the abyss? that is, to raise Christ from the dead.
On the contrary, the righteousness of faith, which now acts as the savior of man, says this: “Thou shalt not speak.” The Apostle, well aware that Moses could not yet say what the righteousness of faith now says, nevertheless uses his words to express his own thoughts relating to the state of affairs contemporary to him. Moses () did not at all claim that fulfilling the law was an easy matter, but only said that Israel could not justify its crimes by ignorance of the law. He pointed out that Israel does not need to wait for some messenger from heaven, where God dwells, or send overseas to some foreign people, where, perhaps, something is known about the will of God; God Himself already spoke to Israel in the law, He Himself declared His will to them (30ff.). The Apostle uses the expressions of Moses in a different sense. He says that the questioner: “Who will ascend to heaven?” thereby “bringing Christ down from heaven.” The expression “that is” denotes the opinion or view, the intention with which the question is asked. The Jew who does not believe in Christ, whom the Apostle refers to here, believes that the Messiah has not yet appeared, but will appear later, perhaps from heaven, or perhaps from the underworld (the abyss is used here in the sense of the underworld, cf. ;). But to say this means repeating the same crime as was committed by the ancient Jews, who did not see in the law a completely sufficient explanation of the will of God.
. But what does Scripture say? The word is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the word of faith that we preach.
“But what does Scripture say?” According to the best codes it reads: “but what does it say?” (i.e. this righteousness is from faith). Here righteousness from faith already gives a positive explanation of the matter. The Apostle, however, here too puts his answer in the form of the speech of Moses (): “The word is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart.” But the Apostle, instead of saying that the Messiah had already appeared and lived on earth and thereby finding out how “near the word” was for unbelieving Jews, says, in explanation of this closeness, that the apostles’ sermon about the coming Messiah is already being heard ( Wed). He does this in view of the fact that for unbelieving Jews Christ is no different from other people who have died and are in the underworld. On earth, He appears to them in the word of the sermon, which is heard from the lips of the apostles. And this sermon is the word of faith as opposed to the law of works (cf. ;). It announces the completion of redemption, the perception of which requires nothing more than faith, whereas the law has always required works from the person himself. And this word of faith is incomparably closer to the listeners than the teaching of the Law of Moses, because the path from hearing the apostolic preaching to faith and confession is much closer than the path from hearing the commandments of the Law of Moses to their complete fulfillment.
. For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
This is the last word of righteousness from faith, with which it now addresses the unbelieving Jew. Since the speech here is addressed to an unbelieving Jew, the Apostle especially emphasizes the need for faith in the resurrection of Christ (cf.).
. because with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.
Here the Apostle himself speaks, explaining the above requirement, which is expressed by the mouth of righteousness from faith. He distinguishes here between the righteousness or justification received upon entry into the Church of Christ, and the final salvation that will be given to believers at the second coming of Christ to earth. The first is achieved only by heartfelt, sincere acceptance of the Gospel (heart), and the second by the firm confession of Christ before His enemies that continues throughout the life of a Christian (cf. ;).
. For the Scripture says: Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.
. There is no difference here between Jew and Greek, because there is one Lord of all, rich for all who call on Him.
“One Lord” is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of all people who call on Him (John Chrysostom). – “Rich” – of course, by grace and salvation (cf. ; ). – "Those who call on Him". As can be seen from what follows, the Apostle does not make any distinction between the calling of Christ and the calling of God.
. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
What Joel says about God (according to the Greek text LXX), the Apostle relates directly to Christ. Next, a place from the book. The prophet Joel has, according to the apostle, a messianic meaning.
. But how can we call upon Him in whom we have not believed? How can one believe in Him of whom one has not heard? How to hear without a preacher?
But in order to believe in the Savior as the Lord, it was necessary to hear a sermon about Him. Preachers or messengers about Christ had to appear, who certainly had to have authority from God for this matter. Thus, it means that it was the will of God that the sermon about salvation through faith was preached to the Jews. If the Jews turned out to be inattentive to this sermon, then there is nothing to be embarrassed about: the own prophets of the Jewish people foresaw and predicted this unbelief of the Jews, as well as the conversion of the pagans to Christ. Israel obviously did not want to believe in Christ and, thus, is itself to blame for its rejection.
. And how can we preach if they are not sent? as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good tidings of peace!
. But not everyone obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says: Lord! who believed what they heard from us?
. So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
"From the Word of God", i.e. from the command of the Divine ( Rom.10:19. I also ask: didn’t Israel know? But the first Moses says: I will arouse jealousy in you because of no people, I will provoke you to anger because of a foolish people.
“Didn’t Israel know?” i.e., “didn’t the Jews really understand the message of salvation through faith?” The answer to this question must be given by the readers themselves, and this answer is clear: yes, they did not understand the Gospel! The pagans understood, but the Jews did not, and in this the prediction of Moses came true ().
. And Isaiah boldly says: Those who did not seek Me found Me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask about Me.
. Of Israel he says: All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and stubborn people.
Why didn't the Jews understand the Gospel? Because they are a disobedient people and stubborn in their unbelief. They did not want to believe, as the prophet Isaiah prophesied about this, prophesied boldly, without fear of the anger of the people, who jealously guarded their rights to the Kingdom of the Messiah.
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, chosen for the gospel of God,
2 which God promised before through His prophets in the holy scriptures,
3 about his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh
4 and was revealed to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, through the resurrection from the dead, through Jesus Christ our Lord,
5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship, that in His name we might bring all nations under faith,
6 Among whom are you also, who have been called by Jesus Christ,
7 To all the beloved of God who are in Rome, the called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
9 God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that I make mention of you continually,
10 always asking in my prayers that the will of God may one day prosper me to come to you,
11 For I greatly desire to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,
12 that is, to be comforted with you by our common faith, yours and mine.
13 I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that I intended to come to you many times (but have been hindered even until now) so that I might have some fruit among you, as well as among other nations.
14 I am indebted to Greeks and barbarians, to the wise and to the ignorant.
15 Therefore, as for me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
17 In it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written: The righteous shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
19 For what can be known about God is obvious to them, because God has shown it to them.
20 For His invisible things, His eternal power and Godhead, have been visible from the creation of the world through the consideration of creatures, so that they are without answer.
21 But because they, having known God, did not glorify Him as God, and did not give thanks, but became futile in their speculations, and their foolish hearts were darkened;
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed creatures, and creeping things, -
24 Then God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, so that they defiled their own bodies.
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever, amen.
26 Therefore God gave them over to shameful passions: their women exchanged natural uses for unnatural ones;
27 Likewise, men also, abandoning the natural use of the female sex, were inflamed with lust for one another, men committing shame on men and receiving in themselves the due recompense for their error.
28 And since they did not care to have God in their minds, God gave them over to a depraved mind - to do lewd things,
29 so that they are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil spirits,
30 slanderers, slanderers, haters of God, oppressors, self-praisers, proud, devising evil, disobedient to their parents,
31 foolish, treacherous, unloving, implacable, unmerciful.
32 They know the righteous judgment of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death; however, not only do they do them, but they also approve of those who do them.
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1 Therefore, you are inexcusable, every man who judges another, for by the same judgment with which you judge another you condemn yourself, because in judging another you do the same.
2 And we know that truly there is judgment of God on those who do such things.
3 Do you really think, O man, that you will escape the judgment of God by condemning those who do such things and (yourself) doing the same?
4 Or do you despise the riches of God’s kindness, meekness and long-suffering, not realizing that God’s goodness leads you to repentance?
5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and revelation of righteous judgment from God,
6 Who will reward everyone according to his deeds:
7 To those who, by persistence in good deeds, seek glory, honor and immortality, eternal life;
8 But to those who persist and do not obey the truth, but give themselves over to unrighteousness, there will be wrath and wrath.
9 Tribulation and distress to every soul of a person who does evil, first the Jew, then the Greek!
10 On the contrary, glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, first to the Jew, then to the Greek!
11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 Those who sin without the law are without the law and will perish; and those who have sinned under the law will be condemned by the law
13 (for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified,
14 For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what is lawful, then, not having the law, they are a law unto themselves:
15 they show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as evidenced by their conscience and their thoughts, sometimes accusing, sometimes justifying one another)
16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secret deeds of men through Jesus Christ.
17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and you take comfort in the law, and you boast in God,
18 and you know His will and understand what is best, learning from the law,
19 And I am confident of myself, that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 A teacher of the ignorant, a teacher of babes, having in the law an example of knowledge and truth:
21 Why, when you teach another, do you not teach yourself?
22 When you preach not to steal, do you steal? When you say, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? By abhorring idols, are you blasphemous?
23 Do you boast about the law, but dishonor God by breaking the law?
24 For for your sake, as it is written, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles.
25 Circumcision is beneficial if you keep the law; and if you are a transgressor of the law, then your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the statutes of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision to him?
27 And he who is uncircumcised by nature and keeps the law, will he not condemn you, a transgressor of the law under the Scripture and circumcision?
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision made outwardly in the flesh;
29 But he who is a Jew inwardly, and that circumcision which is in the heart is in the Spirit, and not in the letter, his praise is not from men, but from God.
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1 So, what is the advantage of being a Jew, or what is the benefit of circumcision?
2 This is a great advantage in every way, but especially in the fact that they have been entrusted with the word of God.
3 For what? even if some were unfaithful, will their unfaithfulness destroy the faithfulness of God?
4 No way. God is faithful, but every man is a liar, as it is written: Thou art righteous in Thy words, and thou shalt prevail in Thy judgment.
5 If our unrighteousness reveals the truth of God, then what shall we say? won't God be unjust when he expresses anger? (I speak from human reasoning).
6 No way. For how else can God judge the world?
7 For if the faithfulness of God is elevated by my unfaithfulness to the glory of God, why else should I be judged as a sinner?
8 And should we not do evil so that good may come, as some slander us and say that we teach this way? The judgment against such is just.
9 So what? do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already proved that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,
10 As it is written: There is none righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands; no one seeks God;
12 They have all turned aside from the way, even one of them is worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.
13 Their throat is an open tomb; they deceive with their tongue; the poison of asps is on their lips.
14 Their lips are full of slander and bitterness.
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 destruction and destruction are in their ways;
17 They do not know the way of peace.
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 But we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth is stopped, and the whole world becomes guilty before God,
20 For by the works of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, to which the law and the prophets testify,
22 The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ is to all and to all who believe, for there is no difference,
23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God offered as a propitiation by His blood through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness in the forgiveness of sins previously committed,
26 during the longsuffering of God, for the demonstration of his righteousness at this time, that he may appear righteous and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is there something to boast about? destroyed. What law? the law of affairs? No, but by the law of faith.
28 For we acknowledge that a man is justified by faith, apart from the works of the law.
29 Is God really the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? Of course, pagans too,
30 For there is one God, who will justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcised by faith.
31 Do we then make void the law by faith? No way; but we affirm the law.
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1 What, say, did Abraham our father acquire in the flesh?
2 If Abraham was justified by works, he has praise, but not before God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
4 The reward of the one who works is not accounted according to mercy, but according to debt.
5 But to him who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.
6 So David calls the man blessed to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:
7 Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute sin.
9 Does this blessedness apply to circumcision or to uncircumcision? We say that Abraham's faith was counted as righteousness.
10 When was it imputed? after circumcision or before circumcision? Not after circumcision, but before circumcision.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness through the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he became the father of all who believed in the uncircumcision, so that righteousness might be imputed to them also,
12 and the father of the circumcision, not only having received circumcision, but also walking in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had while uncircumcised.
13 For the promise was not given to Abraham, or to his seed, by law, to be heir of the world, but by the righteousness of faith.
14 If those who are established in the law are heirs, then faith is vain, the promise is useless;
15 For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore according to faith, so that it may be according to mercy, so that the promise may be sure to all, not only according to the law, but also according to the faith of the descendants of Abraham, who is the father of us all
17 (as it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations) before God, whom he believed, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth things that are not as though they were.
18 He believed with hope, beyond hope, through which he became the father of many nations, according to what was said: “So many will your seed be.”
19 And, not failing in faith, he did not consider that his body, almost a hundred years old, was already dead, and Sarah’s womb was dead;
20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but remained steadfast in faith, giving glory to God.
21 and being fully confident that He is able to do what He has promised.
22 Therefore it was counted to him as righteousness.
23 But it was not written in relation to him alone that it was imputed to him,
24 but also in relation to us; will be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus Christ our Lord from the dead,
25 Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our justification.
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1 Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only this, but we glory in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces patience,
4 From patience comes experience, from experience comes hope,
5 But hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
6 For Christ, while we were still weak, at the appointed time died for the ungodly.
7 For hardly anyone will die for a righteous man; maybe someone will decide to die for a benefactor.
8 But God demonstrates His love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more therefore now, having been justified by His blood, we will be saved from wrath through Him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by His life.
11 And not only this, but we glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all sinned.
13 For even before the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 However, death reigned from Adam to Moses and over those who did not sin, like the transgression of Adam, who is the image of the future.
15 But the gift of grace is not like a crime. For if through the crime of one many were put to death, much more will the grace of God and the gift by the grace of one Man, Jesus Christ, abound for many.
16 And the gift is not like judgment for one sinner; for judgment for one crime leads to condemnation; and the gift of grace leads to justification from many crimes.
17 For if through the transgression of the one death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.
18 Therefore, just as through one transgression there was condemnation for all men, so through one righteousness there was justification for life for all men.
19 For just as through one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so through one man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
20 But the law came after, and thus the transgression increased. And when sin increased, grace began to abound,
21 That as sin reigned unto death, so grace also might reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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1 What shall we say? Should we remain in sin so that grace may increase? No way.
2 We died to sin: how can we live in it?
3 Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we are united to Him in the likeness of His death, we must also be united in the likeness of His resurrection,
6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
7 For he who died was freed from sin.
8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
9 Knowing that Christ, having risen from the dead, dies no more: death no longer has power over Him.
10 For because He died, He died once to sin; and what he lives, he lives for God.
11 Likewise, count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts;
13 And do not yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14 Sin must not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? No way.
16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves to obey, you are also slaves to whom you obey, either slaves of sin to death, or slaves of obedience to righteousness?
17 Thanks be to God, that you, having formerly been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you have given yourselves.
18 Having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
19 I speak from human reasoning because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness for wicked works, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for holy works.
20 For while you were slaves to sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit did you have then? Such deeds of which you yourself are now ashamed, because their end is death.
22 But now that you have been freed from sin and become slaves of God, your fruit is holiness, and the end is eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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1 Do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has power over a person while he lives?
2 A married woman is bound by law to her living husband; and if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of marriage.
3 Therefore, if she marries another while her husband is living, she is called an adulteress; if her husband dies, she is free from the law, and will not be an adulteress if she marries another husband.
4 So you too, my brothers, died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, who was raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit to God.
5 For while we were living in the flesh, the passions of sin, revealed by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit in death;
6 But now, having died to the law by which we were bound, we have been freed from it, that we might serve God in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say? Is it really sin from the law? No way. But I knew sin no other way than through the law. For I would not understand desire if the law did not say: do not desire.
8 But sin, taking occasion from the commandment, produced in me every desire: for without the law sin is dead.
9 I once lived without law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life,
10 and I died; and thus the commandment given for life served me to death,
11 Because sin, taking occasion from the commandment, deceived me and killed me with it.
12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and righteous, and good.
13 So, has what is good become deadly to me? No way; but sin, which turns out to be sin because through good it causes death to me, so that sin becomes extremely sinful through the commandment.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For I do not understand what I do: because I do not do what I want, but what I hate, I do.
16 But if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good,
17 Therefore it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18 For I know that no good thing dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because the desire for good is in me, but I don’t find it to do it.
19 I do not do the good that I want, but the evil that I do not want, I do.
20 But if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 Therefore I find a law, that when I would do good, evil is present to me.
22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man;
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
24 Poor man I am! who will deliver me from this body of death?
25 I thank my God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.
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1There is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit,
2 because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
3 Because the law, weakened by the flesh, had no power, God sent His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sacrifice for sin and condemned sin in the flesh,
4 that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on carnal things, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on spiritual things.
6 To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace,
7 because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for they do not obey the law of God, and indeed cannot.
8 Therefore those who live according to the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you do not live according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11 If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;
13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if through the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
15 Because you did not receive the spirit of slavery to live in fear again, but you received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry: “Abba, Father!”
16 This very Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
17 And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
19 For the creation waits with hope for the revelation of the sons of God,
20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not voluntarily, but by the will of him who subjected it, in hope,
21 that the creation itself will be freed from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now;
23 and not only she, but we ourselves, having the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved in hope. But hope, when it sees, is not hope; for if anyone sees, what can he hope for?
25 But when we hope for what we do not see, then we wait with patience.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be expressed.
27 But he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 Moreover we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
29 For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 And whom He predestined, them He also called, and whom He called, them He also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified.
31 What can we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not with Him also freely give us all things?
33 Who will accuse God's elect? God justifies them.
34 Who condemns? Christ Jesus died, but also rose again: He is also at the right hand of God, and He intercedes for us.
35 Who will separate us from the love of God: tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? as written:
36 For Your sake they kill us every day; they count us as sheep doomed to the slaughter.
37 But we overcome all these things through the power of Him who loved us.
38 For I am confident that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, neither the present nor the future,
39 Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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1 I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bears witness to me in the Holy Spirit,
2 that there is great sorrow for me and constant torment of my heart:
3 I would like to be excommunicated from Christ for my brothers who are related to me according to the flesh,
4 that is, the Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law, and the worship, and the promises;
5 theirs are the fathers, and from them is Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed forever, amen.
6 But it is not that the word of God is not fulfilled: for not all are Israelites which are of Israel;
7 And not all the children of Abraham who are of his seed, but it is said, Thy seed shall be called Isaac.
8 That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are recognized as the seed.
9 And the word of promise is this: At this same time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.
10 And not only this; but so it was with Rebekah, when she conceived at the same time two sons from Isaac our father.
11 For while they were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad (so that the purpose of God in election might take place
12 not from works, but from Him who calls), it was said to her: the older will be enslaved by the younger,
13 Just as it is written: Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
14 What shall we say? Is it really not true with God? No way.
15 For He saith unto Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will show mercy; I will regret whoever I feel sorry for.
16 Therefore, mercy does not depend on the one who wishes, nor on the one who strives, but on God who has mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose I raised you up, that I might show My power over you, and that My name might be preached throughout all the earth.
18 So he has mercy on whomever he wants; and he hardens whomever he wants.
19 You will say to me: “Why does he still accuse me? For who can resist His will?”
20 And who are you, O man, that you argue with God? Will the product say to the person who made it: “Why did you make me this way?”
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, that out of the same mixture he may make one vessel for honorable use, and another for base use?
22 What if God, desiring to show His wrath and demonstrate His power, with great patience spared the vessels of wrath that were ready to perish?
23 that together He might display the riches of His glory upon the vessels of mercy, which He has prepared for glory,
24 over us, whom He called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
25 As also in Hosea he says: I will call not my people my people, and not my beloved, beloved.
26 And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” there they will be called sons of the living God.
27 And Isaiah declares concerning Israel: Though the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea in number, only a remnant shall be saved;
28 For the work is finished and will soon be decided in righteousness; the Lord will complete the decisive work on earth.
29 And as Isaiah foretold: If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah.
30 What shall we say? The Gentiles, who did not seek righteousness, received righteousness, the righteousness of faith.
31 But Israel, who sought the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law of righteousness.
32 Why? because they sought not in faith, but in works of the law. For they stumbled over the stumbling stone,
33 as it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a stone of offense; but whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.
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1 Brothers! my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel's salvation.
2 For I testify to them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God,
4 For the end of the law is Christ, for righteousness to everyone who believes.
5 Moses writes about the righteousness of the law: the man who does it will live by it.
6 But the righteousness of faith says this: Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven? that is, to bring Christ together.
7 Or who will go down into the abyss? that is, to raise Christ from the dead.
8 But what does Scripture say? The word is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the word of faith that we preach.
9 For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.
11 For the Scripture says: Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.
12 Here there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for there is one Lord of all, rich to all who call on Him.
13 For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
14 But how can we call on Him in whom we have not believed? How can one believe in Him of whom one has not heard? How to hear without a preacher?
15 And how can we preach if they are not sent? as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good tidings of peace!
16 But not everyone obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says: Lord! who believed what they heard from us?
17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I ask: didn’t they hear? On the contrary, their voice went through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
19 Again I ask: Did not Israel know? But the first Moses says: I will arouse jealousy in you because of no people, I will provoke you to anger because of a foolish people.
20 But Isaiah says boldly: Those who did not seek Me found Me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask about Me.
21 But of Israel he says, All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and stubborn people.
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1 So, I ask: has God really rejected His people? No way. For I also am an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God did not reject His people, whom He knew beforehand. Or do you not know what Scripture says in the story of Elijah? how he complains to God about Israel, saying:
3 Lord! They have killed Your prophets, They have destroyed Your altars; I am left alone, and they are looking for my soul.
4 What does God’s answer tell him? I have reserved for Me seven thousand men who did not kneel before Baal.
5 Even so at this time, according to the election of grace, there remains a remnant.
6 But if it is by grace, it is not by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. But if it is by works, then this is no longer grace; otherwise the matter is no longer a matter.
7 What then? Israel did not receive what it sought; the elect received it, but the rest were hardened,
8 As it is written: God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes with which they do not see, and ears with which they do not hear, even to this day.
9 And David says, Let their table be a snare, a snare, and a snare for their retribution;
10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and let their back be bent forever.
11 So I ask: did they really stumble so that they might fall? No way. But from their fall the salvation of the Gentiles is to arouse jealousy in them.
12 If their failure is riches for the world, and their lack of wealth is riches for the Gentiles, how much more is their fullness.
13 I say to you, the Gentiles. As the Apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry.
14 Shall I not make my relatives according to the flesh jealous and save some of them?
15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will there be to receive but life from the dead?
16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the whole; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 If some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive tree, were grafted in their place and became a sharer of the root and juice of the olive tree,
18 then do not be arrogant before the branches. If you are arrogant, then remember that it is not you who holds the root, but the root of you.
19 You will say, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.”
20 Okay. They were broken off through unbelief, but you hold on by faith: do not be proud, but be afraid.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, see if He will also spare you.
22 So you see the goodness and severity of God: severity towards those who have fallen, but kindness towards you, if you continue in the goodness of God; otherwise you too will be cut off.
23 But even those, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut off from the naturally wild olive tree, and were not grafted into the good olive tree according to nature, much more will these natural ones be grafted into their own olive tree.
25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, so that you do not dream about yourself, that a hardening has happened in Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in;
26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come from Zion, and will turn away wickedness from Jacob.
27 And this is my covenant to them, when I take away their sins.
28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; and in relation to election, beloved of God for the sake of the fathers.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
30 Just as you were once disobedient to God, but have now received mercy because of your disobedience,
31 So now they too are disobedient, so that you may have mercy on you, so that they themselves may also receive mercy.
32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of both the wisdom and knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are His destinies and unsearchable His ways!
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who was His adviser?
35 Or who gave Him advance, that He should repay?
36 For all things are from Him, by Him and to Him. To him be glory forever, amen.
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1 Therefore I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service,
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3 By the grace given to me, I say to each of you: do not think more about yourself than you ought to think; but think modestly, according to the measure of faith that God has allocated to each.
4 For just as we have many members in one body, but not all the members have the same function;
5 So we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
6 And since, according to the grace given to us, we have various gifts, if you have prophecy, prophesy according to the measure of faith;
7 If you have a ministry, remain in the ministry; whether a teacher, - in teaching;
8 If you warn, exhort; whether you are a distributor, distribute in simplicity; Whether you are a boss, lead with zeal; Whether you are a benefactor, do charity with cordiality.
9 Let love be unfeigned; turn away from evil, cling to goodness;
10 Be kind to one another with brotherly love; warn one another in respect;
11 Do not slacken in zeal; be on fire in spirit; Serve the Lord;
12 Be comforted by hope; be patient in sorrow, constant in prayer;
13 Contribute to the needs of the saints; be zealous for hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, not curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.
16 Be of the same mind among yourselves; do not be arrogant, but follow the humble; don't dream about yourself;
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but make provision for what is good in the sight of all men.
18 If it is possible on your part, be at peace with all people.
19 Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give room to the wrath of God. For it is written: Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
20 So if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink: for by doing this you will heap burning coals on his head.
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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1 Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God; the existing authorities have been established by God.
2 Therefore he who resists authority resists God’s ordinance. And those who resist will bring condemnation upon themselves.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good deeds, but to evil deeds. Do you want to not be afraid of power? Do good and you will receive praise from her,
4 For the ruler is God’s servant, for your good. If you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain: he is God’s servant, an avenger to punish those who do evil.
5 And therefore one must obey not only out of fear of punishment, but also out of conscience.
6 For this reason you pay taxes, for they are God’s servants, constantly busy with this.
7 Therefore give to everyone their due: to whom to give, to give; to whom quitrent, quitrent; to whom fear, fear; to whom honor, honor.
8 Do not owe anyone anything except mutual love; For he who loves another has fulfilled the law.
9 For the commandments: do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not covet the things of others, and all the others are contained in this word: love your neighbor as yourself.
10 Love does not harm one’s neighbor; So love is the fulfillment of the law.
11 Do this, knowing the time that the hour has come for us to awaken from sleep. For salvation is closer to us now than when we believed.
12 The night is past, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the weapons of light.
13 As during the day, let us behave decently, not indulging in feasting and drunkenness, nor in sensuality and debauchery, nor in quarrels and envy;
14 But put on our Lord Jesus Christ, and do not turn the cares of the flesh into lusts.
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1 Accept him who is weak in the faith without arguing about opinions.
2 For some are confident that they can eat everything, but the weak eat vegetables.
3 He who eats, do not despise him who does not eat; and whoever does not eat, do not condemn the one who eats, because God has accepted him.
4 Who are you, judging another man's servant? Before his Lord he stands, or he falls. And he will be raised up, for God is able to raise him up.
5 One distinguishes one day from another, and another judges every day equally. Everyone act according to the evidence of his own mind.
6 He who discerns the days discerns them for the Lord; and he who does not discern the days does not discern for the Lord. Whoever eats eats for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat does not eat for the Lord, and thanks God.
7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself;
8 And if we live, we live for the Lord; whether we die, we die for the Lord: and therefore, whether we live or die, we are always the Lord’s.
9 For to this end Christ died, and rose again, and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
10 Why do you judge your brother? Or are you also why you humiliate your brother? We will all appear at the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue will confess to God.
12 Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
13 Let us no longer judge each other, but rather judge how not to give your brother any chance of stumbling or temptation.
14 I know and am confident in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; Only to one who considers something unclean, it is unclean for him.
15 But if your brother grieves over food, then you are no longer acting out of love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
16 Let not your goodness be blasphemed.
17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 Whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and worthy of people’s approval.
19 Let us therefore seek what leads to peace and mutual edification.
20 For the sake of food, do not destroy the work of God. Everything is pure, but it is bad for the person who eats because he is tempted.
21 It is better not to eat meat, not to drink wine, and not to do anything that causes your brother to stumble, or to be offended, or to faint.
22 Do you have faith? have it within yourself, before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he chooses.
23 But he who doubts, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not by faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.
24 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which has been kept secret from time immemorial,
25 But which has now been revealed, and through the writings of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all nations for the subjection of their faith,
26 To the only Wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever. Amen.
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1 We who are strong must endure the weaknesses of the weak and not please ourselves.
2 Each of us must please our neighbor for his good and his edification.
3 For Christ did not please Himself, but, as it is written, The slander of those who slandered You fell on Me.
4 But whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through patience and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
5 May the God of patience and comfort grant you to be of one mind with one another, according to the teaching of Christ Jesus,
6 so that with one accord, with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 Therefore accept one another, just as Christ also accepted you to the glory of God.
8 I mean this, that Jesus Christ became a minister to the circumcision for the truth of God, to fulfill what was promised to the fathers,
9 But for the Gentiles - out of mercy, so that they may glorify God, as it is written: Therefore will I praise You, (Lord,) among the Gentiles, and will sing praise to Your name.
10 And it is also said: Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.
11 And again: Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and glorify Him, all you nations.
12 Isaiah also says: The root of Jesse will rise up to rule the nations; The pagans will hope in Him.
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 And I myself am confident about you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, full of all knowledge, and able to instruct one another;
15 But I wrote to you, brothers, with some boldness, partly as a reminder to you, according to the grace given to me from God
16 to be a minister of Jesus Christ among the Gentiles and to perform the sacrament of the gospel of God, so that this offering of the Gentiles, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit, may be acceptable to God.
17 Therefore I can boast in Jesus Christ in the things of God,
18 For I will not dare to say anything that Christ has not done through me in subduing the Gentiles by faith, in word and in deed,
19 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that the gospel of Christ was spread by me from Jerusalem and the surrounding area to Illyricum.
20 Moreover, I tried to preach the gospel not where the name of Christ was already known, so as not to build on someone else’s foundation,
21 But as it is written: Those who have not had news of Him will see, and those who have not heard will know.
22 This is what prevented me from coming to you many times.
23 Now, not having such a place in these countries, but from long ago having a desire to come to you,
24 As soon as I take the road to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope that, as I pass, I will see you and that you will take me there, as soon as I enjoy communication with you, at least in part.
25 And now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints,
26 For Macedonia and Achaia are zealous in giving some alms to the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
27 They are zealous, and they are also in debt to them. For if the pagans have become participants in their spiritual things, then they must also serve them in their physical things.
28 Having accomplished this and having faithfully delivered to them this fruit of my zeal, I will go through your region to Spain,
29 And I am confident that when I come to you, I will come with the full blessing of the gospel of Christ.
30 Meanwhile, I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God for me,
31 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
32 So that I may come to you with joy, if God pleases, and rest with you.
33 May the God of peace be with you all, Amen.
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1 I present to you Phoebe, our sister, deaconess of the Church of Cenchrea.
2 Receive her for the Lord, as is fitting for saints, and help her whatever she needs from you, for she has been a helper to many and to myself.
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus
4 (who laid down their lives for my soul, to whom not I alone give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles), and the church of their own.
5 Greet my beloved Epenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia for Christ.
6 Salute Miriam, who has worked hard for us.
7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and prisoners with me, who were glorified among the Apostles and who believed in Christ before me.
8 Greet Amplius, my beloved in the Lord.
9 Greet Urban, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachy, my beloved.
10 Greet Apelles, tested in Christ. Greet the faithful from the house of Aristobulov.
11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those from the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.
12 Greet Tryphena and Tryphos, who labor for the Lord. Greet beloved Persis, who has labored much for the Lord.
13 Greet Rufus, the chosen one in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
14 Greet Asinkritus, Phlegontus, Hermas, Patrov, Hermias and the other brothers with them.
15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympanos, and all the saints with them.
16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
17 I urge you, brethren, beware of those who cause divisions and temptations, contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and turn away from them;
18 For such people serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and with flattery and eloquence they deceive the hearts of the simple.
19 Your obedience to faith is known to everyone; Therefore, I rejoice for you, but I wish that you would be wise in good and simple in evil.
20 But the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet quickly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you! Amen.
21 Timothy, my fellow servant, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives, greet you.
22 I, Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.
23 Gaius, my host and the whole church, greets you. Erast, the city treasurer, and brother Quart greet you.
24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, chosen for the gospel of God, 2 which God first promised through his prophets in the holy scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 4 and was revealed to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit. holy things, through the resurrection from the dead, in Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship, that in His name we might bring all nations under faith, 6 among whom are you also, who were called by Jesus Christ, 7 to all the beloved who are in Rome To the called saints of God: grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. 9 God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that I remember you continually, 10 always asking in my prayers that the will of God may one day prosper me to come to you, 11 for I greatly desire to see you, so that I may teach you some spiritual gift to strengthen you, 12 that is, to be comforted with your common faith, yours and mine. 13 I do not want, brothers, leave you are unaware that I intended to come to you many times (but have encountered obstacles even until now) in order to have some fruit among you, as well as among other nations. 14 I am indebted to Greeks and barbarians, to the wise and to the ignorant. 15 Therefore, as for me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, firstly to the Jew, Then and Ellin. 17 In it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written: The righteous shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. 19 For what can be known about God is obvious to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For His invisible things, His eternal power and Godhead, have been visible from the creation of the world through the consideration of creatures, so that they are without answer. 21 But because they, having known God, did not glorify Him as God, and did not give thanks, but became futile in their speculations, and their foolish hearts were darkened; 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed creatures, and creeping things; 24 and God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, so that they defiled their own bodies. . 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever, amen. 26 Therefore God gave them over to shameful passions: their women exchanged natural uses for unnatural ones; 27 Likewise, men also, abandoning the natural use of the female sex, were inflamed with lust for one another, men committing shame on men and receiving in themselves the due recompense for their error. 28 And because they did not care to have God in their minds, God gave them over to a depraved mind - to do lewd things, 29 so that they are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, malice, filled with envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-doing, 30 slanderous. , slanderers, haters of God, offenders, self-praisers, proud, inventive in evil, disobedient to parents, 31 reckless, treacherous, unloving, irreconcilable, unmerciful. 32 They know the righteous court God, that those who do such things affairs worthy of death; however not only their do, but also approve of those who do.
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1 Therefore, you are without excuse, every man who judges another, for by the same judgment with which you judge another, you condemn yourself, because, judging another, you do the same. 2 And we know that truly there is judgment of God on those who do such affairs. 3 Do you really think, O man, that you will escape the judgment of God by condemning those who do such things? affairs and (himself) doing the same? 4 Or do you despise the riches of God’s kindness, meekness and long-suffering, not realizing that God’s goodness leads you to repentance? 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of righteous judgment from God, 6 who will reward everyone according to his deeds: 7 to those who by persistence in good deeds seek glory, honor and immortality - life eternal; 8 But to those who persist and do not obey the truth, but give themselves over to unrighteousness, there will be wrath and wrath. 9 Tribulation and distress to every soul of a man who does evil, first of all, a Jew, Then and Yellina! 10 On the contrary, glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, first to the Jews, Then and Ellen! 11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 Those who are not having the law, they have sinned, they are outside the law and will perish; and those who have sinned under the law will be condemned by the law 13 (because it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified, 14 for when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what is lawful, then, not having the law, they themselves a law for themselves: 15 they show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as evidenced by their conscience and their thoughts, now accusing, now justifying one another) 16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secret things affairs people through Jesus Christ.
17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and you reassure yourself with the law, and you boast in God, 18 and you know the will His, and you understand what is best, learning from the law, 19 and you are confident in yourself that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in darkness, 20 a teacher of the ignorant, a teacher of little children, having in the law an example of knowledge and truth: 21 How then, when you teach another, do you not teach yourself? 22 When you preach not to steal, do you steal? When you say, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? By abhorring idols, are you blasphemous? 23 Do you boast about the law, but dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 For for your sake, as it is written, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles. 25 Circumcision is beneficial if you keep the law; and if you are a transgressor of the law, then your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the statutes of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision to him? 27 And he who is uncircumcised by nature and keeps the law, will he not condemn you, a transgressor of the law under the Scripture and circumcision? 28 For he is not a Jew who that's how it is outwardly, and not that circumcision which is external, in the flesh; 29 but That Jew, who inwardly such is And That circumcision, which in the heart, in the spirit, A not according to the letter: his praise comes not from people, but from God.
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1 So, what is the advantage be Jews, or what is the benefit of circumcision? 2 A great advantage in all respects, especially V volume, that they have been entrusted with the word of God. 3 For what? even if some were unfaithful, will their unfaithfulness destroy the faithfulness of God? 4 No way. God is faithful, but every man is a liar, as it is written: Thou art righteous in Thy words, and thou shalt prevail in Thy judgment. 5 If our unrighteousness reveals the truth of God, then what shall we say? won't God be unjust when he expresses anger? (I'm speaking in human terms) reasoning). 6 No way. For otherwise How should God judge the world? 7 For if the faithfulness of God is elevated by my unfaithfulness to the glory of God, why else should I be judged as a sinner? 8 And should we not do evil so that good may come, as some slander us and say that we teach this way? The judgment against such is just.
9 So what? do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already proved that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin, 10 as it is written: There is none righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands; no one seeks God; 12 They have all turned aside from the way, even one of them is worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. 13 Their throat is an open tomb; they deceive with their tongue; the poison of asps is on their lips. 14 Their lips are full of slander and bitterness. 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 destruction and destruction are in their ways; 17 They do not know the way of peace. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 But we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth is stopped, and the whole world becomes guilty before God, 20 because by the works of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, to which the law and the prophets testify, 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe, for there is no difference, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 receiving justification is free by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness in the forgiveness of sins previously committed, 26 in time God's longsuffering, to demonstrate His righteousness at this time, yes will appear He is righteous and the justifier of the one who believes in Jesus. 27 Where is there something to boast about? destroyed. What law? by law business? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we acknowledge that a man is justified by faith, apart from the works of the law. 29 Is it really God There is God Jews only, and not pagans too? Of course, also the Gentiles, 30 for there is one God, who will justify the circumcision through faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law by faith? No way; but we affirm the law.
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1 What, say, did Abraham our father acquire in the flesh? 2 If Abraham was justified by works, he has praise, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness. 4 The reward of the one who works is not accounted according to mercy, but according to debt. 5 But to him who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness. 6 Thus David also calls blessed the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: 7 Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute sin. 9 This bliss applies to circumcision or to uncircumcision? We say that Abraham's faith was counted as righteousness. 10 When was it imputed? after circumcision or before circumcision? Not after circumcision, but before circumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, How the seal of righteousness through faith, which had in uncircumcision, so that he became the father of all who believe in uncircumcision, so that righteousness might be imputed to them, 12 and the father of those who are circumcised, not only accepted circumcision, but also those who walk in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham, which had He in uncircumcision. 13 For it is not by law granted The promise to Abraham, or his seed, is to be heir of the world, but by the righteousness of faith. 14 If those who are established in the law are heirs, then faith is vain, the promise is useless; 15 For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is by faith that was according to mercy, so that the promise might be sure to all, not only according to the law, but also according to the faith of the descendants of Abraham, who is the father of us all 17 (as it is written: I have made you a father of many nations) before God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls non-existent as existing. 18 He believed with hope beyond hope, through which he became the father of many nations, according to what was said: “So numerous shall be your seed." 19 And not failing in faith, he did not consider that his body, almost a hundred years old, was already dead, and Sarah's womb was dead; 20 he did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but remained steadfast in the faith, giving glory to God 21 and being fully confident that He was able to do what He had promised. 22 Therefore it was imputed to him as righteousness. 23 And yet it is not written in relation to him alone that it was imputed to him, 24 but also in relation to us; it will also be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus Christ our Lord from the dead, 25 who was delivered for our sins and rose again for our justification.
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1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that from tribulation comes patience, 4 from patience comes experience, from experience comes hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 6 For Christ, while we were still weak, at the appointed time died for the ungodly. 7 For hardly anyone will die for a righteous man; maybe someone will decide to die for a benefactor. 8 But God demonstrates His love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more therefore now, having been justified by His blood, we will be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by His life. 11 And not only this, but we glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, That's why What all have sinned in it. 13 For And before the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 However, death reigned from Adam to Moses and over those who did not sin, like the transgression of Adam, who is the image of the future. 15 But the gift of grace is not like a crime. For if through the crime of one many were put to death, much more will the grace of God and the gift by the grace of one Man, Jesus Christ, abound for many. 16 And the gift is not like court for one who has sinned; for judgment is for one thing crime- to condemnation; and the gift of grace leads to justification from many crimes. 17 For if through the transgression of the one death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one Jesus Christ. 18 Therefore, just as through one transgression there was condemnation for all men, so through one righteousness there was justification for life for all men. 19 For just as through one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so through one man’s obedience many will be made righteous. 20 But the law came after, and thus the transgression increased. And when sin abounded, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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1 What shall we say? Should we remain in sin so that grace may increase? No way. 2 We died to sin: how can we live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we are united to Him in the likeness of His death, we must be connected And likeness resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 For he who died was freed from sin. 8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having risen from the dead, dies no more: death no longer has power over Him. 10 For because He died, He died once to sin; and what he lives, he lives for God. 11 Likewise, count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts; 13 And do not yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. 14 Sin must not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? No way. 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves to obey, you are slaves to whom you obey, or slaves sin leading to death, or obedience leading to righteousness? 17 Thanks be to God, that you, having formerly been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you have given yourselves. 18 Having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak reasoning human, because of the weakness of your flesh. How have you given your members over as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness? affairs you who are wicked, now present your members as slaves of righteousness affairs the Saints. 20 For while you were slaves to sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then? Such affairs, of which you yourself are now ashamed, because their end is death. 22 But now that you have been freed from sin and become slaves of God, your fruit is holiness, and the end is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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1 Do you not know, brothers (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has power over a person while he lives? 2 A married woman is bound by law to her living husband; and if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of marriage. 3 Therefore, if she marries another while her husband is living, she is called an adulteress; if her husband dies, she is free from the law, and will not be an adulteress if she marries another husband. 4 So you too, my brothers, died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, who was raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit to God. 5 For when we lived according to the flesh, then the passions of sin, detectable by law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit in death; 6 But now, having died to the law by which we were bound, we have been freed from it, that we might serve God in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say? Really from law sin? No way. But I knew sin no other way than through the law. For I would not understand desire if the law did not say: do not desire. 8 But sin, taking occasion from the commandment, produced in me every desire: for without the law sin is dead. 9 I once lived without law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life, 10 and I died; and thus the commandment, given for life, served me to death, 11 because sin, taking the occasion from the commandment, deceived me and killed me with it. 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, and righteous, and good. 13 So, has what is good become deadly to me? No way; but sin, which turns out to be sin because through good it causes death to me, so that sin becomes extremely sinful through the commandment. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand what I do: because I do not do what I want, but what I hate, I do. 16 But if I do what I do not want, then I agree with the law, that it is good, 17 and therefore it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that no good thing dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; because the desire for good is in me, but I don’t find it to do it. 19 I do not do the good that I want, but the evil that I do not want, I do. 20 But if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 Therefore I find a law, that when I would do good, evil is present to me. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man; 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. 24 Poor man I am! who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank my God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.
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1 There is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, 2 because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 Because the law, weakened by the flesh, had no power, God sent His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh V victim for sin and condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on carnal things, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on spiritual things. 6 To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace, 7 because to be carnally minded is enmity against God; for they do not obey the law of God, and indeed cannot. 8 Therefore those who live according to the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you do not live according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he And not his. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if through the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 Because you did not receive the spirit of slavery, to again live in fear, but we received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry: “Abba, Father!” 16 This very Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. 17 And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits with hope for the revelation of the sons of God, 20 because the creation was subjected to vanity, not voluntarily, but by the will of him who subjected it, in hope, 21 that the creation itself will be freed from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now; 23 and more she, but we ourselves, having the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved in hope. But hope, when it sees, is not hope; for if anyone sees, what can he hope for? 25 But when we hope for what we do not see, then we wait with patience.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be expressed. 27 But he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to will God's. 28 Moreover we know that to those who love God, who are called His will, all things work together for good. 29 For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 And whom He predestined, them He also called, and whom He called, them He also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified. 31 What can we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who will accuse God's elect? God justifies their. 34 Who condemns? Christ Jesus died, but also rose again: He is also at the right hand of God, and He intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of God: tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? as it is written: 36 For Your sake we are killed every day; we are counted as sheep, doomed to the slaughter. 37 But we overcome all these things through the power of Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, neither the present nor the future, 39 nor height nor depth nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus the Lord ours. 9
1 I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bears witness to me in the Holy Spirit, 2 that there is great sorrow for me and unceasing torment of my heart: 3 I myself would like to be excommunicated from Christ for my brothers who are related to me according to the flesh, 4 that is The Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law, and the worship, and the promises; 5 theirs are the fathers, and from them is Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed forever, amen. 6 But it is not that the word of God is not fulfilled: for not all are Israelites which are of Israel; 7 And not all the children of Abraham who are of his seed, but it is said, Thy seed shall be called Isaac. 8 That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are recognized as the seed. 9 And the word of promise is this: At this same time I will come, and Sarah will have a son. 10 And not only this; But So was and with Rebekah, when she conceived at the same time two sons from Isaac our father. 11 For when they were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad (so that the purpose of God in election would come 12 not from works, but from Him who calls), it was said to her: The older will be in bondage to the younger, 13 just as it is written: I am of Jacob. loved, but hated Esau.
14 What shall we say? Is it really not true with God? No way. 15 For He saith unto Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will show mercy; I will regret whoever I feel sorry for. 16 So pardon depends not from him who wills, nor from him who runs, but from God who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose I raised you up, that I might show My power over you, and that My name might be preached throughout all the earth. 18 So he has mercy on whomever he wants; and he hardens whomever he wants.
19 You will say to me: “Why does he still accuse me? For who can resist His will?” 20 And who are you, O man, that you argue with God? Will the product say to the person who made it: “Why did you make me this way?” 21 Has not the potter power over the clay, that from the same mixture he may make one vessel for honor? consumption, use and the other for low? 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to demonstrate his power, with great long-suffering spared the vessels of wrath that were ready to perish, 23 so that together he might display the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared for glory, 24 on us, whom he had called not only from the Jews, but also from the pagans? 25 As also in Hosea he says: I will call not my people my people, and not my beloved, beloved. 26 And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” there they will be called sons of the living God. 27 And Isaiah declares concerning Israel: Though the children of Israel were as in number as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved; 28 For the work is finished and will soon be decided in righteousness; the Lord will complete the decisive work on earth. 29 And as Isaiah foretold: If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah.
30 What shall we say? The Gentiles, who did not seek righteousness, received righteousness, the righteousness of faith. 31 But Israel, who sought the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law of righteousness. 32 Why? because were looking for not in faith, but in works of the law. For they have stumbled over the stone of stumbling, 33 as it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a stone of offense; but whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.
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1 Brothers! my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel's salvation. 2 For I testify to them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God, 4 because the end of the law is Christ, for the righteousness of everyone who believes. 5 Moses writes about the righteousness of the law: the man who does it will live by it. 6 But the righteousness of faith says this: Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven? that is, to bring Christ together. 7 Or who will go down into the abyss? that is, to raise Christ from the dead. 8 But what does Scripture say? The word is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the word of faith that we preach. 9 For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved, 10 for with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says: Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame. 12 Here there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for there is one Lord of all, rich to all who call on Him. 13 For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
14 But how to call Togo, In whom did they not believe? how to believe V Togo, Who haven't you heard of? How to hear without a preacher? 15 And how can we preach if they are not sent? as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good tidings of peace! 16 But not everyone obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says: Lord! who believed what they heard from us? 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I ask: didn’t they hear? On the contrary, their voice went through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. 19 Again I ask: Did not Israel know? But the first Moses says: I will arouse jealousy in you because of no people, I will provoke you to anger because of a foolish people. 20 But Isaiah says boldly: Those who did not seek Me found Me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask about Me. 21 But of Israel he says, All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and stubborn people.
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1 So, I ask: has God really rejected His people? No way. For I also am an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject His people, whom He knew beforehand. Or don't know what Scripture says in narration about Elijah? how he complains to God about Israel, saying: 3 Lord! They have killed Your prophets, They have destroyed Your altars; I am left alone, and they are looking for my soul. 4 What does God’s answer tell him? I have reserved for Me seven thousand men who did not kneel before Baal. 5 Even so at this time, according to the election of grace, there remains a remnant. 6 But if it is by grace, it is not by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. But if it is by works, then this is no longer grace; otherwise the matter is no longer a matter. 7 What then? Israel did not receive what it sought; but the elect received it, but the rest were hardened, 8 as it is written: God has given them a spirit of slumber, eyes with which they cannot see, and ears with which they cannot hear, even to this day. 9 And David says, Let their table be a snare, a snare, and a snare for their retribution; 10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and let their back be bent forever.
11 So I ask: did they really stumble, so that at all mouth? No way. But from their fall the salvation of the Gentiles is to arouse jealousy in them. 12 If their failure is riches for the world, and their lack of wealth is riches for the Gentiles, how much more is their fullness.
13 I say to you, the Gentiles. As the Apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry. 14 Will I arouse jealousy in relatives mine according to the flesh, and shall I not save some of them? 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, then what will acceptance if not life from the dead? 16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the whole; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 If some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive tree, were grafted into their place and became a sharer of the root and juice of the olive tree, 18 then do not be arrogant to the branches. If you are arrogant, That remember What It is not you who holds the root, but the root you. 19 You will say, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Okay. They were broken off through unbelief, but you hold on by faith: do not be proud, but be afraid. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, see if He will also spare you. 22 So you see the kindness and severity of God: severity towards those who have fallen away, but kindness towards you, if you continue in kindness God's otherwise you too will be cut off. 23 But even those, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut off from the naturally wild olive tree, and were not grafted into the good olive tree according to nature, much more will these natural ones be grafted into their own olive tree.
25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should dream for yourselves, that a hardening has happened in Israel in part, before time, until it's full number pagans; 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come from Zion, and will turn away wickedness from Jacob. 27 And this is my covenant to them, when I take away their sins. 28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; and in relation to election, beloved God's for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. 30 Just as you were once disobedient to God, but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, 31 so they also are now disobedient, so that you may have mercy, so that they themselves may also receive mercy. 32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of both the wisdom and knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are His destinies and unsearchable His ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who was His adviser? 35 Or who gave Him advance, that He should repay? 36 For all things are from Him, by Him and to Him. To him be glory forever, amen.
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1 Therefore I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, For your reasonable service, 2 and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3 By the grace given to me, I say to every one of you: do not think O to myself more than one should think; but think modestly, according to the measure of faith that God has allocated to each. 4 For just as we have many members in one body, but not all the members have the same function, 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 And how, according to the grace given to us, we have diversified gifts, That, you have whether prophecy, prophesy according to the measure of faith; 7 you have whether service, abide in service; whether a teacher, - in teaching; 8 If you warn, exhort; Is he a distributor? distribute in simplicity; Is it the boss? take charge with zeal; Is he a philanthropist? do good with cordiality. 9 Love Yes will unfeigned; turn away from evil, cling to goodness; 10 Be kind to one another with brotherly love; warn one another in respect; 11 Do not slacken in zeal; be on fire in spirit; Serve the Lord; 12 Be comforted by hope; in sorrow be patient, constant in prayer; 13 Contribute to the needs of the saints; be zealous for hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind among yourselves; do not be arrogant, but follow the humble; don't dream about yourself; 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but make provision for what is good in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible on your part, be at peace with all people. 19 Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give room to anger God's For it is written: Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord. 20 So if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink: for by doing this you will heap burning coals on his head. 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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1 Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God; the existing authorities have been established by God. 2 Therefore he who resists authority resists God’s ordinance. And those who resist will bring condemnation upon themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good deeds, but to evil deeds. Do you want to not be afraid of power? Do good and you will receive praise from her, 4 for boss there is God's servant, for your good. If you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain: he is God’s servant, an avenger to punish those who do evil. 5 And therefore we must obey not only because fear punishment, but also according to conscience. 6 For this reason you pay taxes, for they are God’s servants, constantly busy with this. 7 Therefore give to everyone their due: to whom to give, to give; to whom quitrent, quitrent; to whom fear, fear; to whom honor, honor.
8 Do not owe anyone anything except mutual love; For he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments are: Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet. someone else's and all others are contained in this word: love your neighbor as yourself. 10 Love does not harm one’s neighbor; So love is the fulfillment of the law.
11 So do knowing the time that the hour has come for us to wake up from sleep. For salvation is closer to us now than when we believed. 12 The night is past, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the weapons of light. 13 As in the daytime, let us behave decently, not indulging no feasting and drunkenness, no sensuality and debauchery, no quarrels and envy; 14 But put on our Lord Jesus Christ, and do not turn the cares of the flesh into lusts.
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1 Accept him who is weak in the faith without arguing about opinions. 2 For another is sure What Can eat everything, but the weak eat vegetables. 3 He who eats, do not despise him who does not eat; and whoever does not eat, do not condemn the one who eats, because God has accepted him. 4 Who are you, judging another man's servant? Before his Lord he stands, or he falls. And he will be raised up, for God is able to raise him up. 5 One distinguishes one day from another, and another judges every day equals. Any do it according to the evidence of your mind. 6 He who discerns the days discerns them for the Lord; and he who does not discern the days does not discern for the Lord. Whoever eats eats for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat does not eat for the Lord, and thanks God. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself; 8 And if we live, we live for the Lord; whether we die, we die to the Lord: and therefore, whether we live or die, Always Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ died, and rose again, and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. 10 Why do you judge your brother? Or are you also why you humiliate your brother? We will all appear at the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to Me, and every tongue will confess to God. 12 Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
13 Let us no longer judge each other, but rather judge how not to give to your brother case To stumbling or temptation. 14 I know and am confident in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; Only to him who considers something unclean, it is unclean for him. 15 But if your brother grieves over food, then you are no longer acting out of love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died. 16 Let not your goodness be blasphemed. 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and worthy approval from people. 19 Let us therefore seek what leads to peace and mutual edification. 20 For the sake of food, do not destroy the work of God. Everything is pure, but it is bad for the person who eats because he is tempted. 21 It is better not to eat meat, not to drink wine, and not do Nothing such why does your brother stumble, or is offended, or faints? 22 Do you have faith? have it within yourself, before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he chooses. 23 But he who doubts, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not by faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin. 24 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret from eternity, 25 but which has now been revealed, and through the writings of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, was made known to all nations for the subjection of their faith, 26 To the only Wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever. Amen.
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1 We who are strong must endure the weaknesses of the weak and not please ourselves. 2 Each of us must please our neighbor for his good and his edification. 3 For Christ did not please Himself, but, as it is written, The slander of those who slandered You fell on Me. 4 But whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through patience and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 May the God of patience and comfort grant you to be of one mind with one another, teaching Christ Jesus, 6 so that with one accord, with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Therefore accept one another, just as Christ also accepted you to the glory of God.
8 I mean this, that Jesus Christ became a minister to the circumcision for the truth of God's sake, to fulfill what was promised to the fathers, 9 and to the Gentiles out of mercy, so that they might glorify God, as it is written: For this reason I will glorify You (Lord) among the Gentiles, and I will sing to Your name. 10 And it is also said: Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people. 11 And again: Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and glorify Him, all you nations. 12 Isaiah also says: The root of Jesse will rise up to rule the nations; The pagans will hope in Him. 13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
14 And I myself am confident about you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, full of all knowledge, and able to instruct one another; 15 But I wrote to you, brethren, with some boldness, partly as a reminder to you, according to the grace given to me from God 16 to be a minister of Jesus Christ among the Gentiles and commit the sacred performance of the gospel of God, so that this offering of the Gentiles, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit, might be acceptable God. 17 Therefore I can boast in Jesus Christ of this: applies to God, 18 for I will not dare to say anything that Christ did not do through me in subduing the Gentiles faith in word and deed, 19 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that the gospel of Christ was spread by me from Jerusalem and the surrounding area to Illyricum. 20 Moreover, I tried to preach the gospel not where already the name of Christ was known, so as not to build on someone else's foundation, 21 but as it is written: Those who had no news of Him will see, and those who have not heard will know. 22 This is what prevented me from coming to you many times. 23 Now, having no such places in these countries, and since long ago I have had a desire to come to you, 24 as soon as I take the road to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope that, as I pass, I will see you and that you will take me there, as soon as I have enjoyed communication with you, at least partly. 25 And now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints, 26 for Macedonia and Achaia are making some alms for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. 27 They are zealous, and they are also in debt to them. For if the pagans have become participants in their spiritual things, then they must also serve them in their physical things. 28 Having done this and faithfully brought this fruit to them diligence, I'll go through yours places to Spain, 29 and I am confident that when I come to you, I will come with the full blessing of the gospel of Christ.
30 Meanwhile, brethren, I beseech you, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers for me to God, 31 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 32 that I may have joy, if God pleases, come to you and rest with you. 33 May the God of peace be with you all, Amen.
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1 I present to you Phoebe, our sister, deaconess of the Church of Cenchrea. 2 Receive her for the Lord, as is fitting for saints, and help her whatever she needs from you, for she has been a helper to many and to myself.
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow servants in Christ Jesus 4 (who laid down their lives for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles), and the church of their own. 5 Greet my beloved Epenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia for Christ. 6 Salute Miriam, who has worked hard for us. 7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and prisoners with me, who were glorified among the Apostles and who believed in Christ before me. 8 Greet Amplius, my beloved in the Lord. 9 Greet Urban, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachy, my beloved. 10 Greet Apelles, tested in Christ. Greetings faithful from Aristovoulov's house. 11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those from the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord. 12 Greet Tryphena and Tryphos, who labor for the Lord. Greet beloved Persis, who has labored much for the Lord. 13 Greet Rufus, the chosen one in the Lord, and his mother and mine. 14 Greet Asinkritus, Phlegontus, Hermas, Patrov, Hermias and the other brothers with them. 15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympanos, and all the saints with them. 16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
17 I urge you, brethren, beware of those who cause divisions and temptations, contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and turn away from them; 18 for such People They serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and with flattery and eloquence they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded. 19 Your humility faith everyone knows; Therefore, I rejoice for you, but I wish that you would be wise in good and simple in evil. 20 But the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet quickly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you! Amen.
21 Timothy, my fellow servant, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives, greet you. 22 I, Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord. 23 Gaius, my host and the whole church, greets you. Erast, the city treasurer, and brother Quart greet you.
24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
The purpose of the law is Christ (1-4). Salvation by grace (5-11). Israel itself is to blame for its own rejection (12-21).
1 Brethren! my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel's salvation.
1-4 The Apostle now begins to develop and deepen the thought expressed in verses 30-33 of chapter 9. Israel, blinded by its own thoughts of achieving righteousness, did not understand that the goal to which the law led the Jews was Christ and the righteousness of faith that He brought.
1 Wish- more correct: goodwill(eudokia).
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For I testify to them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to reason.
3 For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God,
3 Put, that is, to make something obligatory (Compare 3:31; Heb 10:9). - Your own righteousness, i.e., such as could have resulted from the accomplishment of known deeds and exploits by the people themselves (cf. Phil 3:9 and Rom 1:17). - The Righteousness of God, that is, the divine order of life, to which people must express obedience through faith.
4 for the end of the law is Christ, for the righteousness of everyone who believes.
4 Because... The Apostle proves by this that the disobedience of the Jews to Christ stemmed from their lack of understanding of the Divine righteousness to which the law testified. The law pointed to Christ; in Christ the righteousness appeared before us, to which the law pointed as an ideal, and it is given to everyone who believes in Christ. A correctly understood law should serve as a guide for Jews to Christ, so that they could be justified through faith in him. - Thus, the expression end of the law It would be more correct to replace it with another expression: purpose of the law, as other interpreters understood this place (I. Zlat., Theodorit, Theophylact). This translation also corresponds to the meaning of the Greek. text of the expression (teloV nomou). But how could the law point to Christ as its own end? The law contains the ideal of righteousness. Since this ideal was outlined by God Himself, it must certainly be realized. Meanwhile, people were convinced by their own experience that none of them was able to realize this ideal on their own (Rom. 3:20). Therefore, Christ appeared and fulfilled it. Already on the basis of this, the Apostle could say that Christ is the goal of the law. But this is not enough. The law has not yet fully achieved its purpose when one person carried out its instructions - the law is given for everyone. And so Christ’s righteousness, emanating from Christ, passes on to all who believe in Him. Thus, Christ is the goal of the law in the full sense of the word, and at the same time, perhaps, the end of it, because he finally realizes the goal of the law - the justification of man.
5 Moses writes about the righteousness of the law: the man who does it will live by it.
5-13 The Lawgiver himself, Moses, recognized the attainment of righteousness as an unattainable task, because for this a person had to fulfill all the various requirements of the law. Meanwhile, receiving justification now, with the coming of Christ, seems quite possible, because it requires from a person only firm faith in Christ.
5 Wanting to show the foolishness of the Jews, who stubbornly stood for the previous method of justification - through fulfilling the law, the Apostle says that Moses himself considered such a path not leading to the goal, since, according to his statement, life or justification can be obtained only by the person who will fulfill all the commandments of the law without exception (Lev. 18:5). And that such fulfillment is beyond the strength of any mortal - this was already shown by the Apostle in his letter to Rome, ch. III, art. 4-20.
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But the righteousness of faith says this: Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend to heaven? that is, to bring Christ together.
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Or who will go down into the abyss? that is, to raise Christ from the dead.
6-7 On the contrary, the righteousness of faith, which now acts as the savior of man, says this: “Do not say...” The Apostle, well aware that Moses could not yet say what the righteousness of faith now says, nevertheless less uses his words to express his own thoughts related to the contemporary state of affairs. Moses (Deut. 29:1-30, 10) did not at all assert that keeping the law was an easy matter, but only said that Israel could not justify its crimes by ignorance of the law. He pointed out that Israel does not need to wait for some messenger from heaven, where God dwells, or send overseas to some foreign people, where, perhaps, something is known about the will of God; God Himself already spoke to Israel in the law, He Himself declared His will to them (Deut. 6:6-9, 20-25; Deut. 30:12 et seq.). The Apostle uses the expressions of Moses in a different sense. He says that the questioner: "Who will ascend to heaven?" thereby “bringing Christ down from heaven.” Expression "that is" denotes an opinion or view, the intention with which a question is asked. The Jew who does not believe in Christ, whom the Apostle has in mind here, believes that the Messiah has not yet appeared, but will appear later, perhaps from heaven, or perhaps from the underworld (the abyss is used here in the sense of the underworld, cf. Luke 8:31 ; Rev 11:7; 20:1, 3). But to say this means repeating the same crime as was committed by the ancient Jews, who did not see in the law a completely sufficient explanation of the will of God.
8 But what does Scripture say? The word is close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the word of faith that we preach.
8 But what does Scripture say? The best codes read: "but what does he say?"(i.e. this righteousness is from faith). Here righteousness from faith already gives a positive explanation of the matter. The Apostle, however, here too puts his answer in the form of the speech of Moses (Deut. 30:14): "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart". But the Apostle, instead of saying that the Messiah had already appeared and lived on earth and thereby find out how much for the unbelieving Jews "close word", says, in explanation of this proximity, that the apostles are already preaching about the coming Messiah (cf. 1:3). He does this in view of the fact that for unbelieving Jews Christ is no different from other people who have died and are in the underworld. On earth, He appears to them in the word of the sermon, which is heard from the lips of the apostles. And this preaching is the word of faith as opposed to the law of works (cf. 3:27; Gal 3:2). It announces the completion of redemption, the perception of which requires nothing more than faith, whereas the law has always required works from the person himself. And this word of faith is incomparably closer to the listeners than the teaching of the Law of Moses, because the path from hearing the apostolic preaching to faith and confession is much closer than the path from hearing the commandments of the Law of Moses to their complete fulfillment.
9 For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
9 This is the last word of the righteousness of faith which it now speaks to the unbelieving Jew. Since the speech here is addressed to an unbelieving Jew, the Apostle especially emphasizes the need for faith in the resurrection of Christ (cf. Acts 1:22; 2:32; 3:13-15).
10 because with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.
10 Here the Apostle himself speaks, explaining the above requirement, which is expressed by the mouth of the righteousness of faith. He distinguishes here between the righteousness or justification received upon entry into the Church of Christ, and the final salvation that will be given to believers at the second coming of Christ to earth. The first is achieved only by heartfelt, sincere acceptance of the Gospel ( with my heart), and the second is the firm confession of Christ before His enemies that continues throughout the life of a Christian (cf. Matt. 10:32; 2 Cor. 4:13).
11 For the Scripture says: Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.
11-13 And the Old Testament through the mouth of the prophets (Isaiah 28:16 and Joel 2:32) expressed the conviction that all people will receive final salvation only through faith and prayer, which must be addressed to the One Lord of all - Jesus Christ, Who, as stated above, there is blessed God (9:5).
12 There is no difference here between Jew and Greek, because there is one Lord of all, rich for all who call on Him.
12 One Lord- this is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of all people who call on Him (John Chrysostom). - Rich- of course, by grace and salvation (cf. 5:15; 11:33; 2 Cor. 13:13). - Those who call upon Him. As can be seen from what follows, the Apostle does not make any distinction between the calling of Christ and the calling of God.
13 For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
13 What Joel says about God (Joel 2:32, according to the Greek text LXX), the Apostle relates directly to Christ. Next, a place from the book. The prophet Joel has, according to the apostle, a messianic meaning.
14 But how to call Togo, In whom did they not believe? how to believe V Togo, Who haven't you heard of? How to hear without a preacher?
14-21 But in order to believe in the Savior, as in the Lord, it was necessary to hear a sermon about Him. Preachers or messengers about Christ had to appear, who certainly had to have authority from God for this matter. Thus, it means that it was the will of God that the sermon about salvation through faith was preached to the Jews. If the Jews turned out to be inattentive to this sermon, then there is nothing to be embarrassed about: the own prophets of the Jewish people foresaw and predicted this unbelief of the Jews, as well as the conversion of the pagans to Christ. Israel is obviously didn't want to to believe in Christ and, thus, is himself to blame for his rejection.
15 And how can we preach if they are not sent? as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good tidings of peace!
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But not everyone obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says: Lord! who believed what they heard from us?
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So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
17 From the word of God, i.e. from the command of the Divine (Luke 3:2; Heb 11:3).
18 But I ask: didn’t they hear? On the contrary, their voice went through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
18 Ps XVIII (v. 5) speaks primarily about the revelation of God in nature, but the Apostle had every reason to apply these words to the revelations of God in general, and therefore to the New Testament preaching about salvation.
19 Again I ask: Did not Israel know? But the first Moses says: I will arouse jealousy in you because of no people, I will provoke you to anger because of a foolish people.
19 Didn't Israel know? i.e., “Didn’t the Jews really understand the message of salvation through faith?” The answer to this question must be given by the readers themselves, and this answer is clear: yes, they did not understand the Gospel! The pagans understood, but the Jews did not, and in this the prediction of Moses came true (Deut. 32:21).
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And Isaiah boldly says: Those who did not seek Me found Me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask about Me.
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Of Israel he says: All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and stubborn people.
20-21 Why didn’t the Jews understand the Gospel? Because they are a disobedient people and stubborn in their unbelief. They did not want to believe, as the prophet Isaiah prophesied about this, prophesied boldly, without fear of the anger of the people, who jealously guarded their rights to the Kingdom of the Messiah.
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