ness of God leadeth thee to repent-thou that preachest a man should not ance ? steal, dost thou steal?

5 But, after thy hardness and im- 22 Thou that sayest a man should penitent heart, treasurest up unto thy- not commit adultery, dost thou comself wrath against the day of wrath mit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, and revelation of the righteous judg- dost thou commit sacrilege ?3 ment of God;

6 Who will render to every man the law, through breaking the law disaccording to his deeds; honourest thou God?

7 To them who, by patient conti- 24 For the name of God is blasnuance in well-doing, seek for glory, phemed among the Gentiles through and honour, and immortality, eternal you, as it is written.4 life ;1

26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon keep the righteousness of the law, every soul of man that doeth evil; of shall not his uncircumcision be countthe Jew first, and also of the Gentile: ed for circumcision? 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good; to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile :

The Jews' prerogative. 20 None justified by the law, but all by faith. WHAT advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

2 Much every way; chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

3 Sacrilege, robbery of temples.

4 As it is written, Isa. lii. 5. Ezek. xxxvi,

5 Circumcision was an ordinance of the ce

20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form 20 of knowledge, and of the truth in the remonial law, considered of so great importlaw. 21 Thou, therefore, which teachest them to the favour of God; but in the last ance, that the Jews imagined it alone entitled another, teachest thou not thyself?

verses of this chapter Paul assures them, that neither being a Jew outwardly, nor any external ceremony would avail any thing in securing their salvation.

6 By the letter and circumcision, by external circumcision.

4 God forbid; yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man,)

6 God forbid; for then how shall God judge the world?

7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sin

ner?

8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;

11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no,

not one.

13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is un-1 der their lips:

14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

17 And the way of peace have they not known:

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

19 Now we know, that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for by the law is the know

ledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

22 Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,1 to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness; that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith.

28 Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.3

29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

30 Seeing it is one God which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.4

31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law.

Questions. What advantage had the Jews over other nations?

What is said of those who do evil, that good may come?

What is meant by the faith, by which men are justified?

CHAP. IV.

Abraham's faith was imputed to him for righteousness: 24 And so shall ours be.

WHAT shall we then say that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

3 For what saith the scripture?

1 Through faith in his blood as shed for the remission of sins.

2 Justified by faith; that faith, by which men are justified, consists in a sincere disposiGod and by Christ, and to do every thing which tion to believe every thing made known by they have enjoined.

3 Without the deeds of the law: without obedience to the ceremonial law. Paul every where teaches the necessity of obeying the moral law.

and uncircumcision the Gentiles. The apos4 In verse 30 circumcision means the Jews, tle in this verse shows, that seeing there is one

God of the Jews and Gentiles, he will finally treat both by the same rule; he will justify the Jews by faith in the scriptures, which he has given them, and the Gentiles, by the law of faith; which consists in a sincere disposition to know and do the will of God so far as it is revealed by conscience, or in any other

way.

Abraham believed God, and it was him, whom he believed, even God counted unto him for righteousness. who quickeneth the dead, and calleth 4 Now to him that worketh is the those things which be not, as though: reward not reckoned of grace, but of they were:2 debt.

5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righ

teousness.

6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?! for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

18 Who against hope believed ir. hope, that he might becoine the father of many nations; according tc that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

19 And, being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.

20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God:

21 And being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform.

22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

23 Now, it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to

10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncir- him;

cumcision? Not in circumcision, but 24 But for us also, to whom it shall in uncircumcision. be imputed, if we believe on him, that 11 And he received the sign of cir-raised up Jesus our Lord from the cumcision, a seal of the righteousness dead;

of the faith which he had, yet being 25 Who was delivered for our of uncircumcised; that he might be the fences, and was raised again for our father of all them that believe, though justification. they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed to them also;

12 And the father of circumcision to them, who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham,1 which he had being yet uncircumcised.

13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

14 For if they, which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect.

15 Because the law worketh wrath; for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Questions. counted to him?

What was Abraham's faith

Who is called the father of them that believe?

CHAP. V.

Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. 12 Sin and death came by Adam, 17 righteousness and life by Jesus Christ.

THEREFORE, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope;

3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribu16 Therefore it is of faith, that ilation worketh patience; might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, 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 thee a father of many nations, before

5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad

2 Calleth, or speaketh of those things which do not yet exist, as though they now really existed; for the promise to Abraham that he should be the father of many nations, was 1 It should be remembered that the word made when he was 100 and Sarah 90 years of circumcision here means the Jews, and uncir-age, and as yet they had no child; but Abracumcision the Gentiles, that is, all nations ham believed God that it should be, even acexcept the Jews. cording to that which was spoken.

in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which ness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus is given unto us. Christ :)

6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.1

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

18 Therefore, as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners; so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

20 Moreover, the law entered that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound;

10 For if, when we were enemies, 21 That as sin hath reigned unto we were reconciled to God by the death, even so might grace reign death of his Son; much more, being through righteousness unto eternal reconciled, we shall be saved by his life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

life.

11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

12 Wherefore, as by one man sin 1 entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

13 (For until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when

there is no law.

14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.2

15 But not as the offence so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead; much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

16 And not as it was by one that sinned so is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto jus

tification.

Questions. What should be the effect of

tribulation?

How doth God commend his love to us?

CHAP. VI.

We must not live in sin, 2 for we are dead unto it, 12 nor let sin reign in us. 23 Death is the wages of sin. WHAT shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may

abound?

2 God forbid: how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein ?1

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

crucified with him, that the body of 6 Knowing this, that our old man is sin might be destroyed, that hence

forth we should not serve sin.

17 For if, by one man's offence, death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteoussin.

1 Verse 7. The term righteous man in this verse is supposed to refer to one who is merely exact or just in his dealings; and good man, to signify one who is truly benevolent and devoted to the good of his fellow men.

7 For he that is dead is freed from

8 Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with

him:

9 Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

sin once; but in that he liveth, he 10 For in that he died, he died unto liveth unto God.

11 Likewise reckon ye also your

2 The likeness, on account of which Adam is called a figure or type of Christ, who was to come, consists in their communicating to mankind what peculiarly belonged to them; for as Adam communicated sin and death, so Christ communicated righteousness and life; and as Adam was the father of the first or natural 1 How shall we, who are exposed to both life, which all enjoy, so Christ is the author temporal and spiritual death in consequence of the second or future life, which all shall of sin, expect, by continuing in it, to obtain regain at the resurrection. everlasting life?

selves to be dead indeed unto sin, but the law hath dominion over a man as alive unto God through Jesus Christ long as he liveth? our Lord.

12 Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof:

13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3 So then, if while her husband liveth she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also 15 What then? shall we sin, because are become dead to the law by the we are not under the law, but under body of Christ; that ye should be grace? God forbid. married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey; his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin ;2 but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine, which was delivered you.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we Iwere held; that we should serve in 18 Being then made free from sin, newness of spirit, and not in the oldye became the servants of righteous-ness of the letter.

ness.

7 What shall we say then? Is the 19 I speak after the manner of men, law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not because of the infirmity, of your flesh; known sin but by the law; for I had for as ye have yielded your members not known lust, except the law had servants to uncleanness, and to iniqui- said, Thou shalt not covet.

ty unto iniquity; even so now yield 8 But sin, taking occasion by the your members servants to righteous-commandment, wrought in me all ness unto holiness. manner of concupiscence. For with

20 For when ye were the servants out the law sin was dead. of sin, ye were free from righteous

9 For I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

ritual; but I am carnal, sold under 14 For we know that the law is spisin.

15 For that which I do, I allow not; for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law, that it is good.