1 Paul, a servant of (yah-HOO-shah)
Yahusha Messiah, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of (el-oh-HEEM)
Elohim,
2 which he promised before through his prophets in the set-apart Scriptures,
3 concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,
4 who was declared to be the Son of Elohim with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Yahusha Messiah our Master,
5 through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;
6 among whom you are also called to belong to Yahusha Messiah;
7 to all who are in Rome, beloved of Elohim, called to be set-apart ones: Grace to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master Yahusha Messiah.
8 First, I thank my Elohim through Yahusha Messiah for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
9 For Elohim is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
10 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of Elohim to come to you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
12 that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
13 Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (and was hindered so far), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
15 So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.
The Gospel Power
16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of (meh-SHEE-ah)Messiah, because it is the power of Elohim for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
17 For in it is revealed Elohim’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
18 For the wrath of Elohim is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
19 because that which is known of Elohim is revealed in them, for Elohim revealed it to them.
20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
21 Because knowing Elohim, they didn’t glorify him as Elohim, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible Elohim for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.
24 Therefore Elohim also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;
25 who exchanged the truth of Elohim for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amein.
26 For this reason, Elohim gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
28 Even as they refused to have Elohim in their knowledge, Elohim gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
30 backbiters, hateful to Elohim, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
2 We know that the judgment of Elohim is according to truth against those who practice such things.
3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of Elohim?
4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of Elohim leads you to repentance?
5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of Elohim,
6 who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
8 but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
11 For there is no partiality with Elohim.
12 For as many as have sinned without the Torah will also perish without the Torah. As many as have sinned under the Torah will be judged by the Torah.
13 For it isn’t the hearers of the Torah who are righteous before Elohim, but the doers of the Torah will be justified
14 (for when Gentiles who don’t have the Torah do by nature the things of the Torah, these, not having the Torah, are a law to themselves,
15 in that they show the work of the Torah written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
16 in the day when Elohim will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Yahusha Messiah.
17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the Torah, glory in Elohim,
18 know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the Torah,
19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the Torah the form of knowledge and of the truth.
21 You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
22 You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23 You who glory in the Torah, do you dishonor Elohim by disobeying the Torah?
24 For “the name of Elohim is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the Torah, but if you are a transgressor of the Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the Torah, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
27 Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the Torah, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the Torah?
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from Elohim.
1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of Elohim.
3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of Elohim?
4 May it never be! Yes, let Elohim be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of Elohim, what will we say? Is Elohim unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
6 May it never be! For then how will Elohim judge the world?
7 For if the truth of Elohim through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
10 As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.”
11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after Elohim.
12 They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”
13 “Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”
14 “Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood.”
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
17 The way of peace, they haven’t known.”
18 “There is no fear of Elohim before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever things the Torah says, it speaks to those who are under the Torah, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of Elohim.
20 Because by the works of the Torah, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the Torah comes the knowledge of sin.
Righteousness by Faith
21 But now apart from the Torah, a righteousness of Elohim has been revealed, being testified by the Torah and the prophets;
22 even the righteousness of Elohim through faith in Yahusha Messiah to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of Elohim;
24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Messiah Yahusha,
25 whom Elohim sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in Elohim’s forbearance;
26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Yahusha.
27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the Torah.
29 Or is Elohim of Jews only? Isn’t he Elohim of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
30 since indeed there is one Elohim who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
31 Do we then nullify the Torah through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the Torah.
1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward Elohim.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed Elohim, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
5 But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom Elohim counts righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man whom (yah-HOO-ah)
Yahuah will by no means charge with sin.”
9 Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
13 For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world wasn’t through the Torah, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if those who are of the Torah are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
15 For the Torah produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the Torah, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
17 As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: Elohim, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
18 Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about 100 years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
20 Yet, looking to the promise of Elohim, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to Elohim,
21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
22 Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Yahusha our Master from the dead,
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
Peace with Elohim
1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with Elohim through our Master Yahusha Messiah;
2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of Elohim.
3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
5 and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because Elohim’s love has been poured into our hearts through the (ROO-ahk hah-KOH-desh)
Ruach HaKodesh who was given to us.
6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Messiah died for the ungodly.
7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die.
8 But Elohim commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Messiah died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from Elohim’s wrath through him.
10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to Elohim through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in Elohim through our Master Yahusha Messiah, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.
13 For until the Torah, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
15 But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of Elohim and the gift by the grace of the one man, Yahusha Messiah, abound to the many.
16 The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses to justification.
17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Yahusha Messiah.
18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
19 For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
20 The Torah came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,
21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Yahusha Messiah our Master.
Dead to Sin, Alive to Yahuah
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Messiah Yahusha were baptized into his death?
4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
6 knowing this, that our old man was impaled with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8 But if we died with Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him,
9 knowing that Messiah, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to Elohim.
11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to Elohim in Messiah Yahusha our Master.
12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to Elohim as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to Elohim.
14 For sin will 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 law but under grace? May it never be!
16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to Elohim that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of Elohim, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of Elohim is eternal life in Messiah Yahusha our Master.
1 Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the Torah), that the Torah has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the Torah of the husband.
3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the Torah, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the Torah through the body of Messiah, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to Elohim.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the Torah worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
6 But now we have been discharged from the Torah, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
The Law and Sin
7 What shall we say then? Is the Torah sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the Torah. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the Torah had said,
“You shall not covet.”
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the Torah, sin is dead.
9 I was alive apart from the Torah once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
10 The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
12 Therefore the Torah indeed is set-apart, and the commandment set-apart, righteous, and good.
13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
14 For we know that the Torah is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
16 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the Torah that it is good.
17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.
20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then the Torah that, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
22 For I delight in Elohim’s law after the inward person,
23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the Torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the Torah of sin which is in my members.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
25 I thank Elohim through Yahusha Messiah, our Master! So then with the mind, I myself serve Elohim’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
Life in the Spirit
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Messiah Yahusha, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the Torah of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yahusha made me free from the Torah of sin and of death.
3 For what the Torah couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 that the ordinance of the Torah might be fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward Elohim, for it is not subject to Elohim’s law, neither indeed can it be.
8 Those who are in the flesh can’t please Elohim.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Messiah, he is not his.
10 If Messiah is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Yahusha from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Messiah Yahusha from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of Elohim, these are children of Elohim.
15 For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of Elohim;
17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of Elohim and joint heirs with Messiah, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of Elohim to be revealed.
20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of Elohim.
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
25 But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the set-apart ones according to Elohim.
All Things Work Together
28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love Elohim, for those who are called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
31 What then shall we say about these things? If Elohim is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
33 Who could bring a charge against Elohim’s chosen ones? It is Elohim who justifies.
34 Who is he who condemns? It is Messiah who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of Elohim, who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from Elohim’s love which is in Messiah Yahusha our Master.
Israel's Election
1 I tell the truth in Messiah. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Ruach HaKodesh
2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Messiah for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Torah, the service, and the promises;
5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Messiah as concerning the flesh, who is over all, Elohim, blessed forever. Amein.
6 But it is not as though the word of Elohim has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of Elohim, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
9 For this is a word of promise: “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of Elohim according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
12 it was said to her,
“The elder will serve the younger.”
13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with Elohim? May it never be!
15 For he said to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of Elohim who has mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh,
“For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against Elohim? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
22 What if Elohim, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
25 As he says also in Hosea,
“I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living Elohim.’”
27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because Yahuah will make a short work upon the earth.”
29 As Isaiah has said before,
“Unless Yahuah of Hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
31 but Israel, following after a Torah of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the Torah of righteousness.
32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the Torah. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
33 even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.
1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to Elohim is for Israel, that they may be saved.
2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for Elohim, but not according to knowledge.
3 For being ignorant of Elohim’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of Elohim.
4 For Messiah is the fulfillment of the Torah for righteousness to everyone who believes.
5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the Torah, “The one who does them will live by them.”
6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this,
“Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Messiah down);
7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Messiah up from the dead.)”
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:
Confess and Believe
9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Yahusha is Master and believe in your heart that Elohim raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
11 For the Scripture says,
“Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Master is Master of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of Yahuah will be saved.”
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
16 But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says,
“Yahuah, who has believed our report?”
17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Elohim.
18 But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
19 But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says,
“I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”
20 Isaiah is very bold and says,
“I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”
21 But about Israel he says,
“All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.
1 I ask then, did Elohim reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 Elohim didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with Elohim against Israel:
3 “Yahuah, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”
4 But how does Elohim answer him? “I have reserved for myself 7000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
8 According as it is written, “Elohim gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
9 David says,
“Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”
11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
16 If the first fruit is set-apart, so is the lump. If the root is set-apart, so are the branches.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,
18 don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
21 for if Elohim didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
22 See then the goodness and severity of Elohim. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
23 They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for Elohim is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27 This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
29 For the gifts and the calling of Elohim are irrevocable.
30 For as you in time past were disobedient to Elohim, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
32 For Elohim has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of Elohim! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
34 “For who has known the mind of Yahuah? Or who has been his counselor?”
35 “Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”
36 For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amein.
Living Sacrifices
1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of Elohim, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, set-apart, acceptable to Elohim, which is your spiritual service.
2 Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of Elohim.
3 For I say through the grace that was given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; but to think reasonably, as Elohim has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,
5 so we, who are many, are one body in Messiah, and individually members of one another,
6 having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
7 or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,
11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving Yahuah,
12 rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,
13 contributing to the needs of the set-apart ones, and given to hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
18 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
19 Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to Elohim’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says Yahuah.”
20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
21 Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Submission to Authority
1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from Elohim, and those who exist are ordained by Elohim.
2 Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of Elohim; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,
4 for he is a servant of Elohim to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of Elohim, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of Elohim’s service, continually doing this very thing.
7 Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Torah.
9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely,
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
10 Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the Torah.
11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
13 Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
14 But put on the Master Yahusha Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
Receive the Weak in Faith
1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
3 Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for Elohim has accepted him.
4 Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for Elohim has power to make him stand.
5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
6 He who observes the day, observes it to Yahuah; and he who does not observe the day, to Yahuah he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to Yahuah, for he gives Elohim thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to Yahuah he doesn’t eat, and gives Elohim thanks.
7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
8 For if we live, we live to Yahuah. Or if we die, we die to Yahuah. If therefore we live or die, we are Yahuah’s.
9 For to this end Messiah died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Master of both the dead and the living.
10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah.
11 For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says Yahuah, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to Elohim.’”
12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to Elohim.
13 Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.
14 I know and am persuaded in Master Yahusha that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Messiah died.
16 Then don’t let your good be slandered,
17 for Elohim’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Ruach HaKodesh.
18 For he who serves Messiah in these things is acceptable to Elohim and approved by men.
19 So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
20 Don’t overthrow Elohim’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before Elohim. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.
23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
3 For even Messiah didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
5 Now Elohim of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Messiah Yahusha,
6 that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify Elohim and Father of our Master Yahusha Messiah.
7 Therefore accept one another, even as Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of Elohim.
8 Now I say that Messiah has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of Elohim, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
9 and that the Gentiles might glorify Elohim for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name.”
10 Again he says,
“Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”
11 Again, “Praise Yahuah, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him.”
12 Again, Isaiah says,
“There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
13 Now may Elohim of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Ruach HaKodesh.
14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
15 But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by Elohim,
16 that I should be a servant of Messiah Yahusha to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of Elohim, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Ruach HaKodesh.
17 I have therefore my boasting in Messiah Yahusha in things pertaining to Elohim.
18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Messiah worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of Elohim’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Messiah;
20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Messiah was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
21 But, as it is written, “They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven’t heard will understand.”
22 Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,
23 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,
24 whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.
25 But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the set-apart ones.
26 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the set-apart ones who are at Jerusalem.
27 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in material things.
28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
29 I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Messiah.
30 Now I beg you, brothers, by our Master Yahusha Messiah and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to Elohim for me,
1 I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
2 that you receive her in Yahuah in a way worthy of the set-apart ones, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Messiah Yahusha,
4 who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
5 Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Messiah.
6 Greet Mary, who labored much for us.
7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Messiah before me.
8 Greet Amplias, my beloved in Yahuah.
9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Messiah, and Stachys, my beloved.
10 Greet Apelles, the approved in Messiah. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
11 Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in Yahuah.
12 Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in Yahuah. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in Yahuah.
13 Greet Rufus, the chosen in Yahuah, and his mother and mine.
14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.
15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the set-apart ones who are with them.
16 Greet one another with a set-apart kiss. The assemblies of Messiah greet you.
17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
18 For those who are such don’t serve our Master Yahusha Messiah, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
19 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
20 And Elohim of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Master Yahusha Messiah be with you.
21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
22 I, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in Yahuah.
23 Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
24 The grace of our Master Yahusha Messiah be with you all! Amein.
25 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Yahusha Messiah, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept silent through long ages,
26 but now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the everlasting Elohim, for obedience of faith;
27 to the only wise Elohim, through Yahusha Messiah, to whom be the glory forever. Amein.