Romans 3:20-9:33 For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified before his presence: for by means of the law, sin is known.

Lamsa⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁰ For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified before his presence: for by means of the law, sin is known. ²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, and the very law and prophets testify to it; ²² But the righteousness of God is by the faith of Jesus Christ to every one, also to every man who believes in him, for there is no discrimination: ²³ For all have sinned and are short of the glory of God: ²⁴ For they are freely bestowed righteousness by the grace of God through the salvation which is in Jesus Christ, * ²⁵ Whom God has foreordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood for the remission of our sins that are past; ²⁶ By the opportunity which God has given us through his forbearance, for the manifestation of his righteousness at the present time, that he might be declared righteous; and for the justification of righteousness to him who is in the faith of our LORD Jesus Christ. ²⁷ Where is boasting then? It is worthless. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith. ²⁸ Therefore we conclude that it is by faith a man is justified and not by the works of the law. ²⁹ Why? Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also God of the Gentiles? Yes, he is God of the Gentiles also; ³⁰ Because it is one God, who justifies the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision by the same faith. ³¹ Why, then? Do we nullify the law through faith? Far be it: on the contrary, we uphold the law. ⁴ ¹ WHAT then shall we say concerning Abraham, the chief of our forefathers, who lived according to the flesh before God called him? ² For if Abraham were justified by works, he had reason to be proud; but not before God. ³ For what said the scripture? Abraham believed in God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. ⁴ But to him who works, wages are not considered as a favor but as that which is due to him. ⁵ And to him who works not, but only believes in him who justifies sinners, his faith is counted for righteousness. ⁶ Just as David also said about the blessedness of the man, whom God declared righteous without works, ⁷ Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are wiped away. ⁸ Blessed is the man whose sins God will not hold against him. ⁹ Now, therefore, is this blessedness on account of circumcision, or on account of uncircumcision? for we say that AbrahamÆs faith was accounted to him for righteousness. ¹⁰ How then was it given to him? by means of circumcision, or in uncircumcision? It was not given in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹ For he received circumcision as a sign and a seal of the righteousness of his faith while he was uncircumcised: that he might become the father of all them who believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be given to them also; ¹² So that the father of circumcision is not only to those who are of circumcision, but also to those who walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham while he was yet uncircumcised. ¹³ For the promise to Abraham and his seed that he should inherit the world was not made through the law, but through the righteousness of his faith. ¹⁴ For if they had become heirs by means of the law, then faith would have been empty and the promise made of no effect. ¹⁵ For the law causes provocation; for where there is no law, there is no transgression. ¹⁶ Therefore it is by faith that we will be justified by grace; so that the promise might be sure to all his seed; not only to him who is of the law, but also to him who 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 peoples, in the presence of the God in whom you have believed, who quickens the dead, and who invites those who are not yet in being, as though they were present. ¹⁸ For he who was hopeless trusted in hope, that he might become the father of many peoples, as it is written, So shall your seed be. ¹⁹ His faith never weakened even when he examined his old body when he was a hundred years old, and the deadness of SarahÆs womb. ²⁰ He did not doubt the promise of God as one who lacks faith; but his faith gave him strength, and he gave glory to God. ²¹ He felt assured that what God had promised him, God was able to fulfill. ²² Therefore it was given to him for righteousness. ²³ That his faith was given for righteousness, was not written for his sake alone, ²⁴ But for us also, for he will number us also, who believe in him who raised our LORD Jesus Christ from the dead; ²⁵ Who was delivered up for our offences and arose that he might justify us. ⁵ ¹ THEREFORE, being justified by faith, let us have peace with God through our LORD Jesus Christ; ² Through him we have been brought by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and are proud in the hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we also glory in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation perfects patience in us; ⁴ And patience, experience; and experience, hope: ⁵ And hope causes no one to be ashamed; because the love of God is poured in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us. ⁶ But Christ at this time, because of our weaknesses, died for the sake of the wicked. ⁷ Hardly would any man die for the sake of the wicked: * but for the sake of the good, one might be willing to die. ⁸ God has here manifested his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more then, being justified by his blood, we shall be delivered from wrath through him. ¹⁰ For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. ¹¹ And not only so, but we also glory in God through our LORD Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation. ¹² Just as sin entered into the world by one man, and death by means of sin, so death was imposed upon all men, inasmuch as they all have sinned: ¹³ For until the law was given, though sin was in the world, it was not considered sin, because there was no law. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them who had not sinned in the manner of the transgression of the law by Adam, who is the likeness of him that was to come. ¹⁵ But the measure of the gift of God was not the measure of the fall. If therefore, because of the fall of one, many died, how much more will the grace and gift of God, because of one man, Jesus Christ, be increased ? ¹⁶ And the effect of the gift of God was greater than the effect of the offence of Adam: for while the judgment from one manÆs offence resulted in condemnation of many, the gift of God in forgiveness of sins resulted in righteousness to many more. ¹⁷ For if by one manÆs offence, death reigned, how much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ In like manner as by one manÆs offence, condemnation came upon all men, even so by the righteousness of one man, will the victory unto life be to all men. ¹⁹ For as by one manÆs disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one man, shall many be made righteous. ²⁰ The introduction of the law caused sin to increase, and when sin had increased, grace became abundant. ²¹ Just as sin had reigned through death, so grace shall reign through righteousness unto eternal life by our LORD Jesus Christ. ⁶ ¹ WHAT shall we then say? Shall we con tinue in sin, that grace may abound? ² Far be it. How shall we who are dead to sin, continue to live in it? ³ Do you not know, that those of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death? ⁴ Therefore, we are buried with him by baptism into death: so that as Jesus Christ arose from the dead by the glory of his Father, even so we also shall walk in a new life. ⁵ For if we have been planted together with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also in the likeness of his resurrection: ⁶ For we know, that our old selves are crucified with him, so that the sinful body might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. ⁷ For he that is dead is freed from sin. ⁸ Now if we are dead with Christ, let us believe that we shall also live with Christ: ⁹ We know that Christ rose from the dead, and dies no more; and that death has no more dominion over him. ¹⁰ For in dying he died once to sin: and in living he lives to God. ¹¹ Likewise, you also must consider yourself as being dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our LORD. ¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof. ¹³ Neither should you yield your members as instruments of iniquity to sin: but yield yourselves to God, just as if you were men who had risen from among the dead, and let your members be instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ Sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are no longer under the law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Far be it. ¹⁶ Do you not know, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are, for you obey him, whether it be to sin or whether it be of obedience to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thank God that you, who were once the servants of sin, now obey from the heart that form of doctrine which has been delivered to you. ¹⁸ Now, being made free from sin, you become the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak after the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members to the servitude of uncleanness and iniquity, so now yield your members to the servitude of righteousness and holiness. ²⁰ For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What kind of fruit did you have then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? for the end thereof is death. ²² But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, your fruits are holy, and the end thereof is life everlasting. ²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through our LORD Jesus Christ. ⁷ ¹ DO you not know, my brethren, I speak to them who know the law, that the law has authority over a person as long as he lives? ² Just as a woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law of her husband. ³ Thus if, while her husband is alive, she should be attached to another man, she becomes an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress though she becomes another manÆs wife. ⁴ Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you might become anotherÆs, even to him who arose from the dead, so that you may bring forth fruit to God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the wounds of sin, which were by the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruits to death. ⁶ But now we are freed from the law, being dead to that which had hold upon us; and we should henceforth serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Far be it. I would not have known the meaning of sin, except by means of the law: for I would never have known the meaning of lust, except the law said, Thou shalt not covet. ⁸ So by means of this commandment, sin found an occasion and provoked in me every kind of lust. For without the law sin was dead. ⁹ Formerly I lived without the law: but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died. ¹⁰ And the commandment which was ordained to life I found to be for death. ¹¹ For sin, finding occasion by the commandment, misled me and by it killed me. ¹² Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Has then that which is good, become death to me? Far be it. But sin that is exposed as sin and works death in me for that which is good, will be the more condemned by means of the law. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am of the flesh enslaved to sin. ¹⁵ For I do not know what I do: and I do not do the thing which I want, but I do the thing which I hate. That is exactly what I do. ¹⁶ So then if I do that which I do not wish to do, I can testify concerning the law that it is good. ¹⁷ Now then it is not I who do it, but sin which dominates me. ¹⁸ Yet I know that it does not fully dominate me, (that is in my flesh) but as far as good is concerned, the choice is easy for me to make, but to do it, that is difficult. ¹⁹ For it is not the good that I wish to do, that I do: but it is the evil that I do not wish to do, that I do. ²⁰ Now if I do that which I do not wish, then it is not I who do it, but the sin which dominates me. ²¹ I find therefore, that the law agrees with my conscience when I wish to do good, but evil is always near, distracting me. ²² For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: ²³ But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and it makes me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members. ²⁴ O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this mortal body? ²⁵ I thank God through our LORD Jesus Christ. Now therefore with my mind I am a servant of the law of God; but with my flesh I am a servant of the law of sin. ⁸ ¹ THERE is therefore no condemnation to them who walk in the flesh after the Spirit of Jesus Christ. ² For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Jesus Christ has made you free from the law of sin and death. ³ For the law was weak through the weakness of the flesh, so God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin, in order to condemn sin by means of his flesh: ⁴ That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, for we do not walk after the things of the flesh, but after the Spirit. ⁵ For they who are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit, do mind the things of the Spirit. 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 it is not subject to the law of God, because it cannot be. ⁸ So then, they who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit if the Spirit of God truly dwells within you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. ¹⁰ And if Christ is within you, the body is dead because of sin: but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised our LORD Jesus Christ from the dead dwells within you, so he who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells within you. ¹² Therefore, my brethren, we are not indebted to the flesh to live after the flesh. ¹³ For if you live after the flesh, you will die: but if you, through the Spirit, subdue the deeds of the body, you shall live. ¹⁴ Those who are led by the Spirit of God, are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For you have not received the spirit of bondage, to be in fear again; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Avon, Father, our Father. ¹⁶ And this Spirit bears witness to our spirit, that we are the children of God: ¹⁷ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ; so that if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of all mankind waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For man was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who gave him free will in the hope he would choose rightly. ²¹ Because man himself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. ²² For we know that the whole creation groans and labors in pain to this day. ²³ And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For we live in hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for if we see it, why should we yet hope? ²⁵ But if we hope for that which we do not see, then do we wait for it in patience. ²⁶ Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses: for we do not know what is right and proper for us to pray for: but the Spirit prays for us with that earnestness which cannot be described. ²⁷ And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, for the Spirit prays for the saints according to the will of God. ²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ²⁹ He knew them in advance and he marked them with the likeness of the image of his Son that he might be the first-born among many brethren. ³⁰ Moreover, those he did mark in advance, he has called, and those he has called, he has declared righteous, and those he has declared righteous, he has glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say concerning these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? ³² If he did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, why will he not freely give us all things with him? ³³ Who is to complain against the chosen ones of God? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died and rose again, and he is at the right hand of God making intercession for us. ³⁵ What shall separate me from the love of Christ? tribulation, or imprisonment, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written, For your sake we die every day, and we are accounted as lambs for the slaughter. ³⁷ But 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 empires, nor armies, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our LORD. ⁹ ¹ I TELL the truth through Christ, and I do not lie, my conscience also bears me witness through the Holy Spirit, ² That I am exceedingly sorrowful, and the pain which is in my heart never ceases. ³ For I have prayed that I myself might be accursed because of Christ for the sake of my brethren and my kinsmen according to the flesh, ⁴ Who are Israelites; to whom belongs the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the law, and the rituals therein, and the promises; ⁵ Whose are the fathers, from among whom Christ appeared in the flesh, who is God over all, to whom are due praises and thanksgiving, for ever and ever. Amen. ⁶ It is not as though the word of God had actually failed. For all those who belong to Israel are not Israelites: ⁷ Neither, because they are of the seed of Abraham are they all his children: for it was said, In Isaac shall your seed be called. ⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise who are reckoned as descendants. ⁹ For this is the word of promise, I will come at this season, and Sarah shall have a son. ¹⁰ And not only this; but Rebecca also, even though she had relations with one only, our father Isaac; ¹¹ Before her children were born, or had done good or evil, the choice of God was made known in advance; that it might stand, not by means of works, but through him who made the choice. ¹² For it was said, The elder shall be the servant of the younger. ¹³ As it is written, Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated. ¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Far be it. ¹⁵ For he said to Moses also, I will have mercy on him whom I love, and I will have compassion on him whom I favor. ¹⁶ Therefore, it is not within reach of him who wishes, nor within the reach of him who runs, but it is within the reach of the merciful God. ¹⁷ For in the scripture, he said to Pharaoh, It was for this purpose that I have appointed you, that I might shew my power in you, so that my name might be preached throughout all the earth. ¹⁸ Thus he has mercy on whom he pleases, and he hardens whom he pleases. ¹⁹ Perhaps you will say, Why then does he yet find fault? For who can resist his will? ²⁰ However, O man, who are you to question God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why have you made me like this? ²¹ Does not the potter have power over his clay, to make out of the same lump vessels, one to be formed and the other for service? ²² Now then, if God wanted to shew his anger, and make his power known, would he not then, after the abundance of his patience, bring wrath upon the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction? ²³ But he poured his mercy upon the favored vessels, which were prepared for the glory of God. ²⁴ Namely, ourselves, the called ones, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. ²⁵ As he said also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my own people; and her beloved, who was not beloved. ²⁶ And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said you are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. ²⁷ Isaiah also preached concerning the children of Israel: Though the number of children of Israel should be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved. ²⁸ For whatever the LORD has determined and decreed, he shall bring to pass upon the earth. ²⁹ Just as Isaiah had said before, If the LORD of Hosts had not increased the remnant, we should have been like SodÆom, and should have resembled Go-morÆrah. ³⁰ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles who followed not after righteousness have attained to righteousness; that is, the righteousness which is the result of faith. ³¹ But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. ³² Why? Because it was not sought by faith, but by the works of the law. So they stumbled at that stumbling-stone. ³³ As it is written, Behold, the prophet I give to Zion becomes a stumblingstone, and rock of offence: but whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.